Marketing

New Report Finds That Quality Pays Off In Programmatic – And It’s Not More Expensive

We all know that we’re supposed to eat our veggies and skip the junk food. But knowing isn’t the same as doing. Marketers instinctively know that better data and higher-quality media drive better outcomes. But bad habits are sticky and they die hard, said Jamie Barnard, CEO of Compliant, a startup that tracks data quality

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App Installs Aren’t Enough: Why Marketers Need Life Cycle Measurement In The AI Era

Mobile apps are now at the center of the consumer relationship. They’re where customers browse, buy, stream, check balances and redeem loyalty rewards. However, app measurement remains one of the weakest links in modern marketing. For years, most attribution models have stopped at the install. A campaign drives a download, a metric gets logged, and

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New Social Media Platform Fizz Gives Brands A Crash Course In Marketing To College Students

The people who know how best to market to college students are other college students – and that’s doubly true on a social media platform whose entire user base is college students. Teddy Solomon and Ashton Cofer dropped out of Stanford to focus full-time on Fizz, an (optionally) anonymous social media platform they co-founded in 2021

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U.K. retailer Boots leads brand efforts to invest in ad creative’s data layer

As generative AI alters the algebra around advertising creative, more CMOs hope to lean on science, rather than art, to judge the value of campaign assets and drive media efficiency. British health and beauty retailer Boots has been working with creative data platform CreativeX to pool results from different third-party creative measurement tools and better

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Media Briefing: Publishers turn to vertical video to compete with creators and grow ad revenue in 2026

This week’s Media Briefing looks at why publishers are adding vertical video feeds to their websites and apps in an effort to boost audience engagement and video advertising dollars. Another pivot to video Business Insider quietly lowers paywall, Politico management found to have violated union’s AI adoption safeguards, and more. Another pivot to video It

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Digiday+ Research Subscription Index 2025: Subscription strategies from Bloomberg, The New York Times, Vox and others

01 Introduction Publishers entered 2025 facing many of the same economic uncertainties that they navigated in 2024. But in addition to grappling with the erosion of traditional income streams, publishers are now navigating how to combat the effects of generative AI as it chips away at traffic-driven revenue from search and social media referrals.  As

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