How Vanity Metrics Stole Marketing’s Credibility – And How CMOs Can Get It Back
As marketing fails to speak the language of business outcomes due to an overemphasis on vanity metrics, it is increasingly losing its seat at the decision-making table.
As marketing fails to speak the language of business outcomes due to an overemphasis on vanity metrics, it is increasingly losing its seat at the decision-making table.
CEOs fear their marketing has lost the plot; WhatsApp introduces ads; Meta’s making its users feel unsafe.
In today’s newsletter: The FTC is suing Kochava (again); marketers are complacent about third-party cookie deprecation; and Publicis Health pays the piper for its role in the opioid epidemic.
Welcome to Scandi-Land, where the cookieless future has been our online media reality for the last five years. Here are three lessons for media planners, buyers, sellers and platforms who are going to have a tough time navigating the thicket of change.
While LLMs are demonstrating their usefulness for marketing, they are less well suited to solving challenges in performance advertising, which require learning from numerical data, not words.
Sharethrough will cover the costs of emissions measurement for participants in its Net Zero Publisher Program for one year. In addition, Sharethrough is promising better access to sustainability-minded buyers through its new Path to Net-Zero Marketplace and its Green PMPs.
There are three key ways in which the industry can do a better job of selling customers on the value exchange they’ll see from sharing their data with brands, writes Scott McDonald, President and CEO of the Advertising Research Foundation.
Yes, the headwinds are blowing for digital advertising. There’s signal loss, regulatory scrutiny, platform privacy changes and a looming recession, to name a few. But McKinsey Partner Emily Del Greco sees opportunity on the horizon for commerce media and new forms of measurement.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Can You Put A Price On … Price? Google is testing “Higher price” and “Lower price” indicators for shopping searches. Brian Freiesleben, an SEO industry observer and practitioner, spotted the badge in the wild on a $760 fireplace from Home Depot. It was […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Falling Short? Facebook updated its misinformation policy to include vaccine-related content, as the company continues fighting against claims that it isn’t doing enough to protect its billions of users. The Wall Street Journal reports that the social networking giant will over the coming weeks […]