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The End Of The CPM Era: Why ‘Unlimited’ Is The Future For Ad Tech Partners
As the advertising industry races forward, core technology providers – particularly ad servers, dynamic creative platforms and attribution or measurement companies – play an increasingly critical role in powering the infrastructure that enables targeted, data-driven and performance-optimized campaigns at scale. But one outdated pricing model is becoming an obstacle to innovation, efficiency and effectiveness: CPM-based pricing.
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Unlocking Clarity: The End Of Guesswork For Publishers
With over $200 billion in programmatic spending on the table next year, maximizing yield is the name of the game for publishers in 2026. Capturing that opportunity demands maximum optionality across demand paths and signals. And with AI reshaping the landscape (referrals from ChatGPT to news publishers saw a 25x increase from the first half of 2024 to the first half of 2025, while traditional search traffic heads in the other direction) it is more important than ever for publishers to optimize their monetizable inventory.
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Unlocking Holiday Success: 5 Tips To Make Your CTV Investment Go Further
For advertisers, the holiday season poses an optimal opportunity to reach a new and broader audience, boost sales and foster brand loyalty with customers. And this season, CTV should be a core area of focus.
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Video Metadata Is Driving Advertising Success In CTV
TV audiences are rallying around CTV, and advertisers are following suit . But with this shift comes a persistent challenge: How can advertisers ensure brand safety, campaign efficiency and audience relevance in a fragmented, opaque streaming ecosystem?
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Mobile App Marketers Shouldn’t Ignore The Biggest Screen In The Home
Marketers today are operating in an outcome-obsessed world. For mobile app marketers, especially, the smallest screen in the home – the mobile phone – has become the default choice for driving lower-funnel outcomes.
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Curation Clarified: Why The Industry Should Stop Settling For Superficial Solutions
Curated deals were once seen as a smart way to bring structure to programmatic chaos. Today, they’ve become table stakes.
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From Prime Day To Peak Season: Why Creative Is Your Holiday Retail Media Advantage
With Amazon Prime Day in full force, marketers are navigating one of the biggest retail events of the summer. But this Prime Day isn’t just a moment to drive sales; it’s a critical opportunity to test and learn.
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How Advertisers Are Unlocking Full-Funnel Growth with Amazon Ads & Agentic AI | Michelle Urwin, Skai
Michelle Urwin, Chief Marketing Officer of Skai, joined Sarah Sluis at Cannes Lions 2025 to share the biggest shifts in commerce media . From Amazon’s expanding DSP and full-funnel capabilities to the rise of Agentic AI in campaign optimization, this conversation dives into how retail media is evolving fast, and how advertisers can keep up. […]
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The Retail Media Shift to Omnichannel with Michelle Urwin, CMO Skai, for Amazon Ads | Cannes 2025
In this fast-paced and insightful conversation from Cannes, Michelle Urwin, Chief Marketing Officer at Skai, breaks down the top three trends shaping Amazon Ads and how advertisers are successfully targeting their rich data across platforms and devices driving more revenue and maximizing campaign performance.
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Why Publishers Need Smarter AI Support To Maximize Monetization
In an omnichannel environment, managing and selling ads is becoming too complex for humans to handle alone. That’s why many are turning to AI tools to maximize ad inventory
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Why First-Party Data Still Isn’t Delivering – And What Brands Can Do About It
In a world where privacy regulations are tightening and third-party cookies are increasingly unreliable, first-party data has emerged as a cornerstone of modern marketing strategy.
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Advertising Intelligence with Matt Devitt, SVP of Advertisers & Agencies, Nielsen | Cannes 2025
In a media landscape that’s more fragmented than ever, brands face mounting pressure to prove ROI and outmaneuver competitors, especially as budgets tighten. Nielsen’s Matt Devitt breaks down how marketers can gain a competitive edge by leveraging accurate, comparable data across channels and understanding their share of voice in the broader market. He also tackles […]
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The Creative SSP: How TripleLift is Transforming Digital Ad Experiences at Scale | Cannes 2025
Dave Helmreich, CEO of TripleLift, joins Lynne d Johnson of AdExchanger and AdMonsters at Cannes 2025 to explore how TripleLift is redefining what it means to be a supply-side platform. Helmreich shares how TripleLift isn’t just connecting inventory to demand—they’re innovating through creative technology, dynamic ad formats, and real-time personalization across mobile, CTV, and retail […]
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PayPal Ads Reimagines Retail Media with Storefront Ads | Cannes 2025
PayPal Ads SVP and GM Mark Grether joins Allison Schiff at Cannes 2025 to reveal how PayPal is leading a new category with financial media networks (FMNs). Unlike traditional retail or commerce media, PayPal Ads leverages its powerful “transaction graph” to deliver seamless, high-frequency campaigns across the open web. Grether discusses the recent launch of […]
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MMM Is The Devil You Know
Marketing measurement is broken, and everyone knows it. Every week, I talk to marketing leaders who are desperate to quantify the revenue that marketing is incrementally delivering to the business. Many of them have some kind of marketing mix model (MMM) in place, yet still rely almost exclusively on last-touch attribution (LTA) to optimize their marketing investments on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
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Fixing Programmatic: Why Media and Creative Need a Reunion, with Eddie Ishak, Yieldmo | Cannes 2025
In this timely conversation at Cannes 2025, Allison Schiff sits down with Eddie Ishak, Head of User Experience at Yieldmo, to unpack the challenges and future of programmatic advertising. They explore how the disconnect between media and creative impacts performance and why alignment is more critical than ever. Eddie explains how managed services can deliver […]
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The Retail Media Reckoning: Why Incrementality Is The Metric That Matters
With a growing array of platforms and channels competing for consumer attention, advertisers have been increasingly looking for ways to understand which ads and placements drive engagement and sales – not just engagement and sales that would have happened anyway but true incrementality.
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How Applying AI to Creative Accelerates Revenue with Jay Richman, Amazon | Cannes 2025
AI is transforming advertising by empowering brands—especially small businesses—with tools to scale high-quality visuals, videos, and messaging quickly to reach diverse audiences, from retail shoppers to live sports viewers. Jay Richman, VP of Products & Tech at Amazon, highlights how AI enables more emotional, contextual, and personalized ad experiences, helping brands stand out across diverse […]
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How MiQ is Redefining Programmatic Advertising, with Tom Richards, SVP Global Product | Cannes 2025
Fragmentation was on the list of hot topics at Cannes 2025. Allison Schiff, Managing Editor of AdExchanger sat with MiQ’s Tom Richards to learn how MiQ is unifying the complex programmatic landscape for advertisers with MiQ Sigma, a conversational AI agent that transforms hours of manual work into moments of strategic insight. Discover how MiQ […]
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Why Cross-Device Advertising & Personalization is the Future with Charlotte Maines, Amazon Ads | Cannes 2025
Charlotte Maines, Head of Fire TV, Alexa, and Tablets at Amazon, joins AdExchanger to discuss how AI is revolutionizing content discovery, advertising, and the connected home. From personalized recommendations to voice-powered engagement, she reveals how Amazon’s ecosystem is driving immersive brand experiences. Discover how AI and cross-device innovation are shaping the future of streaming and […]
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Akhil Parekh, Chief Product Officer, Nielsen on Cross-Media Measurement | Cannes 2025
What’s holding back progress in cross-media measurement? Akhil Parekh, Chief Product Officer at Nielsen, explains what needs to shift to make it a reality.
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Leveraging the Power of "Real Data" with Nielsen's Matt Devitt, SVP, Head of Advertisers and Agencies | Cannes 2025
How do advertisers measure success in a market they can’t fully see? At Cannes Lions 2025, Sarah Sluis with AdExchanger and AdMonsters sits down with Matt Devitt, SVP, Head of Advertisers and Agencies at Nielsen, to explore how advertisers can benchmark performance against competitors in today’s fragmented, AI-driven media landscape. From unlocking competitive intelligence with […]
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The End Of Marketing As We Know It (And Why That’s A Good Thing)
Marketers didn’t sign up to be spreadsheet jockeys or calendar coordinators; they came to craft stories, shape brands and drive growth. But in reality, campaign deployments have become code for chaos: fighting fires, fulfilling last-minute requests and executing the same plays under slightly different subject lines.
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The Unexpected Upside Of A Cookieless Future That Never Came
Google’s decision not to deprecate cookies in the Chrome browser after all caused a stir across the industry. Companies invested heavily in developing solutions aligned with the Privacy Sandbox as a survival tactic for the post-cookie landscape. At first glance, Google’s about-face may appear to undercut those efforts.
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Beyond The AI Hype: Why Intelligence Beats Identity At Cannes And Beyond
If there’s one safe prediction heading into Cannes this year, it’s that AI will be everywhere: in panels, on yachts and splashed across every DOOH ad within a 10-kilometer radius of the Croisette. But behind the noise, something real is happening. We are witnessing a strategic shift. AI is evolving from a shiny object into a performance engine that helps marketers uncover hidden audiences and iterate faster while delivering relevance at scale.
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When Marketing Budgets Are Threatened, Data Clarity Is Currency
Marketers having to justify their budgets is nothing new, but macroeconomic anxiety is making the stakes feel higher.
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Marketing’s Next Leap: Why AI-Powered Answers Are Replacing Insights
Marketing has evolved dramatically – from one-size-fits-all tactics to today’s hyper-personalized, data-driven strategies. But now we’re reaching another inflection point. For years, marketing teams have invested in turning data into insights. Yet a persistent problem remains: The path from insight to action remains too long and fragmented.
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From Anonymous To Addressable: The Identity Shift Reshaping Digital Audio
Audio platforms that solve identity challenges are gaining an edge, winning new advertisers and driving stronger returns. As digital audio matures, the ability to understand who’s listening is becoming just as important as what they’re listening to. Digital audio is evolving fast. What was once a niche channel of host-read sponsorships and direct buys has […]
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Choosing The Right Identity Partner Is A Long-Term Bet – Here’s How To Do It Right
The modern marketing landscape is being rewritten in near real time. While economic uncertainty may tempt brands to retreat into the comfort of walled gardens, the truth is more nuanced, especially regarding data and identity solutions.
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Principal Conflict: Why Principal Media Means Measurement Must Be Independent, Fast And Granular
No one needs reminding that a recession sharpens the knife on every budget line. Yet the 2025 slowdown is arriving just as media trading itself is mutating.