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When Ad Blocking Becomes a Measurement Problem
Ad blockers are designed to stop unwanted advertising from reaching the browser. That is their obvious function. Their less visible effect can be far more significant for marketers.
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How and Why ‘Less Is More’ With Martech Data on the Open Web
As someone who has spent years working in advertising technology since the launch of the iPhone, I’ve seen the industry’s appetite for data grow.
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What Did That Media Spend Actually Buy?
A campaign can deliver the desired result without settling whether every part of the media buy earned its cost. On Modern Marketing and Measurement, Spencer Potts, Co-Founder and CEO of Precise.ai, makes the case for looking beneath campaign totals to examine the buying decisions that produced them.
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An Outfit, a Netflix Connection, and Six Weeks Later
Buying an outfit from a television show should not require knowing a senior executive at Netflix.
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Proven Strategies for B2B Answer Engine Optimization
The B2B buyer journey is changing. Research finds that 60% of B2B buyers incorporate AI tools in their search.
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Count Me In – The Case for Total TV
We know that television still fills the room. Ask almost any advertiser and they will tell you the audience is larger than ever, gathered around bigger, brighter TVs.
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Research Designed for the Decisions Advertisers Make
Advertisers have more choices than ever when deciding where to invest their media budgets.
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Audience-First, Border-Free: pDOOH’s Next Chapter in the US
The programmatic digital out of home (pDOOH) market in the United States has moved past the adoption stage.
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Your Marketing Looks Like Your Org Chart. Dan Baptiste Has Some Notes.
Choosing a position can make executives nervous. If a brand becomes more specific about what it believes and whom it serves, what happens to everyone else?
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How Much Do You Not Know About Your Customers? 3 Ways to Close the Gap
Your analytics capture everything customers do and almost nothing about why. Here is how to bridge the two using data you already own.
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The ‘Answer Era’ Blind Spot: Why AI Visibility Is Not the Same as Influence
The goal isn’t simply to improve an AI visibility score, but to understand what information is shaping the customer journey and what influence can reasonably be attributed to it.
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Measurement Joins the Chat
Marketing measurement has already moved beyond the days of waiting until a campaign ends to understand what worked…The next shift is about what happens once those signals are available.
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Oft-Neglected, Local Targeting Represents the Future of Advertising
By Evan Rutchik, President & Chief Strategy Officer, Viamedia.ai The promise of digital advertising is that the wealth of signals would allow advertisers to deliver one-to-one messaging, tailored to the individual consumer who actually saw the ad creative. Even with technological advancements, this still remains the holy grail of advertising. The challenge that all brands face is that it’s hard to…
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What Brings a Restaurant Customer Back?
By Becky Johnson, Advertising Week Writer & Podcast Host Most of us have joined a restaurant loyalty program for a deal. We enter a phone number, collect points, and wait for an offer that makes the next order feel like a bargain. That can bring someone through the door, but it leaves restaurants with a difficult question: what happens when…
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Services Firms Need a New Value Strategy for the AI Era
When you stop treating all of your firm’s work hours as products and invest some of those hours in strategy, your firm builds longer-term value.
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The Clean-Signal Advantage: How Predictive Marketers Beat AI-Driven Ad Fraud
Against the more than $750 billion spent on advertising last year, that share was roughly $165 billion that never reached a real customer.
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The Talent Diaspora Is Really a Decision Speed Story
The next decade in CPG will not be won by whoever has the biggest team or the biggest budget.
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Data Collaboration Is Only Useful If It Leads to a Better Decision
By Becky Johnson, Advertising Week Writer & Podcast Host Marketers have more data than ever, but much of it remains scattered across departments, platforms, publishers, retailers, and business partners. Bringing that information together could help companies understand customers, evaluate performance, and make better decisions. It could also create an enormous privacy, security, and compliance problem if the process requires every…
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Foot Traffic Attribution Shouldn’t Be a Premium Feature
The industry should stop treating basic foot traffic tracking as a premium feature. Make it part of the campaign and use it to optimize.
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Five Counterintuitive Advertising Plays for a Winning NFL Season
As the NFL season unfolds, every optimization decision comes back to a simple test.



















