Marketing

How Home Alarm System Brand ADT Learned To Love CTV

CMOs and CFOs aren’t known for having the most harmonious relations. Marketing folks are all about sizzle reels and impressions counts, while the finance folks are focused on the bottom line. But CMOs who prioritize performance metrics can be “best friends” with their CFO, said DeLu Jackson, chief marketing and communications officer at home alarm […]

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The Chief Media Officer Of Dunkin’ And Sonic Makes An Appeal For More CTV Transparency

As the chief media officer and SVP of demand generation at Inspire Brands, Travis Freeman controls hundreds of millions of dollars of media spend every year – and he has a little request for anyone buying CTV. The post The Chief Media Officer Of Dunkin’ And Sonic Makes An Appeal For More CTV Transparency appeared first

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Sonos Says ‘Sooooo … No’; Competing For Coca-Cola’s Crown

Pine Away The Trade Desk has taken an unprecedented bruising recently. In Q4, TTD missed its guidance for the first time ever, precipitating a major investor sell-off.  Then, this week, Digiday chronicled the weakening ties between TTD and key agency partners. Meanwhile, Adweek reported that buyers and publishers bemoan TTD’s supposed product improvements, including its

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Programmatic advertising’s endless cycle of reinvention and rot

Brian O’Kelley has made a career out of rewiring the ad tech machine. The AppNexus co-founder has spent much of the past two decades deep in the weeds of programmatic advertising — an industry that, for all its ubiquity, remains an opaque, arbitrage-fueled mess. Now, he’s back with a new mission: tear down its inefficiencies

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How Substack creators are pooling audiences with live video co-hosting

Creators are utilizing Substack’s live video co-hosting features to grow their audiences — and their subscriber counts. It’s been one month since Substack enabled video posts — previously a desktop-only function — on its mobile app, and two months since the platform expanded live video to all creators, with the ability for creators to team up and

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At Digiday’s Media Buying Summit, challenges with talent recruitment bubble to the surface

There’s a talent problem in the media agency world, and it starts at the bottom — meaning the entry level.  (There’s a whole different talent problem in the C-suite as well, as a steady dribble of executives leave one holding company for another — but that’s a story for another time.) The rising use of

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