Ad Tech
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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 Peter Adams • April 26, 2024 -
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 Peter Adams • April 24, 2024 -
Trendline
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.
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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 Chris Kelly • April 24, 2024 -
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 Peter Adams • April 22, 2024 -
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 -
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 Chris Kelly • April 10, 2024 -
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 -
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 Chris Kelly • April 8, 2024 -
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 -
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 Chris Kelly • April 3, 2024 -
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 -
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 Peter Adams • April 1, 2024 -
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 Chris Kelly • April 1, 2024 -
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 Chris Kelly • March 28, 2024 -
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 -
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 Jessica Deyo • March 27, 2024 -
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 Jessica Deyo • March 25, 2024 -
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 Chris Kelly • March 25, 2024 -
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 Peter Adams • March 22, 2024 -
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 Chris Kelly • March 20, 2024 -
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 Peter Adams • March 20, 2024 -
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 Chris Kelly • March 20, 2024 -
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 -
How to tackle measurement as Google rolls out open-source marketing mix modeling
Meridian arrives as MMMs are having a moment and the tech giant’s deprecation of third-party cookies begins to upend long-standing tactics.
By Chris Kelly • March 18, 2024 -
Honda leverages AI for Dream Generator film experience with Amazon Ads
The experience, accessible on Amazon, allows consumers to conjure up fantastical scenarios featuring the new all-electric Prologue SUV.
By Sara Karlovitch • March 18, 2024