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The Outcome: Our Top 5 Articles of 2025

From seismic shifts in digital discovery to the evolving interplay between data and media, 2025 delivered powerful thinking and trend-sensing across retail, marketing, and consumer behavior. Here are five standout articles of the year.
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Attain
While marketers grapple with the implications of AI search on SEO, Sam Altman (CEO of Open AI) is telling us in more ways than one that he already has an ad model in mind—and it’s feeds, not leads.

Marketecture
Google on Wednesday debuted two new autonomous AI agents designed to help marketers optimize their advertising in real time and more easily track campaign performance.

Adweek
Every brand says they want a unified view of the customer. We’ve been talking about it for 20 years. But as I recently observed through new industry research, many still don’t understand what it actually takes to achieve one – especially when it comes to identity resolution.

Martech Cube
Dentsu is for sale. WPP is expected to take what Adweek calls “drastic measures” to reshape its portfolio in the lead-up to a potential sale. Omnicom and IPG are merging. Oh, and Havas and Horizon teamed up to offer greater scale.

AdExchanger