A Nielsen study that finds marketers spend too little on advertising might seem too self-serving to mention. But while the headline on this report is that 50% of campaigns spend too little to get optimal results, the unstated implication – that marketers should run fewer programs– is worth some thought. Bigger eggs, fewer baskets.
Verve Group, which has assembled a herd of mostly-mobile ad buying and selling tools, has added self-service mobile ad buying platform Dataseat to its flock. Like other Verve properties, Dataseat specializes in placing ads without relying on customer or device identifiers that are rapidly vanishing due to privacy improvements. Dataseat’s approach uses contextual signals to optimize campaigns.
The build-vs-buy debate never ends, and sometimes build really makes sense. But buy is clearly the way to bet: just 17% of martech replacement projects chose a homegrown solution this year, according to this MarTech survey. That’s down from 31% the year before. CDPs were among the least common replacements, maybe because they’re awesome and maybe because most CDP implementations are fairly new. Download for more fun facts.
Unauthorized training data isn’t an existential threat to generative AI but it’s certainly a headache for users and developers alike. Most developers are trying to exclude materials that creators have explicitly labeled as unauthorized and citing “fair use” as justification for copying everything else. Getty Images has taken an opposite approach, building its gen AI tool only on materials that are explicitly licensed. It’s possible that tracing the provenance of training data will become a standard, similar to how organic food producers trace the origins of their ingredients.