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Analyzing the last move

Seth Godin

When the deal falls apart, or the team loses the game, or a partnership hits the rocks, it’s easy to focus our energy on what just happened. “What if they had called a different play?” This overlooks the real issue. It’s the first move, or the fifth, that led to this problem, not what happened at the last moment. Creating the conditions for success is a very different project than finding a heroic move that saves the day.

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Inside X’s latest efforts to make advertisers believe it’s a platform that’s safe for brands

Digiday

X, formerly Twitter , is once again telling advertisers it’s serious about brand safety. Cue the eye rolls and déjà vu from marketers who’ve been on this merry-go-round since Elon Musk’s reign began in 2022. They’ve weathered broken promises and watched a parade of safety heads come and go. It’s no wonder they’re skeptical about considering this platform a safe haven for their ads.

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Flying Under The Radar Is Not A Realistic Compliance Strategy

AdExchanger

Enforcement. Is. Coming. I spent the week in Washington, DC, attending two privacy- and public policy-focused events. One was a relatively intimate gathering of a few hundred digital advertising executives, policy folks and ad tech lawyers hosted by the IAB at a Convene in downtown DC. The other was the IAPP’s Global Privacy Summit, a […] The post Flying Under The Radar Is Not A Realistic Compliance Strategy appeared first on AdExchanger.

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AI Briefing: Enterprise AI has some growing up to do

Digiday

Popular chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini have captured headlines, but executives buying and selling enterprise AI hope to bring adoption past the nascent stage. Last week, top AI providers debuted new business-focused updates for large language models. Enterprise-focused Cohere released a new LLM for Microsoft Azure and Oracle called R+ to help companies improve the accuracy and relevance of LLMs while also covering 10 languages and cutting costs.

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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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AdExplainer: The Rise Of Ecommerce Ad Metrics

AdExchanger

Ecommerce isn’t just a new category for online advertising. It’s changing how online advertising works. The first generation of online ad metrics was all about measuring the impact of the ad itself: click-through rate, app installs, video views and the like tied to a standard CPM. Those metrics were an attempt to prove that online […] The post AdExplainer: The Rise Of Ecommerce Ad Metrics appeared first on AdExchanger.

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How indie agency Within won over Foot Locker as its AOR for North America

Digiday

Performance branding company Within in March was named media agency of record for North America for Foot Locker — beating out the retailer’s incumbent digital media agency at holding company Dentsu. The 10-year-old independent agency will handle all digital media buying and planning, reporting and optimization for the core Foot Locker brand as well as Champs Sports and Kids Foot Locker.

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Challenge board: Publishers speak out during the Digiday Publishing Summit

Digiday

A highlight of Digiday’s summit events is the challenge board, to which attendees post the top obstacles their businesses face at the moment. During this spring’s Digiday Publishing Summit in Vail, Colorado, publishers filled the challenge board with a whole host of issues that ranged from traffic troubles to AI anxiety. “There’s a lot of unknowns. You’ve got generative AI and the impact that’s going to have to all of us.

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Creative ads, the code of luxury brands: advertising round up – April 7, 2024

Bhatnaturally

Every week, I attempt to share a compilation of creative ads. Occasionally some commentary on the business of advertising. This week, aside from a handful of creative ads, some views on advertising for luxury brands. Prada: The Galleria Planning and executing advertising for luxury brands is very different from that of ‘regular’ brands (including the [.

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Publishers fear Google’s ‘top-level seller’ status within Privacy Sandbox proposals

Digiday

Publishers’ concerns regarding Privacy Sandbox are well documented; they are apprehensive that the new system could significantly reduce the effectiveness of targeted advertising in Google Chrome. This, in turn, could lead to a substantial dip in ad revenue, a prospect that is causing considerable unease. Despite such legitimate concerns, that’s kind of the whole point, right?

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Are Hotels Are More Innovative Than Silicon Valley?

Rob Campbell

A month ago I was in Utrecht in Holland. While my hotel room was a bit weird [ it had a bath on a mezzanine floor that was above my bed … but the actual bathroom was on a separate floor below the bedroom ] there was one thing I liked. This. To give you more information on what it was about about, read this. I really like this. Simple, easy, persuasive.

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

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Media Buying Briefing: The upfront season! Can’t live with ’em, can’t so easily change ’em 

Digiday

Are those drumbeats in the distance? In many ways that makes sense because the upfront season is upon the industry — that time when linear TV ( the OG of the upfront event), digital and platforms (the NewFronts), gaming (the PlayFronts, which just took place) and even podcasting (Podcast Upfront) host events and parties to showcase their content wares.

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Retail media threat to Meta and Google grows with bank giant JPMorgan leading the charge

More About Advertising

Giant Us bank JPMorgan Chase – with more than $2.4 trillion in deposits – is the latest “First Party” data newcomer to challenge the hegemony of Google and Facebook owner Meta in the $270bn US digital ad market. Facebook and Google currently control about 47%. The reason is the gradual demise of third party cookies … The post Retail media threat to Meta and Google grows with bank giant JPMorgan leading the charge first appeared on More About Advertising.

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7 Smart Ways to Reduce Banner Blindness

Automatad Inc.

Share Tweet Share As a publisher, do you remember the last banner ad that caught your attention? No! Right? That is the same issue with your users. Banner ads are traditional ad formats. They are non-intrusive and ingrained largely in the digital landscape, becoming unnoticed like trees you pass on your road trip. Therefore, the phenomenon called banner blindness was born.

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Viewer’s Attention Metric: How It Can Change the Game for Publishers

Automatad Inc.

Share Tweet Share Change is inevitable in the adtech industry! Impressions, clicks, and ad viewability are scrutinized for their limitations in measuring ad performance. Hence, a new metric called attention came to the marketer’s rescue. Attention metrics are gaining traction for providing granular insights, going beyond indicating that the ad is seen.

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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!