Marketing

The AI Chat Ad Frontier: What LLMs Change About Brand Safety And Control

ChatGPT ads are here, and brands are testing the waters. This marks the true start of LLMs as a new advertising channel, reshaping the customer journey and introducing a new surface for brand safety and suitability. It’s a real inflection point for advertising.  Impressions, searches and even transactions that once traveled through websites will increasingly […]

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Netflix Gets Closer To Marketers At The Upfronts; A New CAPI Crops Up

More Ads! More! “Late Night” host Seth Meyers roasted Netflix during NBCU’s upfront presentation earlier this week, telling the audience that the streamer was hosting its own event at a pier on the Hudson River “because once a Netflix show hits two seasons, that’s where they dump its body.” Jokes aside, despite the new location

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Marketers put up guardrails as AI agents reshape programmatic buying

AI agents are evolving quickly. In theory, agents are autonomous decision makers — automating campaign creation, optimizing ad buys and drafting pitch decks. In reality, marketers aren’t ready to give up control, establishing guardrails to keep agents in check. Marketers don’t have a lot of trust when it comes to AI agents in ad buying

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‘We should own it’: Hershey’s programmatic chief on AI agents and media mix modeling

AI media buying agents steal the headlines, but some of the highest-impact applications of agentic technology by brand advertisers has been in the form of media mix modeling (MMM), systems that monitor the impact of ad investments and help to divine a marketer’s next move. Related Insights Marketing on Platforms Why brands are shifting toward

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Media Briefing: BuzzFeed’s $120M sale marks another step in the repricing of digital media scale

This week’s Media Briefing will unpack BuzzFeed’s sale to Byron Allen, and the collapse in value of platform-era media companies. A look at the post-boom BuzzFeed era NYT’s warning to freelancers about AI use, Gawker’s legacy and more. BuzzFeed’s post-boom era BuzzFeed’s $120 million majority-stake sale to Byron Allen may have been a lifeline for

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Heineken shares its marketing strategy for the summer of soccer as World Cup hype ramps up

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. Heineken USA is pouring more marketing dollars into soccer this year ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The brewing company, which has trademarked itself as “the official beer of soccer,” is not an official World Cup sponsor. However, it’s getting in on the larger summer soccer

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