As seismic shifts reshape the advertising industry, marketers are reinvesting in strategies that have stood the test of time.

What shifts, exactly, are pushing advertisers back towards these old-school approaches? To start, there's the matter of signal loss, driven by factors such as Apple's App Tracking Transparency, data privacy regulations, the consumer demand for data privacy, and Google's plans to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome in 2025. And, of course, there's the rapid development of generative AI, which is both presenting new challenges and introducing fresh possibilities for marketers.