Ciaran O'Kane revaluates his sketch on AI's impact on the marketing funnel, and adds audio into the mix...

Ciaran O'Kane has been sketching again. This time, he takes a look at the impact of AI and chatbots on the search landscape, and what that means for the marketing funnel... Despite a London Underground and DLR strike, we had over [...]

In his latest MadTech Sketch, Ciaran O'Kane fires up his trusted crayons to detail how custom algorithms and AI are revolutionising programmatic media buying. It’s been quite the week for media-related AI platform announcements. WPP Media launched Open Intelligence, its LLM [...]

After the latest antitrust ruling against Google, it seems like a good time to resurface Ciarán O’Kane's MadTech Sketch on how the Google ad tech business could look if it is broken up. First published July 2022 Ever since the WSJ broke [...]

In this MadTech Sketch, Experian outlines how its position has evolved as a result of its recent acquisition of Audigent. Experian doesn’t fit the SSA (Super Signal Aggregator) mould. It is not selling contextual or attention or brand safety. It sells the [...]

Retail media continues to be the hottest category in ad tech right now. A new RMN (retail media network) is coming to market almost daily, driven by endemic advertising demand.  PayPal, for instance, announced its plans recently to launch an [...]

Curation; everyone in ad tech is talking about it, but what does it actually mean for the industry? In this Sketch, Ciaran O’Kane looks at the mechanics of curation. Curation can be split into two parts - demand generation and activation, [...]

In ExchangeWire's latest MadTech Sketch, following the news that Revolut is planning to monetise its transactional data through advertising, Ciarán O’Kane sheds light on their likely ad model, and how it's less ad net, more mini walled garden. Another new ad [...]

In his latest MadTech Sketch, Ciaran O'Kane turns his attention to curation - an ad tech model that is gaining momentum and turning heads across the industry. Curation is one of ad tech's hottest topics. It has been around for some [...]

In this week’s MadTech Sketch, Ciaran O'Kane looks at how two heavyweights in the world of verification have been shifting focus towards activation and attention. DoubleVerify (DV) recently agreed to buy Scibids for $125m. Why did an ad verification company want [...]