Marketing

‘Identity is the qualifier for AI’: Publicis’ $2.2 billion LiveRamp deal is a bet that whoever controls the data owns the AI era

Before the ink was dry on the LiveRamp deal, Publicis Group CEO Arthur Sadoun had personally sent 500 emails. To clients, to partners and to rival holdcos — all carrying the same message. Nothing changes. LiveRamp stays neutral. Your data is safe. He had to send those messages. The holdcos alone account for 5% of […]

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These AI Agents Want To Handle All The Annoying Parts Of Media Buying

It’s the great irony of programmatic. The bidding is automated down to the millisecond, but the day-to-day work of running campaigns is still largely manual, from copying data between systems and reconciling reports to running QA checks and drafting explanations for clients when metrics don’t line up. “Inside of the platforms, it’s AI everywhere – but

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Ad Tech Briefing: The downstream implications of Publicis Groupe’s $2.2 billion bet on LiveRamp 

Publicis Groupe’s strategic rationale for acquiring LiveRamp for $2.1767 billion appears to center on accelerating its shift toward data-driven, higher-margin, “principal” operating models while tightening control over identity, addressability and closed-loop measurement. It’s a deal that’s also likely to have a downstream impact for LiveRamp’s relationships with rival holding companies, especially as its former parent

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Media Buying Briefing: What buyers expect out of this year’s upfront marketplace

This briefing is made available to all Digiday readers through a partnership with sponsor DirecTV Advertising. Outcome. Defined as “the final result, consequence, or end product of a process, action, situation, or series of events.” It’s a perfect word to describe the hopes of sellers and marketers in this upfront marketplace, who through their agencies

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Influencer boost budgets are throwing gas on social video spending fire 

Brand spending on social video is accelerating rapidly. One contributing factor could be the practice of amplifying influencer video content on platforms like Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. Once an overlooked methodology that saw marketers use small budgets to top up reach on organic creator posts, amplification is now an essential element of influencer campaign planning.

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