Marketing

How Malaysia Airlines is using AI to speed up campaign production

Marketing teams have long struggled with a basic problem. AI is starting to change how campaign production works. Campaigns need to be tailored for different markets, but the work required to adapt creative assets often slows everything down. Each variation – whether for language, culture, or platform – adds time and cost. Brands are starting […]

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Why marketing is now the operating system for growth

Amanda Forrester, svp, marketing and communications, OpenX Artificial intelligence is pushing marketing to the center of business, making it the operating system for growth. Marketing now determines how a company is discovered, interpreted and trusted by both people and the machines that increasingly guide their decisions. As a result, the role of marketing is expanding

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Why CTV Is Becoming The First Real Test Of Agentic Advertising

Connected TV demand is strong, budgets are growing and premium inventory continues to command attention. Yet, for publishers, the growth of CTV has complicated how deals get done. That’s because CTV never fit cleanly into campaign execution models built for RTB-based trading. Programmatic trading introduced efficiency for commoditized inventory, but CTV has always been defined

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With the World Cup around the corner, media buyers expect streaming prices to soar

After years of planning, marketers at major brands are finally ready to kick off their World Cup ad campaigns. Meanwhile, media agency experts are keeping their eyes peeled for a potentially volatile scatter market.  Anchoring the efforts of Unilever’s Rexona brand, which trades as Sure in the U.K. and Degree in the U.S., is a

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In Graphic Detail: New data shows publishers face growing AI bot, third-party scraper activity

A third-party scraper economy is emerging beneath the big AI companies, making it harder than ever for publishers to know who is taking their content, let alone stop them. “What’s changed is the separation of roles. The entity extracting the data is often not the one using or monetizing it. That abstraction layer is what’s

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Creator scandals have turned morality clauses into brands’ go-to exit strategy

Whether it was Edie Parker quietly scrubbing every trace of Summer House star Amanda Batula from its website days after she revealed a secret relationship with one of her cast mates, or ABC canceling an entire Bachelorette season after TMZ published footage of its star in a physical altercation with her then-boyfriend, the pattern is

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‘I’m playing the long game’: Journalists are striking out alone and discovering the business is toughest beat of all

Independent journalism is structurally viable for the first time. The infrastructure is there. The audiences are there. What’s lagging is business fluency, and journalists are learning it the hard way.  According to CNTI’s latest research, only three of 26 “indie info providers” — the report’s term for people delivering factual information via personality-driven brands —

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