Marketing

Unpacking Google Breakup Proposals: New Rules, New Risks For Marketers

A long-simmering antitrust battle concerning Google’s ad tech business has reached a decisive turning point.  On April 17, 2025, US District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that Google violated sections one and two of the Sherman Act. She found that Google monopolized the open-web display publisher ad server market (via DFP) and the ad exchange market

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Tariff turmoil: How marketers are dodging costs and shifting strategy

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify These past few weeks have been a whirlwind as marketers have started to feel the effects of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The start and stop nature of the tariffs has brought about uncertainty once again – there’s one thing marketers have come to be certain of in the last five

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The language of uncertainty returns with earnings season

Earnings season has returned and with it a familiar exercise in managing uncertainty. For the first time since President Trump’s administration put sweeping tariffs on imports, the country’s biggest advertisers, retailers, media companies and platforms will be asked a pressing question: What’s the impact?  Few have clear answers. The new tariffs are broad, fast-moving and

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As ‘recessionposting’ enters overdrive, creators are taking steps to dodge potential blowback

As content creators across the web get swept up into discussions of tariffs and a potential recession, some are adjusting their approach to avoid possible blowback from affected fans. With Donald Trump’s currently-paused tariffs (save China) threatening to send the global economy into a recession, content creators of all kinds are chiming in, regardless of

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What’s the future of data collaboration platforms?

Two deals stood out during the Q1 wave of consolidation in the ad tech and martech landscape, with activity from agency holding companies piquing interest: Publicis Groupe bought Lotame, while WPP acquired InfoSum. These deals were notable as they represented holding companies writing big checks for ad tech or martech assets — let’s put the pending

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Marketing Briefing: How the current chaos affects influencer marketing

Marketers may be expecting, and prepared for, chaos but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to navigate yet another round of economic uncertainty — especially when the last one was just a few years ago. The replanning, re-forecasting and expected budget cuts has the marketing community on edge, waiting for the other shoe to drop. While President

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