U.S. Credit Rating Downgrade: How It Affects Advertising by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, August 6, 2023 The Fitch Ratings agency last week announced that it would downgrade its long-term credit rating of the United States from AAA to AA+ with a stable outlook. It forced the stock market rally to take a breather, and drove up … Continue reading U.S. Credit Rating Downgrade: How Does It Affect Advertising?
Amazon Reports Ad Sales Up 22%, Strong Demand For AI Services by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, August 3, 2023 Amazon reported Thursday that second-quarter revenue rose 11% to $134.4 billion — with artificial intelligence, cloud services and advertising playing a major role in the increase. Along with AWS, advertising has become one of Amazon’s highest-margin businesses. … Continue reading Amazon Reports Strong Demand For Advertising And AI Services
Microsoft Advertising Goes Through ‘Transformation,’ Rebrands Xandr, PromoteIQ by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, July 27, 2023 Microsoft Advertising is rebranding its products, strategy and services, combining and renaming the technology from its recent acquisitions of Xandr and PromoteIQ, and changing some of the processes across its product line. The shift officially begins in August. The new … Continue reading Microsoft Advertising Goes Through ‘Transformation,’ Rebrands Xandr, PromoteIQ
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE—Associated Press July 25, 2023 Google snapped out of an unprecedented advertising slump during its latest quarter, signaling a return to growth cycle needed to fuel investments in artificial intelligence technology that expected to reshape the competitive landscape. The results for the April-June period released Tuesday by Google’s corporate parent, Alphabet Inc., … Continue reading Google shakes off its recent advertising slump
By Jeff Beer July 08, 2023 Strolling around the south of France a few weeks ago—populated with execs from the best, brightest, and richest brands, ad agencies, media companies, and social and tech platforms gathered here for the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity—you could almost hear the constant chant of “AI, AI, AI, AI . … Continue reading These 40-year-old ideas could help the $73 billion advertising industry survive the rise of AI
The Context In Contextual For Targeting Cookieless Advertising Is ‘Misunderstood’ by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, June 21, 2023 Contextual is “slightly misunderstood,” according to Teads Global VP of Data James Colborn, who introduced at Cannes the Contextual Council, a forum to inspire new connections with cross-industry leaders. Colborn brought the message to this year’s Cannes Lions … Continue reading The Context In Contextual For Targeting Cookieless Advertising Is ‘Misunderstood’
TAG Certification Grows, NBCU Latest To Get Global Digital Advertising Brand Safety Seal by Karlene Lukovitz @KLmarketdaily, May 24, 2023 NBCUniversal, including Peacock, is the latest company to qualify for The Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) Brand Safety Certified Seal on a global basis. TAG, created by the American Association of Advertising Agencies, Association of National … Continue reading TAG Certification Grows, NBCU Latest To Get Global Digital Advertising Brand Safety Seal
5 Paid Advertising Tactics to Improve Performance Marketing Karishma Patel | May 16th, 2023 If you aren’t optimizing your paid advertising efforts to improve their performance, you aren’t making the best use of your marketing spend. Marketing and advertising aren’t new or novel practices in the world of business. In fact, they pre-date the … Continue reading 5 Paid Advertising Tactics to Improve Performance Marketing
Microsoft Advertising Expands Latin America Presence Through Partnership by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, April 20, 2023 Microsoft Advertising will expand its presence in the Latin America region through a partnership agreement with IMS by Aleph, which supports digital advertising globally. The exclusive agreement — which will be effective May 1, 2023 — spans all of Latin … Continue reading Microsoft Advertising Expands Latin America Presence Through Partnership
SF Agency Feld Advertising Expands Media Practice by Steve McClellan @mp_mcclellan, March 31, 2023 San Francisco-based Feld Advertising is expanding its media department with the hiring of Jon Sklaroff as Senior digital manager, a new position. Sklaroff reports directly to Executive Media Director Elizabeth Dorrance and is tasked with expanding the agency’s growing digital … Continue reading SF Agency Feld Advertising Expands Media Practice
