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Beyond the Click: Why 2027's Winners Will Train Their Ads on Real Sales
Discover the 2027 performance marketing trends shaping digital advertising, from closed-loop measurement and AI-driven bidding to CTV attribution and GEO.

More DSPs Only Work When They Bring Different Intelligence
Discover how advertisers can use a multi-DSP strategy to improve media diversification, measure incrementality, reduce audience overlap.

Connecting First-Party CRM Data To Ad Platforms To Drive Revenue in Home Services
Home services marketers must look beyond CPL, CTR and lead volume to measure lead quality, booked jobs, revenue growth and marketing ROI.

More Campaign Variants Can Mean Less Reliable Measurement
Faster landing-page production can accelerate testing, but without strong measurement discipline, performance teams risk drawing unreliable conclusions

AI in programmatic: progress or just a faster way to make the same mistakes?
Limelight’s James MacDonald explores how publishers and advertisers can adopt AI thoughtfully to improve programmatic workflows, bidding and inventory quality.

The Marketer’s Questions Haven’t Changed. The Industry Has.
Advertising Week New York explores how marketers can cut through advertising trends and focus on the questions that matter for media investments.

Google’s 2027 Ad Impression Update: Why Publishers Need to Prepare Now
Google Ad Manager will shift display ad impressions to begin-to-render measurement in February 2027, making ad rendering speed more important for publishers.

Building Towards Sovereignty: How Telcos can Become AI Orchestrators
Telecom operators face a strategic crossroads as network investments generate value for hyperscalers, OTT players and digital platforms.

Audiences Can Think of YouTube as TV If They Want, But Advertisers Can’t
The YouTube-as-TV debate often focuses on audience perception, but the discussion may matter less than how advertisers and the industry define TV.

In the AI era, brands need to be recommended, not just found
Brands must build credibility, partnerships and third-party validation to move from search visibility to AI-driven recommendations.

Who Holds the Strings? If You Control the 'Outcome', You Can Stand Behind It...
AI adoption is moving from experimentation to accountability as organizations increasingly measure agentic AI by revenue, cost savings, and operational impact.

Ad Platforms Are Like LLMs. Which Frontier Model Are You Running On?
Multimodal AI gains intelligence by learning across text, images, audio, and structured data, creating relationships that single-input models cannot replicate.
