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This year’s Digiday Media Buying and Planning Awards winners reflect a media landscape increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, data-driven decision making and integrated audience strategies. Across categories, organizations used AI to identify and engage high-value audiences, while adapting campaigns in real time to improve performance. Successful programs also embraced omnichannel planning, coordinating activity across platforms […]

By Mark Grether, svp and general manager, PayPal Ads  There are three words in a group chat: “I’ll get it.”  The person who wrote those words picked the restaurant, booked the tickets, fronted the cost and then collected payment from everyone afterward. Next weekend, when nobody else wants to make the call, they’ll do it again.  Here’s

ADWEEK can reveal the finalists for the 2026 ADWEEK Media Plan of the Year awards.  For over 20 years, these awards spotlight the media strategy behind the most recognizable campaigns […]

There is a potentially seismic shift happening underneath programmatic exchanges, as more ad bidders experiment with placing their AI models or decision-making algorithms in cloud-based container tech that lets those decisions happen at the SSP. Using an SSP’s container means the advertiser gets to observe and bid on a far greater amount of total SSP

Ad industry is not immune from the effects of the Iran War, according to WARC’s latest forecast

Pentaleap and Zitcha want to bring retailers’ ad and merchant teams together.

Papa Johns tapped NBCUniversal, Instacart and the dentsu-owned media agency Carat for help reaching consumers when they’re low on groceries – and thus more likely to be swayed by a mouth-watering ad. The post Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty appeared first on AdExchanger.

Instagram follower counts remain a factor in how users judge accounts, particularly for brands, creators, and sellers that depend on profile visits for leads or sales. The number displayed below a profile name is one of the first things a visitor sees. Before reading captions, watching videos or clicking a link, many users make a