Marketing

AI Bots Are Now Your Colleagues, Thanks To Optimizely’s Latest Launch

The phrase “AI is everywhere” is becoming truer every day. It’s in NYC subway ads. It’s in daily workflows and embedded into Slack channels. And now, it’s in the employee org chart. On Monday, AI marketing platform Optimizely announced the launch of Virtual Teammates, which are… exactly what they sound like: AI personas, each with […]

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Google’s Bidding Change Proves Agentic Advertising Has An Agency Problem

Google Ads recently changed how target-based bidding behaves on budget-limited campaigns. The algorithm now bids more aggressively to track closer to whatever target ROAS or CPA you’ve set, regardless of historical performance. Google flagged the change in advance and was transparent about the expected outcome: a campaign with a $10 target CPA that has been

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As WPP’s Cindy Rose marks a year as CEO, turnaround is underway but far from certain

Cindy Rose has been in charge of WPP for a year. So far, her tenure is best judged by examining the decisions deferred as much as the ones she’s taken. At the time of writing, the London-listed agency group’s share price has almost recovered from last year’s exit from the FTSE 100 (its first-half results

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Target’s new beauty selection has almost no Black-owned brands

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. Target’s refreshed beauty assortment aims to promote emerging brands, but it includes very few from Black entrepreneurs. Target Beauty Studio is set to launch Sept. 10 in more than 600 Target stores and on the company’s website. The new beauty selection replaces former Ulta Beauty shops within

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The Telegraph’s next podcast play: video, events and paid memberships

Fresh off its acquisition by Axel Springer, The Telegraph is pushing its podcast ambitions beyond audio, building repeatable franchises that can span video, live events and paid membership. The goal is to deepen direct relationships with audiences at a time when publishers can no longer rely on search and social platforms to reliably bring them

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