Artificial Intelligence

How can we establish guardrails for the use of generative AI while supporting creative exploration? As banal as it sounds, the answer is to create a comprehensive gen AI policy.  

Last week, FTC Chair Lina Khan announced a probe into Big Tech’s relationship with generative AI companies at an FTC forum to address competition concerns related to AI technology – its first AI-focused tech summit.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Reg-U-Later Apple has a history of not quite breaching antitrust rulings, but blithely flaunting orders.  In 2022, for example, a Dutch court ruled Apple must allow payment alternatives. Apple paid 5 million euros per week in noncompliance fines over months. It eventually acquiesced […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Board Games The LG Ads board of directors has three new members. Or, more accurately, two previous board members – Alphonso co-founders Ashish Chordia and Lampros Kalampoukas, who were fired as part of an orchestrated corporate coup in late December 2022 – have […]

Aiming for one thing and being measured against another is absurd. But this is how the multibillion-dollar TV industry has operated for decades.

With the encroaching reality of AI, marketing professionals should be included in strategic planning, given the roles we play in shaping public image and maintaining a brand.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pining For AI Google laid off nearly 1,000 employees last week – but the hits keep coming. It’s also scrapping hundreds of jobs in its ad sales division, Business Insider reports. The headcount reduction is a byproduct of restructuring its ad sales team, […]

Two of Salesforce’s new AI-powered tools are nearly ready for prime time: one for segment creation and another to help retailers coordinate the pricing of promotions to different audiences across channels.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cannot Fulfill This Request Generative AI products continue to fail in obviously foreseeable ways.  The latest: Amazon listings that appear to have used OpenAI’s ChatGPT to generate product names and descriptions feature an identical error message, The Verge reports. Who doesn’t want to […]

Paul Pallath, VP of applied AI at cloud consultancy Searce, spoke with AdExchanger about a few hypothetical – but very possible – ethical scenarios a marketer might face when using generative AI.

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While 2023’s return to fiscal responsibility made for rough waters, it will pale in comparison to 2024.  Here are eight trends worth watching.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pod Patrol The CTV ad experience is a hot topic at CES this week. Streamers and brands are exploring interactive ad units, while platforms are still trying to determine the optimal streaming ad load. But no matter how advertisers prefer to engage viewers, […]

GroupM’s integration with Google allows its Choreograph campaign planning and insights platform to compile data derived from Google – including signals from Search, YouTube and Google Analytics – in one interface.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The New Creative Controls Does “alt_copy_copy2_brand_red_hold” mean anything to you? That’s the way most creative units and product ads are titled, and any associated metadata would likely be the brand’s name and the banner ad size. Meh. But a generative AI bot could […]

Inuvo, a software company that uses a web crawler combined with machine learning to analyze online interactions and predict consumer intent, has been around the block – and it’s got an unlikely origin story.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Panel Discussion Bad news for Nielsen: Another panel has entered the arena. Samba TV is teaming up with HyphaMetrics to launch a panel for measuring video viewership across linear, streaming and other digital formats, Ad Age reports. HyphaMetrics plans to use Samba TV’s […]

Self-supervised learning is at the heart of generative AI, and it’s perfectly suited to address the signal loss we’re increasingly facing in digital advertising today.

Native advertising needs a redefinition, not just for the sake of advertisers and publishers but also for consumers. Here’s how recent advancements in AI can help native advertising meet its potential.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pod One Out Podcast advertising is in a tough spot. Although ad sellers are cautiously optimistic about 2024, as more listeners tune in and programmatic audio grows (albeit slowly), podcast advertising overall has been stuck in first gear for years, Digiday reports. What […]

Every week, we publish an original comic inspired by trends in the online advertising industry. These are the stories – and the puns – behind AdExchanger’s top 10 comics of the year.

In 2023, supply-path optimization took off, brands took their scalpels to made-for-advertising websites and DSPs and SSPs launched SPO products to cut down on hops. Plus: lessons from the year in data privacy.

Publisher frustrations with the algorithm-driven internet are boiling over – and the rise of generative AI-powered search, which rarely links to the stories it scrapes, will cause irreparable damage.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bean Counter A split between two state privacy laws in Maine shows how more data-driven businesses – not just Silicon Valley giants – are invested in the nuances of privacy standards and how consumer data can be used (or not). Lobbyists at the […]

From clear-eyed looks at the industry’s shortcomings and conflicts of interest to prognostications that presage the next batch of conference panel talking points, you can count on these astute industry voices to drive the conversation.

Kepler Group, which launched Kepler Creative in October, wants to fix the disconnect between media and creative.

Google has had to rely on vectors other than an increase in search volume for growth. Without proper protective legislation in place, however, the result could be a dangerous one. 

Arcane, a marketing workflow automation startup, announced $5 million in seed funding on Thursday. The VC firm Accel is leading the round.

Since programmatic is all about advertisers looking for low-cost impressions, Likewise gets more revenue from direct deals that rely on its first-party audience data.

AI’s speed of innovation and deployment have raised concerns about risks and harm to people and businesses. Here are some tips for how to use it responsibly.