The E.U. Court of Justice has found that Amazon is obliged under the Digital Services Act to disclose information about its online advertising in a publicly available archive. The court agreed that Amazon might suffer damage but said that interests defended by the E.U. legislature prevail. Amazon had contested that it is a “large online platform” as defined by the Act.
Measured, the incrementality measurement specialist, has launched a new platform aimed at circumventing the need to rely on unverifiable reports generated by walled gardens. “Incrementality” refers to the “causal lift in sales driven by a given marketing activity for a given period of time.” Measured’s new platform will support the analysis of incremental ad performance across all paid media platforms.
Accenture and Adobe will partner to develop industry-specific generative AI solutions. Accenture will integrate Adobe Firefly Custom Models into its marketing services to enable clients to train custom models based on proprietary data and brand guidelines. Initial industries targeted will include retail and consumer goods, financial services, automotive and health.
If you still think that MCP stands for Male Chauvinist Pig, well, the 1970’s want their disco ball back. Today’s hep cats know that MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, a new-but-widely supported standard that lets large language models access structured data as context for their prompts. Early adopters include Salesforce and Adobe, and search platform Algolia is now using it to feed their data to customer-facing real-time AI agents.