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This New Tool Is Built On Historical Data To Predict Marketers’ Future Performance

Hindsight is 20/20. But using hindsight to inform your future plans means better foresight, too. That’s the idea behind Blueprint, a campaign-planning tool built on over a decade of past campaign data. Strategus, the CTV-focused managed service provider, announced the launch of Blueprint on Tuesday. There are too many “disparate systems that sit alone” across […]

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Dentsu strikes Meta deal to build plumbing for mass influencer activation

Major advertisers marshal increasingly large hosts of influencers to support their marketing goals. But many lack the necessary internal scaffolding to connect creators with campaign briefs quickly enough to make that scale count. Agency holding group Dentsu is attempting to build up that scaffolding via a partnership announced today (July 7) with Instagram, Threads and

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Kickbacks Takes An Outsider’s View While Bringing Ads To AI Agents

Andrew McCalip is a founding engineer at Varda Space Industries, where he oversees the manufacturing of things like hypersonic reentry vehicles and satellite buses (which are the central satellite bodies that carry a payload or instruments, not something that, like, shuttles satellites out to a launch pad). But he’s always had a taste for online

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“Brands recognize the cultural dominance of podcasts”: global podcaster Mel Robbins talks AI, ad budgets and audience ownership

Mel Robbins is one of the world’s most listened-to podcasters, and the woman behind the “Let Them” theory — the simple idea about relinquishing control over others that led to her chart-topping namesake podcast, a number one New York Times best-selling book, and a phrase that has taken on a life of its own across

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Ad Tech Briefing: Corporate America finally buys into soccer as a mainstream sport; shadier elements of the ad industry are obliging

The FIFA World Cup 2026, co-hosted across North America for the first time, has spelled out what some in U.S. media circles have known for some time: association football, or “soccer” to use local parlance, is now big in America, and it’s time for corporations to cash in at pace — one hydration break at

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Channel Planning Is Dead. Digitas’ Liane Nadeau on the Fluid Funnel Era.

The awareness-consideration-conversion funnel isn’t dead — it’s just moved faster than the org chart has. At Cannes Lions 2026, AdExchanger Editorial Director Sarah Sluis sat down with Liane Nadeau, Chief Media and Investment Officer, Digitas, to make the case that channel planning — the TV budget, the search budget, the audio budget, the programmatic line

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