Marketing

AI Is Finally Doing Real Work In Ad Ops (But Only When It Works With Your Existing Tech)

For all the AI-in-ad-ops talk, plenty of publisher teams are still trapped in the grind of pulling GAM reports by hand and trying to reverse engineer why revenue dropped. At Programmatic AI in Las Vegas, Jordan Cauly, who launched a publisher monetization tech consultancy after an eight-plus year stint as a product lead at Mediavine,

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The Programmatic Auction Is Changing In Real Time – Here’s How

Programmatic advertising has changed a lot in the nearly 20 years since the first RTB ad auction. On the surface, programmatic is just the automated buying and selling of digital ads. Under the hood, there’s a complex, high-speed auction system that decides in milliseconds which ads appear across display, video, CTV, audio, retail and other

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Making Marketing More Modular: What Agentic AI Can Learn From The Shipping Container Revolution

Today’s explosion of AI service providers has everyone looking back at the dot-com bubble, revisiting the technological boom and bust at the turn of the millennia for historical precedent to help us separate real innovation from BS.  History is a valuable teacher, but I look beyond the history of the ad tech industry for inspiration.

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Media Briefing: Publishers brace themselves for the zero-click era amid Google’s AI search overhaul

This week’s Media Briefing will examine why Google’s latest AI search overhaul may mark the moment publishers fully accept that search traffic as they once knew it is never coming back. Publishers enter the era of Google AI search James Murdoch buys half of Vox Media, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti on why he sold BuzzFeed,

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