Saturday, December 21, 2024

Marketing Madness

Sam Bloom: Marketing’s Last Sane Man?

How He’s Keeping His Cool While Everyone Else Chases Trends If marketing today is a three-ring circus, Sam Bloom is the rare ringmaster who doesn’t...

Alex Li of AppLovin: The Maverick Who’s Redefining Mobile App Advertising

Mobile app advertising: the wild frontier where brands hope to strike gold, but most end up with fool’s gold instead. Enter Alex Li, Senior...

Mobile Web Ads: The Walking Dead of Digital Marketing

Mobile web advertising is the embarrassing uncle at Thanksgiving—awkward, outdated, and somehow still getting attention despite adding no value to the conversation.  It’s a relic...

From Big Ideas to Tiny Banners: How #Adtech Shrinks the Dream

When I resurrected this newsletter from the ashes of my previous endeavor—dusted it off like some overambitious Frankenstein experiment—I wasn’t entirely sure where it...

The Ad Tech Racket: How The Trade Desk is Taxing Your Campaigns Into Oblivion

Let’s talk about The Trade Desk (TTD) and their latest contribution to the world of advertising—what can only be described as a budgetary black...

The AdTech Wizard of Odds: Gareth Holmes on Streaming Ads, Helicopters, and Unleashing Sweden’s Secret Sauce 

Adtech is often described as a wild west, but Gareth Holmes makes it sound more like Cirque du Soleil—complete with flaming chainsaws, gravity-defying stunts,...

Zeta Global: AI Hype, Data Breaches, and Damage Control

Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA), the self-proclaimed “AI-Powered Marketing Cloud,” has been spinning like a politician in a scandal. Accusations of shady practices, a public...

Catalina Salazar: The #martech Dynamo Turning Wolt Into a Retail Media Juggernaut

If retail media were a chess game, Catalina Salazar would be the queen—commanding the board, making bold moves, and turning every play into a...

AdMonsters Publishers Forum: Publishers’ Group Therapy, With Coffee and Cookie Anxiety

The AdMonsters Publishers Forum has officially kicked off, and it’s already a whirlwind of grievances, guarded optimism, and, of course, endless caffeine refills. If...

Streamlined or Screwed? The Real Cost of Curation for Publishers

It’s official: ad tech has found its new favorite shiny object. Say hello to curation, a word you can’t escape if you’ve been within five...

Can Innovid Turn Its Adtech Aspirations Into Actual Profits, or Is It Just Playing in the Sandbox?

Innovid Corp. is stuck in adtech purgatory—a company brimming with potential but weighed down by enough challenges to keep a boardroom sweating. On paper,...

Adsterra: The Ad Network That’s Like a Bad Tinder Date—Too Good to Be True, Then Totally Sketchy

Adsterra, the self-proclaimed “premium” ad network, hails from the illustrious island of Cyprus—where offshore business thrives, and reputations go to die. It’s a place...

Scope3 and Adloox Just Crashed IAS and DoubleVerify’s Party—And They Brought Green Receipts

Scope3 just shook up the ad tech world by acquiring Adloox, the scrappy French ad verification company that’s been quietly chipping away at fraud,...

Plant-Powered Profits: Riding the Rocket Ship of Vegan Markets

The plant-based food market is like a rocket ship ready to break through the atmosphere, projected to soar with a staggering 12.2% CAGR over...

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