Marketing

Gale agency study on emerging media encourages marketers to tap more deeply into communities

Social media has now been around long enough to know it can be an extremely powerful marketing channel, notably for lower-funnel advertisers. Even in the face of eroded signals on what gets them to click. So the timing is right to understand social platforms from a 2.0 point of view — at least that’s the

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Ad Tech Briefing: Amazon launches MCP server for agent-driven advertising

Amazon is laying the plumbing for agentic advertising with the launch of its MCP server in open beta, opening up its ad stack to AI agents. The development was the subject of its flagship announcement at this year’s IAB leadership meeting, which provides a standards-based translation layer that converts natural-language prompts into structured API calls.

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A running list of publisher lawsuits targeting Google’s ad tech practices

The U.S. Justice Department’s ruling against Google for monopolizing digital advertising markets has opened the door for publishers to seek compensation for claimed lost revenue. Last April, the court ruled that Google violated U.S. antitrust laws by monopolizing the markets for publisher ad servers – with DoubleClick for Publishers (rebranded to Google Ad Manager in

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Inside NBCUniversal’s test to use AI agents to sell ads against a live NFL game

Traditional TV — let alone a live NFL playoff game — might be the last ad inventory type you’d think to test trying out AI agents against. And yet that’s exactly what NBCUniversal did last month. The media conglomerate ran a test with ad agency RPA, marketing analytics firm Newton Research and Comcast-owned ad tech

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How Tree Hut used AI to turn customer feedback into product insights and quadruple social engagement

Join Digiday, Glossy and Modern Retail, at our inaugural AI Marketing Strategies event on Feb. 11 in New York City, where top marketing leaders, including Tree Hut’s Sarah Craig, will discuss how they are using AI. Tree Hut is increasingly turning to AI to understand what its customer base wants next, using the technology to

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