Day Three: “Artsy-Smartsy” advertising and reverse media buys.

Out-of-home advertising has a familiar advantage: people encounter it while doing something they already planned to do. They are walking to work, waiting for a train, heading to a game, or moving through their city. On Modern Marketing and Measurement, we spoke with Chris Grosso, CEO of Intersection, about the harder question for marketers: how to buy those placements efficiently and compare their results with the rest of a media plan.

Marketers have often been guilty of reaching for a shortcut. Every era seems to produce a new way of trying to work around the system, from hidden text and keyword stuffing to buying followers, clickbait headlines and gaming social algorithms. The tactics change, but the goal is usually the same: find the loophole, beat the platform, get the result faster.

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