Marketers are fleeing hard performance data for brand health metrics, propped up by AI tools that promise more than they deliver. It's a retreat from real accountability.
Yahoo and Dow Jones are doubling down on sports business coverage, targeting high-value audiences and advertisers with specialized verticals that go beyond generic game recaps.
Yahoo’s new partnership with Kochava promises ‘agentic DSP workflows’ but delivers little more than jargon-drenched repackaging of old interoperability myths.
Retailers are rushing to build AI apps, but with little evidence shoppers actually want them, these features risk becoming expensive digital window dressing.
Micro-influencers are ditching short-term sponsorship paychecks for equity in brands, exposing the broken influencer marketing model and forcing a reckoning.
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