Marketing

At Spotify, Podcasts Remain A Priority After An Anemic Q2 For Its Ads Business

It’s been a decade since Spotify introduced podcasts to its app. Now, Spotify hosts millions of podcasts and, according to Edison Research, 26% of US podcast listeners use Spotify as their preferred service. And last month, Spotify began making podcast inventory available programmatically through its ad exchange and its self-serve Ads Manager. Advertisers had been

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The Trade Desk’s Blue Ocean Moment: How The DSP Can Rewrite Ad Tech’s Rules

In ad tech, group thinking is the silent killer.  It convinces great companies to keep playing the same game long after the rules have changed. Too many leaders keep reaching for the same playbook that worked a decade ago: connect pipes, aggregate inventory, plug data, take a cut.  Even The Trade Desk (TTD), arguably the

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Media Buying Briefing: Havas joins race to find answers to clients’ zero-click search queries

As users adopt AI search tools like Google’s AI Overviews or ChatGPT in lieu of traditional search engines, clients are worried about what exactly generative AI search tools are saying about their brands and whether that can be measured and ultimately, influenced. French holding company Havas is the latest to start offering some answers to

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Why generative AI can’t seem to help marketers build their brands

The promise of generative AI was to make marketing faster and cheaper, optimizing everything from media operations to creative. But in Silicon Valley’s push to give marketers a one-stop-shop with AI, marketers say AI has not given them solutions for brand building. The industry might still be a ways off from fulfilling Mark Zuckerberg’s vision

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Canada’s Knix puts down roots in the U.S. with a new permanent store and fulfillment center

This story was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail After seeing “tremendous success with brick-and-mortar” retail in Canada, the intimates brand Knix is honing in on the U.S. market, its founder Joanna Griffiths told Modern Retail. On Friday, Knix, which is known for its leakproof underwear, will open its first permanent store in the States,

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