Marketers

Alphabet is beset by challenges on all sides. But the company’s revenue growth remains unchecked.

2024 was a year of hectic change for ad measurement. These are a few of the new ad attribution trends and techniques programmatic advertiser should know going into 2025.

Achieving consensus on the definitions for even baseline retail media metrics required a tough 18-month slog. Unfortunately, this was the easy part.

Sonos chief marketer Jordan Saxemard spoke with AdExchanger about balancing brand and performance marketing and the evolution toward a new hybrid kind of ecommerce and retail shopping.

“It’s going to be harder for [indie agencies] to compete,” said Rob Rivenburgh, the CEO of Mars United, who also now leads the Publicis Commerce global group.

If “Austin Powers” supervillain Dr. Evil wanted to hold the world ransom for $100 billion, the global advertising industry might actually be able to afford it – at least, according to GroupM’s end-of-year forecast.

Cyber Monday may be done, but the ad tech deal making just won’t quit. Experian has joined the ad tech consolidation parade with its acquisition of Audigent, a startup DMP and curation vendor.

Call it a Glitchmas miracle. Maybe. Meta finally appears to have resolved a glitch in its ad platform that prevented new financial services advertisers from running campaigns.

Nikki Bhargava, a partner at law firm Reed Smith, spoke with AdExchanger about knowns – and unknowns – on the privacy as we gear up for the next four years.

Dustin Hinz is CMO of Firestone Walker Brewing, which just launched its first non-alcoholic beer line. Now comes the marketing challenge.

Is the marketing funnel as we know it officially dead? Variations of that eternal question were posed over and over again to panelists at Paramount Advertising’s Performance Now Summit in New York City on Tuesday.

What’s the best way for advertisers to get the most performance possible out of their Meta campaigns? The answer, according to Meta, is to buy more ads on Meta.

Meet Evertune AI, a startup that helps advertisers understand how their brands and products appear in generative AI search responses.

On Tuesday, MediaSense, a UK-based company that specializes in handling media account reviews, announced its acquisition of R3.

The physical presence of the boutique is a force multiplier for Nespresso’s marketing efforts. Like many other DTC brands (including those it shares space with at the outdoor mall), it’s using a storefront to build brand equity.

Stop if you’ve heard this one before: Overall revenue is down at Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), at a rate of 4% YOY in Q3 to $9.6 billion.

DoubleVerify has successfully wooed numerous former Moat clients, including P&G, BlackRock, Dish Network, Charter, Dunkin’ parent company Inspire Brands, Kellogg’s and Google.

Brands are getting back to basics. They’re rethinking their packaging and trying to figure out how they fit into the new world of retail store shelves. And while they are getting more data-driven, the data is not necessarily for advertising.

With signal loss on the rise, many advertisers are giving first-party data more of a shot. Not scotch whisky brand Dewar’s, though.

Stop thinking about brand safety verification as “insurance” – a way to avoid undesirable content – and start thinking about it as an opportunity to build positive brand associations, says Kenvue’s Mark Proulx.

GoGo squeeZ CMO Mark Anthony Edmonson shares the key insight that helped his brand expand its audience beyond its traditional target.

Dividing brand and performance makes sense as long as the two sides collaborate closely, says Jennifer Burch, Hasbro’s senior director of global media.

On Wednesday, video monetization platforms Connatix and JW Player announced plans to merge into a new entity called JWP Connatix. The deal was first rumored in July.

Just three weeks after it began, the Google ad tech antitrust trial in Virginia is over. The court will now take a nearly two-month break before reconvening for closing arguments right before Thanksgiving.

On Tuesday, mar tech company GrowthLoop announced the launch of its new customer data platform, called The Loop.

Someone will eventually need to make a Netflix-style documentary about the Google ad tech antitrust trial happening in Virginia. (And can we call it “You’ve Been Ad Served?”)

OMD Worldwide Chief Media Officer Ben Hovaness, thinks the advertising world might be thinking about the open internet wrong way, right down to the terminology we use to describe it.

Colgate-Palmolive redesigned all of its consumer-facing sites and apps to make it easier to collect opted-in first-party user data.

History can be a burden for a brand, if it means that company is too set in its ways to pivot and try new things. Just consider e.l.f. Cosmetics, the digitial-first, social-native brand that made good.

Digital-native brands need to figure out how to win in retail shelves. They’re finding it difficult, to say the least.