Marketing

Ad Tech Says It’s Not In The Surveillance Business. Now Is The Time To Prove It

I’ve been thinking a lot about the RFI issued by US Immigration and Customers Enforcement in late January. ICE is asking data providers and tech vendors to share information on how their tools and services could be used to “directly support investigations.” The RFI spells it out: “The Government is seeking to understand the current […]

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CTV Should Be Automated – But It Doesn’t Need To Be Programmatic

Upstream, a supply-side company that until today was called TheViewPoint, introduced a platform that automates direct TV and streaming ad sales. The platform launch and company rebrand strive to highlight the role of TV and streaming as an upper-funnel awareness channel. The post CTV Should Be Automated – But It Doesn’t Need To Be Programmatic

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The End of ‘Good Enough’ Data: Advertising’s Shift Toward Defensible Performance

For most of the last decade, performance marketing was rewarded for momentum. Spend efficiently. Scale quickly.  Optimize continuously. If the line went up and to the right, few questions followed. But that era is ending, because performance without accountability is no longer credible. Performance is being redefined as not only the ability to generate outcomes

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Local Media Needs Consolidation To Compete, But An Outdated Legal Standard Stands In The Way

When I was a kid, my dad ran a small local business. Like countless owners, he depended on local broadcast media to reach customers, build trust in the community and keep the lights on to support our family.  That connection between local media and local livelihoods left a lasting impression on me and pulled me

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How the MLS plans to convert World Cup interest into lasting soccer fandom

This summer’s soccer World Cup tournament will provide a rare opportunity for major advertisers looking to engage sports audiences over a month-long festival of footwork, free kicks and the occasional foul — all taking place in the U.S and Mexico. But Major League Soccer (MLS) has a bigger ambition: to convert U.S. viewers entertaining a

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‘Comment sections are not customers’: American Eagle brings back Sydney Sweeney amid celebrity push

Less than a year after some backlash to American Eagle’s decision to enlist actress Sydney Sweeney as the face of its brand, the retailer is reinvesting in its celebrity strategy. Last week, the blonde haired, blue-eyed actress joined the retailer to ring in the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. The NYSE appearance

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