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Undermining Ourselves: How Advertising Keeps Getting Standards Wrong

Many well-intentioned advertising standards efforts gather digital dust. Others have even shut down in the face of lawsuits claiming insufficiently broad industry engagement. Why?  Because we mistake the release of a proposal for the achievement of standardization and create more noise than clarity.  My standards journey began with IAB’s Future of the Cookie (FotC) working

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Retail Media’s Stack Adapts; Why Creators Create More For YouTube

Need A Lift? Lyft is expanding its retail media business by decoupling its first-party data from its media. Through a partnership with StackAdapt, advertisers will be able to use Lyft’s data for audience segmentation or attribution, rather than just advertising on Lyft’s network.  “It’s like building a corner store,” Lyft Media VP and head of

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Brands, creators hold their own NewFronts-style sales pitches to win over more ad dollars

Negotiations in the upfront and NewFronts cycles can seem at odds with the fast-paced, individual-focused creator business model. But new sales presentations from creators and brands centered around the creator economy have agencies optimistic that they could create long-term, lucrative deals for creators. The new sales pitches could also be a sign that the space

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What now for TikTok creators after the latest ban delay, with Alyssa McKay

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify Despite the threat of losing her 10 million-plus TikTok followers, McKay typically receives 250 million views per month on Snapchat and has lately been garnering 50 million monthly views on Instagram With more than 10 million followers on TikTok, Alyssa McKay would appear to have plenty to lose if the

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‘We have our understanding of what we accept or what we don’t accept’: Kick’s co-founder talks creator push and growing pains

Streaming platform Kick is on a mission to onboard as many creators as possible in 2025. So far, the push appears to be succeeding — but the platform’s edgy reputation represents a challenge as it looks to scale up further. March 2025 was Kick’s biggest month ever. The platform reached over 317 million hours watched

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Marketing Briefing: ‘Expecting chaos’: With tariff uncertainty a new constant, marketers use Covid replanning muscle

If the last five years have taught us anything, it’s that chaos may be tough, trying and certainly worrisome — but it’s ultimately manageable. That’s the general sentiment among brand marketers, ad agency execs and industry analysts when you ask them to make sense of the current economic landscape amid tariff back-and-forth.  “I’m expecting chaos,”

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Like A Brunette Going Blonde, Olaplex’s Digital Marketing Strategy Is Gradually Getting Bolder

Although Olaplex is still in its “nascent days” when it comes to data-driven analysis, Chief Marketing Officer Katie Gohman told AdExchanger, understanding the digital marketing ecosystem is now a core part of how her team operates, especially when it comes to creative.  The post Like A Brunette Going Blonde, Olaplex’s Digital Marketing Strategy Is Gradually

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