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 this MadTech Sketch, Ciaran O'Kane outlines fundamental changes across the ad tech stack, amounting to the unbundling of core elements across the supply chain. The dog days of Summer are over. European ad tech emerges from its slumber, readying itself [...]

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 [...]

In our latest MadTech Sketch, Ciaran O'Kane draws out the pipes for data distribution... The recent acquisition of Lotame by Publicis raised a few eyebrows in ad tech circles. I'm not sure why, as it was a perfectly logical piece of M&A. [...]

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 [...]

Ciaran O'Kane turns his trusty pen to Scope3's new agentic advertising platform, and why it's all about signal and scaled sell-side curation... Many will be chatting about the Scope3 “pivot” after its announcement today. But I see it as an evolution, [...]

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 [...]

As a taster of our recent Deep Dive, we put together an example of some of the methodologies that can define the future of ad measurement In his latest MadTech Sketch, in association with Quantcast, Ciarán O'Kane takes a look at [...]