Marketing

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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Publishers don’t really know how Google AI Overviews is impacting their referral traffic

It’s been almost a year since Google rolled out its AI-generated search feature AI Overviews, and publishers still know very little about how it’s impacting their referral traffic. Last week Google introduced AI Mode, an experimental feature for search, which lets users ask follow-up questions without leaving the page, as part of an overall AI

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Trump’s topsy-turvy tariffs have marketers uncertain and on edge

As the tit-for-tat tariff fight between the U.S. and Mexico, Canada, China and the European Union continues, marketers are watching closely — and worrying. To recap: President Donald Trump announced 25% tariffs in February then put them off for a month before re-tabling the issue last week, leading to another postponement for Mexico and Canada.

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The rise of AI in marketing automation: How technology is redefining engagement

With the rapidly evolving world of digital marketing, firms are constantly searching for new ways to engage consumers, personalise interactions and optimise their time and efforts. Enter Artificial Intelligence (AI). This has been an absolute game-changer for marketing automation, revolutionising the way brands communicate with audiences. It’s no longer science fiction. From chatbots and predictive…

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