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Measurement Just Got Easier to Build. What You Should Accept From Your Agency.
In September 2026, Google upgraded Meridian, its free, open-source marketing mix modeling tool, with AI-guided model-building, upper-funnel brand signals for channels like TV and out-of-home, and globally available causal geo-testing. The upgrade lowers the technical bar for building an independent measurement model outside your agency’s reporting — which means “we don’t have the resources to…
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The Promise of AI Marketing Meets the Reality of Consent
AI adoption in marketing is now close to universal, and vendors promise the same thing: read the customer, personalize at scale, cost a fraction of a media team. McKinsey finds fewer than one in ten organizations has scaled that adoption into results a P&L would notice. Twenty states now regulate consent for that data, and…








