Artificial Intelligence

On the eve of ChatGPT’s first birthday, we asked a few brand and agency experts: How are you using and thinking about generative AI tech in your marketing, one year after ChatGPT’s debut?

Lawmakers’ categorization of what is sensitive (and what is not) is a silver bullet. What might be noncritical to one person could be extremely sensitive to someone else.

Grocery and recipe delivery service Hungryroot has a revolutionary method for collecting first-party data from its subscribers. Wait for it … it asks them directly.

While LLMs are demonstrating their usefulness for marketing, they are less well suited to solving challenges in performance advertising, which require learning from numerical data, not words.

It’s not that brands don’t care about supporting the news and good journalism. But an overreliance on keyword blocklists has made it seem that way, says Zefr CEO Rich Raddon on this week’s episode of AdExchanger Talks.

In the absence of a federal privacy law, advertisers can expect a steady stream of state privacy law announcements. Just fill in the blanks.

Therabody kept hearing from its core audience of performance athletes that they’d also like to see products their aging parents could use. This customer feedback prompted the company to push into a new area: wellness.

The Missing Link Log another demerit for YouTube transparency. Four buyers say their post-campaign reports for YouTube Select are riddled with broken links, Adweek reports. Google introduced YouTube Select in 2020 as a way for buyers to purchase premium YouTube inventory, including top-performing channels and YouTube TV. YouTube sends buyers post-campaign reports with links they […]

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Black Boxes All The Way Down Unsurprisingly, Google’s first AI-generated creative, which forms custom imagery and copywriting by prompt, was built into Performance Max, Google’s AI-operated advertising product. In a way, creative generation is the black box inside the black box of campaign optimization, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. UGC Meets AI-GC, And It’s Awkward In September, Google announced what it calls a “helpful content update” – aka a search algorithm change to favor sites with superior user experiences.  One part of the update was that Google will target AI-generated content, particularly […]

Google’s Performance Max announced the public launch of its auto-generated creative content.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Location, Location, Location The FTC’s consumer privacy case against Kochava is back on the docket. Last year, the consumer watchdog accused the mobile app analytics platform of selling users’ geolocation data in an open market. However, the presiding judge threw out the FTC’s […]

Last year, Mode started testing AppLovin’s mobile user acquisition platform, AppDiscovery, to determine which in-app events are most valuable and target new cost-conscious Android users.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Making An Impression Starting early next year, Google AdSense publishers will see their payouts switch from a per click metric to per impression, the first change to its revenue sharing model in 20 years.  Paying per impression is the industry standard for how […]

As stiffer competition between social media companies shuts out publishers that depend on social traffic, BuzzFeed’s ad revenue drops 35%.

Integral Ad Science (IAS) had a healthy Q3, with revenues increasing 19% YOY to $120.3 million. And shares jumped by about 5% after earnings.

With its RMN, Rippl, Cardlytics-owned Bridg aims to reduce fragmentation in the RMN space by consolidating listings by retailers that might otherwise be tempted to set up their own RMNs.

What happens when a Big Tech CEO gets on an earnings call these days? They talk about AI. AI will be Meta’s “biggest investment area” in 2024, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors during the company’s Q3 earnings call.

AppsFlyer is building a marketplace so advertisers can share user-level data with third-party vendors without, well, actually sharing any user-level data with third-party vendors.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Help Me, Help Me Amazon announced ad platform upgrades at its annual UnBoxed conference, just ahead of quarterly earnings today. Like Google, Amazon is now a content fortress with its own cloud, which means that when it makes ad tech updates, the result […]

IPG is floundering. The agency holding company was roughed up in the first two quarters of 2023, and its organic revenue growth declined by 0.4%, with a 1.2% decrease in the US, according to an earnings report on Friday.  

AI-driven creative automation company Creatopy, which raised $10 million in series A funding earlier this month, aims to make it easier for marketers to create and personalize their content.

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 […]