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Creator Marketing Is Growing Up

Creator marketing and influencer relationships are a top priority for marketers, but both are still behind other digital channels when it to scale, proper reporting and t

Information Quality Is What Wins In The AI Era

In the AI era, according to Tim Frank, the man in charge of AI monetization at Microsoft, "information is the new bid." In other words, the brands that get recommended wo

I've Tried Everything But AdTech Therapy

With AI eating everyone's traffic, publishers could use a sympathetic ear. AdTech Therapy's Jana Meron and Scott Messer talk through the sell side's biggest challenges an

Cracking The In-Store Attribution Code In Influencer Marketing

Creator marketing is the talk of the town, but how do you prove it genuinely drives sales? Emily Steele, co-founder and CEO of creator platform Hummingbirds, breaks it do

Programmatic Gets An Agentic Brain

Agentic AI just ran a CTV campaign end-to-end through a new, agent-driven buying workflow with far less manual optimization and a lot less waste. Butler/Till's Scott Ensi

Google's Mass Arbitration Problem

Thousands of advertisers are taking Google to arbitration over alleged ad overpayments. Attorney Ashley Keller of Keller Postman explains the legal strategy and what a po

Murder Your Thirst And Measure Everything

Liquid Death is all jokes and dark humor on the surface, but the canned water brand's chief media and digital commerce officer, Benoit Vatere, takes measurement deadly se

'Models Built For Me'

Chalice AI's COO and co-founder, Ali Manning, explains how the AI startup – don't call it a custom algorithm company – is helping brands like Bayer use advertiser-specifi

The Hardest KPI In Advertising

Marketing consumer products comes with plenty of challenges. But just try selling a political candidate in a hyper-polarized, 24-hour news environment, says Mark Jablonow

Forget The Shiny Objects And Focus On Fundamentals

Sharona Sankar-King, Havas Media's chief data and product officer, on why marketers should stop chasing shiny AI toys and get serious about the fundamentals, including tr

Convincing Cat Parents To Buy A $600 Litter Box

Most brands worry about competitors. Whisker is worried about complacency, says CMO Hew Loyd – specifically, the millions of cat owners who have decided that scooping an

Reckitt's Digital Reckoning

You wouldn't accept paying for a Big Mac and getting a single chicken nugget. But that's essentially what a lot of marketers are doing with their digital ad budgets, says

Reddit Is Training The Robots

Reddit is now one of the main data sources feeding LLMs and AI search. In this episode, recorded live in Cannes, COO Jen Wong talks data licensing deals, how people use R

Rethinking Vitamin Marketing, With Barrière

Cleo Davis-Urman, CEO and co-founder of wearable vitamin brand Barrière, talks word-of-mouth, measurement, retail media and what it takes to build a new category around p

California Regulatin'

Tom Kemp, executive director of CalPrivacy, unpacks the DELETE Act, his agency's enforcement priorities, the rules governing automated decision-making tech – and why ad t

The Gwyneth Effect, Measured

You don't usually hear someone talk about peptide serums, CAC and customer lifetime value in the same breath. But that's a normal day for Alexa Raff, CMO of goop, the wel

Don't Take Customers At Face Value

Verizon Value President David "DK" Kim digs into the lingering stigma around prepaid wireless – and how reframing customers as "prepaid by need" versus "prepaid by choice

How 'Wrapped' Insights Become Audience Segments

How does Spotify translate quirky "Wrapped" labels, like "divorced dad hipster," into ad audiences? And is AI-generated content safe for brands? Spotify's Global Head of

Influencer Marketing Grows

Up If creators want brand dollars, they have to play by the rules of data-driven marketing and measurement, says Ryan Detert, CEO and co-founder of Publicis-owned influen

Zoom's Next Act

Zoom CMO Kim Storin has one of the rarer jobs in marketing: She's responsible for promoting and evolving a brand that's also become a verb.