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From Insight to Impact: Applying Advertising Week’s Key Themes
Advertising Week New York brought together thousands of marketers to explore what’s next for the industry, from AI monetization to creator-led storytelling. Across sessions, one message came through loud and clear: brands are no longer asking if these shifts matter,...
The Creative Shift: Generative AI and the Human Imagination
Generative AI is transforming how brands create, test, and scale ideas. From concept generation to automated design production, it’s redefining the boundaries of creative performance. As AI levels the playing field, the real opportunity for differentiation lies in how...
From Keyword Bidding to Intent Matching: AI Max and the Future of Paid Search
AI Max is not just another campaign type. It represents a fundamental shift in how search works and how brands earn attention. Until recently, Google Search was a list of ranked results. Brands fought for visibility through keyword strategies, bidding tactics, and...
AI Visibility for B2B: How to Grow Even as ChatGPT Referrals Shrink
Referral traffic from ChatGPT to websites fell 52% in just one month, according to new research from Profound’s Josh Blyskal, whose analysis of more than a billion citations and a million referral visits reveals a clear trend that branded websites are losing...
From Keywords to Knowledge Graphs: How brands can build authority in the age of AI-powered search
Remember when SEO was all about stuffing keywords into your content and hoping Google would notice? Those days are long gone. Today's AI-powered search engines don't just read your content; they understand it, contextualize it, and weave it into a massive web of...
The Search Revolution: How AI Optimization is Redefining Digital Discovery in 2025 and Beyond
AI-powered search engines now handle 60% of online queries, with AI Overviews appearing in 57% of Google results. This presents new and very real opportunities for businesses to fully embrace comprehensive AI search optimization strategies that will drive increased...
E-Commerce’s Quiet Comeback: Why the COVID Peak Actually Matters Now
In 2020, a decade of e-commerce growth happened in a matter of months. Nearly 16% of U.S. retail spending shifted online overnight, not by choice, but by necessity. For a moment, it felt like we had hit fast forward on the digital future. Then came the reset....
CTV Turning Point: How the Amazon & Netflix Deal Could Redefine CTV Advertising
Amazon and Netflix have announced a major advertising partnership that could reshape the connected TV (CTV) ecosystem. Starting in Q4 2025, advertisers will be able to access Netflix’s ad-supported inventory directly through Amazon’s demand side platform (DSP),...
The Human Touch: Why Creativity Still Wins in an Automated World
Automation isn't knocking on the door anymore; it's already moved in and made itself comfortable. AI generated assets, predictive ad buying, real time optimization. These technologies are fundamentally changing how we build, run, and deliver campaigns. Here's...
Reddit First: How Communities Now Define the Consumer Journey
Reddit has become one of the most underestimated forces in the digital ecosystem. As the eighth most visited site globally, with more than 110 million daily active users, it has emerged as a central influence in how consumers make decisions. What once functioned as a...
Direct Agents Partners with FreeWheel to Launch Advanced In-House Programmatic Solutions
On August 12th, we officially announced a strategic partnership with FreeWheel, a global technology platform for the television advertising industry, to power a new in-house programmatic Connected TV (CTV) offering. This collaboration positions Direct Agents to...
Rebuilding Marketing Credibility: How Marketers Can Shift From Vanity to Performance Metrics
For years, marketers have leaned on numbers that look good in a report but don’t always prove business impact. Clicks, impressions, likes, and engagement rates are easy to track and easy to celebrate, but when the question becomes “how is this driving growth?” Those...