Marketing

In Platforms We Trust?

The future of measurement is set it and forget it, says Ty Ahmad-Taylor, Kantar’s chief product officer, on this week’s episode of AdExchanger Talks. In his view, we’re heading toward a world – although we arguably already live in it – where marketers set their goals and budgets, then mostly get out of the way

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Canadian indie Salt XC expands its U.S. presence with purchase of Craft & Commerce

There may be trade tensions between the U.S. and Canada thanks to on-again off-again tariff threats, but that’s not stopping a Canadian-based independent shop from gaining a stronger foothold in the U.S. market as it expands its North American reach.  Digiday has learned that independently owned experiential and retail media specialist agency Salt XC, based

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Digiday+ Research: Dow Jones, Business Insider and other publishers on AI-driven search

01 Introduction Publishers are utilizing AI more than ever, as we explored in part 1 of this report, but it’s also the source of major challenges for the media industry. AI-driven search is a big part of those challenges. As of October 2025, a full third of the 15 billion searches conducted on Google (or

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In Graphic Detail: AI licensing deals, protection measures aren’t slowing web scraping

New data is reinforcing a structural shift in how AI systems access publisher content: AI models are increasingly scraping publisher content, regardless of bot-blocking measures or content licensing deals meant to control usage, improve attribution or drive referral traffic. New research from analytics firms and bot-tracking companies shows AI tools are increasingly crawling publisher sites

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WTF are tokens?

For a certain generation, a token had weight. It was a small metal coin dropped into a subway turnstile or an arcade machine — the literal price of access. Now, the word is back. Only this time the machines are data centers and the games are AI models. Every prompt, summary, workflow automation or agency

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AI is changing how retailers select tech partners

This story was originally published on sister site, Modern Retail. Join Modern Retail, Glossy and Digiday at our inaugural AI Marketing Strategies event on Feb. 11 in New York City, where top marketing leaders will discuss how they are using AI. The quick rise of artificial intelligence-powered tools has reshaped retailers’ process of selecting technology partners for

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