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Sports marketing spend shot up in 2024. Amid soaring viewership figures for last year’s Olympic Games, worldwide ad spend on sports-related advertising rose to $60.9 billion, according to WARC. But sports marketing doesn’t always just mean chasing the largest audience possible. In 2025 brand marketers are set to seek audiences via niche, unconventional sports opportunities. […]

What captured our readers’ attention this year was both a continuation of and a departure from years past. Our top 10 stories in the past year coalesce around two themes: kookies and kwality. Ahem, cookies and quality. Quality has been a theme for some time in programmatic – in every permutation possible. This year, quality

2024 was a year of hectic change for ad measurement. Third-party cookies may have been given a reprieve by Chrome, perhaps even an indefinite lifeline. But, still, user-level data is running dry, to the point that last-click and multitouch attribution have lost their edge entirely. In their place, data-driven advertisers have reverted to familiar stalwarts

Whichever way you look at it, 2024 was a slam dunk year for women’s sports.  The WNBA enjoyed a banner season featuring newly minted superstars such as Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese while the NWSL saw TV audiences rise by almost 20% compared with the previous season, according to CBS. Advertiser dollars followed. During the

Judging from the reaction to the news of Omnicom’s planned acquisition of Interpublic Group near the end of 2024, there’s a strong expectation that 2025 will see the biggest of the agency groups get bigger. Size and scale will be vital for them to compete with each other. But getting so large means seeking out

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. We’re wrapping up another eventful year. TikTok has found itself on the positive and negative sides of the news cycle, Google pulled its plans to kill third-party cookies and publishers continued to move the pieces of their revenue puzzles

Happy holidays! Bundle up, get cozy and please enjoy this classic winter-themed comic, which first ran in February 2014. The post Comic: Winter Storm Adzilla appeared first on AdExchanger.

This year was the year many publishers took formalized stances on AI companies, many of which resulted in deals between the two. The wave was first kicked off by an agreement between the Associated Press and OpenAI in July 2023, then followed by another deal between OpenAI and Politico, Business Insider, Bild and Welt owner

It’s been a long year. And there’s a lot to keep straight — what do industry acronyms stand for? How does that affect strategies? With our WTF series, we aim to breakdown what these complex topics mean, so the industry can walk into their meetings prepared for whatever’s next. Catch up below on some of our