Artificial intelligence can write copy and manage programmatic media buying at warp speed. It can drive a car and even diagnose cancer. AI is increasingly acting like humans, so companies are putting big resources and marketing money into branding AI with human-like qualities, down to naming their technology after people. Amazon reportedly picked Alexa for...
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Digital & Tech Daily
May 25, 2017
Today's top news for digital marketers
Plus, one cautionary tale
By Lauren Johnson
Artificial intelligence can write copy and manage programmatic media buying at warp speed. It can drive a car and even diagnose cancer. AI is increasingly acting like humans, so companies are putting big resources and marketing money into branding AI with human-like qualities, down to naming their technology after people. Amazon reportedly picked Alexa for...
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Gets into larger measurement questions as well
By Lauren Johnson
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AI's impact on the 1:1 future
The lab will work with agencies, brands and media companies
By Marty Swant
Patrón Tequila runs 'Bot-Tender' campaign
By Christopher Heine
It's moving beyond websites
By Lauren Johnson
A couple of years ago, Google launched a program called Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP, to speed up the mobile web. Now, it wants to do the same with two of its most lucrative sources of revenue: search and display advertising. During the company's Google Marketing Next event today in San Francisco, Google announced a...
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It's based on location or users
By Marty Swant
Snapchat has added a new tool to let users collaborate by posting their photos and videos to custom story threads, giving the platform a way to potentially cut into the wedding hashtag market so prevalent on its rival Instagram. Custom Stories, as they're called, let a person add friends to a specific story, which can...
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His show will debut on the platform this fall
By Jason Lynch
James Corden has spent the past two years dominating YouTube with his Carpool Karaoke segments. Now the late-night host is ready to tackle another digital platform: Snapchat. The Late Late Show host is partnering with Snap Inc. to create a new digital series for Snapchat's Discover platform, which will debut this fall. The new series,...
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Making video more prominent so it stays with users as they scroll
By Lauren Johnson
As Facebook's news feed increasingly moves from text to video, the social network is rolling out a new feature on desktop that makes clips more prominent. In February, Facebook rolled out a mobile feature called watch and scroll that lets people keep watching organic videos and ads as they scroll through news feeds. Now, the...
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Introducing Adweek’s Mar Tech Superstars
By Christopher Heine
In recent years, marketing technology--or simply "mar tech," in industry parlance--has gone from fledgling to flourishing, growing from a niche that once included a few hundred players to a vast universe of 5,000-plus companies. Their offerings include software for social media, email, search engine optimization, e-retail targeting, video, consumer rewards, campaign measurement and creative workflow,...
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Viewers can paint the second single 'Stained Glass'
By Marty Swant
For many bands, live shows are the best way to turn songs into musical paint-by-numbers. The contour is the crowd. The lights and projections are the palette. And yet, more often than not, the people are passive. They can't do anything other than clap their hands and say 'yeah,' basking in the dream of a...
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