Marketing

TV upfronts-style Spotter Showcase pitches creators as the future of entertainment

The creator platform Spotter last Friday hosted the Spotter Showcase, an upfront-style event featuring top YouTube creators. Both the event’s organizers and participants took to the stage to broadcast a clear message: that YouTube is most definitely TV. Spotter’s creator upfront in NYC, which was hosted by YouTubers Colin and Samir and showcased talent such […]

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Episode 4 Mom’s at Work: Ticker Tape Minds — How moms make it all work and why we need to talk about it

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify Working moms constantly juggle two nonstop ticker tapes — one filled with work deadlines, the other carrying the endless mental load of motherhood. It’s a daily reality that rarely gets the attention it deserves. In this episode of Mom’s at Work — WorkLife’s limited edition podcast on the challenges working

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The semantic slide of programmatic’s power word: ‘curation’

Curation’s biggest problem might be its name. Everyone has a different version of it. Ask an ad tech vendor, and curation is about packaging high-quality inventory for better performance. Ask a data broker, and it’s a vehicle for layering on proprietary audiences. Ask a publisher, and it is a rare chance to reassert some control

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Ad-free platform Substack isn’t ruling out ads after all

Despite previously stating it’s an ad-free zone, Substack — like many other platforms before it — is no longer ruling out advertising. “For us, advertising is an interesting business,” Hamish McKenzie, Substack’s co-founder and chief writing officer, told Digiday. “Maybe some way off in the distant future.” Call it a reality check — a realization

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Adalytics: The Ad Industry’s Bot Problem Is Worse Than We Thought

Bots get a bad rap, but they’re not all bad. Without web crawlers, for example, search engines couldn’t index new content on the internet. But what is bad is when verification providers, including HUMAN Security, Integral Ad Science (IAS) and DoubleVerify (DV), serve ads to these garden-variety bots – calling into question whether they’re letting malicious

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Beyond CDPs: The Rise Of AI-Driven Customer Intelligence

Advanced and generative AI are transforming marketing from fragmented workflows into an engine of profitability and growth. Yet, despite AI’s promise, many in marketing remain trapped in outdated systems that fail to deliver. To fully realize AI’s potential, marketers must move beyond incremental solutions toward a more integrated and intelligent approach. The problem with the

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