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The winners and losers of YouTube’s view count and monetization overhaul

Earlier this year, YouTube made a major infrastructure play to help iron out the operational layer of the creator economy. In the last week, the platform announced two major changes that will affect how creators are monetized and measured. On August 24, YouTube will change how it counts views, registering a video view from the

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The Agency Black Box Is Breaking. Horizon Media’s Bob Lord Explains Why

According to Horizon Media’s Bob Lord, most agencies are trying to solve the wrong problem by obsessing over cost efficiency at a time when AI has quietly unlocked something far more valuable: the ability to become a growth partner to advertisers. The post The Agency Black Box Is Breaking. Horizon Media’s Bob Lord Explains Why

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Your Team Is Working Faster With AI, But Are They Really Getting Better Results?

A lot of marketing leaders are wondering whether AI is really bringing incremental value to their business. Teams are moving faster than ever. Campaign briefs, social copy, first-pass creative and competitive research can now be produced in a fraction of the time it used to take. Yet it’s not clear if the work is actually

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Demand For Dead Data; ChatGPT’s Miraculous, Disappearing Advertisers

Fire Sale Firestarters One surprise beneficiary of the Spirit Airlines bankruptcy debacle: Google. Google spent $10 million to acquire “a trove of deidentified business data, software code and operations records” from the now-defunct airline, Bloomberg Law reports.  The data stockpile Google bought for a song includes 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams chats and

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