Opinion

Voices from The Summit: Kristina Shepard, EVP, Streaming & Performance Sales and Partnerships, NBCUniversal

In this episode, Kristina Shepard sits down with Claire BeDell, Editor of The Outcome, to go beyond the Summit stage: how NBCUniversal is thinking about premium streaming, why advertisers need to move beyond content silos, and what it takes to create ad experiences that feel additive rather than disruptive.
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ChatGPT officially launched ads last week, and only early partners – like Target and its retail media network Roundel – are getting the skinny.

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Something counterintuitive is happening in advertising: AI is moving fast. Marketers are not.

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While consumer packaged goods (CPG) advertisers zig towards committing programmatic brand dollars to retail media networks and commerce data sets, allow me to zag.

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EBay Inc. agreed to buy Depop for about $1.2 billion in an effort to attract younger shoppers and stand out in an increasingly cluttered e-commerce market.

AdAge
Dentsu is for sale. WPP is expected to take what Adweek calls “drastic measures” to reshape its portfolio in the lead-up to a potential sale. Omnicom and IPG are merging. Oh, and Havas and Horizon teamed up to offer greater scale.

AdExchanger