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Tubi pitches products, partnerships designed for specific ad verticals
Fox’s AVOD service positioned itself as purpose-built for streaming advertising and announced an expanded partnership with Amazon around retail media.
By Chris Kelly • May 7, 2025 -
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Google adds retail media data to YouTube ads, beefing up pitch to brands
Costco, Intuit, Regal Cinemas and United Airline’s Kinective Media support a Display & Video 360 program that aims to wed shopper and brand campaigns.
By Peter Adams • May 6, 2025 -
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Brands’ appetite wanes for creative risk-taking, per Lions research
Weak customer insights and a lag in the reaction time to cultural moments are key reasons why marketers struggle to be boldly creative.
By Aaron Baar • May 5, 2025 -
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Inside Universal Ads’ plan to reach the next 100K buyers of TV ads
Launched in January, Comcast’s self-service platform powered by FreeWheel has grown its list of publisher and tech partners ahead of the upfronts.
By Chris Kelly • May 5, 2025 -
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Circana hires Kroger retail media exec for newly created role
Cara Pratt will oversee retail and media strategies as the company’s president of global retail and media beginning later this month.
By Peyton Bigora • May 5, 2025 -
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Publicis acquires Adopt to strengthen connection to sports culture
The four-year-old upstart founded by Nike veterans has worked with brands and athletes including Lululemon and Anthony Edwards.
By Peter Adams • April 30, 2025 -
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EDO extends data interoperability for TV outcomes measurement
Advertisers can optimize media outreach with third-party audience planning tools by analyzing ad-driven consumer behavior.
By Aaron Baar • April 28, 2025 -
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WPP CEO says tariffs will ‘undoubtedly’ impact ad-spending plans
Mark Read dismisses the notion that there was a “pull forward” in investments in Q1 but acknowledges tariffs could hit some clients hard.
By Peter Adams • April 28, 2025 -
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Gopuff enhances in-house ads platform with new incrementality solutions
The measurement tools, launched with Koddi, were tested in a pilot program that saw incremental purchases per user increase over 40% on average.
By Aaron Baar • April 24, 2025 -
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OpinionDo the upfronts still matter?
The annual ad-buying bonanza can’t survive on nostalgia and sports alone and needs to modernize, says Juice Media CEO Mark Zamuner.
By Mark Zamuner • April 23, 2025 -
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OpenAP’s TV network owners push ahead on interoperable streaming ads
The firm’s new identity solution undertakes data privacy considerations for premium video ads in a multiscreen environment.
By Aaron Baar • April 21, 2025 -
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Publicis remains confident even as marketers’ tariff anxiety rises
The group upheld 2025 growth expectations, believing its end-to-end marketing offerings and new business wins will offset potential spending cuts.
By Peter Adams • April 16, 2025 -
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Google Cloud touts new AI tools to simplify marketing, customer experience
At Google Cloud’s Next ’25 conference, the tech giant will lay out innovations that speak to how brands and agencies can use artificial intelligence.
By Chris Kelly • April 9, 2025 -
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WPP inches away from legacy ID solutions with InfoSum acquisition
The deal ramps up the holding group’s AI-powered data and identity capabilities at a time of widespread signal loss for marketers.
By Aaron Baar • April 7, 2025 -
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Domino’s expands remit of AOR WorkInProgress after campaign wins
The independent shop behind Domino’s popular Emergency Pizza promotion has been named social AOR as brands ramp up work around creators.
By Peter Adams • April 7, 2025 -
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How Kellanova’s clean room is improving targeting and lifting sales
The CPG marketer reworked creative and media plans to help turn around Special K in the U.K. and is using the same approach for brands like Pringles.
By Chris Kelly • April 3, 2025 -
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Aquila shares progress report as it works to fix cross-media measurement
Executives from the ANA-owned entity and Unilever discussed what’s next for the platform and named Comscore a new TV partner at an ARF event.
By Chris Kelly • March 31, 2025 -
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Heineken taps WPP’s AI muscle to strengthen below-the-line marketing
A partnership focused on areas like in-bar, retail and sponsorship activities will lean on the artificial intelligence-powered operating system WPP Open.
By Peter Adams • March 31, 2025 -
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Adobe’s latest integration shows a path forward for cookieless campaigns
In a test, ad-tech company Utiq’s ID delivered over 90% of impressions in non-Chrome browsers.
By Aaron Baar • March 31, 2025 -
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Global ad spending expectations sink on trade war uncertainty: WARC
The firm cut its outlook for the next two years by nearly $20 billion as categories like automotive, retail and technology face tariff chaos.
By Peter Adams • March 27, 2025 -
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JCPenney embraces social-first marketing with VaynerMedia hire
The department store chain will take advantage of services like a social influencer seeding offering intended to boost relevance.
By Peter Adams • March 25, 2025 -
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IAB: AI adoption for campaigns lags amid data, transparency concerns
While half of the agencies, publishers and brands that haven’t fully integrated AI across their campaigns expect to do so by 2026, most lack a road map.
By Aaron Baar • March 24, 2025 -
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OpinionWhy 2025 will be the year for ‘fill-in-the-blank’ media networks
Organizations in industries as varied as software or travel have or are planning to launch ad networks, and many more will follow, said Upwave’s Chris Kelly.
By Chris Kelly • March 20, 2025 -
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How Nature’s Sunshine cuts through ‘label candy’ in the supplement space
The pioneering purveyor of herbal supplements relied on agency partner Crispin to create its first integrated brand platform.
By Chris Kelly • March 19, 2025 -
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Publicis integrates Adobe’s generative AI to scale up personalized content
The companies will combine creative and generative APIs with the AI-powered intelligent system that unifies the holding company’s proprietary data.
By Chris Kelly • March 18, 2025
