ARF: industry may start marketing to bots, not just blocking them

MediaPost’s Joe Mandese reports that at ARF’s CIMM summit, outgoing ARF chief Scott McDonald said the industry may shift from excluding bot traffic to targeting AI agents as proxies for real consumers.

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