Marketing

Why brands are shifting toward ‘less precise, more accurate’ gauges for paid social

As they struggle to estimate the impact of their paid social and creator marketing activity, more marketers are turning away from deterministic measures of media success, and towards hybrid approaches and mixed media modelling (MMM) AI software. It’s a sea-change for marketers used to depending on last-touch attribution metrics that come directly from social platforms. […]

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‘Being very careful’: Weeks after unveiling ad plans, OpenAI works to control the message

Three days before the first ads were set to appear inside ChatGPT, the marketers testing them received a brief update: the launch date had shifted from Feb. 6 to Feb. 9. No explanation came with it – just a scheduling change from a company still working out how openly it wants to talk about becoming

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Media Buying Briefing: Attivo breathes new life into Hill Holliday and DNY with senior media hires

Two years after purchasing once-venerable creative shops Hill Holliday and Deutsch from Interpublic Group, Attivo, the New Zealand-based marketing services holdco, has installed new leadership in the U.S. to revive the brands and establish a stronger foothold in the market, Digiday has learned.  The new leaders — Sasha Savic, former CEO of Mediacom, Anush Prabhu,

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How a precise timing structure drives material differences in marketing efficiency

Jesse Math, vp of strategic partnerships, Keen Decision Systems The marketing calendar itself is simple. Brands need to invest in the typical tentpole events like Prime Day, back-to-school and the holidays. They also have their own key sales periods, like the beginning of the winter season for a company that makes jackets or for a

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The Chatbot Ad Platform

OpenAI launched its ad platform on Monday, making ChatGPT the newest canvas for advertising. The rollout marks a pivotal moment in generative AI, in which conversational platforms could become a new battleground for ad dollars. But how will the ads affect the chat experience? To head off concerns, OpenAI said ads will only appear after

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