Marketing

Programmatic Platforms Champion Transparency, But Not If It Means Giving Activists Access

DSPs want to vet buyers before letting them into their platforms. No one wants to serve ads from advertisers they don’t trust. But what happens when a DSP is worried about a buyer digging too deeply into its supply chain? Apparently, that’s reason enough not to onboard them – which is odd, given how loudly

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Advertising’s Next Audience Isn’t Human. So We Must Rethink The Value Of Non-Human Traffic

For years, advertising has been all about reaching the right human at the right time. That premise, however, is shifting in an unexpected way. Agentic AI has created new complexity, with autonomous “agents” that can increasingly evaluate, compare and execute decisions, from product research to actual purchases. Human-to-agent isn’t an incremental change. It’s a structural

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As athletes embrace owned media properties, they’re pushing for more involved brand deals

Two days before the climax of this year’s World Cup, kitmaker Adidas ran a hastily constructed ad campaign highlighting talisman players Lamine Yamal and Lionel Messi in front of its famous triple stripe logo. The message of the ad was simple enough: the protagonists of the summer’s biggest sporting event were both Adidas men. The

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