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The founders of six AI startups offer insights on the founding journey and what problems their companies are solving.

On Tuesday, Infillion launched fully agentic media execution platform built on MCP, marking a shift from the programmatic to the agentic era.

After a reenergizing week at the Cannes Lions festival, here are six observations on how our industry is changing to meet its new challenges.

As premium game prices skyrocket and paid subscriptions and cloud-based gaming services take off, marketers sense a chance to defray rising costs with ad revenue – perhaps dispelling some doubts about the value of more ads in games.

It’s important to have frank discussions with clients, explaining the need and value of brand safety. That way, marketers can make an educated decision on whether they truly need to pay for it.

Pinterest is being overrun with low-effort generative AI slop. Plus, Stagwell partially credits its 14% growth last year to – you guessed it – AI.

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During certain periods this year, advertisers blocked more than 40% of The Washington Post’s inventory over brand safety concerns.

Instead of erasing the idea of brand safety, we should be developing smarter, more nuanced solutions that protect both news publishers and advertisers.

The challenges facing digital advertising feel bigger than ever. But when you’re in Cannes, you can’t help but focus on the positives. Here are the six biggest ad industry trends and positive takeaways from this year’s show.

In today’s newsletter: Online news revenue is being throttled around the web; Roblox is on a mission to build a $1 billion ad business; and TikTok is circumventing the Apple App Store’s 30% fee by directing users off iOS to purchase TikTok coins.

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.

In today’s newsletter: The CMA comes out with an updated evaluation of Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox proposals; the IAB talks Privacy Sandbox with Google; and Temu may be a shell company, but its ad spend keeps skyrocketing.

Personalized ads aren’t new. But personalization powered by generative AI is creating new challenges for brands.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Email Spreads Its Feathers Ultra-trendy CTV networks are turning to an old-school method for retaining users: email marketing. NBCU’s Peacock is using good-old-fashioned email blasts to reduce churn and increase viewership, Marketing Brew reports. Free and paid subscribers receive three to five emails […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Metaverse’s Second Life? The metaverse has gone from the next big thing to a punchline about the danger of chasing Big Tech’s shiny objects. Even Meta is downplaying its investment in immersive virtual worlds. Yet, despite reports to the contrary, metaverse marketing […]

On Tuesday, agency holding company Stagwell reported $622 million in Q1 revenue – a 3% decrease year over year – and $53 million in Q1 net-new business, a 1% decrease YoY, according to CFO Frank Lanuto. The company’s stock was down nearly 10% on the news.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Currency Contest Can the TV industry’s currency debate get any hotter? (For something so in the weeds, that is.) Guess so. Nielsen has formally repudiated the broadcaster-backed joint industry committee’s (JIC) video standards agreement. In a letter to OpenAP, the data vendor behind […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Great Search TikTok has made waves because of its organic traction as a new kind of search engine. People use it to look for stores and restaurants nearby, where to travel, where to stay – you name it. But TikTok hasn’t effectively […]