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AI-powered systems should make the humans that use them smarter, says WPP CTO Stephan Pretorius. "It has to be people first, not technology first." Plus: why "technology doesn't destroy jobs, it destroys tasks."
What does programmatic media have in common with toilet paper? A lot more than you might think, says Sherine Ebadi, managing director of forensic investigations at Kroll. It's a question of quality (or the lack thereof).
With Judge Amit Mehta's ruling expected this fall, Adam Epstein, co-CEO of adMarketplace, breaks down the DOJ's search-focused antitrust case against Google. Plus: why Google's Performance Max has some search advertisers hopping mad.
It's time for advertisers to get more nuanced with their approach to brand safety, says Mia Libby, The Wall Street Journal's SVP of enterprise. It's okay to be cautious, but excluding all news from programmatic media plans isn't the answer.
Once consumers are ready to travel, they're often ready to spend on almost everything, from beauty and booze to electronics and streaming services. And that creates a unique opportunity for advertisers to reach a new audience with high intent, says Christine Maguire, global VP of commercial business at TripAdvisor.
It's been almost one year since MediaMath went out of business. Two months later, Infillion acquired the assets out of bankruptcy. Now it's time for the next phase, says Infillion CRO and CMO Laurel Rossi.
Shoppable TV ads may encourage sales, but they lack the measurement and performance benchmarks advertisers expect. Buyers must create their own benchmarks – and can only do so by actually testing these new ad units, including with their upfront budgets, says Mike Fisher, executive director of investment innovation at GroupM US.
It's hard to set a strategy for AI adoption without getting a little hands-on experience first, says Betty Louie, a partner and general counsel at The Brandtech Group. You have to play around with the different tools before you even know where the guardrails are, she says.
If there's one thing that makes advertising measurement consultant Andrew Covato roll his eyes and shake his head, it's the endurance of last-click attribution. Last click may seem "simple" and "tidy," Covato says, but it doesn't reflect the full funnel.
Signal loss is real, but don't write an elegy for data management platforms just yet, says Andy Monfried, CEO and founder of Lotame, which turned 18 this year. Also in this episode: Lotame's reinvention of itself as a data collaboration platform.