Marketing

Marketers question expensive AI visibility tools as inconsistent results fuel skepticism

The latest industry phrase keeping marketers awake at night is AI visibility. The so-called zero-click reality has ushered in a slew of tools promising insight as to when and where a brand is referenced in AI chatbots. Google users are less likely to click through links when an AI summary appears in the results, according

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Future of Marketing Briefing: YouTube’s creator data play is an on-ramp, not a destination

YouTube is giving brands something they’ve been asking for. The question is whether getting it makes them want something it can’t yet provide.  The platform’s Creator Partnerships API, announced at the NewFronts earlier this sping, opens up creator performance data to a select group of third-party ad tech companies for the first time – who

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Baller League’s creator strategy: reach is not the same as fandom

Baller League has something rare in creator economy business circles: a plan that doesn’t end with it becoming a media company. Instead it wants to become a sustainable sports league.  That’s not as obvious as the name suggests. Most creator-led sports properties have ended up caring more about the entertainment wrapper than the sport inside

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USA Today Co.’s AI licensing deals drive ‘notable’ revenue in Q1, despite pressure on traffic and programmatic

USA Today Co.’s AI licensing deals helped drive meaningful year-over-year revenue growth in the first quarter of this year, despite pressure on referral traffic and programmatic advertising. According to the publisher’s latest earnings published Thursday morning, “other” digital revenue — which includes digital content syndication, affiliate, content and AI partnerships, and licensing revenue — grew

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Reddit Reports A 75% Boost In Q1 Ad Revenue As It Reaches For 100 Million Daily US Users

Generative AI has pushed traffic off a cliff across most of the internet, but not on social platforms. Reddit included. Reddit’s global average daily users increased by 17% year over year in Q1 to 126.8 million. In the US, daily users were up 7% YOY to a total of 53.5 million. And Reddit isn’t expecting

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