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    Estée Lauder boosts generative AI ambitions with expanded Microsoft deal

    The deal follows a similar partnership with Coca-Cola and arrives as the tech giant makes its Copilot AI companion available to all advertisers.

    By April 29, 2024
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    ID Solutions 2.0: Navigating what’s next

    Before you navigate the cookieless future, explore the best ID strategies for today's advertisers.

    By Jeff Ragovin, CEO at Semasio • April 29, 2024
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    What you need to know about data in marketing

    The pressure on marketers is only intensifying to master data and analytics capabilities that can strengthen personalization and foster loyalty.

    By Marketing Dive staff
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    Google enters its ‘Gemini era’ as search, YouTube ride healthy ad demand

    While robust ad spending and generative AI bolstered the tech giant’s biggest moneymaker in Q1, analysts cautioned the future isn’t assured.

    By April 26, 2024
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    Saks seeks to carve out luxury niche in retail media with network launch

    Saks Media Network debuts on the tails of the company receiving an infusion of capital to help it weather the current luxury downturn.

    By April 24, 2024
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    Cookies get another stay of execution — but have marketers already moved on?

    Marketers shouldn’t cancel their post-cookie plans, especially as Google faces antitrust action, the possibility of a nationwide data privacy law and its own shifting priorities.

    By April 24, 2024
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    Omnicom’s bets on precision marketing contribute to growth bump

    Flywheel Digital, the group’s largest acquisition to date, is a key piece of its evolving pitch around digital commerce and retail media. 

    By April 22, 2024
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    Amazon introduces shoppable, ad-supported channel to Prime Video, Freevee

    The channel leverages Amazon’s “shop the show” technology to enable viewers to easily purchase content seen on their TV screen via a mobile device.

    By Aaron Baar • April 18, 2024
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    Pedigree adopts AI to give ‘glow ups’ to shelter dog ads

    Adoptable combines proprietary artificial intelligence with the brand’s global media reach to create more engaging ads that aim to shorten adoption times.

    By April 10, 2024
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    On-site search data comes to CTV planning via Captify, Magnite deal

    Captify will analyze search terms from millions of publisher websites and categorize them into profiles, interests and moments.

    By Aaron Baar • April 8, 2024
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    Deep Dive

    Meet the 4 firms setting the agenda for measuring TV ads amid rapid change

    Battles around big data and panels continue as currency certification efforts pick up and the possibility of consolidation looms.

    By April 8, 2024
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    JPMorgan Chase to let brands target customers based on spending data

    Chase Media Solutions connects customers to retail deals, tailored to their spending, directly through their bank app.

    By Gabrielle Saulsbery • April 4, 2024
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    How marketers can navigate the legal pitfalls of generative AI

    Panelists at the IAB Public Policy and Legal Summit outlined some of the issues marketers must contend with while using the technology.

    By April 3, 2024
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    Deloitte Digital rebrands itself to show off new generative AI tool

    The Orb Foundry tool enables teams in 30 international markets to generate fully rendered 3D brand assets for various channels and campaigns.

    By Aaron Baar • April 1, 2024
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    Walmart’s ad growth playbook involves winning more non-endemic brands

    Automotive, entertainment, financial services, QSR and travel brands are in the retail media network’s sights, as are smaller advertisers.

    By April 1, 2024
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    IBM shows the dangers of marketers using ‘fishy’ generative AI

    The tech giant turned the Las Vegas Sphere into a fishbowl of wonky fish to show what its Watsonx AI platform and Adobe’s cloud offerings can prevent.

    By April 1, 2024
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    How Home Depot is renovating its retail media network to reach more advertisers

    The retailer gave suppliers an inside look at consumer insights, business strategies and a road map for a growing ad channel at its first “InFronts” event.

    By March 28, 2024
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    Snap teams with IAS for AI-driven brand safety solution

    The solution will offer advertisers transparency into the percentage of suitable content their ads appear against and will arrive in the coming months.

    By Aaron Baar • March 28, 2024
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    Instacart powers third-party integrations with developer platform

    Launch partners WeightWatchers, GE Appliances and New York Times Cooking are using the platform to bring Instacart to their apps and websites. 

    By March 27, 2024
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    McDonald’s, NielsenIQ team for Cultural Relevance ad-testing module

    The solution analyzes the role and effectiveness of cultural factors in content to help advertisers deliver more impactful and inclusive ads.

    By March 25, 2024
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    Accenture teams with Adobe, Nvidia to fuel brand content with generative AI

    Two partnerships will help Accenture Song create personalized content at scale and transform content supply chains to meet marketers’ rapidly evolving needs.

    By March 25, 2024
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    Lyft deepens ad-targeting, measurement bench as in-app video launches

    Along with a new CMO, the company has enlisted Oracle and Nielsen to provide brands more precise insights amid the rollout of richer ad formats.

    By March 22, 2024
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    Inside NBCUniversal’s plans to turn TV into a performance marketing channel

    In advance of the upfronts and Summer Olympics, NBCU announced measurement integrations with VideoAmp, EDO and Kochava at One24.

    By March 20, 2024
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    Retail media’s rise increasingly reliant on offsite programmatic media, report finds

    Strong growth for the channel comes as retail media networks have recently been called out for transacting on low-quality Made for Advertising sites.

    By March 20, 2024
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    Instacart earns MRC accreditation as retail media competition heats up

    The Media Ratings Council has granted accreditation for the company's impression, click and viewability metrics across several ad formats.

    By March 20, 2024
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    Epsilon partners with Comscore for contextual ad program

    Proximic’s natural language processing and AI contextual categorization will support Epsilon’s ad-tech platform.

    By Aaron Baar • March 18, 2024