AI tools are – for better or worse – infiltrating every step of the advertising journey, from creative and planning to execution and measurement. At the same time, some consumers are becoming increasingly skeptical as they question the authenticity and human touch of the content they encounter. “There is a lot of negative backlash against AI-generated content […]
The newly renamed Washington Commanders are the only team in the NFL with a chief creative and digital officer rather than a marketing chief. Will Misselbrook took the job last year in the interim between the temporary name change from the Washington Redskins to “Washington Football Team.”
Amazon is simplifying its ad products by bringing everything under one umbrella called Amazon Advertising. The move won’t change how the products function or how advertising division personnel are organized. But the madhouse of acronyms – Amazon Advertising Platform (AAP), Amazon Media Group (AMG) and Amazon Marketing Services (AMS) – is no longer being used, […]
Will Kassoy is CEO of AdColony – again. On Monday, Opera Mediaworks said it is changing its name to AdColony as of January. If the name’s familiar, that’s because it’s the mobile video ad network that Opera Mediaworks bought for around $350 million in 2014. Kassoy was CEO of AdColony at the time, and then joined […]
First there was Right Media. Then there was the Yahoo Ad Exchange. Now there’s BrightRoll. Yahoo started off Advertising Week on Monday with the announcement that it had consolidated all of its programmatic ad tech under a single umbrella – the BrightRoll brand. The purple platform has been on a bit of an ad tech spree […]
ValueClick’s gradual transformation from an ad network 15 years ago to an ad-tech provider – focused on ad personalization and decisioning – entered a new phase Monday when it rebranded as Conversant. The name, said CEO John Giuliani, represents the consolidation of the different technological components the company has assembled over the last several years. […]
