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Google Is Giving Buyers Thousands In Ad Credits to Spend On AI-Powered Demand Gen

Adweek

Google is offering advertisers credits and free ad space to drive adoption of its AI-powered automated media buying tool, Demand Gen. ADWEEK spoke to five advertisers across media agencies and brands who said Google has been aggressively pushing Demand Gen over the past year.

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Ikea Recruited ‘Sleepfluencers’ to Turn Windows into Ad Space

Adweek

The brand combined the two aims in a novel campaign by Swedish agency Akestam Holst NoA. Ikea understands the value of both creative advertising and a good night's sleep. Earlier this year, the retailer held an open call for "sleepfluencers" who could apply to receive free roller blinds to darken their bedrooms while they dozed.

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Meta moves into controversial ad space: principal-based trading

Digiday

Meta is now in the principal-based buying business, putting its own twist on the hotly debated practice in talks with agency holding companies. Theyre taking this product to the largest agency holding companies, said one of those execs, who requested anonymity.

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Why More Publishers Aren’t Transacting on Attention … Yet

Adweek

The men's lifestyle publication BroBible would let marketers buy attention-guaranteed ad space in the programmatic open exchange, if only it could. Open web programmatic makes up a majority of the publisher's ad revenue, and its readers are highly engaged, said founder Brandon Wenerd.

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With lingering YouTube issues, Google battles broader reputational challenges from agencies

Digiday

It seems that Google’s influence over the entirety of the media landscape has inverted the traditional power dynamics of business, namely how it appears to have gotten the upper hand on the ad industry’s traditional pacesetters: media agencies. Continue reading this article on digiday.com.

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Key Trends That Will Shape The Ad Space in 2023

Digital Remedy

Working with an experienced media partner to optimize and measure ad performance in real time should be an investment brands are willing to make going into 2023. What should advertisers and agencies expect in 2023? Data is at the heart of the business, and advertisers and agencies that are not leveraging it will be at a disadvantage.

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How Are Agencies Using AI on the Media Side?

VideoWeek

As AI grows more sophisticated, advertising agencies are ramping up their adoption of the technology – not just using generative AI on the creative front, but also building new AI tools for media planning and buying. VideoWeek asked four agency leads about their latest AI developments on the media side.

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