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Beyond The Cookie: How Connectivity Is Redefining Advertising’s Future

AdExchanger

The need for addressability has been a rallying cry among advertisers for the past five years, as they search for targeting and measurement alternatives in a privacy-centric world. But clinging to outdated notions of addressability means overlooking the broader needs of todays modern media landscape. Advertisers need to think bigger, connecting the totality of the […] The post Beyond The Cookie: How Connectivity Is Redefining Advertisings Future appeared first on AdExchanger.

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44 Women Leaders in Ad Tech Share Their Secrets for Success

Ad Monsters

For Womens History Month, AdMonsters is excited to share the viewpoints of 44 women leaders in ad tech about what its like to be a part of the industry, advice for the next generation, and how best to use your voice to find success on your terms. Women in ad tech are not strangers to being the only one in the room. While more women are entering the space and bringing new perspectives, challenges around representation and belonging remain.

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Curation Won’t Just Enhance Programmatic – It Could Replace It

VideoWeek

For all the benefits of programmatic advertising, its implementation has also created its share of bad incentives, writes Aly Nurmohamed, Founder and CEO of Nodals AI. But the rise of curation represents a sea change in ad tech, reducing the industry’s focus on solutions that exclusively serve the buy or sell side. Curation will be as big, if not bigger, than programmatic itself.

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Snapchat, LEGO, Disney and Courageous Studios are among the 2025 Digiday Media Buying and Planning Awards finalists

Digiday

The Digiday Media Buying and Planning Awards recognize companies, campaigns and technology that have been most successful in the modern media landscape. This years nominees prioritized technology-driven storytelling, strategic brand partnerships and immersive and interactive experiences. Snapchat and LEGO stand out in the Best Emerging Technology Campaign category for the pairs redefined digital play with Bricktacular, an always-on AR game designed to reintroduce play to adults.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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AI-powered martech news and releases: March 27

Martech

Yesterday, I saw Studio Ghiblis Princess Mononoke in IMAX. It was probably the sixth time Ive seen it, making it my third-most-watched Ghibli, behind Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro. So, I am not an unbiased observer when it comes to a recent AI development. On Tuesday, ChatGPT released a new version of its image generation tool. During the live-streamed demo, the tool was asked to turn a picture into an anime image.

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6 Digital Remedy Platform Features Built to Help Streamline Workflows for Full-Service Agencies

Digital Remedy

In todays fast-paced digital advertising world, full-service agencies are embracing forward momentum and finding new opportunities to scale their businesses with cutting-edge technology and innovative media solutions. With budgets to manage, a variety of client needs, and a sea of tech solutions to comb through, choosing the right tools and partners may seem like a tall task.

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Advertisers are starting to walk away from platforms’ AI solutions that once promised them everything

Digiday

It’s hard to deny that AI will have a larger part of media buying even as marketers will stall, resist and negotiate every inch of the way. And who can blame them? The uneasy feeling that handing over control to AI, whether through Googles Performance Max or Metas Advantage+ which each promised easier media buying, puts them further from understanding what theyre actually buying has been gnawing at them for a while.

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The future of the martech stack and marketing operations is ‘unstructured’

Martech

Like many of you, I regularly incorporate AI tools to keep up with marketing and martech trends. They provide me with summaries and extract insights that I either agree or disagree with. While researching unstructured data management trends, I came across this ChatGPT summary of various articles, and I immediately laughed out loud. … the upshot is that companies will need to treat unstructured data with the same care as structured data applying governance and quality checks because its b

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Digest: Meta Settles Privacy Case by Agreeing to Stop Targeting UK User; Yahoo Sells TechCrunch to Regent

Exchange Wire

Today's digest looks at Meta's agreement to stop personalised Ads for an individual, Yahoo Sales of TechCrunch and UK Technology Secretary urging AI Copyright Critics to Embrace Change Meta Agrees to Stop Targeting UK User with Personalised Ads Meta, the owner of [.] The post Digest: Meta Settles Privacy Case by Agreeing to Stop Targeting UK User; Yahoo Sells TechCrunch to Regent appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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How Media Multitasking is Guiding M&A

VideoWeek

Media multitasking, where audiences consume two or more different media types at the same time, has big implications for advertisers and their efforts to capture consumers’ attentions. It’s also causing media companies themselves to rethink how they engage their audiences, says Nicole Magoon, partner at Bain & Company. And this is feeding through to M&A, as media companies are increasingly looking to branch out into new sectors, to enable them to reach audiences across multip

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Retail media advertising: How e-commerce is becoming AdTech’s next frontier

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Why 1440 prefers CPMs for its newsletter business over other pricing models

Digiday

As 1440 looks to grow its advertising business, the newsletter company is laser-focused on the CPM pricing model. Founded in 2017, 1440 Media operates an eponymous newsletter, 1440, with the goal of providing a comprehensive and unbiased news roundup for a subscriber base that currently stands at 4.5 million. The newsletters audience, which is currently growing at a rate of roughly one million subscribers per year, is evenly split between genders and political views, according to 1440 CEO and co

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Does your team struggle to evaluate creative ideas? You’re not alone

Martech

Only one-third of marketers and one-quarter of agencies feel proud of their creative work, according to a recent study, and many of them feel its quality is not improving. BetterBriefs and research agency Flood + Partners conducted the study, BetterIdeas Global Report, in partnership with the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA).

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Navigating the Consumer Trust Crisis: What Brands Need to Know

Basis

In 2025, consumer trust is anything but a given. In fact, for many audience segments, distrust is the norm. The 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer characterizes todays climate as a global Crisis of Grievance, the result of events over the past 25 yearsfrom the Iraq War to the 2008 financial crisis to the COVID-19 pandemicthat have chipped away at trust in leaders and institutions.

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Fingerprinting and Beyond: The Future of Alternative IDs in Ad Tech

Exchange Wire

With fingerprinting making the headlines, what are the genuine alternatives to the cookie that the ad industry should consider? Mark Smith looks at the runners and riders Between a rock and a hard place Digital marketing is facing a dichotomy. On one hand [.] The post Fingerprinting and Beyond: The Future of Alternative IDs in Ad Tech appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Fast Company and Inc. tighten up paywalls to grow consumer revenue amid traffic volatility

Digiday

Fast Company and Inc. are tightening up their paywalls. Up until a few weeks ago, the Mansueto Ventures-owned publishers would put one new story a day behind a paywall. Now, four daily stories are reserved only for paying subscribers. Part of the reason for doing this is to create more value for subscribers, but the paywall changes are also part of a larger strategy shift to grow consumer revenue at Mansueto Ventures, in light of referral traffic challenges.

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Luke Bristow: why most agencies are built to fail challenger brands

More About Advertising

The traditional agency model is no longer fit for purpose. Its rigid, fragmented, and built for a world that doesnt exist anymore. While big agencies still focus on servicing legacy brands, the real momentum is happening elsewhere. Challenger brands are disrupting categories, out-punching incumbents, and scaling from early traction to dominant players faster than ever … The post Luke Bristow: why most agencies are built to fail challenger brands first appeared on More About Advertising.

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41% of brands using AI for video, up from 18% last year

Martech

A new report found that 41% of brands now use AI for video creation, up from 18% in 2024. Wistias 2025 State of Video Report data comes from over 14 million videos and surveys of 1,300 professionals. It also addressed video engagement and budget trends. The report attributes the surge in the use of AI for video to the increasing accessibility of AI tools, empowering marketers to streamline production and enhance video quality.

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Avoiding CCPA Privacy Pitfalls: Lessons From The Honda Settlement Order

AdExchanger

We all know it is difficult for participants in digital advertising to enter into contracts with every company to which they disclose personal information. However, difficulty is no longer an acceptable excuse, especially after the California Privacy Protection Agencys recent enforcement action against American Honda Motor Co. That case highlights a critical compliance reminder for […] The post Avoiding CCPA Privacy Pitfalls: Lessons From The Honda Settlement Order appeared first on AdExch

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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The Economist is looking beyond traffic to measure the success of its brand marketing push

Digiday

A year into its first brand marketing campaign in over a decade, The Economists traffic numbers have seen high highs and low lows. To measure the success of the campaign, the company is prioritizing other metrics, such as brand lift and awareness. In January 2024, The Economist kicked off its first brand marketing campaign in over 15 years. Growing the publication’s web traffic was never the goal of the campaign, according to Nada Arnot, the companys evp of marketing, who spoke at this wee

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Tech troubles hit S4 Capital (again)

More About Advertising

Sir Martin Sorrell’s big bet on tech companies driving growth at his S4 Capital (Monks is its main agency) has taken another turn for the worse with S4 booking an impairment charge of 280m in its last financial year to reflect tough trading in the second half and a pretty grim medium term outlook. This … The post Tech troubles hit S4 Capital (again) first appeared on More About Advertising.

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If You Don’t Know The Heart Of The Story You Don’t Have A Story Worth Telling …

Rob Campbell

I recently saw this wonderful clip of Hans Zimmer talking about the soundtrack to the movie Interstellar. I dont just like it because of the story he tells, but how he talks about the music representing the heart of the story. For all the ad industry bangs on or has banged on about storytelling, it seem to have forgotten what that actually means. Far too often we talk about it in terms of a format rather than craft.

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In The Room Where (The Ad Auction) Happens

AdExchanger

The IAB Tech Lab is proposing that ad auctions move to a Trusted Server from the browser. Why its prototype attracted controversy. Plus, should data privacy be viewed as a badge of honor, or a baseline standard? The post In The Room Where (The Ad Auction) Happens appeared first on AdExchanger.

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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The outlook for ad tech M&A in 2025

Digiday

According to LUMA Partners’ 2024 Full Year Market Report, the digital media and marketing ecosystem experienced a 13% annual increase in overall mergers and acquisitions compared to the previous year. Specifically, the ad tech sector saw a notable 73% rise in deal volume during this period, and per the Q1 deal flow this year, that trend looks set to continue.

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The Sell-Side View: Q&A with Condé Nast’s Teddy Tepavicharova

VideoWeek

Last year saw cookie deprecation dominate discussions in digital advertising, which made publishers think differently about how they unlock the value of their first-party data. At the same time, media buyers are starting to look beyond short-term metrics to assess the value of programmatic campaigns. In this edition of the Sell-Side View, Teddy Tepavicharova, Director for Programmatic Strategy (UK) at Cond Nast, discusses this shift away from business as usual (BAU) planning, the rise of curated

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What Business Can Learn From A Green House About Building Better Relationships …

Rob Campbell

Following on from yesterdays post , this is about the value of transparency. Years ago, I wrote a post about a [ then ] new Police interrogation technique, which basically centered around empathetic transparency. In essence, rather than use traditional tactics such as intimidation or half-truths to obtain the information they wanted, they found transparency without judgment achieved much more positive results.

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Update on IAB Tech Lab’s CTV Ad Format Standardization

Brid.tv

The popularity of CTV among users has been on a steady rise for years now. Naturally, this was followed by a growing interest in CTV among advertisers. However, the industry has been slow to adapt, an issue that IAB recognized and moved to solve in 2024. Last November, I wrote about IAB Tech Labs CTV Ad Format Idol , an initiative to standardize ad formats in connected TV environments.

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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Agencies call foul as Google reps play hardball with AI pitches to clients

Digiday

Ad agencies have long fielded relentless pitches from Google Ads reps pushing new products in search of more money. But now, agencies of all sizes say the pressure is intensifying, with reps pushing harder to drive adoption of automated tools like Performance Max and generative AI features. Google Ads sales reps are increasingly contacting agency’s clients with advice that at times contradicts agency strategies.

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Invibes Advertising Announces Two Strategic Appointments to Accelerate Growth

Exchange Wire

Invibes Advertising (Invibes), an advanced technology company specialising in digital advertising, announces the appointments of Stve Saleyron and Stphane Allard to key positions to support its acceleration in France and internationally. These strategic appointments underscore the Group's commitment to unlocking the full potential [.] The post Invibes Advertising Announces Two Strategic Appointments to Accelerate Growth appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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The UK’s Data Protection Authority Has Its Eye On Ad Tech This Year

AdExchanger

The UKs Information Commissioners Office has three strategic priorities in 2025 and, you guessed it, online tracking is one of them. The other two are childrens privacy and updating the commissions guidance on AI and automated decision making. But “it’s a really big year for online tracking at the ICO, said Florence Greatrix, the data […] The post The UKs Data Protection Authority Has Its Eye On Ad Tech This Year appeared first on AdExchanger.

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New WARC forecast adds to global ad gloom

More About Advertising

It would take a Sherlock Holmes to find any good economic news at the moment (the UK is mired in high debt, low growth and stubborn inflation) while the US is bracing for a possible recession as Donald Trump and his merry men (they’re mostly men) feed higher prices with a bizarre list of tariffs, … The post New WARC forecast adds to global ad gloom first appeared on More About Advertising.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.