Marketing

MX8 Labs Launches With A Plan To Speed Up The Survey-Based Research Biz

What’s the point of a market research survey that could take weeks, when consumer sentiment is rollercoasting up and down every day? That’s the problem MX8 Labs aims to tackle. The new startup is trying to increase the speed of current marketing and customer survey results. The company went to market last year, after co-founders

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At Spotify, Podcasts Remain A Priority After An Anemic Q2 For Its Ads Business

It’s been a decade since Spotify introduced podcasts to its app. Now, Spotify hosts millions of podcasts and, according to Edison Research, 26% of US podcast listeners use Spotify as their preferred service. And last month, Spotify began making podcast inventory available programmatically through its ad exchange and its self-serve Ads Manager. Advertisers had been

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The Trade Desk’s Blue Ocean Moment: How The DSP Can Rewrite Ad Tech’s Rules

In ad tech, group thinking is the silent killer.  It convinces great companies to keep playing the same game long after the rules have changed. Too many leaders keep reaching for the same playbook that worked a decade ago: connect pipes, aggregate inventory, plug data, take a cut.  Even The Trade Desk (TTD), arguably the

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Media Buying Briefing: Havas joins race to find answers to clients’ zero-click search queries

As users adopt AI search tools like Google’s AI Overviews or ChatGPT in lieu of traditional search engines, clients are worried about what exactly generative AI search tools are saying about their brands and whether that can be measured and ultimately, influenced. French holding company Havas is the latest to start offering some answers to

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