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Future of Marketing Briefing: L’Oréal builds the data backbone to its creator marketing

L’Oréal is building a data layer beneath its creator economy push. The cosmetics giant is looking for partners to help make sense of the data from all its creator campaigns, according to two separate sources familiar with the plans.  This is a member-exclusive article from Digiday. Continue reading it on digiday.com and subscribe to continue […]

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AI royalties for small and midsize publishers: collective licensing’s next big play

AI royalties are finally on the table for small and midsize publishers. Don’t credit OpenAI’s ChatGPT, credit corporate LLMs — enterprise RAG is what’s creating royalty revenue for publishers. RAG — retrieval augmented generation — kicks in when a user (or system) prompts the LLM, which then pulls the relevant content from various sources to deliver

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Sora 2 copyright calculations highlight new role for agencies as risk whisperers

OpenAI’s launch of Sora 2, its video generation tool and would-be social network for the slop age, was the latest attempt by the generative AI developer to expand the copyright Overton Window. Sora 2 initially shipped with an “opt-out” policy for IP rightsholders. If an artist or advertiser didn’t want their work to be used

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Walmart.com’s search results put ads front and center — a playbook Amazon pioneered

This story was originally published on sister site, Modern Retail. In 2019, Walmart’s e-commerce chief at the time, Marc Lore, drew a line in the sand. “You’ll notice that we don’t sell the No. 1, 2 slots in search — like some of our competitors do,” he said at Recode’s CodeCommerce conference that year, positioning

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Amid signal loss and fragmentation, omnichannel orchestration is driving performance

Ariel Deitz, vp, east at Blis Many marketers are curious about omnichannel advertising, but often settle for multichannel, where multiple channels are activated but not orchestrated into a cohesive strategy. In reality, most campaigns are still a patchwork of siloed tactics, but in a fragmented media landscape, simply showing up across channels isn’t enough. Access

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CTV beyond the living room: The marketer’s guide to expanding CTV to every screen

TV is one of the fastest-changing ad channels — which says a lot in the context of today’s ad landscape. The way viewers access content and entertainment through TV is shifting at a breakneck speed. And so, too, must the way advertisers reach those viewers. Earlier this year, Nielsen reported that, for the first time,

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The Trade Desk’s Auction Evolutions Bring High Drama To The Prebid Summit

The Prebid Summit in New York City on Tuesday offered plenty of new details about The Trade Desk’s OpenAds and PubDesk products that were announced earlier this month. For one thing, OpenAds – TTD’s version of a Prebid auction, but still with universal Transaction IDs (TIDs) – will require TID sharing, TTD GM of Product

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In the age of AI search, a domain is a critical differentiator

Domain extensions, or top-level domains (TLDs), have been around for decades. As the internet continues its rapid expansion, traditional TLDs have been claimed with increasing frequency, making it difficult for businesses to find available, appropriate and memorable online addresses. That’s why domain strategy is becoming a core component of brand identity and a key point

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