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Identity & Cookieless

ChatGPT Bets Big on Sales: AI Ads Go Performative

Forget just getting noticed. ChatGPT is now gunning for your sales figures. OpenAI's latest move signals a seismic shift, aiming to turn conversational AI into a direct revenue driver.

4 min read 1 day, 21 hours ago
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CTV & Video Advertising

WBD Upfront: Performance Trumps Scale for 2026

Forget just eyeballs. This year’s Upfront season is all about proving ROI. Warner Bros. Discovery execs are pushing a new playbook focused on performance and simplification.

6 min read 6 days, 20 hours ago
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CRM & MarTech Stack

Ad Ops Nightmare: Why Your 12 Channels Feel Like 12 Jobs

Performance marketers are drowning in data entry, not strategy. Managing 12 ad channels feels like 12 jobs, and it's costing campaigns dearly.

8 min read 1 week ago
Screenshot of a slide from X's advertiser pitch deck showing performance metrics.
Programmatic & RTB

X's AI Pitch: Scale vs. Skepticism for Ad Dollars

X is making the same pitch every other platform is making: scale plus AI equals performance. But history, and a lingering skepticism, suggest the road to reclaiming ad dollars will be anything but smooth.

7 min read 1 week, 2 days ago
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Measurement & Attribution

WBD Bets on AI Agents & Live Data for Ad Performance

Warner Bros. Discovery just dropped a tech bomb at its upfront, showcasing a new era of real-time ad performance measurement powered by AI agents and live data streams.

5 min read 2 weeks, 1 day ago
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Retail Media

Trade Desk Bets Big on Dollar General Retail Media

The Trade Desk is pushing deeper into the lucrative retail media space, striking a new deal with Dollar General. This move aims to bridge the gap between upper-funnel brand building and lower-funnel performance advertising.

6 min read 3 weeks, 5 days ago
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CRM & MarTech Stack

Rakuten & impact.com Forge Alliance: Partnership Economy Gets a Megaphone

Rakuten and impact.com have inked a strategic alliance, aiming to bring cohesion and scale to the increasingly vital partnership economy. The move bundles Rakuten's consumer reach and managed services with impact.com's tech infrastructure, promising a more unified performance marketing ecosystem.

5 min read 3 weeks, 5 days ago
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Measurement & Attribution

Ad Ops Needs Less CPM, More LTV: Lead Gen Secrets Revealed

Lead generation events aren't usually the place to find ad ops salvation. But this one did. Turns out, everyone's been optimizing for the wrong thing.

4 min read 4 weeks, 1 day ago
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CRM & MarTech Stack

Shrinking Audiences for Leads? You're Dooming Your ROI

Tightening your ad audience feels like precision surgery. Turns out, it's more like starving the patient.

4 min read 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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