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Don’t Be Distracted By Cookie Drama. Google’s Search Changes Are The Real Existential Threat

AdExchanger

The long tail is fighting for its life. Thousands of independent web publishers are facing an existential crisis. Massive macro changes instituted by online platforms are transforming how people navigate the web and how content is produced and monetized, threatening the very existence of the open internet. Google has once again delayed Chrome’s third-party cookie […] The post Don’t Be Distracted By Cookie Drama.

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Fingerprints

Seth Godin

If a jacket is made by Patagonia or a piece of hardware is made by Teenage Engineering, you can probably tell who made it the first time you see it, even without a logo. A painting by Sonia Delaunay doesn’t need to be signed to know who it’s by. On the other hand, AppleTV streams shows that could have come from any streaming service. When your brand has fingerprints, don’t do things that require you to wear gloves.

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How Sell-Side Curation Is Reshaping The Post-Cookie Supply Chain

AdExchanger

The impending deprecation of third-party cookies (any day now, really, we mean it) is changing how ad tech companies build audiences for media buyers. Sell-side curation is emerging as a post-cookie trend. It involves matching a buyer’s first-party customer data to a publisher’s first-party audience data to create private marketplaces (PMPs). To be clear, deal […] The post How Sell-Side Curation Is Reshaping The Post-Cookie Supply Chain appeared first on AdExchanger.

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The Washington Post adds AI-generated audio to three newsletters

Digiday

On Monday, The Washington Post added AI-generated audio to its three politics- and policy-focused newsletters to give readers the ability to listen to those emails. Solventum and PhRMA are launch sponsors for the newsletters this week, which will also contain AI-generated audio ads for the first time. Each audio newsletter edition will have pre- and post-roll audio ads inserted dynamically each day.

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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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Meet Ron De Jesus, The First-Ever ‘Field’ Chief Privacy Officer

AdExchanger

Over the past five years, the number of people on LinkedIn who list their title as chief privacy officer (CPO) has increased by 35%, according to the International Association of Privacy Professionals. And it’s no wonder: In that time, 17 US states have passed data protection laws, with more on the way. As a result, […] The post Meet Ron De Jesus, The First-Ever ‘Field’ Chief Privacy Officer appeared first on AdExchanger.

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It’s becoming impossible for game publishers to avoid the question of advertising inside premium titles

Digiday

Major game publishers’ flirtation with in-game ads has yet to blossom into a full romance in 2024 — but the question of advertising has become nearly impossible for them to avoid, as shown by Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson’s endorsement of the revenue stream during the company’s earnings call earlier this month. “Our expectation is that advertising has an opportunity to be a meaningful driver of growth for us,” Wilson said during the call.

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Behind closed doors: the intrigue and reality of platform marketer councils

Digiday

On the surface, things seemed tense back then. CMOs were out there on stages and in interviews, wagging their fingers at Meta execs, accusing them of caring more about cash than the disharmony it fueled. But behind closed doors, it was all hugs and handshakes as they cozied up to the bigwigs, letting their concerns fade into the background. Fast forward four years, and it feels like déjà vu.

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Amazon ‘Deliver the love’, Homelane and more: top creative ads of the week

Bhatnaturally

Every week I attempt to compile a collection of clutter-breaking creative ads. Here are a few which caught my eye this past week or so. Monzo: money feels different Europe is considered a pioneer in offering digital-only banking services. I have heard of brands like Revolut and Monzo before. Compared to traditional brick & mortar [.] The post Amazon ‘Deliver the love’, Homelane and more: top creative ads of the week appeared first on Bhatnaturally.

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Media Buying Briefing: How the upfront has changed over the last 30 years

Digiday

As the cable reporter for now-defunct Mediaweek from 1993 until 1998 when I became an editor, I learned about the TV ad marketplace down to a level of granularity I had no idea existed. It’s when I first heard the term “upfront” used in a way that had nothing to do with where I stood at a concert or in line. In those days, hardly anyone knew what the Internet was, four broadcast networks dominated the upfront marketplace, and syndication (remember that?

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Revealing the Artificial In AI …

Rob Campbell

Given the last few weeks or so have been quite serious and intense posts – at least by my standards – I thought I may lower the tone. By lower, I mean ‘not about strategy’ because in terms of standard, it’s always questionable. So one day last week, I was bored at work. Don’t worry, I put it on the ‘bored’ job number.

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

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‘There’s a lack of trust’: Agency execs discuss AI, cookie burnout and inventory issues during the Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit

Digiday

Pour one out for the programmatic marketers. They’re having a tough go of it, and not just because of the third-party cookie’s on-again, off-again deprecation. There are the inventory quality issues raised by the recent controversies surrounding made-for-advertising sites , Forbes and Colossus. There’s the brewing measurement mess as third-party cookies eventually go away.

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AI Briefing: How Lexicon researches its approach to AI naming strategies

Digiday

In cluttered and noisy industries, naming companies and products has often been part of the strategy for standing out. That continues to be the case when it comes to AI, but there isn’t yet the same depth of research that exists in other categories. Lexicon — the naming agency behind numerous famous names like Blackberry, Apple’s Powerbook and Adobe inDesign — is hoping to change that as AI names become increasingly important.

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Why Exverus’ head of strategy is marrying performance with brand in programmatic

Digiday

There’s been a pendulum swing in the marketing industry, where marketers who were overly focused on performance have started investing in brand building — via streaming, audio and experiential — to stand out in the crowded digital marketplace. This has meant updating KPIs and client expectations when it comes to measuring campaign effectiveness, which is exactly why independent boutique agency Exverus Media is reshaping what KPIs look like in streaming, audio and experiential channels that aren

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