Dear Brands: It’s Time to Impose Ethics on the Influencers You Pay
Today, we are battling a new scourge: overtourism. Social media is turning people into bad tourists. How should brands step up to help resolve this challenge?
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Inside the Buy Side
How Yahoo Is Doubling Down on Buy-side Offerings, As Told by CRO Elizabeth Herbst-Brady
As CRO at Yahoo, Herbst-Brady is the General Manager of the advertising business, which mainly consists of the DSP. She also develops monetization strategies that help elevate the company's future. In a sea saturated with undifferentiated SSPs, Yahoo decided to shut down its supply-side business earlier this year to focus…
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Optimizing Media Mix in App Marketing: A Q&A on Growth Strategy
This Q&A with Andrey Kazakov, VP of Demand & Non-Gaming at AppLovin, delves into understanding how app marketers can think beyond the traditional channel mix for non-gaming apps, the undeniable significance of mobile in performance marketing, and the revolutionary role of AI in shaping the future of mobile advertising.
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Navigating the Nuances of MFA Websites Insights from DoubleVerify’s Chief Product Officer
We spoke with Jack Smith, Chief Product Officer at DoubleVerify, to assess how the industry assesses the damage of MFA websites. According to the ANA, these sites were often the worst of the worst, rife with disinformation, conspiracy theories, and spammy links.
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Times Up. We Need to Address Ethical AI in Social Media.
Artificial intelligence has revolutionized how we interact with social media, however, it raises critical ethical concerns. Here are a few tangible ways we can create solutions to ethical dilemmas.
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Understanding the Gaps Between Marketers and Consumers in the Post-COVID Era
During iHeartMedia's AudioCon 2023, Conal Byrne, CEO of iHeartMedia Digital Audio Group, sat down with author and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell to examine this growing consumer marketing disconnect. They discussed the results of a Morning Consult and Advertiser Perceptions study that examines the growing divide between consumer values and behaviors and…
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The Big Debate: Is In-Housing Dead?
Is In-Housing dead? It's probably not. But voices around the digital media industry have been telling us how businesses approach in-housing is changing.
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Navigating the Power of Data-Driven Attribution: A Call for Transparency, Expertise, and Understanding
The recent decision by Google's GA4 to deprecate numerous attribution models, nudging marketers toward Data-Driven Attribution (DDA), has sparked considerable debate in the advertising community. While the crux of the matter is the black-box nature of DDA — we're unsure of its internal workings — a more profound issue lies…
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AI Is Changing Service in the Ad Business. But Will It Reimagine Service?
Generative AI innovations promise enhanced efficiency and improved customer service, but there are questions about whether AI, as it currently stands, can provide quality service to real people, including in developing ad creative and messaging that resonates with the right audiences.
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How Marketing Can Help Brands Tie Purpose to Profit
Too many brands have only cast their focus inward when it comes to sustainability, diversity and inclusion, and purpose. And that's a massive missed opportunity. Purpose-driven organizations grow three times faster, on average, than non-purpose-driven ones, and 82 percent of consumers are making purchase decisions with purpose in mind. Today, tying…
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