Marketing

Marketers are rewriting the brand safety playbook for content creators in 2025

As content creators continue to accrue fame and influence, marketers have learned that they are not beholden to traditional brand safety considerations. In the current landscape of online content creation, AMP is one of the hottest names in the game. The creator collective, whose name stands for Any Means Possible, includes popular influencers Kai Cenat, […]

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What happened to the post-cookie era, with IAB Tech Lab’s Anthony Katsur

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify Remember when 2025 was supposed to be the first official year of the post-cookie era? Well, clearly that hasn’t happened and seems unlikely to happen anytime soon. And it certainly won’t happen until sometime after Google introduces its user choice mechanism in Chrome for people to allow or block third-party

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The Trade Desk’s Jeff Green Explains Why the Adtech Giant Doesn’t Make Big M&A Moves

Advertising tech company The Trade Desk isn’t interested in snapping up companies–despite its recent rare acquisition of data firm Sincera. The Trade Desk is the largest independent adtech firm, competing primarily against Google and Amazon for programmatic ad dollars. But the giant is notably not a buyer of companies. Besides Sincera, The Trade Desk’s only…

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McDonald’s CMO Tariq Hassan Has Resigned

Chief marketing officer (CMO) Tariq Hassan has left McDonald’s. On Monday, McDonald’s USA president Joe Erlinger posted a letter on the company’s website which revealed that Hassan had resigned from his post shortly after the holidays. Alyssa Buetikofer, CMO of McDonald’s Canada, will succeed Hassan in his role as chief marketing and customer experience officer,…

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AI Briefing: Here are two startups that want to help build brands AI agents

In recent years, ad agencies have embraced the AI narrative to demonstrate continued relevancy, as such disruptive technologies threaten their historic value proposition: manpower.    Now, AI startups — helmed by agency alums and former execs from Big Tech — are starting to enter the fray with further competition in the promise of “AI agents,” and

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Senator Ron Wyden: National Security Threats Will Inform Federal Privacy Law

When California and 19 other states passed their own data privacy laws, the predominant focus was to protect consumers from overzealous marketers hoovering up and misusing their data. But now people are also concerned about how data might be misappropriated by foreign hackers or state actors, which adds another layer of urgency – and complexity

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