Marketing

Freestar’s CEO On Why Ad Tech Transparency Is A Boon For Struggling Publishers

How do digital publishers navigate programmatic ad tech’s “flight to quality” while also dealing with their search traffic flying out the window? That’s the challenge and opportunity facing publisher monetization networks like Freestar, says CEO Kurt Donnell on this week’s episode of AdExchanger Talks. While Donnell acknowledges that “it’s freaking tough for publishers right now,”

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AdCP vs. IAB Tech Lab: Inside programmatic advertising’s agentic AI standards showdown

Programmatic advertising is going through yet another period of transformation. This time from the era of web-based automation to the era of agentic AI-powered automation. Except there seem to be two competing philosophies for how AI agents and programmatic advertising should intersect. On one side, there’s the Ad Context Protocol, which aims to create new

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Digiday+ Research: Brand marketing will be the priority in 2026, after revenues fell short of expectations

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. Revenues fell short of expectations for marketers in 2025, but they’ll be working with bigger budgets in 2026 — much of which they’ll put toward brand marketing. This is a member-exclusive article from Digiday. Continue reading it on digiday.com

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‘An influential seat at the table’: Why Target’s retail media business Roundel is one of the first to test ChatGPT ads

If ChatGPT’s move into advertising is to become a durable feature of its business rather than a short-term experiment, much will hinge on whether those ads can prove they drive real outcomes, not just impressions. Target wants to be among the first to find out. The retailer is one of the first wave of brands

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