Marketing

‘Absolutely no intention’: Publicis Group CEO rules out building a Trade Desk rival amid ongoing dispute

A month after Publicis Groupe told clients to pull spend from The Trade Desk, it still hasn’t told them where to put it instead. The directive — the result of an audit that surfaced transparency concerns serious enough to warrant client notification — left clients in limbo. On today’s earnings call, CEO Arthur Sadoun said they’ll stay

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Curation Is Changing Programmatic — But Not Always For The Better

For years, programmatic advertising has operated on the assumption that most buyers didn’t really want to know how the system works. That’s changing. More advertisers are asking harder questions about where their media dollars actually go, and those questions increasingly come from mid-market agencies that would historically rely on DSPs to manage the complexity of

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When Last Touch Is By Ear; Drip Pricing, Named For The Torture Method

Can You Hear Me Now? What do you think of when you hear the term “programmatic audio?” Podcasts or streaming music probably pop to mind. But don’t forget about in-store audio, you know, the radio-ish channels playing in the background at the supermarket. Discount retailer Dollar General has outfitted 6,000 of its 21,000 locations with

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