Marketing

WTF is pay per ‘demonstrated’ value in AI content licensing?

Developing AI content licensing marketplaces are introducing new pay structures for how publishers could be compensated for the content they allow AI systems to access. Publishers and tech companies are determining how to scale compensation to match the value of the content publishers are allowing AI systems to access. It’s another sign of the evolution […]

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Why more brands are rethinking influencer marketing with gamified micro-creator programs

Urban Outfitters last week rolled out ME@UO, its latest bet on micro-creators, joining brands like American Eagle, Express, Home Depot, Lowe’s, and Sephora that are reworking affiliate marketing into always-on, gamified creator programs. These creator programs reward smaller creators for consistent content, signalling a shift in how brands engage and scale influencer marketing.  “It reflects

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Bold Call: AI compute costs are the future of the upfront… and principal media

Agencies have a compute problem. As AI takes over more of their day-to-day work, from writing copy to generating performance reports, it’s introducing a new and deeply unpredictable cost center. Every prompt, every output, every round of agentic back-and-forth costs tokens, and those tokens are variable in ways that neither agencies nor their clients know

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