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“The industry’s North Star of reaching the right person at the right time with the right message has always been a seductive fallacy. It requires us to turn a blind eye to innate human psychology and how consumers actually make purchase decisions. This pursuit has led us to prioritize technological capability over consumer reality, ignoring the complex and often irrational nature of human decision-making.” Absolutely spot on and prescient as we sit on the precipice of AI. Human behavior and psychology are maddeningly complex and unpredictable. While we invent new ways to quantify it (cookies, LLMs, propensity scoring) it will continue to surprise us and keep us guessing. That’s why marketing is a dynamic and exciting career to jump into and what keeps me coming back again and again.

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✅🖥️ AdExchanger (5/31): “Programmers are trying to “slow down the pace of adoption” for auction-based bidding, said a buyer. One way they’re doing so is by limiting the supply they make biddable. Instead, pubs prefer to gatekeep their prized inventory with a high price tag attached to the “premium” label. Programmers can also maintain this level of control and pricing with PG deals, which are essentially automated insertion orders sent through programmatic pipes. But because CTV publishers are slower to make their inventory available in open auctions, agencies still consider programmatic as a nice-to-have – and not a requirement – for CTV campaigns, the buyer said. The majority of CTV ad buys are still happening via insertion orders or programmatic guaranteed deals. Agencies want to be able to bid on more CTV inventory for better scale, targeting and cost effectiveness. But for that to happen, buyers must make their sell-side counterparts reconsider the meaning of “premium.” ⬇️ #streamingtv #programmatic #avod #ctv #ott https://lnkd.in/ehnQj5Wu

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The IAB Predicts Social Video Will Overtake CTV This Year. Social video “is taking more of a lead over CTV” because it provides better campaign reporting based on an advertiser’s preferred business outcomes, a capability that CTV lacks in comparison. Marketers are under pressure to justify their investments by connecting their ads to results, which is why they’re raising investments in social video more than CTV this year. But in my experience while attribution remains the king, we need to think about incrementality. https://lnkd.in/dYze9K-3

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“Imagine one set of creative assets withstanding a full year sans burnout in effectiveness, with AI enabling a designer to swap a summery background for a snowy winterscape. Or suppose we needed an image of an SUV to go from a zoomed-in asset to a large-scale DOOH experience. AI can frame it in a beautiful mountainscape by expanding the background of the image and adding in features prompted by the designer. The artful eye of a designer can uphold creative quality when AI falls short, while AI delivers unprecedented scale.” Via AdExchanger, Tony Gemma paints a brilliant picture of the promised land we can achieve by striking the right balance between talented human creatives and AI. Give this one a read. (Very validating, Alexandra Matthews, David Sanderson, Kira Shalom, Marcus Ramsey!)

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The shift from third-party to first-party data infrastructure will impact every aspect of your business, the winners and losers will be decided based on how they react to this moment.

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Upfront Buyers Push For Lower CPMs; Is Meta’s Pivot To Video Finally Paying Off? | AdExchanger : A good read for the new trends for digital paid advertising and the variety of options to generate better consumer engagement. #SEM #SEO #PPC #socialmediamarketing #displayadvertising #nativeadvertising #emailmarketing #retargeting #GoogleAds #FacebookAds #InstagramAds #LinkedInAds #TwitterAds #YouTubeAds

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In connected TV (CTV) advertising, "outcomes" are the new focus as platforms introduce shoppable ad formats and partner with measurement providers like Innovid and EDO. These partnerships aim to prove that ads drive real business results beyond just reach and frequency. EDO emphasizes measuring actions like search activity and web traffic to predict sales, advising against focusing solely on immediate sales to maintain long-term brand health. #CTV #DigitalMarketing #DigitalAdvertising https://lnkd.in/geJZjX-F

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A pragmatic approach that asks the industry to "reinforce the foundations of a digital advertising ecosystem that values authenticity and penalizes deceit." It's time to go back to the future and demand that advertising is placed alongside quality content.

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A common theme in the world of media over the past several years has been fragmentation. The number of advertising platforms that consumers are exposed to grows daily. As a result of this cross-channel environment, the historical metrics for measuring campaign success are insufficient at best and obsolete at worst. Check out some insights on this phenomenon from my team at The Ward Group. #crosschannel #mediaplanning #mediabuying #metrics #analytics #mediastewards ‍‍‍

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Yahoo's latest collaboration with Inspire Brands is reshaping TV advertising with the Yahoo DSP. By streamlining CTV buys primarily with one platform, harnessing the potential of PMPs, and implementing advanced identity strategies, Inspire Brands is elevating targeting and efficiency while setting the stage for the future of media buying. Want to delve deeper into this groundbreaking approach? Read more in AdExchanger: https://lnkd.in/ezuPdQw8

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Looking to stay ahead in the evolving TV advertising landscape? Come read how the shift from traditional linear television to digital platforms is impacting the effectiveness of advertising efforts. Unlock the future of TV advertising with data-driven insights and targeting capabilities using Simpli.fi's ZTV solution.

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More and more brands are wondering how they can advertise effectively to consumers across a fragmented identity ecosystem. Kristina Prokop's recent article in AdExchanger drills down the 4 ways brands can continue to maintain addressability for their omnichannel advertising strategies. 💫 Integrate audience data and first-party data: Brands can unlock more information about their customers and enable more precise targeting and personalized experiences by enriching their first-party data with audience data. These enriched data sets can then be used to find new like-minded audiences that represent a brand’s most receptive prospects. 💫 Use context: Contextual data and targeting – fueled by data and insights into the content people are consuming and how they’re consuming it – enables brands to tap into predictive audiences without relying on cookies. 💫 Adopt universal ID solutions: Brands can engage their users without cookies across channels by shifting to strategies that embrace universal IDs. While no single ID will replace the cookie, an ID-agnostic approach that combines the power of multiple IDs can go a long way while complying with all applicable privacy rules. 💫 Target omnichannel environments: Brands should also deepen their investments in channels that have never depended on cookies, including audio, CTV, DOOH and others. These channels represent growing opportunities to reach relevant, engaged audiences. Dun & Bradstreet Eyeota, a Dun & Bradstreet company https://lnkd.in/ex87Grxe

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✅🖥️ DIGIDAY (6/27): “NBCU and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) are making inventory on the Peacock streaming platform and the Eurosport website and supporting apps available to buy in private marketplaces (PMP for programmatic advertisers). That development could mean brands with smaller budgets can access huge Olympic audiences previously fenced off to big spenders. Peacock is set to carry the entire Olympic schedule — over 5,000 hours of live sports — and ads running against that coverage will all be available to buy programmatically, via a partnership with ad tech provider The Trade Desk. At the same time, Warner Bros. Discovery, which holds coverage rights across Europe via its Eurosport brand, has also begun to make inventory on its Olympic coverage available programmatically. It launched a new marketplace in May, WBD Connect, which gives advertisers access to ad inventory across CNN International Commercial (CNNIC) and WBD Sports Europe, including Eurosport, in partnership with ad tech vendor Magnite. While Eurosport streaming ads WBD’s streaming platforms Max and discovery+ will not be available to buy programmatically, the publisher has put ads on the Eurosport website and apps on the table. Like NBCU, the majority of WBD’s inventory is available via PMPs, though it’s also making a limited inventory available to the open market via pre-bid and in-app mediation.” ⬇️ #streamingtv #programmatic #olympics #ctv #ott #avod #smarttv https://lnkd.in/eeGpq4d7

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From my perspective, it seems as though adjusting media types does little to combat Ad fraud. Instead, what makes this problem so prevalent is the lack of accountability in the programmatic supply chain. Firms leaning into advertising without any sort of accountability measures are met with an impossible Catch-22 wherein spending more leads to less impact and spending less delivers the same. #AdTech #Innovation #AdFraud

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