Forget The Shiny Objects And Focus On Fundamentals

Sharona Sankar-King, Havas Media's chief data and product officer, on why marketers should stop chasing shiny AI toys and get serious about the fundamentals, including truly understanding the customer and only collecting data that's "fit for purpose."

Most brands worry about competitors. Whisker is worried about complacency, says CMO Hew Loyd – specifically, the millions of cat owners who have decided that scooping an open box of poop in their home is just one of life's little chores.

You wouldn't accept paying for a Big Mac and getting a single chicken nugget. But that's essentially what a lot of marketers are doing with their digital ad budgets, says Reckitt's Sameer Amin, on this week's episode of AdExchanger Talks recorded live in Cannes.

Reddit is now one of the main data sources feeding LLMs and AI search. In this episode, recorded live in Cannes, COO Jen Wong talks data licensing deals, how people use Reddit to validate what they're about to buy and what it takes to stop bad actors from gaming its forums to sway AI results.

Cleo Davis-Urman, CEO and co-founder of wearable vitamin brand Barrière, talks word-of-mouth, measurement, retail media and what it takes to build a new category around patches instead of pills.

Tom Kemp, executive director of CalPrivacy, unpacks the DELETE Act, his agency's enforcement priorities, the rules governing automated decision-making tech – and why ad tech should pay close attention to it all.

You don't usually hear someone talk about peptide serums, CAC and customer lifetime value in the same breath. But that's a normal day for Alexa Raff, CMO of goop, the wellness and lifestyle brand co-founded and led by Gwyneth Paltrow.

Verizon Value President David "DK" Kim digs into the lingering stigma around prepaid wireless – and how reframing customers as "prepaid by need" versus "prepaid by choice" changes the way Verizon markets and measures its eight-brand portfolio of prepaid plans.

How does Spotify translate quirky "Wrapped" labels, like "divorced dad hipster," into ad audiences? And is AI-generated content safe for brands? Spotify's Global Head of Ad Product Katie English weighs in.

Up If creators want brand dollars, they have to play by the rules of data-driven marketing and measurement, says Ryan Detert, CEO and co-founder of Publicis-owned influencer marketing platform Influential.