On today's episode, we discuss what lawmakers are most likely to tackle first when it comes to regulating AI, whether AI songs can win a Grammy, and what happens when AI eats up—and learns from—other AI-generated content. "In Other News," we talk about the newly announced features for Apple's Vision Pro AR headset and how this device could change the whole market. Tune in to the discussion with our analysts Jacob Bourne and Gadjo Sevilla.
Brands need to prepare for third-party cookie deprecation now. “We’re going backward to less personalized ads and less relevancy, and consumers are frustrated with that,” said Logan Patterson, senior director of global business advisory services at Slalom. Patterson, along with two other senior digital marketers, weighed in on pressing questions about an impending future without third-party cookies at our recent Tech-Talk Webinar, “Designing the Future of Enterprise Customer Data Strategy.”
On today's episode, we discuss how this year's Amazon Prime Day will be different, how competitors can maximize the sales holiday's impact, and an uncanny link between Prime Day and the end-of-year holiday season. "In Other News," we talk about the significance of NBCUniversal and Walmart Connect bringing targeted ads to live sports and Amazon's AI initiatives. Tune in to the discussion with our vice president and analyst Andrew Lipsman.
Unified ID 2.0’s rising popularity: Warner Bros. Discovery and Walmart Connect have adopted UID2, heralding a shift in advertising toward privacy-conscious personalization.
Omnicom will integrate Google’s generative AI into its ad tech stack: With Omnicom and WPP backing generative AI, the rest of the industry will be swift to follow.
It wants to lean on AI to attract users, while new environmental-focused features should strengthen its brand with younger shoppers.
Accenture is investing $3 billion in AI in the next three years. The biggest challenge will be balancing automation with the human component of business operations.
As privacy regulations ramp up, brands across verticals are increasing their focus on premium environments that don’t rely on cookies. In this video, Arity’s Jennifer Gold, director of product marketing, shares why private marketplaces (PMPs) fit the bill by offering access to high quality inventory, programmatic efficiency, brand safety, and transparency.
Cohort-based solutions use anonymized groups of consumers to create targeted ads and messaging, while universal IDs create a privacy-compliant way for advertisers to keep track of consumer behavior across the internet. Looking for privacy-compliant uses for first-party data? Marketers can turn to the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s seller-defined audiences or experiment with data clean rooms.
Disney says AI could make QR-code shoppable marketing obsolete: At a TV advertising event, Disney and YouTube shared how AI has already changed their strategies.
ChatGPT may have all of the buzz when it comes to AI platforms, but marketing technology and platforms are quickly catching up by adding a host of AI features to their systems. For starters, Adobe unveiled “Generative Fill” in Photoshop last week, a feature that uses AI to extend the canvas of your design, fill in backgrounds, and more. Meanwhile, Acquia unveiled a chatbot within its digital asset management platform.
The 15 biggest US ecommerce players aren’t a surprise (here’s looking at you, Amazon, Walmart, and Apple). User-friendly mobile apps, quick delivery, innovation, and converting sales are what turn retailers into ecommerce powerhouses. Here are the companies our analysts believe best exemplify those features within the 15 largest ecommerce players.
On Tuesday, Microsoft announced it would use the same plug-in standards as OpenAI, meaning plug-ins can work across ChatGPT, Bing Chat, and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Microsoft is focusing on plug-ins as the future of its OpenAI partnership, and for good reason.
Step one: Make sure you have the right data, said Chris Penn, co-founder and chief data scientist at Trust Insights. Also important is bringing in an attribution model to ensure a complete view of which marketing efforts are moving the needle. Lastly, be careful who you partner with—they may not be giving you the full story.
More than half (53%) of US TV advertisers say a lack of common metrics is a challenge to integrating linear and digital campaign data, according to Yahoo Advertising. Creating a holistic framework and navigating walled gardens’ data-sharing rules are hurdles for about 40% of TV advertisers each.
ChatGPT makes up information. When it comes to assessing brand strength, these so-called “hallucinations” can be a tool for evaluating what brand associations really are. And those same hallucinations can be fed back into ChatGPT to generate customer profiles, marketing copy, and even new products. Here’s how.
AI is already changing ad creation. While the tech can create email and social campaigns, there are a number of risks associated with misinformation and brand safety. With generative AI, we can expect to see strong brands grow even stronger—if they can navigate copycats, quality assurance, and apprehensive consumers. Here are six predictions from experts at the “BrXnd: Marketing X AI” conference in New York City.
Nearly half (49.0%) of advertisers worldwide believe that activating their own first-party data is the most promising solution to cookie deprecation, according to DoubleVerify. However, only 16.6% of publishers say the same of this solution. Publishers’ top choice for replacing cookie-dependent tools is publisher first-party data activation, chosen as a promising solution by just 27.1% of advertisers.
On today’s episode, host Bill Fisher is joined by analysts Paul Briggs, Evelyn Mitchell, and Carina Perkins to discuss the global state of data protection five years on from the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and what lies ahead as regulators get to grips with the rapidly evolving AI space.
Coca-Cola helps usher in an era of generative AI advertising: The brand recently told marketers that it believes AI is much more effective than Web3.