Artificial Intelligence

Scam ads featuring AI-generated celebrities are catching the FTC’s attention. Hear what the creator economy fears about generative AI. Plus: the latest on the US v. Google trial.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ghosts In The Machine The rise of machine-learning-powered ad products from Google and Meta is changing the performance marketer’s job from a hybrid creative tactician, media hound and command pilot to, well, someone who just feeds data, text prompts and raw creative assets […]

After attending the Federal Trade Commission’s virtual roundtable about the impact of generative AI on creative fields last Wednesday, all I can wonder when I see an AI-generated creation is whose work it’s based on.

Meta is starting the process of rolling out three of the AI-powered tools that it’s been incubating within its AI Sandbox so advertisers can implement them for ad campaigns.

Bryan Gildenberg of The CPG Guys, a brand and retail industry podcast with about 24,000 LinkedIn followers, talks Amazon, Instacart and product discovery.

Marketing analytics and ad ops teams are overwhelmed with data, which is compounded by the accelerated pace of generative AI-produced content.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Apple’s Bite Apple will now let paid subscription apps (think The Economist or meditation app Calm) offer audio content exclusively for their subscribers, a trendy tactic in Podcast Land. Spotify has a similar idea, but it partners with the subscription service Patreon. And […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What’s The Password? The Mouse House meant what it said about banning password sharing. Starting Nov. 1, Disney+ will bounce subscribers off shared accounts in Canada, with other markets sure to follow, CNET reports. The company sent an email last week alerting Canadian […]

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The industry is too focused on quantity over quality. Unfortunately, it seems there are many people still chasing scale due to a lack of understanding. 

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rage Against The ML Google and Meta are all-in on machine-learning-based ad products that assign creative and optimization controls to the platform. But tools like Google’s Performance Max and Meta’s Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns have been rushed onstage – and they’re not ready for […]

Pacvue’s Melissa Burdick talks about the growing role of automation in commerce, the grocery wars and retail media.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Yah Or Nah?  Can Yahoo be saved? That’s a question you probably thought you’d never hear again. But it’s relevant once more with Yahoo’s re-re-rebirth under private equity firm Apollo and Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone, former chief of Tinder and CBS Interactive, reports […]

Einstein 1 is a new Salesforce platform that makes it easier for companies to build AI-powered apps and experiences, including through a conversational AI assistant. Because talking to your data is a thing now.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Disney’s Carriage Ride Disney and Charter resolved their cable carriage dispute on Monday, re-upping Disney-owned networks (namely, ESPN) to Charter’s 15 million subscribers. As part of the deal, Charter’s most popular cable package will include access to the ad-supported tiers of Disney+ and […]

Samantha Bukowski, who leads GroupM Nexus Commerce as global head of commerce, talks social commerce, retail media, AI and how all media has become performance media.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Email Spreads Its Feathers Ultra-trendy CTV networks are turning to an old-school method for retaining users: email marketing. NBCU’s Peacock is using good-old-fashioned email blasts to reduce churn and increase viewership, Marketing Brew reports. Free and paid subscribers receive three to five emails […]

Su Kwon of Publicis Media on where DOOH is today and where it’s going. Kwon will speak at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO conference Sept. 26–7 in New York.

AdExchanger is taking the day off for Labor Day! The daily news round-up will return September 5. Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Perverse Incentives In March, the IAB Tech Lab issued updated video ad inventory classifications and urged the ad industry to follow them. But so far, only […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Two Kinds Of ECGs The TV industry is riled up over Nielsen’s plans to incorporate Amazon’s streaming data in time for the next season of Thursday Night Football. On Wednesday, the ratings giant responded to the letter the Video Advertising Bureau (VAB) sent […]

Enterprise generative AI company Typeface and martech company GrowthLoop draw on Google Cloud’s BigQuery to help marketers launch personalized campaigns in hours, not weeks.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Begun, The Clone War Has The robots are taking over, and publishers are fighting back. A growing list of media outlets are attempting to stop AI bots from copying their content, CNN reports. Last week, The New York Times, Reuters and CNN led […]

Publicis Groupe Chief Commerce Strategy Officer Jason Goldberg talks commerce trends, how he got into commerce and his podcast, “The Jason & Scot Show.”

The rapid growth, nearly ubiquitous use, and public interest around generative AI – alongside a shifting social media landscape and divisive political issues – will present new challenges for voters, platforms, media and marketers.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Add To CART Instacart filed for its initial public offering (IPO) on Friday. Shares should start trading next month (under the stock ticker CART, of course). Call it a thawing of the tech IPO market, which has been frozen for a year and […]

Communications API provider Twilio’s product road map is a direct reflection of the growing role AI is playing in digital marketing.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Results Are In YouTube told clients earlier this month about plans to start billing some of its video inventory based on its own co-viewing numbers starting in January. Now the buy-side backlash is rolling in, Ad Age reports. This plan “contradicts the […]

Brands need to start preparing for a contentious election season, crafting strategies for how they’ll deal with hot-button issues.

How will gen-AI content resonate – or not – with consumers? That’s the big question, according to Todd Hassenfelt, Colgate-Palmolive’s ecommerce director.

Chatting with clean rooms is becoming a trend. AppsFlyer launched a function within its data clean room that allows marketers to pose their business questions in natural language.