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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Retail Wagging The Dog Retail media networks are advertising businesses. Usually. Sort of. For many retailers, the data-driven ad practice serves different purposes. Lowe’s announced new digital products for contractors and other professionals, reports Retail Dive.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Aim At The Heart, Hit The Stomach When New York added digital screens to subway cars, Seamless and other food delivery services were natural advertisers, often showcasing food-related content or recipes. But those were actual recipes. The new digital out-of-home subway trend is […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Better Safe Than Sorry  Brands are nervous about misinformation, especially as generative AI tools make it relatively easy to create convincing fake images, audio files and videos. General Mills is teaming up with verification company Zefr to measure misinformation around its social media […]

The phrase “subscription fatigue” typically applies to consumers tiring of the ever-growing number of media and entertainment packages. But subscription fatigue could also describe how DTC and ecommerce brands feel about their SaaS costs and vendor rosters.

Ecommerce-based brands have serious advantages with online marketing, but big CPGs aren’t contesting the DTC business. They’re buckling down on brick-and-mortar.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. AppLovin You … Next Quarter  AppLovin didn’t have a very good Q4 by the numbers, but shares leaped by 30% after the company reported earnings on Wednesday. What gives? Although revenue declined 11% year over year to $702 million, AppLovin still beat analyst […]

If you think of livestream shopping in the US as a revolution, it’s a dud. But if you view it as a livestream shopping evolution, real progress is being made.

Many brands, startups and well-known CPGs are missing the more effective retailer data sets at their disposal: loyalty programs, writes Lauren Littlejohn, director of data science and research at 84.51°.

Jackie Guarini has a lot of experience marketing in regulated industries. She spent more than four years as a digital marketer at Anheuser-Busch, including as its head of commerce media. But her new gig is a little different. In May, Guarini was appointed as the CMO of Mike Tyson’s cannabis company, Tyson 2.0.

DTC brands are struggling to get by without the Facebook ad engine. Legacy brands are flummoxed by ecommerce. One company that’s hoping to split the difference is RoC Skincare, which spun out of Johnson & Johnson and was acquired by the private equity firm Gryphon in 2018.