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How TIME’s CMS Transition Laid The Foundation For Its AI-Driven Content Overhaul

The CMS migration helped unify TIME’s fragmented content data after years of platform transitions under multiple owners. This enabled TIME to launch its own AI search product and convert archival content into AI-friendly “markdown” pages.

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Adobe Advertising Just Launched Its Own Custom Algorithms Product

Last week, Adobe Advertising announced the general release of its own Custom Algorithms product, which is “a huge departure from the TubeMogul days,” Erwin Castellanos, GM of Adobe Advertising, tells AdExchanger.

MFA Ad Spend Is Increasing. Is AI Slop To Blame?

This year, the percentage of ad spend going toward made-for-advertising (MFA) sites went up instead of down for the first time since 2023.

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Kickbacks Takes An Outsider’s View While Bringing Ads To AI Agents

Andrew McCalip is a founding engineer at Varda Space Industries, where he oversees the manufacturing of things like hypersonic reentry vehicles and satellite buses.

CTV Buyers Are Getting The Show-Level Performance Optimization They’ve Always Wanted

A collaboration between InterMedia Advertising, Peer39 and Pontiac Intelligence provided show-level cost-per-acquisition data for 94% of CTV ad impressions.

Advertisers Await Programmatic Pause Ads

The IAB Tech Lab is working on standardizing programmatic signals for new streaming TV ad formats, including pause ads. Meanwhile, many brands are eager to add pause ads to their repertoire.

Why Media Mergers And Spin-Offs Don’t Always Keep Their Promises

With media megamergers, acquisitions and spin-offs left and right, the media landscape is changing at a pace that is difficult to keep up with.

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Reckitt’s Digital Reckoning

You wouldn’t accept paying for a Big Mac and getting a single chicken nugget. But that’s essentially what a lot of marketers are doing with their digital ad budgets, says Reckitt’s Sameer Amin, on this week’s episode of AdExchanger Talks recorded live in Cannes.

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Can Content Drive Performance?

From avoiding AI slop to achieving show-level transparency on a CTV buy, we talk through how buyers are supercharging performance by focusing on the content where they place their ads.