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How Advertisers Can – And Cannot – Get In Front Of Chatbot Shoppers
Brands have plenty of ways to boost search visibility—paid, organic, and earned. But if a CEO demands presence in customer journey recommendation engines and is ready to pay, what can a marketer do?
Northbeam Adds The Third Leg Of The Attribution Stool With Incrementality Testing
There’s MMM and MTA, but no single ad measurement works for brands with multiple points of sale. On Tuesday, Northbeam launched an incrementality tool to complete what it calls “the trifecta of digital attribution.”
What Regulators Talk About When They Talk About Ad Tech
If you want to know what privacy regulators think about online advertising, it’s not a mystery. Just listen to what they’re saying.
Keyword Blocking Demonetized More Than Half Of Reuters’ Brand-Safe Stories
The effect wasn’t just limited to news content. The Reuters.com/lifestyle vertical also had some of its brand-suitable pages blocked.
The Agentic Marketplace Is Here. Where Does That Leave DSPs and SSPs?
Swivel and Olyzon’s new partnership brings buy-side and sell-side agents together as early examples of an agentic marketplace.
Jones Road Beauty Is Using A New Type Of MMM To Reset Its Media Measurement
Inside how Jones Road Beauty is trying to turn messy, conflicting measurement signals into a single testing roadmap for its media mix.
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Liquid Death Lets Incrementality Decide What Tactics To Kill And What To Keep
Behind its edgy marketing, Liquid Death faces a familiar CPG problem: Most sales happen at the register, where media measurement goes to die.
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PODCAST: The Big StoryWhat Is AI Automating In Ad Tech?
Every company wants an AI-powered product. So what do they all look like? From A/B testing and media optimization to agentic interfaces for customers, we give a rundown on AI’s most popular applications in ad tech.
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Inside RTL’s Plan To Aggregate Europe’s Fragmented TV And Video Supply
European TV has never been an easy ad market, with content distributed across different languages, currencies and regulatory frameworks. RTL Group’s total video strategy aims to help global advertisers navigate this fragmented market.
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5 Years Of ATT: What We’ve Learned, And What The Future Of iOS Performance Looks Like
When Apple launched AppTrackingTransparency (ATT) in 2021, access to deterministic identifiers fell sharply as roughly 80% of users opted out of tracking. User-level feedback loops became sparse and biased, and iOS performance marketing shifted into a different measurement environment under SKAdNetwork (SKAN). Apple’s AdAttributionKit (AAK) later delayed postbacks, compressed conversion values and set privacy thresholds that made signal availability dependent on campaign structure and scale.
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OPINION: The Sell SiderAI Has Already Decided: First-Party Data Will Define Advertising’s Agentic Era
The industry has spent years debating third-party cookies, but AI has settled the debate. First-party data isn’t just preferred; it’s structurally necessary. And the capital is already moving.