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Marketing Briefing: How the current chaos affects influencer marketing

Marketers may be expecting, and prepared for, chaos but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to navigate yet another round of economic uncertainty — especially when the last one was just a few years ago. The replanning, re-forecasting and expected budget cuts has the marketing community on edge, waiting for the other shoe to drop. While President […]

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How Merkle streamlined its offerings to fit Dentsu’s mission in the last year

It’s not an overstatement to say Merkle’s role in Dentsu has been a bit unclear since the Japanese agency holding company consolidated its ownership in the firm back in 2020.  Even a few Dentsu executives might admit it — privately.  Is Merkle a data arm like Acxiom is to Interpublic Group, or Epsilon is to

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The Positives And Negatives Of A Potential Google Ad Tech Breakup

The ruling is official: Google’s ad tech business is a monopoly. So what happens now? There’s been no official announcement of a court-mandated remedy to Google’s anticompetitive practices. But Judge Leonie Brinkema’s decision centered on Google’s efforts to advantage itself in the SSP and ad server markets, and Google’s bundling of its SSP and ad

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It’s Schadenfreude Season For Google And The Rest Of Big Ad Tech

I don’t want to coin a phrase like “Schadenfreude Season.” But given the wave of ad tech headlines in recent weeks, it’s a succinct way of summarizing what the open internet is feeling right now. This is a long overdue moment of reckoning for companies who (still) hold disproportionate control over website traffic and revenue

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Faced with tariff spending fears, brands look to Amazon’s search ads and DSP

When times get tough, some advertisers look to performance channels to see them through. As advertisers get buffeted by tariff-induced uncertainty and a precipitous drop in consumer confidence, Amazon appears to be emerging as an early beneficiary. U.S. brands have accelerated their ongoing adoption of its DSP, while also increasing investment in its search inventory,

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‘There’s no such thing as recession-proofing’: Small businesses grapple with shifting economy 

Small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are no stranger to pivoting on the fly, but President Donald Trump’s tariffs have sent waves through the media and marketing economy. And for SMBs, it’s difficult to grapple with the constant uncertainty – navigating tariffs, talk of recession and economic uncertainty. Seemingly, the marketing playbook for SMBs is being

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