Warner Bros. Discovery used its upfront stage to announce two new ad measurement efforts. First, WBD is joining an initiative led by the data and identity platform OpenAP. The initiative aims to help advertisers connect outcomes data to their own first-party data for video campaigns through a standardized conversion API (CAPI). The CAPI will include […]
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New ads show William Shatner, who held the role in the 2000s, passing the baton as the brand appeals to consumers rethinking vacation plans.
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This State of the Industry Report, sponsored by Optable, examines agentic advertising and how publishers, advertisers and agencies are interacting with the medium — from investment and readiness to barriers and impact. Agentic AI is the latest optimization tactic across media, supporting initiatives like agentic advertising. However, because agentic AI is described as “a situation
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The brewer is cementing its focus on soccer by urging fans to use their volunteer time off benefit to catch matches and give back to local communities.
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TikTok is opening its ads platform to AI agents with its new model context protocol (MCP) server and developer toolkit, aimed at automating campaign creation, management and optimization. TikTok Ads Model Context Protocol (or TikTok Ads MCP) Server will “effectively enable marketers to connect their own AI agents directly to the Tiktok ads platform so
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TikTok is doing everything it can to convince people that it’s an ecommerce platform. First came TikTok Shop in 2023, and then came GMV Max, an automated ads solution to optimize ROI for TikTok Shop. And now, TikTok is going “one step further,” Tao Baecklund, global head of content and services ads, told reporters during
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The L’Oréal-owned brand enlisted NBA legend Carmelo Anthony for a “Head Coach” campaign in support of its anti-dandruff products.
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Kim Storin has one of the rarer jobs in marketing: She’s responsible for promoting and evolving a brand that’s also become a verb, like Xerox, Google or Uber. As chief marketing and communications officer at Zoom, it’s her remit to stretch people’s perception of a brand that many now treat not unlike basic infrastructure. Zoom
Search For the Next Scam Last month, this newsletter cited a case successfully brought by the DOJ against a network of credit rating companies that used fake apartment rental listing ads to lure customers into payments and subscriptions that were practically impossible to cancel. Well, the DOJ is back and taking another crack at Google
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MrBeast is building an AI-powered creator platform that points to a more programmatic future for the creator economy. A few weeks ago, a job listing for Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson’s Beast Industries appeared on the company’s job board for senior business operations, brand partnerships. Though the listing has since been taken down, the details suggested Beast
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