Marketing

What Happens When The Attribution Cartel Meets Advertising’s Halo Effect?

With everything else going on in 2026, at least we don’t have Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” to worry about. The high-profile project is over. Or is it?  Not quite. Now, instead of one browser introducing its own ad features while the others sit back, browser vendors are collaborating to move ads under browser control piece by

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Media Buying Briefing: As Q1 results from a few holdcos show, the market’s not panicking, yet

I know I’ve harped on the uncertain economic conditions so far in 2026 quite a bit. (It could have to do with the fact that I looked at my 401K and saw it’s performing at -1.36% year to date, after years of upward growth.) But the reason it merits being covered is because somehow, for

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Digiday+ Research: Agencies punt budget growth expectations to 2027 — while AI worries intensify

Between the war in the Middle East’s potential impact on ad spending and the rapid integration of AI tools across workflows, agencies have a lot on their minds in 2026. Overall, agencies’ top concerns this year are client spending and the effects of AI. Thirty-eight percent of agency professionals anticipated that the biggest challenge the

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The World Cup is set to lift demand for digital out-of-home spending

The club soccer season hasn’t yet ended, but advertisers already are looking beyond the Champions League and towards the FIFA World Cup. Carmaker Hyundai, for example, is “ramping up” to the soccer tournament with experiential activations and sponsorship of grassroots soccer camps across the U.S., according to CMO Sean Gilpin. When the tournament kicks off

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As upfront negotiations near, buyers chart path through complex sports market

Hopping between streaming services and TV networks to follow your favorite team’s ups and downs has become an inconvenient and expensive fact of modern life.  Fans wanting to follow along their team’s progress throughout the regular NBA season, for example, will have to access ESPN/ABC, NBC/Peacock and Amazon Prime Video to catch every game.  Earlier

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