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Data-Driven Contextual Targeting
As the digital advertising landscape undergoes significant changes with the impending depreciation of third-party cookies, marketers are seeking innovative strategies to maintain effectiveness while respecting user privacy.
How Can Brands Thrive in a Cookieless World?
Third-party cookie deprecation in Chrome is underway, and advertisers and publishers alike are looking to shore up their data-driven marketing strategies in a sustainable and effective way. One thing is certain: The end of third-party cookies does not mean the end of data-driven advertising.
Charging Ahead: How data privacy is powering the future
Two years ago, I made the switch to an electric car. Like many, I had been eyeing the EV market with a mix of curiosity and skepticism. The early models of EVs seemed to carry more burdens than benefits: limited range and sparse charging stations made them seem overly inconvenient.
Optimizing Cross-Media Measurement with Social Benchmarks
Social media is expected to account for one-fifth of global ad spend in 2024, rivaling TV and other digital investments in a brand’s media mix. However, the siloed social landscape makes it difficult to draw conclusions about campaign effectiveness for media spend optimization.
How To Get Started Using Gen AI To Solve Marketing Challenges
Beyond just content generation lies a host of possibilities for Gen AI in addressing marketing challenges. As businesses increasingly leverage generative AI, its potential to support marketers with data discovery, curation, and quality has started to become more apparent.
Proximic to Provide Contextual Analysis for Epsilon
Comscore's programmatic ad targeting division Proximic has partnered with advertising and martech group Epsilon, providing contextual classification of sites to help the latter's clients monitor issues like brand suitability and inventory quality.
The Data You Need for Accurate Media Planning: Social Audience Insights
Navigating the ever-evolving media landscape requires more than just a good hunch, media kits, engagement, and demographic data; it demands concrete data about consumers’ media consumption and preferences. So, how do marketers access this crucial data?
Maximising Media Agencies Potential: Uniting 1st Party Data and Contextual Targeting for Advertiser Supremacy
In the fast-paced realm of digital advertising where trends shift like sand dunes, media agencies stand at the forefront of innovation. As custodians of brands’ advertising strategies, they are tasked with navigating the ever-changing landscape to deliver maximum impact.
Gary Laben to Lead Retail Data and Tech Firm Trax
Former Dynata Chief Gary Laben has joined retail and consumer goods analytics and inventory optimisation firm Trax, as CEO.
Mobile World Congress highlights and other news
This week, Barcelona hosted the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the premier event for the mobile technology ecosystem.
The Psychology of Branding: Converting Attention To Memory
In the future, Mimi Turner, Head of EMEA and LatAm at the B2B institute at LinkedIn, predicts the fundamentals of marketing will look quite similar.
IPG Forges First-to-Market Partnership with Adobe to Revolutionize Content Creation for Brands and Marketers
Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG) announced a global partnership with Adobe to power content creation and activation across the company’s operations.
Kinesso Begins Auditing Clients For Media Tech Risk, Starts With Cookie Deprecation
IPG Mediabrands' Kinesso unit is rolling out a new process to help clients assess -- and ideally mitigate -- potential risks from substantive technological shifts.
Funds for Natural Language BI Firm Fluent
London-based analytics / business intelligence start-up Fluent has secured $7.5m in seed funding for its mission to democratize insights using conversational AI.
Verve Appoints Head of AI and 'Relaunches'
In London, Verve has announced the promotion of its former Joint Head of Insight Richard Preedy to the newly created role of Executive Director and Head of Artificial Intelligence.
Helping Advertisers See the Bigger Picture of Attention
Phil Sumner, SVP Global Data, Audiences & Technology Solutions Director at Publicis Groupe, has tracked the evolution of advertising metrics throughout his career.
What Is Data Visualization: Common Mistakes and Pitfalls
Becoming a data-driven organization starts by ensuring there's a centralized, standardized, and high-quality source of business data. But having good data isn't enough on its own.
Why Brands Need a Customer Data Strategy
Customer journeys are personal journeys. We experience the world through the lens of our subjective beliefs and attitudes.
Why Gen AI is No Longer a Buzzword For Marketers
Generative AI has become a prominent topic of discussion across every department in businesses around the world.
How Brands Can Score Big with March Madness Advertising
March Madness now rivals the Big Game as one of the most watched sporting events in the US. Unique in its ability to grip consumers’ attention for several weeks at a time, the tournament is about far more than just basketball.