Marketing

Meta’s Ad Platform Is Going Haywire In Time For The Holidays (Again)

Merry Glitchmas! To all who observe. For the uninitiated, “Glitchmas” is our name for what’s become an annual tradition when, from between roughly late October through November, Meta’s ad platform just seems to go bonkers. Among ecommerce brand marketers and social media ad agency buyers and consultants, the 2017 and 2018 holiday seasons are spoken

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Self-Driving Advertising Is A Myth: Why Automation Can’t Replace Creative Judgment

Generative AI is the new ad land obsession: a shiny promise of a fully autonomous world of self-driving advertising.  But behind the hype lies the costly delusion that automation can replace judgment and more content somehow means better marketing. We’ve entered the age of machine-made abundance, where content can be generated faster than it can

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Dedicated interactive and localized ad formats are the new focus in CTV arms race

Interactive and shoppable ads are becoming a common sight on TV screens. And they’re likely to feature a bigger variety of brands in the future as the ad formats arms race, alongside other efforts to lure small business advertisers, between streamers and platforms heats up. CTV providers have been leaning hard on such formats in

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Blended teams: From stopgap to strategic advantage

Blended workforce models — combining independent contractors with full-time employees — have evolved from experimental tactics into business-critical strategies. According to a study from consultancies Lions & Tigers and Read the Room Advisors based on responses from more than 500 workforce decision-makers, 97% say losing access to blended teams would disrupt their ability to meet business goals,

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Amazon quietly blocks more of OpenAI’s ChatGPT web crawlers from accessing its site

This story was originally reported on sister site, Modern Retail. When economist Tyler Cowen sat down with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for a fireside chat during a four-day conference in Berkeley, California last month, the conversation eventually turned to the ChatGPT maker’s buzzy new deal with America’s biggest retailer: With OpenAI now letting Walmart shoppers

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