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  • Search Without Clicks: Rethinking Brand SEO In An AI-Fragmented Journey

    ChatGPT and others continued the fragmentation of the search journey, which today hops between platforms and intents. The funnel no longer exists. Here’s how to pivot your brand’s SEO/GEO strategy.

  • DOJ Rejects Google’s Antitrust Concessions; Instacart+ Plugs Into The Retail Media Network Network

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Compromise For Google Google’s reported offer to US regulators as a bid to avoid an antitrust suit was to spin off part of its ad business. But that news apparently landed with a thud.  The Department of Justice is poised to move […]

  • NBCU Struts Like A Peacock After Upfronts Haul; The Volunteers Who Keep The Internet Humming

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Paid Upfront NBCUniversal says this year’s upfronts was its highest-grossing since Comcast acquired the programmer in 2013.  Unsurprisingly, streaming media helped break the record. Of NBCU’s $7 billion in ad commitments, per a release, $1 billion is earmarked for its AVOD service Peacock […]

  • Comscore Continues To Struggle; PlaceIQ Snags Experian Investment

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A ’score To Settle Comscore has gone from arguably the best-positioned company to solve television’s cross-channel measurement problem to being mired in executive overhauls and new product builds beleaguered with setbacks. Things looked bright in April 2018, though, when Comscore brought on former 360i […]

  • After Conquering Local Ads, Yelp Eyes National Sales

    Yelp is moving from targeting your local corner restaurant to businesses with hundreds or thousands of locations. Tom Foran, Yelp’s SVP of national sales, is leading this effort. It’s working. National sales grew 22% in the past year. Revenue for its top 100 customers soared 50%. His 250-person team is focused on Yelp’s “multi-location segment” […]

  • Growth Gurus From The Gaming World Are In High Demand At Brands

    Uber, Postmates, Yelp, SmartNews and other nongaming apps are scooping up growth marketing talent from the mobile gaming world – and the reasons make perfect sense. App publishers are spending more on performance marketing, and those running user acquisition at gaming companies are some of the most data-driven mobile marketers in the biz. “Gaming professionals have […]

  • Can Local Media Players Survive A Facebook And Google Onslaught?

    Major ad platforms like Facebook and Google are soaking up the local and small-business market at an eye-popping rate. And it’s taking business away from smaller platforms like Yelp, whose stock has dropped almost 30% after local advertisers moved spend to Facebook and Google. Facebook, for instance, announced March of last year that it had […]