Marketing

How the Chicago Bulls retooled their sponsorship business to meet CMO data demands

The Chicago Bulls haven’t won an NBA championship since 1998. That makes their sponsorship pitch harder than it might otherwise be, despite their enormous profile among casual fans thanks to a legend named Michael Jordan. To stay competitive, they’ve spent the last two years building a data solution designed to show brand partners how they’re […]

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‘There’s two ways to build these platforms’: OpenAI’s ads boss David Dugan on going the other way

OpenAI’s ad product moves fast. Nineteen weeks (or four months) in and it’s already struck commercial partnerships, built measurement tools and launched an ads manager. Ask about what’s underneath those moves — independent ad verification, how trading deals evolve — and the answer slows right down. That gap between what’s shipped and what’s still vague

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Why Major UK Publishers Are Finally Joining Forces To Curate Ad Inventory

The trending topic of deal curation has taken the ad industry by storm lately as media buyers seek to separate the open web’s wheat from the chaff. But some publishers have griped about their lack of control over how ad tech vendors assemble these curated packages. Others complained that curation deals compete with their own

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