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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, […]

If OpenAI’s latest moves indicate anything, LLMs are positioning themselves to be the go-to stop for searching and shopping. Between shopping integrations and ad product rollouts, AI chatbots could rattle retail media networks’ hold on sponsored and search ad dollars. As user behavior shifts, so too could retail media’s value proposition. Already, AI has upended

Anthropic’s war with Washington last week is winning in the public. The $200 million it walked away from by refusing the Pentagon’s demands may turn out to be the best marketing spend in Silicon Valley for years. Its principled stand has driven a surge in users and supercharged its brand — no small feat for

Meta has made changes to its measurement and attribution. Ad buyers say: it’s about time. Last week, Meta announced that it was redefining click-through attribution to enable more consistency with third-party reporting tools, and rebranding “engaged view” to “engage-through” and widening its scope, in a bid to provide visibility into the added value of uniquely

For years, brand safety was a fear business. The pitch was simple: something terrible could appear next to your ad, and without the right protection, your brand would pay the price. It worked, because the threats were legible — a controversial news story, an offensive YouTube video, a brand caught in the wrong conversation. AI

Is brand advertising bad now,?; Prediction markets are targeting college students; and performance TV is a real thing, maybe. The post Brands All The Way Down; The Kalshi Kids Aren’t Alright appeared first on AdExchanger.

YouTube won the race to be the web’s desktop video destination. Then it won the race for smartphone video consumption across its apps. YouTube even, seemingly without trying, became the go-to spot for podcasters to post video episodes. Not long ago, YouTube entered a new race. Some say it’s to be the big screen on

Since OpenAI began running ads four weeks ago, data tracked by Sensor Tower showed more than 100 individual brand promotions.