AI Has Already Decided: First-Party Data Will Define Advertising’s Agentic Era

The industry has spent years debating third-party cookies, but AI has settled the debate. AI decision engines optimized for outcomes (sales, retention, lift) require deterministic identity, clean feedback loops and governable data lineage.  First-party data isn’t just preferred; it’s structurally necessary. And the capital is already moving: IAB’s State of Data report found that 71% […] The post AI Has Already Decided: First-Party Data Will Define Advertising’s Agentic Era appeared first on AdExchanger.