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- AI, Agencies and the End of Advertising’s Past, According to Rob NormanWhile the advertising industry obsesses over artificial intelligence, one veteran executive suggests its primary function is not to invent the future, but to perfectly codify the past. In his view, AI is less the beginning ... read more
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- Appeals Court Sides With GameStop In Privacy BattleA panel of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a consumer's request to revive claims that GameStop.com violated website visitors' privacy by logging their activity. ... read more
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- GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignationMicrosoft is moving GitHub into its CoreAI team, following the resignation of GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke today. After nearly four years as CEO, Dohmke is leaving GitHub to “become a ... read more
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- IPG 'Simulation Studio' Measures Impact Of Advertising Before It Happens"Welcome to the new age of decision dominance" reads a tag used by Aaru, the researcher partnering with IPG to create an agents-based studio simulating human responses to ads, media and other campaign variables. ... read more
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- Behavioral Ads Get A Break – But Not A Free Pass – In Updated CCPA RegsIf you’re not a privacy lawyer, you probably haven’t been closely following the saga of California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations. It’s been quite the process of updates, refinements, clarifications and curveballs. Implementation regulations are ... read more
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- At Carbone Fine Food, tariffs are putting pressure on its ‘most important ingredient’This story was first published by Digiday sibling site, Modern Retail. Even some of the most ubiquitous ingredients in top American restaurants aren’t immune to tariff woes. Four years after launching, Carbone Fine Food — ... read more
- X’s automated ad vision left advertisers underwhelmedElon Musk’s vision to automate as much of the ad process as possible using Grok has been met with a lukewarm response from advertisers. Part of the hesitation is that it requires handing over complete ... read more
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- Live shopping companies credit marketers’ rising focus on influencer performance for growth in 2025As brands more closely monitor the performance of their influencer marketing spend, live shopping companies are seeing a significant uptick in business. Live shopping — creators livestreaming to an audience to sell physical goods — has been ... read more
- Media Buying Briefing: AI’s impact on agency compensation is about to get biggerGenerative AI continues to steadily infiltrate more corners of the media business, creating efficiencies and saving time across content, production, research, data crunching and even planning and buying. Holding companies and independents alike are collectively ... read more
- The EU Media Freedom Act Takes EffectThe Act covers all 27 EU countries. But will it be equally enforced in all of them? ... read more
- MiQ’s Marion Hargett: ‘Closed-Loop Attribution Is the Primary Test for Brand CMOsAMENIA, NY — The gap between data collection and actionable insights in programmatic advertising is collapsing as artificial intelligence transforms campaign optimization from a weeks-long process into real-time decision making. “The applications that are driving ... read more
- T-Mobile’s Cherian Thomas: We Can Finally Tell You If the Register RangCANNES – While the industry has obsessed over online retail media for the past five years, T-Mobile has been quietly building what may be the most measurable in-store advertising network in America. “Everybody’s been focusing ... read more
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- Genentech’s Erica Taylor on How Precision TV in Pharma Delivers Smarter EngagementWhile advanced channels like connected television offer new tools for precision, for pharmaceutical marketers, success is measured not by immediate return on investment, but by their ability to reach the right audience with a vital ... read more
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- Inside the automated warehouse where robots are packing your groceriesIt's the lack of noise you notice first. There's no clatter of equipment, rumble of engines, or chatter of coworkers. Only the low hum of electronics. For an industrial space, ... read more
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