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It’s OK to Talk About AI Now: Publicis Hits Back at Haters by Celebrating Marcel in Cannes

Adweek

In 2017, amid the buzz of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, holding company Publicis Groupe dropped a bombshell. The network announced that it was foregoing all marketing efforts and awards including Cannes for the next year to refocus its resources on developing an artificial intelligence platform called Marcel.

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What you need to know about mobile game advertising

Martech

Tapjoy ) Rewarded video ads remain the top ad type among mobile gamers (preferred by 53%), while support for other ad types is growing; survey ads have increased in popularity from 8% in 2017 to 17% in 2022) and playables increased from 9% in 2017 to 16% in 2022.

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Before Performance Max, There Was Google’s App Campaigns, Muddying Transparency

Adweek

But that doesn't mean marketers are happy about it. Back in 2017, Google told mobile advertisers. Automation is taking hold of the ad industry, and marketers are grappling with the idea of balancing transparency with effectiveness, spurred by interest in Google's year-old tool Performance Max.

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Brands Are Getting Scarily Good at Spooky Marketing

Adweek

But in 2017, the winter month saw the release of Jordan Peele's Get Out, the cultural phenomenon that upended the horror genre and everything we knew about its audience. The post-holiday doldrums of February are typically when the movies that studios don't expect to do much business hit theaters. Since then, it seems like horror.

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The R/GA Make/Good Program Helps Close the Racial Wealth Gap

Adweek

In 2017, R/GA didn't have a corporate social responsibility program. As Black listened to founder Bob Greenberg talking about the downturn in the economy at the time, she thought back on a Giving Trip she took with. The agency's new art director, Bayyina Black, wanted to change that. A town hall meeting helped inspire her.

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Why Does Ad Tech Still Fail To Spot – And Stop – MFA-Fueled Schemes?

AdExchanger

Last week’s Adalytics report about Forbes operating a made-for-arbitrage (MFA) subdomain has the ad industry asking itself: How did no one catch this? forbes.com” subdomain has existed since 2017. According to Adalytics, the “www3.forbes.com”

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WPP’s Sorrell: 2017 was “not pretty” as growth dries up

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WPP flat-lined at best in 2017 according to its preliminary results released today. In CEO Sir Martin Sorrell’s words 2017 “was not a pretty year.” ” Currency movements and some stern financial management allowed WPP to increase its top line post-tax profits by 27.4 per cent to.

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