Marketers didn’t sign up to be spreadsheet jockeys or calendar coordinators; they came to craft stories, shape brands and drive growth. But in reality, campaign deployments have become code for chaos: fighting fires, fulfilling last-minute requests and executing the same plays under slightly different subject lines.
If the past few decades have proven anything, it’s this: Consumers and businesses expect constant innovation, and brands must evolve or perish. Mediocrity won’t cut it. That’s where AI can help, even if it brings a sense of uncertainty.
Retail may have a classic, old-school image, but it’s leading the charge in AI adoption. While, historically, retailers have been slow to embrace new technology, the latest Marketing AI Institute research tells a different story.
Could Google’s antitrust cases change how we use the internet? The short answer: possibly.
Marketers are on edge, as the remedies for this case could disrupt the bedrock of marketing. Search marketing, for example, is a linchpin of acquisition strategies that commands nearly 40% of US ad spend. Google’s ad tech commands a massive share of the online display market. If the cornerstone that is Google marketing crumbles, the ripple effects would be massive. Traditional search and acquisition strategies could falter.
AdExchanger consulted with agencies about how they are evaluating new generative AI tools for marketing use cases as well as the tech companies behind these startups breaking new ground in generative AI.
A recent article by New York Times media columnist David Carr revealed a radical publishing technology catching on in news media companies everywhere: email newsletters. Carr wrote that email is a marketing tool many people tend to forget about. But, he argued, email is the most consistent and useful medium for advertising. Email and search drive […]
