Clients can generate outputs with AI. Agencies win by delivering strategic clarity, integrated thinking and real-time intelligence. By Domenic Venuto February 13, 2026 As AI automates routine and complex analytical tasks, a profound revaluation of human skills isn’t likely — it’s inevitable. In this new landscape, once-soft abilities are becoming hard differentiators. The capacity … Continue reading The AI era needs strategists grounded in expertise and guided by context
True personalization starts with context, not attributes. See how scenario-based design bridges behavioral segments and real-world customer needs. By Katie Templin February 9, 2026 Personalization is often treated like a data problem. Do you have enough attributes? Are your segments sophisticated enough? Is your tech stack capable of supporting it? While those questions … Continue reading Why context matters more than data in personalization
Prompt engineering isn’t a strategy. To unlock real impact from AI, go-to-market teams must stop scaling improvisation and start engineering context. Mark Ogne on August 5, 2025 For a while, prompt engineering felt like strategy. Craft the perfect input, unlock perfect output. Add a few tokens here, adjust tone there and suddenly your chatbot … Continue reading Prompt engineering is dead. Long live context engineering!
Finally, annotations return to Google Analytics. Use them to capture business context, align teams and speed up your analysis. Dan Taylor on July 11, 2025 After waves of user requests, annotations are finally back in Google Analytics and GA4’s version is more useful than ever. Whether you manage analytics for a brand, agency or … Continue reading How to use GA4 annotations to add context and clarity to your analytics
Transform raw numbers into actionable insights and uncover the story behind your data for more effective campaign optimization. Alan K’necht on July 22, 2024 To business executives and marketing professionals, everything is numbers. Watch the news and pay attention to when a broadcaster states a number. Reading, seeing or hearing numbers is easy. … Continue reading How to put marketing data into meaningful context
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’
Contextual segments represent a way of targeting audiences which is not reliant on identities. Kim Davis on December 3, 2021 Integral Ad Science (IAS) has announced enhancements to its Context Control solution for publishers and advertisers. Context Control helps advertisers to circumvent inappropriate environments for digital advertising as well as to reach audiences consuming specific … Continue reading IAS announces enhancements to Context Control
Mediavine explains how AI-powered contextual advertising (and persistent IDs) will help fill the cookie gap. Kim Davis on December 3, 2020 Advertisers and publishers are scrambling to find alternatives to the third-party cookies which have been prime way of understanding audiences and their interests, but which are soon to be history. One alternative, which seems … Continue reading Using AI to replace cookies with context
Knowing what challenges your audiences face and utilizing effective emotional writing to strike a chord is key to developing campaigns that connect. Ryan Brock on July 15, 2020 We all know how valuable audience personas can be for marketers. They outline demographic information and pain points for different types of customers, and can help us … Continue reading Why audience context matters
Chris Pitt — April 17, 2020 Last week, while trying to make sense of search marketing in the context of COVID-19, I came across a Warren Buffet quote that read, “Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful”. Now I’m not advocating being greedy, especially not at a time like this, … Continue reading Search Marketing in the Context of COVID-19
