Marketing

For Meta Marketers, Automation Isn’t Always The Advantage (But It’s Complicated)

Meta wants marketers to trust the machine. Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns (ASC), Meta’s automated ad product, promises to take care of everything – budgeting, creative, targeting, optimization. Just hand over the keys. But here’s a plot twist: Automation doesn’t always work better than manual campaign management. Last year, ad measurement startup Haus kicked off a large-scale study

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Why The Future Of Publisher Monetization Depends On Transparency, Not Volume

Publisher monetization choices are among the most covered and critiqued aspects of our industry. I’m as guilty as anyone; it has been the throughline of everything I’ve written about since 2023. If you’d prefer to skip the archives, here’s the summary: The core challenge with publisher monetization is the perception that more partners, requests and

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The Financial Times’ AI paywall drove conversions up 290%. Now it’s learning who stays

The Financial Times is building an AI that doesn’t just know who will pay — it’s learning who will stay.  After nearly a year of running its AI paywall, the publisher’s focus is shifting to retention. A new model, due early next year, will connect directly to the existing paywall, feeding insights from long-tenure subscribers

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