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“Brands recognize the cultural dominance of podcasts”: global podcaster Mel Robbins talks AI, ad budgets and audience ownership

Mel Robbins is one of the world’s most listened-to podcasters, and the woman behind the “Let Them” theory — the simple idea about relinquishing control over others that led to her chart-topping namesake podcast, a number one New York Times best-selling book, and a phrase that has taken on a life of its own across

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Ad Tech Briefing: Corporate America finally buys into soccer as a mainstream sport; shadier elements of the ad industry are obliging

The FIFA World Cup 2026, co-hosted across North America for the first time, has spelled out what some in U.S. media circles have known for some time: association football, or “soccer” to use local parlance, is now big in America, and it’s time for corporations to cash in at pace — one hydration break at

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Channel Planning Is Dead. Digitas’ Liane Nadeau on the Fluid Funnel Era.

The awareness-consideration-conversion funnel isn’t dead — it’s just moved faster than the org chart has. At Cannes Lions 2026, AdExchanger Editorial Director Sarah Sluis sat down with Liane Nadeau, Chief Media and Investment Officer, Digitas, to make the case that channel planning — the TV budget, the search budget, the audio budget, the programmatic line

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CTV Buyers Are Getting The Show-Level Performance Optimization They’ve Always Wanted

For CTV advertisers, figuring out exactly which shows their ads ran in – and how that impacted performance – is still the Holy Grail. But streaming platforms typically share either self-declared content categories or incomplete show-level reporting after ad campaigns have run. In many cases, the best a buyer can expect is for the platform

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