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Brand-Trained Agents Can Give Marketers A Fuller View Of Their Customers

Agentic commerce company Envive builds on-site agents for brands like footwear company Clove, painting a clearer picture of what their customers are looking for.




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Hot Take: YouTube Shouldn’t Rely On Creators To Convince Brands It’s TV

Platforms using talent to corroborate sales pitches is nothing new – the TV upfronts have always included publishers peacocking their talent to impress buyers. But YouTube arguably juggles an additional obligation to act in accordance with its self-imposed competitive differentiator: authenticity.

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Don’t Worry About Netflix – It’s Doing Fine Without Warner Bros. Discovery

Paramount might have outlasted and outbid Netflix in the competition to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, but Netflix is not overly fussed about the loss.

Hard Truths For Retail Media At The IAB Connected Commerce Summit

The IAB’s Connected Commerce event in New York City this week felt to me like the retail media industry’s first sit-down explanation to a child who is now a “big kid” and must act accordingly.

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Meta Is Launching An Easy Button For CAPI

Meta is simplifying its CAPI setup and teaching its pixel new tricks, including adding an AI-powered feature that automatically pulls in data from an advertiser’s website.

TelevisaUnivision Joins The Streaming Self-Service Bandwagon

TelevisaUnivision is the latest TV publisher to join the self-serve trend that’s rising in popularity across connected TV advertising. Its streaming inventory is now available to buy through fullthrottle.ai’s self-serve platform. The collaboration includes an ad bidder designed to improve both targeting and measurement.

Comic: Gamechanger (Google lost the DOJ's search antitrust case)

For Google Advertisers Who Overpaid The Monopoly – Don’t Hate, Arbitrate

Law firm Keller Postman is leading mass arbitration suits against Google, seeking advertiser damages for alleged monopoly overpricing. The total available pot is a quarter-trillion dollars.

Can An AI Solution Fix Misaligned Marketing Orgs?

Opal launched Gem, a new AI solution, to help large brands unify the layers of media and tech within their organizations.

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Betterment’s ‘Anti‑Marketing’ Machine

Kim Rosenblum, CMO of investment app Betterment, unpacks her “anti‑marketing” playbook, which involves telling customers not to engage and shifting away from chasing cheap CAC to prioritizing lifetime value.

The Big Story

Reaching For More Reach

With RFPs in flux, diverse-owned media companies are finding ways to use their data to improve reach. Plus: Why we’re in retail media’s “potty-training” phase.