Say Goodbye to the Open Web. Nice Knowing Ya
The open web is dead. Not dying, not on life support, not “facing headwinds.” Dead. Yes – I am being a drama queen but it
The open web is dead. Not dying, not on life support, not “facing headwinds.” Dead. Yes – I am being a drama queen but it
AI adoption is messier and faster than anything marketing has lived through. The good news: the more the machines do, the more they need us.
Short-term metrics keep passing judgment on long-term marketing. There’s a new way to bring the two in sync. My time at Advertising Week was revealing.
Why marketing events should stop dressing up as TED and admit they are more like CES There is a moment, usually mid-afternoon on day two,
Why the real optimization story for brands and agencies is architecture, not output Ask ten marketers what “AI optimization” means and you will get ten
A prospective client asked me a question recently that I thought would have an easy answer. “How do people choose your firm over the others?”
For most of the last two decades, affiliate marketing and influencer marketing lived in separate houses. They showed up in different budget lines, reported to
For most of the 2010s, digital advertising had a trust problem. Five years ago, adtech was moving from instability toward accountability. However, lately that velocity
The Pilot Trap Every organization racing to adopt AI seems to follow the same playbook: pick a use case, run a controlled pilot, measure the
The real risk isn’t AI buying your ad. It’s AI agents talking to other AI agents — with permissions nobody double-checked. Every marketing team now