Marketing

Advertising’s new ‘universal language’ for AI agents sparks old debates about power and openness

Advertising loves to talk about transformation. It’s less fond of actually doing it. The latest case in point is the Ad Context Protocol, or AdCP. Billed as a shared, standardised language for how AI agents communicate across advertising, it’s supposed to bring order to the next wave of machine-driven media. Instead, its debut last week triggered […]

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MMA repositions as Marketing + Media Alliance to emphasize in-market collaborative testing

What’s in a name, you ask? In the case of MMA, a lot, given that those three letters have worked hard to reinvent themselves over the last 15 years.  The marketing organization known as MMA Global, and headed by Greg Stuart for the last decade and a half, is again renaming itself while still employing

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Stop Grading Your Own Homework: Why CTV Needs Program-Level Trust

A quarter of all Connected TV (CTV) bid requests can’t be trusted. That doesn’t mean fraud every time. Sometimes, it’s incomplete data. Sometimes, it’s oversimplified or mislabeled content. And sometimes, it’s more intentional misrepresentation. But the effect is the same: Advertisers don’t know if they’re getting what they paid for and publishers can’t be sure

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How M&C Saatchi Is Navigating Marketing Measurement Without User-Level Data

If there’s one thing marketers don’t need, it’s another measurement dashboard. “Death by dashboard is real,” said Dane Buchanan, chief data and analytics officer at performance agency M&C Saatchi. But not only is “a plethora of measurement approaches” overwhelming clients, he said – from media mix modeling and geo-lift testing for incrementality to brand lift studies

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