Interviews, insight & analysis on digital media & marketing

AI

“We are building advertising infrastructure for live search agents”: Blankspace co-founder Alexander Taylor on monetising the LLM ecosystem

As AI live search agents reshape how consumers discover products and brands, traditional publishers face a sharp decline in organic web traffic. While some digital publishers look to cloud licensing or pay-per-crawl models to recoup losses, Blankspace is offering an alternative: monetising AI traffic through native, agent-targeted advertising infrastructure.

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Brands

How loveholidays is rewriting the performance marketing playbook

New Digital Age sat down with Jonathan Grail, VP Performance Marketing at loveholidays, to discuss transitioning from traditional retail apparel to travel tech, why AI is about building systems rather than using tools, and why the ultimate competitive advantage in marketing comes down to human space for critical thinking.

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AI

When AI becomes the audience, brand safety gets complicated

Hakim Charles, Founder of Vellum Intelligence and former public policy and regulatory affairs leader at Meta and X, joined Rob Rasko, President, Brand Safety Summit in an interview to close this year’s show to discuss advertising in the age of AI, the implications for brand safety and why brands may soon need to appeal to machines as well as humans.

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AI

Ai Marketing Pioneers: From moving beyond legacy metrics to unlock real-time relevance

New Digital Age sat down with Thomas Ives, Founder of RAAS LAB, and Christian McAlinden, Programmatic Director at dentsu. Their conversation tackled the industry’s deep-seated reliance on legacy metrics, why traditional DSPs fall short on context, and how an innovative programmatic campaign for home improvement giant B&Q delivered 813,000 unique creative variants tailored to real-time consumer intent.

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