Marketing

The Best Way To Embrace Convergent TV? Break Down The Silos Between Linear And Streaming

Marketers who want to remain competitive need to reexamine the way they view, plan and measure performance across video and streaming platforms. If they’re still debating programmatic vs. direct or linear vs. streaming, then they’re missing out on the real meaning behind convergent TV, according to Mike Fogarty, head of client development, brand and agency […]

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Understanding MCP, The ‘Universal Adapter’ For AI In Advertising

If there are two things ad tech isn’t short on, it’s acronyms and, more recently, AI product demos. But MCP – short for Model Context Protocol – is more than another TLA (sorry, three-letter acronym) or AI buzzword. Metaphorically speaking, it’s plumbing for AI: the piping that lets large language models connect to other software

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The Privacy ‘Zealots’ Were Right: Ad Tech’s Infrastructure Was Always A Risk

I’ve been saying for years that addressable advertising was a strategic mistake. Not because targeting shouldn’t exist, but because building an ecosystem dependent on granular identity, location trails and behavioral signals was always going to create exposure we couldn’t fully control.  And if we’re being honest, the precision targeting story was oversold anyway. The industry

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Long-form creators eye taking over TVs – and chasing bigger brand budgets

Long-form creator shows are landing on TVs, and Spotter, a creator growth platform that provides services and capital to facilitate growth and YouTube revenue share, wants brands to follow — but ad budgets are still lagging. Audiences spent 52 billion minutes last year watching long-form, episodic creator shows across platforms, according to data Spotter released

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Media Buying Briefing: Overheard at DMBS Spring 2026: AI from the top to the bottom of agencies

Another Media Buying Summit is in the books, having just wrapped last Wednesday in Nashville. And while some terrific speakers took the stage, once again it’s the Town Halls that reveal some of the greatest challenges that the people doing the real work at media agencies face day to day.  Held under Chatham House rules,

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