Marketing

How AI Helps Butler/Till Curate High-Performing PMPs

Programmatic bidding algorithms aren’t always aligned with campaign goals, so agencies are relying on AI tech to create algorithms tailored to their campaigns instead. Butler/Till ran a display ad campaign on behalf of a financial services client between August and September last year that utilized tech from SWYM.ai, a company that provides programmatic decisioning tools

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Is Your Data Gen AI-Ready? Here Are 3 Steps For Shaking Up Your Data Strategy

It’s tempting to think AI models can hack their way to the best solution possible, no matter how basic the input we give. But feeding clean first-party data to AI models is an absolute prerequisite to ensuring that the output is on-brand and accurate. And there is little value in generating five times more content

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Generative AI Copy Cats; Time To Take Down Google Search Partners?

Can’t Auto-Generate Ethics Using generative AI seems to diminish the instinct to credit intellectual property and actual creativity. The examples are piling up. There was the incident last year when OpenAI blatantly ripped off Scarlett Johansson as the voice of its new AI agent after asking for permission and being denied. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s co-founder

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Ad execs are now working as Trump tariff policy translators for advertisers

The Monday after President Trump’s tariffs rattled global markets and raised the specter of a recession, global agency group Dept did what few in advertising are built to do: it pivoted to policy. The shop stood up a 10-person team of strategists — not to pitch an idea but to translate Trump’s policies on tariffs

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Future of TV Briefing: Trump’s tariffs are making flexibility an upfront focal point yet again

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how the mounting economic uncertainty has started to color considerations heading into this year’s TV and streaming upfront negotiations. The F-word Is the currency changeover over? Tariffs and Hollywood, tariffs and TikTok, TikTok and Amazon and more The F-word I get that the advertising market is cyclical.

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NBA team the Atlanta Hawks bet on creators to boost advertiser appeal

Professional basketball team the Atlanta Hawks have launched the NBA’s first formalized creator collective. The Atlanta Hawks Creator Collective is a group of 25 content creators that the NBA team has granted special access to home games and events such as training facility tours. The team soft-launched the program last year, with Atlanta-based creators including

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IPG’s latest appointment confirms AI chiefs are the latest holdco must-have

Interpublic Group (IPG) may be navigating an uncertain future, but it’s still hiring top tech talent in a bid to remain competitive. The U.S.-based holding company has appointed tech entrepreneur Yaniv Sarig as its global head of AI commerce, with a brief to rapidly integrate agentic AI into its commerce and performance media offering. Related

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