‘Models Built For Me’
AdExchanger Talks
Chalice AI’s COO and co-founder, Ali Manning, explains how the AI startup – don’t call it a custom algorithm company – is helping brands like Bayer use advertiser-specific bidding models to drive real outcomes as opposed to poor proxies.
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The Hardest KPI In Advertising
AdExchanger Talks
Marketing consumer products comes with plenty of challenges. But just try selling a political candidate in a hyper-polarized, 24-hour news environment, says Mark Jablonowski, CEO of DSPolitical, a political ad platform that caters to Democrats and progressive causes.
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Forget The Shiny Objects And Focus On Fundamentals
AdExchanger Talks
Sharona Sankar-King, Havas Media’s chief data and product officer, on why marketers should stop chasing shiny AI toys and get serious about the fundamentals, including truly understanding the customer and only collecting data that’s “fit for purpose.”
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Convincing Cat Parents To Buy A $600 Litter Box
AdExchanger Talks
Most brands worry about competitors. Whisker is worried about complacency, says CMO Hew Loyd – specifically, the millions of cat owners who have decided that scooping an open box of poop in their home is just one of life’s little chores.
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Reckitt’s Digital Reckoning
AdExchanger Talks
You wouldn’t accept paying for a Big Mac and getting a single chicken nugget. But that’s essentially what a lot of marketers are doing with their digital ad budgets, says Reckitt’s Sameer Amin, on this week’s episode of AdExchanger Talks recorded live in Cannes.
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Reddit Is Training The Robots
AdExchanger Talks
Reddit is now one of the main data sources feeding LLMs and AI search. In this episode, recorded live in Cannes, COO Jen Wong talks data licensing deals, how people use Reddit to validate what they’re about to buy and what it takes to stop bad actors from gaming its forums to sway AI results.
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Rethinking Vitamin Marketing, With Barrière
AdExchanger Talks
Cleo Davis-Urman, CEO and co-founder of wearable vitamin brand Barrière, talks word-of-mouth, measurement, retail media and what it takes to build a new category around patches instead of pills.
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California Regulatin’
AdExchanger Talks
Tom Kemp, executive director of CalPrivacy, unpacks the DELETE Act, his agency’s enforcement priorities, the rules governing automated decision-making tech – and why ad tech should pay close attention to it all.
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The Gwyneth Effect, Measured
AdExchanger Talks
You don’t usually hear someone talk about peptide serums, and customer lifetime value in the same breath. But that’s a normal day for Alexa Raff, CMO of goop, the wellness and lifestyle brand co-founded and led by Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Don’t Take Customers At Face Value
AdExchanger Talks
Verizon Value President David “DK” Kim digs into the lingering stigma around prepaid wireless – and how reframing customers as “prepaid by need” versus “prepaid by choice” changes the way Verizon markets and measures its eight-brand portfolio of prepaid plans.
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