Marketing

From Trend Spotters To Strategic Translators: How AI Is Reshaping The Marketing Scientist Role

The role of the marketing scientist has never stood still, but artificial intelligence has hit fast-forward.  Once the quiet architects behind dashboards and reports, marketing scientists are now at the epicenter of creativity, technology and strategy. Machines can now flag anomalies, surface trends and spin insights in seconds. Nearly everything at the observational level can

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Media Briefing: Publishers debate the value of AI licensing and GEO

This week’s Media Briefing recaps publishing execs’ thoughts on optimizing content for AI search (or the concept of GEO) and the opportunities for revenue from AI licensing deals and marketplaces, during the Digiday Publishing Summit’s closed-door town hall sessions.  Overheard at DPS – on AI AI is finding its way into opinion and tech journalism,

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Spotify’s ad exchange grew its programmatic ad base, but buyers want more

Spotify’s ad exchange more than tripled its programmatic advertiser base in the year since its launch, according to the streamer. The media agencies using it are less effusive, Following the launch of SAX last April, the number of monthly active advertisers investing via programmatic jumped 222%, according to a Spotify spokesperson.  “We have seen basically

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How a ‘TikTok doctorate’ made 26-year-old Griffin Johnson a venture capitalist

In February 2019, Griffin Johnson was a junior in college, studying nursing and working in a steel factory. Six years later, he’s co-founder of Animal Capital, a venture fund, a journey he credits almost entirely to TikTok and the connections he’s made along the way.  Johnson built a TikTok audience around “complaining about student life,”

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Meta’s bid to woo creators to Facebook just might work, despite its recent legal woes

Earlier this month, Meta announced its Facebook Creator Fast Track, a program aimed at attracting more creators to the platform by offering guaranteed payouts depending on their follower size on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube. It’s a clear attempt to build up a robust creator space on a somewhat untapped platform, and there are some benefits

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Jones Road Beauty Is Using A New Type Of MMM To Reset Its Media Measurement

Cody Plofker, CEO of cosmetics brand Jones Road Beauty, doesn’t mind when a test he’s running proves that a certain channel isn’t working. In fact, he’s pleased. “You almost want to find out that something doesn’t work,” he said, “because then it’s like, all right, cool, now I know what I can optimize.” That’s not how

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As programmatic faces signal degradation, agentic advertising offers a solution

Vlad Stesin, CEO, Optable Traditional programmatic, the process of holding a 100-millisecond auction between the buyers and sellers of digital media, is wearing thin, but the infrastructure didn’t break overnight. For years now, fragmentation, privacy shifts and signal noise have eroded the programmatic foundation and diminished confidence in how workflows perform. The question is, what

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