Marketing

AI agents are entering enterprise workflows faster than governance can keep up

As enterprises continue to increase their adoption of autonomous AI, many are facing a new challenge where governance frameworks struggle to keep pace with systems that can take independent action rather than simply create content. So far, much of the focus on generative AI has been on accuracy, hallucinations and productivity. As AI systems gain […]

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How DTC startups are using AI to scale more efficiently

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. During a panel discussion at eTail Boston last week, several founders and executives shared how they are navigating evolving retail challenges, omnichannel partnerships and emerging AI tools to drive growth. From reimagining their relationships with big-box and wholesale partners to using AI operationally and for

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Ad Tech Briefing: TV measurement’s competitive reset gathers pace (with more job cuts)

The TV measurement market has compressed several months’ worth of developments into little more than a week, prompting fresh debate over whether the sector is entering its next competitive chapter. Related Insights Strategizing for the Future By the numbers: Wall Street’s tough assessment of ad tech Read More The sequence began on August 6, when

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Marketers embrace AI across workflows, but questions over guardrails and job impacts remain

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify Marketers are handing over more of the marketing process to AI tools. Rather than operating within specific rules and guardrails, marketers have adopted a loose framework that’s constantly shifting. Marketing execs are pushing for company-wide AI adoption, expecting everyone to use AI tools to expedite brainstorming, scale creative ideas and

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How Unilever detergent brand Persil measures sports sponsorship impact

Brand spending on sports sponsorship is rising, but tracking the impact of those sponsorships is an increasingly heavy burden for the marketers tasked with getting the most out of their dollars. When a brand is active in multiple sports with different fan cultures, media footprints and cultural gravity wells, tracking their impact becomes even harder.

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Sport is marketing’s greatest opportunity — and its greatest activation challenge

Nikolaus Beier, svp of media and marketing services, Sportradar In today’s attention economy, few channels or forms of entertainment capture the imagination quite like live sport.  As evidenced at this year’s World Cup, sport’s ability to attract billions of eyeballs is unrivaled. So too is its unique transcendence of geography, demographics and internet virality, making

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Perplexity challenges Time’s AI agent advertising push

Perplexity has blocked advertising placed in AI-readable versions of Time’s webpages from influencing its search index, affecting an experiment that lets brands serve sponsored material directly to AI crawlers. The AI search company confirmed the move after Time began placing ads inside markdown versions of its webpages that are intended for AI systems rather than

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