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B2B Programmatic Advertising: 8 Solutions to 8 Most Common Challenges

Smarty Ads

Over 40% of businesses fell short of their sales targets last year (2022). And it's happening not because they lack sales skills; it's a result of the increasingly complex nature of sales. B2B businesses often need more qualified leads, which appears to be a struggle for B2B marketers.

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Views on Instagram Reels Fall as Platform Course Corrects to Images

Adweek

For more than two years, Instagram has been rebranding itself as a video platform, pushing short-form video format Reels in an effort to expand beyond its roots as a photo-sharing app and compete with TikTok.

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Five Ways Artificial Intelligence Will Impact Ad Agency New Business

Fuel Lines

Artificial intelligence (AI) can make business development easier and efficient. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers a wide range of benefits across a variety of industries and applications.

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The Impact of Broken Links on User Experience and What to Do About It

Ad Rants

It can be frustrating when you're looking up some information or a product, and your browser brings up a broken link message instead of taking you directly to the desired destination. Nobody likes dealing with broken links on their website, especially if they affect the user experience negatively.

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3 reasons why your dev team is slow

The Ad Tech Blog

I’ve worked with enough founders to have a significant sample of the worst mistakes I’ve seen them make. I’m not going to share with you the textbook ones: not having a process, the right tools, training materials, etc. On my list, I will focus on those mistakes that are 100% on the founders, especially those who are non-technical and need to hire a developer to build a product. Asking the right questions at the wrong time “How about if we use tabs instead of accordions?”

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RPA Journeys Through Santa Monica’s Black History With Unapologetic Walking Tour

Adweek

Santa Monica, Calif. is a predominantly white city, but it was once home to the thriving Black community of Belmar, which was established during the Great Migration but destroyed in the 1950s to build the Santa Monica Freeway and Santa Monica Civic Center.

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Fun Fact About Clean Rooms: Data Security Isn’t A Given

AdExchanger

Advertisers need to do their due diligence on potential clean room partners before working together, including (and especially) finding out how secure the platform is. The post Fun Fact About Clean Rooms: Data Security Isn’t A Given appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Introducing the Sustainability in Advertising Guide 2023

VideoWeek

Today we’re delighted to be launching the Sustainability in Advertising Guide 2023. You can download your free copy here.

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Gritty, Hoagies and Jawn: Oatly Goes Philly-Centric to Launch Plant-Based Cream Cheese

Adweek

A man dressed in a period-perfect Benjamin Franklin costume--identified as an "affordable impersonator"--tastes a new product and declares it "actually not that bad."

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Walmart Ad Revenue Grew 30% To $2.7 Billion in 2022, And Is Buoying Its Profit Margin

AdExchanger

Walmart had a mixed day with investors following its earnings call. But the Walmart Connect advertising business was a bright spot, execs told investors in the retailer’s earnings report on The post Walmart Ad Revenue Grew 30% To $2.7

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Not United Kingdom …

Rob Campbell

Recently a mate sent me a photo and – quite frankly – I’m all kinds of obsessed with it. Look at it. LOOK AT IT!!! How amazing is that?! I have no idea how they could capture so much in one frame, but they did. Everywhere I look there’s an image that makes me go, “WTF?”

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52% of Americans Do Not Have a Cable Subscription

MNTN

According to a recent report from Samba TV, the number of Americans who no longer pay for cable TV has reached 52%. This shift is partly due to broadcasters moving their content off of traditional broadcast TV and onto streaming services.

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Tamika Catchings Steals the Show in Coke Zero Sugar March Madness Ad

Adweek

If Coke Zero Sugar hadn't given Tamika Catchings a role as one of its faces of March Madness, she would've stolen it.

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Why Shopify Audiences Is The Retail Media Player To Watch In 2023

AdExchanger

This week, we dive into Shopify, and its potential as a uniquely positioned purchase data supplier to the advertising industry with a product called Shopify Audiences. The post Why Shopify Audiences Is The Retail Media Player To Watch In 2023 appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Why This Streaming Platform Decided To Work With Fewer Tech Partners | AdExchanger

Unruly

Direct paths simplify the selling process. With a full purview into Amobee demand, the Unruly SSP can help publishers package their inventory as a managed service.

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This Ad is Clearly Not Meant For Me…

MNTN

The Big Game just happened—bringing with it a new reigning champion and a pregnancy announcement like no other (congrats Rihanna).

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Spectrum Is Helping Smaller Brands Make AI-Generated TV Commercials

Adweek

As brands experiment with recent advances in generative machine learning, one of the nation's biggest cable companies is offering small and medium-sized businesses the means to generate and place television commercials with artificial intelligence.

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Etsy And eBay Pin Their Turnaround Hopes On Ad Business Growth

AdExchanger

The retail media boom isn’t just for Amazon and brick-and-mortar chains. Online marketplaces are also investing heavily in ad platform businesses, albeit for different reasons. Etsy and eBay, two of The post Etsy And eBay Pin Their Turnaround Hopes On Ad Business Growth appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Digital Advertising Is Changing, Your Monetization Strategy Should Too

Playwire

This is a guest post by Will Hackett, Marketing Director at inBrain. Ad Revenue Survey Monetization

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81% of consumers embraced influencer marketing in the past year, study finds

Marketing Dive

Top performing influencer categories include food and beverage, health and wellness and beauty and personal care, according to Matter Communications

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MikMak Goes Global With Acquisition of Swaven

Adweek

MikMak is going global. The U.S.-based

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Why This Streaming Platform Decided To Work With Fewer Tech Partners

AdExchanger

The supply-path optimization trend is catching on with video publishers. The post Why This Streaming Platform Decided To Work With Fewer Tech Partners appeared first on AdExchanger. Digital TV and Video Amobee featured future today AVOD Katya Shkolnik SPO supply path optimization Unruly SSP

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ChatGPT just the start: Here are 10 AI workplace tools that can boost productivity

Digiday

This story was originally published on sister site, WorkLife When ChatGPT was released at the end of 2022, it quickly became something that people couldn’t stop talking about. It was clear it would revolutionize workflows for people in a number of different industries.

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How Can Ad Ops and New Media Players Eliminate Inefficiencies?

Ad Monsters

For some reason, publishers have slowly adopted new ad ops methods. Many have fallen into the pattern of simply doing things as they have always been done.

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Ukrainians Recite ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ Lyrics in UK Donation Drive

Adweek

To mark the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine, the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) has released a film featuring Ukrainians still living in their country reciting the lyrics to the song of hope "You'll Never Walk Alone." The DEC brings together 15 aid charities from the U.K.

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The FTC’s Case Against Kochava May Be Allowed To Proceed – With Some Tweaks

AdExchanger

There was hot ad tech legal drama in the Gem State this week. A judge in Idaho is likely to rule that the Federal Trade Commission’s case against Kochava can The post The FTC’s Case Against Kochava May Be Allowed To Proceed – With Some Tweaks appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Two thirds of marketers plan to prioritise full-funnel media planning in 2023

Marketing Tech News

More than eight in ten (85%) are adjusting marketing strategies to prepare for a recession. Amidst mounting pressure to improve ROI, marketers are focusing on reducing unnecessary spend (71%), consolidating marketing efforts (68%), and bringing tech/services back in-house (67%).

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The Importance of Black Media and Sharing Your Wealth: Cedric J. Rogers, Culture Genesis Inc.

Ad Monsters

As Americans, we’ve all heard the expression of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. The phrase emphasizes upward mobility without much outside help and is a long-held standard of the American dream. It centers the individual to gain success on their own. Cedric J.

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IPG Mediabrands Wins GEICO’s $1.4B Media Review

Adweek

IPG's Mediabrands won Geico's business following a competitive review that began last fall and concluded this week. The account is worth more than a billion dollars. By COMvergence's estimates, it spent $1.38 billion last year on measured media.

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How Experian Is Using Tapad To Build New ID Resolution And Analytics Products

AdExchanger

Can the digital ad industry’s signal-loss pain be Experian’s gain?

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How Will AI Shape the Future of Digital Advertising?

Basis

First off, let us provide a quick disclosure: This blog post was written by a human. It’s a bit crazy to think that, just a few months ago, no such statement would have been necessary.

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What’s Hot in Publishing and Ad Tech: An AdMonster’s Q&A with Scott Messer

Ad Monsters

The digital advertising business moves at such a fast clip that it’s difficult for anyone to keep up with emerging trends.

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A James Bond Villain Wants to Teach You Financial Literacy

Adweek

Two-time Academy Award-winning actor and James Bond bad guy Christoph Waltz is leading a content series for insurance and asset management giant Allianz.

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Why Do Buyers Even Need Seller-Defined Audiences?

AdExchanger

Buyers already have access to the same information from the same trusted third-parties that publishers use to define Contextual Categories. So why bother? The post Why Do Buyers Even Need Seller-Defined Audiences? appeared first on AdExchanger.

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How agencies are testing live shopping and seeing potential in accelerating conversions

Digiday

The popularity of content creators and social commerce is increasingly driving momentum for livestream shopping — sort of an update on the QVC days of shopping channels. But instead of a television network, the shopping is happening across social media and retail platforms, from Walmart to Amazon.

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Barb to Measure Video-Sharing Platforms in Push for Brand-Safe Content

VideoWeek

Barb will expand its reporting to include YouTube and other “fit-for-TV content” on video-sharing platforms, the UK measurement body announced this morning.

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Warner Bros. Discovery Streaming Loses $217 Million Ahead of Combined Service

Adweek

The rumors are true: Discovery+ will remain a standalone service ahead of the upcoming consolidation of the smaller streamer and HBO Max. For those that have Discovery right now, the churn is very low, and it's profitable," Warner Bros.

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