Marketing

Why Programmatic CTV Isn’t Enough: Unlocking The Full Potential Of Your TV Ad Strategy

Television advertising has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years, with connected TV (CTV) emerging as a powerful channel for marketers seeking the impact of traditional television with the precision of digital targeting. However, a concerning trend has emerged: Many marketers have come to believe that accessing CTV inventory exclusively through programmatic channels provides a […]

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HouseFresh Clears The Air On Google’s Changing Search Experience

Publishers can no longer rely on steady search traffic thanks to zero-click AI chatbots and near-constant discovery algorithm changes made by Big Tech gatekeepers. So what comes next? That’s the billion-dollar question facing premium and longtail publishers alike. But pubs are operating under a cloud of confusion caused by outdated SEO strategies and a lack

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Sorry, LLMs – Congress Might Make It A Whole Lot Harder To Train On Copyrighted Content

AI bots are hungry. They’re scraping information found on passports and credit cards and training on novels without authors’ consent. Even fanfiction has been used to train some (presumably quite nerdy) bots. But a bill proposed in the Senate a few weeks ago could change that. In late July, Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Richard

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YouTube’s deliberate pace on scalable creator ads raises eyebrows among marketers

As brands increase their spending on scalable creator ads, three marketers say YouTube is lagging behind rival platforms in its implementation of the paid ad format — but YouTube execs insist its slower rollout is designed to protect the platform’s creator community. Over the past year, social platforms have released more tools to help advertisers scale

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With S4 approach, London’s MSQ Partners emerges as dark horse in the agency race

MSQ Partners has emerged as a potential suitor for Sir Martin Sorrell’s besieged S4 Capital.  The London-based agency group has begun negotiating to merge with the Monks owner, per a statement issued to the stock market by Sorrell on Monday following a Sky News report published over the weekend. It’s a significant turn in S4’s

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Ad Tech Briefing: Can The Trade Desk turn walled gardens’ retreat into open web gains?

If you’re reading this, you’ll likely have seen at least some of the latest financial results posted by the ad tech sector’s coterie of publicly listed companies, with AppLovin and The Trade Desk leading the pack in earnings (see below). Both companies, talismans of independent ad tech, saw their stock prices dip in early hours

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CMO Strategies: How marketers are spending and measuring across social media in 2025 — from Meta to TikTok

This is the fifth installment in Digiday’s 2025 CMO Strategies series that analyzes key marketer strategies and challenges across leading marketing channels, such as retail media, display advertising, social media and ad-supported streaming. 01 Introduction Among all channels considered in Digiday’s 2025 CMO Strategies series, social media had the highest usage rate for the third

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Why Reddit is pivoting from social platform to ‘go-to search engine,’ with COO Jennifer Wong

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify The through lines between search and social are more blurred than ever, and perhaps no platform is more aware of that than Reddit, which has been pushing to become a “go-to search engine” as CEO Steve Huffman put it on the company’s latest earnings call. Back in April, the social

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