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Publishers Are Bringing Vertical Video to the Open Web With Webflix

The media companies Time and The Arena Group partnered with the technology vendor Webflix on Monday to bring short-form vertical video to their portfolio of open web properties. Using Webflix, publishers can insert the vertical video they are already creating for social media directly into their article pages, monetizing the content with a combination of…

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Hey Google, What’s The Chrome User Choice Mechanism Going To Look Like?

Damned if you deprecate, damned if you don’t. In July, after four years of Sturm und Drang, Google announced it was abandoning its plan to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome. Instead, Google said it will launch a user choice mechanism in its browser. But it’s been more than two months now, and Google hasn’t shared

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Advertising Week Briefing: Why the creator economy will touch on most trends throughout the week

The growth and maturity of the creator economy is impossible to ignore. It will surely dominate this year’s Advertising Week kicking off today in New York, according to marketers and media executives, who say that the fragmented media landscape continues to elevate the importance of the creator economy, which has become a reality for nearly

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How Kraft Heinz’s new CMO Todd Kaplan is defending creativity in the age of data

Todd Kaplan’s resume at-a-glance Joined Kraft Heinz as CMO (July 2024) PepsiCo CMO (Feb. 2022 to June 2024) PepsiCo vp, marketing (August 2018 to Feb. 2022) Todd Kaplan could be considered a betting man. In a world where marketers are often pressured to prioritize metrics, algorithms and immediate ROI, the PepsiCo marketing veteran seems to

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Omnicom Media Group helps to push for ad-auction clarity and standards with broad industry cooperation

With Advertising Week upon the marketing and media industries, Omnicom Media Group is working behind the scenes to establish standards across a few vital areas that currently lack transparency, Digiday has learned. First off is an effort by Omnicom Media Group to help establish clarity and perhaps even standards in the ad auction process of

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Microsoft looks set to shutter its retail media business

Five years after acquiring the retail advertising platform PromoteIQ, Microsoft now seems to be quietly shutting it down and pushing clients to use Criteo. Multiple sources say Microsoft began letting retail media publishers know that it was sunsetting the service over the summer, at the same time it announced a “strategic collaboration” with the ad

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