Sweeping Away The Crumbs And Diving Into What’s Truly Important In Privacy
Release Date: 08/08/2023
Shifting Gears, With The CMO Of Genesis Motor America
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As the newly appointed CMO of Genesis Motor America, it’s Amy Marentic’s job to raise awareness for the luxury auto brand, which is fighting for market share against more well-known incumbents in the US market. To do it, she’s analyzing the data and working on a growth strategy to reach a largely untapped demo: women. Plus: Marentic’s unique origin story, from astronaut hopeful to chief marketer.
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Measuring The Unmeasurable, With HyphaMetrics Founder Joanna Drews
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HyphaMetrics had barely taken its first few steps as a new startup before drawing the ire of measurement juggernaut Nielsen. Four years and several lawsuits later (including one jury trial win for Hypha), CEO Joanna Drews is more than ready to get the company moving forward again.
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Addressing Addressability, With ID5 CEO Mathieu Roche
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When Google reversed its decision to deprecate third-party cookies, the first word in ID5 CEO Mathieu Roche’s mind was an expletive. But it doesn’t really matter what happens with cookies on Chrome anymore. “Most of the industry has moved past the notion that cookies were good enough to target and measure advertising on the web,” Roche says.
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ROAS? Nah. The Home Depot’s All About ROMO
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Enough with the ROAS obsession. It’s time for a smarter approach to measurement that focuses on more than short-term objectives, says Melanie Babcock-Brown, VP of media and monetization for Orange Apron Media, The Home Depot’s retail media network.
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The Science (And Art) Of Scaling Native Ads
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Native advertising has been around for a long time. But creating a native ad unit online is way more complicated than a standard programmatic placement, because multiple teams and systems have to compose it on the fly, says Priti Ohri, CEO and co-founder of startup Advertible, which describes itself as “native-as-a-service.”
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HouseFresh Clears The Air On Google’s Changing Search Experience
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Product review site HouseFresh bounced back from losing 91% of its Google traffic last year. Here’s how it’s pivoting in response to stiffer affiliate marketing competition and zero-click AI search.
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AI In Ads – And Ads In AI
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Paul Longo, GM or AI in ads at Microsoft Advertising, breaks down what it means to bring ads into conversational experiences and how AI-powered tools are changing the way advertisers work. Plus: Microsoft may be shutting down the Xandr DSP next year, but that doesn’t mean it’s getting out of the ad tech game.
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Making Sense of DSP-SSP Convergence
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DSPs are building tools to bypass SSPs, and SSPs are trying to cut out the buy side. But the real question in the noise is whether the technology improves effectiveness, says Kara Puccinelli, chief customer officer at Nexxen, which just so happens to describe itself as an end-to-end platform.
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When AI Meets Media Quality
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From one perspective, publishers are up a creek thanks to the rise of generative AI search; the impact on discoverability and traffic is palpable. But that doesn't mean publishers can’t adapt and find new ways to make money, says Mediavine CRO Amanda Martin.
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There's No Such Thing As An Attribution Easy Button
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There are many misconceptions about ad measurement. But the biggest thing most marketers are wrongheaded about is in thinking there’s a single easy button for attribution. It simply doesn’t exist, says attribution expert Madan Bharadwaj, founder of measurement startup M^2.
info_outlineThe ad industry tends to get lost in its own weeds. (Endless consternation about the end of third-party cookies, anyone?) But the concept of privacy encompasses much more, from dealing with misinformation to promoting competition, says Jules Polonetsky, CEO of the Future of Privacy Forum.