Tech Stack
These AI Agents Want To Handle All The Annoying Parts Of Media Buying
It’s the great irony of programmatic. The bidding is automated down to the millisecond, but the day-to-day work of running campaigns is still largely manual, from copying data between systems and reconciling reports to running QA checks and drafting explanations for clients when metrics don’t line up. “Inside of the platforms, it’s AI everywhere – but […]
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POSSIBLE 2026: AdExchanger’s Hot Takes
The fourth-annual POSSIBLE is in the books! AdExchanger Senior Editors Alyssa Boyle and Anthony Vargas were on the ground in Miami. Here are their takeaways from three days chatting about agentic AI in the Florida sun (other than some scattered showers). But the AI talk at POSSIBLE wasn’t just marketing hype. Ad industry insiders got […]
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POSSIBLE 2026: Can AI Help Agencies Finally Break Down Those Silos?
At POSSIBLE 2026, conversations about AI went beyond the typical talking points about how much time and money AI can save. AdExchanger had one of those deeper discussions about AI with Domenic Venuto, the indie agency Horizon Media’s chief product and data officer.
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Zefr Builds A New Front Door For YouTube Buys
Ad tech doesn’t suffer from a shortage of acronyms – but it does suffer from fragmented workflows. Brand suitability provider Zefr is trying to fix some of that fragmentation by using Model Context Protocol (MCP) as the plumbing that connects AI agents to advertiser data and tools, together with an Advertising Context Protocol (AdCP) layer […]
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Google Touts Its AI Ad Tech Adoption And New AI Max Features
The past year has been momentous for AI search engine ads. That’s partly due to ChatGPT’s foray into advertising. But the big AI search ad platform in action right now is Google, which, on Thursday, announced new features and ad types for AI Max, its AI-based bidding product for search and shopping or sponsored product […]
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Possible 2026
POSSIBLE 2026: From AI Theory to Application: How Some of the Biggest Brands Are Integrating AI Into Marketing
How top leaders at The Home Depot, Cloudflare, Walmart, Coca-Cola, U.S. Bank and PepsiCo are approaching AI integration, implementation and adoption within their marketing organizations.
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AdMarketplace Is Piloting Performance Ads In AI Chat
AI chat is starting to look more and more like a media channel, which means someone’s gotta figure out the ad model. Although chatbot conversations are loaded with commercial intent – ChatGPT knows it – there’s still no clear playbook for monetizing those interactions without messing with the user experience. Search advertising specialist adMarketplace is one of […]
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ChatGPT Ads Have Begun Showing Up For Logged-Out Users
Good news for advertisers, many of whom have found it difficult to meet minimum spend budgets on ChatGPT: Logged-out users can now see ads.
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Brand-Trained Agents Can Give Marketers A Fuller View Of Their Customers
Agentic commerce company Envive builds on-site agents for brands like footwear company Clove, painting a clearer picture of what their customers are looking for.
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Brands on Fire
Brands on Fire: Hyundai Motor America CMO Talks Data, Experiential, AI and Ecommerce
Hyundai Motor America CMO Sean Gilpin discusses the brand’s FIFA partnership, data-driven marketing strategies, brand versus performance, AI efficiencies in media and more.
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Shopper/Retail
Edible Arrangements Entices Early Mother’s Day Buying to Ease Operational Bottlenecks
Chief Digital Officer Erica Randerson discusses the gifting brand’s refreshed app, using purchase data in marketing, AI investments and value shoppers.
