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Creator marketing and influencer relationships are a top priority for marketers, but both are still behind other digital channels when it to scale, proper reporting and transparency. That's starting to change, though, says Jennifer Quigley-Jones, the founder of Digital Voices and VP of strategy and partnerships at PMG.

In the AI era, according to Tim Frank, the man in charge of AI monetization at Microsoft, "information is the new bid." In other words, the brands that get recommended won't necessarily be the ones with the biggest ad budgets, he says, but rather those with the most clear, complete and transparent product data.

With AI eating everyone's traffic, publishers could use a sympathetic ear. AdTech Therapy's Jana Meron and Scott Messer talk through the sell side's biggest challenges and break down what Google avoiding an ad tech breakup means for media owners.

Creator marketing is the talk of the town, but how do you prove it genuinely drives sales? Emily Steele, co-founder and CEO of creator platform Hummingbirds, breaks it down.

Agentic AI just ran a CTV campaign end-to-end through a new, agent-driven buying workflow with far less manual optimization and a lot less waste. Butler/Till's Scott Ensign explains what that means for the future of programmatic.