Marketing

The Pivot To Ecommerce Hits A Wall; Salesforce Walks Back Its Agentic AI Pitch

A brief heads-up that December 24 will be our last Daily News Roundup of 2025! We’ll return on January 5, 2026, right before CES begins. Until then, happy holidays!  Discontent To Commerce Starting around 2019, The Chernin Group, a private equity fund with stakes in Substack, smart-ring maker Oura and personalized video marketplace Cameo, bet

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Marketers are keen to use generative AI in ad campaigns, but hidden costs lurk

Marketers hope that using AI technology will cut down on time spent producing creative assets, allowing them to cut costs — or scale up their operations. In the campaign to cut weeks into hours, however, hidden costs remain. Top talent is scarce; human oversight and meddling eats into newly gained margins; and realizing meaningful economies

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2025 was rough for Target. It could also be the year when its turnaround began

This story was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail Some may call this Target’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year. Others, sitting in Minneapolis, hope this year was when the retailer started to get back on track. Much of the front half of the year for Target was defined by the company’s decision in

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Why Sports Is The Fastest Way To Break CTV’s Programmatic Ceiling

Programmatic media buying is expected to account for the majority of growth in the CTV market in 2026. This year alone, over 90% of CTV ad dollars were transacted through programmatic pipes. That data isn’t surprising. Programmatic has solved a real problem by helping brands reach TV viewers with targeted precision at much lower costs.

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