Marketing

CFOs are demanding more from marketing — and not in the usual way. The familiar playbook of squeezing costs and investing in performance spend is still in motion, driven by an uncertain economy and an unpredictable geopolitical backdrop. But CFOs now are asking harder questions driven by a better grasp of how marketing actually works, […]

The legacy agency model, long overdue for a reckoning, is finally being rebuilt from the ground up — with creators at the center. The old agency model — brokering deals, manually sourcing talent and running slow, service-heavy operations that treated creators like traditional talent — came of age in a fragmented market. But that model is giving

On Tuesday, Versant Media Group reported its first earnings as a publicly traded company. The portfolio of networks, which includes CNBC, MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), USA Network, E! and Fandango, was spun off from Comcast in January. Versant Media reported $6.69 billion in 2025 revenue, representing a 5% year-over-year decline. Advertising revenue in particular was

Meta is making a change to how it reports click-based attribution. Starting later this month, Meta advertisers will no longer only see “click-through attribution.” Instead, Meta will segment the social media-type engagement that occurs on its platforms – including shares, like, saves, bookmarks, comments, etc. – into a category called “engage-through attribution.” When, for example,

DS-1, a new agentic AI interface developed by audience platform Dstillery, aims to reduce manual inefficiencies within audience curation. The post Dstillery Has A New Agentic AI Interface For Refining Audiences Faster appeared first on AdExchanger.

Add another “Open” to the list. The Trade Desk has OpenPath, OpenAds, OpenSincera and, as of today, a new platform portal called OpenTTD. The OpenTTD product, which will be announced by the DSP during LiveRamp’s RampUp conference in San Francisco later this morning, creates a single login and integrated analytics for companies that span different