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Marketing Budgets Shifting to Unproven Channels While Core Fundamentals Collapse – News Round Up: 12/05-12/12

December 15, 2025 by Jeff Licciardi

This week’s marketing news reveals brands chasing shiny new channels while ignoring broken fundamentals. Analysis of CTV fraud, influencer waste, and more.

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Industry Transformation Accelerates: Netflix’s $82B Mega-Deal, Omnicom’s Post-Merger Shakeup, and AI’s Growing Pains — News Round-Up 12/1-12/7

December 8, 2025 by

This week marked seismic shifts: Netflix’s $82.7B Warner Bros. acquisition, Omnicom-IPG merger fallout with 4,000 job cuts, record holiday sales, and AI’s growing pains among programmatic marketers.

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Marketing Effectiveness Metrics Theater: Why Attribution Models Are Destroying Campaign Innovation – News Round Up: 11/21-11/28

December 1, 2025 by Jeff Licciardi

This week’s marketing news reveals how obsessive attribution modeling is killing creative risk-taking while delivering false precision that undermines actual brand building.

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CTV Advertising Measurement Crisis Reveals Industry Unable Scale Beyond Walled Gardens – News Round Up: 11/18-11/25

December 1, 2025 by Jeff Licciardi

Connected TV advertising faces a measurement crisis as fragmentation exposes the industry’s inability to scale programmatic buying beyond platform silos.

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Advertising Industry Privacy Theater Crumbles as Cookies Persist Through 2026 – News Round Up: 11/18-11/25

December 1, 2025 by Jeff Licciardi

Chrome’s cookie deprecation delay exposes how the ad industry spent billions preparing for a privacy change that keeps not happening. Analysis of Nov 18-25 news.

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Social Commerce Hype Cycle Collapses as Brands Retreat to Search – News Round Up: 11/18-11/25

December 1, 2025 by Jeff Licciardi

Social commerce promised seamless shopping but brands are quietly shifting budgets back to search. This week’s ad industry news reveals the truth behind the hype.

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Marketing Agencies Bloating Client Teams Masking Declining Productivity – News Round Up: 11/14-11/21

November 18, 2024 by Jeff Licciardi

Why agencies are adding more heads to accounts while output quality plummets. This week’s ad industry news reveals the uncomfortable truth about team inflation.

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Brand Safety Hysteria Killing Creative Effectiveness 2024 – News Round Up: 11/07-11/14

November 11, 2024 by Jeff Licciardi

This week’s ad industry news reveals how overreactive brand safety tools are neutering creative work while major platforms rake in profits from fear-driven compliance.

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AI Search Is Forcing Advertisers to Rethink Attribution – News Round Up: 11/1-11/7

November 7, 2024 by Jeff Licciardi

Publishers lost 30% traffic to AI search in 2025. Retail media and CTV converge while CMO tenure drops. What’s really happening in advertising.

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Why Ad Tech’s AI Obsession Is Masking Real Innovation Problems – News Round Up: 10/24-10/31

November 4, 2024 by Jeff Licciardi

Ad tech’s AI hype distracts from fundamental problems. This week’s news reveals the gap between platform promises and advertiser reality.

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