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Agentic Advertising.

Essays on AdCP, UCP, MCP, A2A, and the shift from rules-based to reasoning-based advertising — protocols, agents, and what changes when buyer and seller agents negotiate impressions directly.

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  1. 01
    Feb 2026

    Stop reading about "The Agentic Future"...

    Start building it. A bi-monthly tutorial series on shipping real GTM agents in Rube, Claude, n8n.

  2. 02
    Feb 2026

    AI Agents in Ads need a "Common Language"

    Vector alignment as practical infrastructure — projectors, capability discovery, and the handshake between buyer and seller agents.

  3. 03
    Feb 2026

    The Missing Link in Ad Tech: How UCP & AdCP Are Finally Unifying the "Alphabet Soup"

    How UCP and AdCP retire ad-tech's "Tower of Babel" — Architect (intent) and Engineer (math) of the agentic stack.

  4. 04
    Dec 2025

    Part 4: Why Your Campaign Reports Are Already Obsolete

    From post-mortem PowerPoints to continuous learning systems. The 90-day learning lag is killing performance — and attribution theater has us making million-dollar calls on correlation dressed up as causation. Here's what changes when learning happens in milliseconds, not months.

  5. 05
    Nov 2025

    Part 3: The 100-Millisecond Battlefield Where AI Makes or Breaks Campaigns

    From rule-based bidding to intelligent real-time decisions. Why a luxury brand's AI refused to bid against layoff articles — and what changes when programmatic systems start to reason in 100 milliseconds instead of executing rules.

  6. 06
    Nov 2025

    Part 2: The Death of the Quarterly Campaign Planning Cycle

    How AI is transforming static strategies into living intelligence. A real CPG case found $3M in incremental revenue from a behavioral pattern no human would ever connect — and the campaign-planning era that made it possible is over.

  7. 07
    Nov 2025

    Four Article Series: The Agentic Transformation of Digital Advertising

    Part 1 of 4. The quiet revolution from tools that execute to systems that think — and the human role that survives it.

  8. 08
    Nov 2025

    AdCP: The Open Standard for Agentic Advertising

    Connect once. Operate anywhere.

  9. 09
    Sep 2025

    Embeddings: The Next Frontier in Advertising?

    Dense numerical representations as the post-ID connective tissue — lookalikes, contextual targeting, cross-media without identifiers.

  10. 10
    Apr 2025

    Blending Freytag’s Pyramid and Plutchik’s Wheel with MCP and Agentic AI

    Narrative structure × emotional resonance × autonomous agents. How story-aware ads replace impression-level metrics.

  11. 11
    Apr 2025

    MCP. A2A. OMG. The New ABCs of Advertising AI

    Model Context Protocol meets Agent-to-Agent. How AIs talk to tools and each other to ship DCO at machine speed.