Marketing

You may not know the name for it, but you’ve probably experienced it: you click on a link to a webpage, hit the “back” button on your browser, but end up on a page you never intentionally visited. That’s called “back button hijacking,” and Google is cracking down on the practice. Execs warned website owners […]

“It’s a Pepper Fling” tells the story of a fleeting love affair and comes as parent Keurig Dr Pepper looks to increase marketing investment.

Hundreds of exasperated and unexpected ad industry phone calls were made on Sunday, as agencies and ad tech vendors discussed the fallout of Publicis Groupe’s $2.2 billion acquisition of LiveRamp over the weekend. Publicis has roughly doubled its market cap over the past four years, as other agency holdcos and ad tech businesses have struggled.

Before the ink was dry on the LiveRamp deal, Publicis Group CEO Arthur Sadoun had personally sent 500 emails. To clients, to partners and to rival holdcos — all carrying the same message. Nothing changes. LiveRamp stays neutral. Your data is safe. He had to send those messages. The holdcos alone account for 5% of

It’s the great irony of programmatic. The bidding is automated down to the millisecond, but the day-to-day work of running campaigns is still largely manual, from copying data between systems and reconciling reports to running QA checks and drafting explanations for clients when metrics don’t line up. “Inside of the platforms, it’s AI everywhere – but