Media Buying Briefing: Attivo breathes new life into Hill Holliday and DNY with senior media hires

Two years after purchasing once-venerable creative shops Hill Holliday and Deutsch from Interpublic Group, Attivo, the New Zealand-based marketing services holdco, has installed new leadership in the U.S. to revive the brands and establish a stronger foothold in the market, Digiday has learned. 

The new leaders — Sasha Savic, former CEO of Mediacom, Anush Prabhu, former chief strategy officer there, and Dave Weist, Hill Holliday’s former CCO — are injecting media-side savvy and approaches in those agencies to address what they see as “misalignment” across the industry. 

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WTF is Markdown for AI agents? 

Just as traditional SEO no longer guarantees visibility in AI search engines, HTML alone isn’t enough either. 

AI systems prefer structured formats or APIs to ingest and surface content more efficiently. And “markdown” has quickly become the common language used by AI systems and agents. 

Plus, as the volume of non-human agents visiting web pages continues to increase (one in every 31 visits to a site is from a non-human agent, per Tollbit’s latest report), the inevitability of needing to cater better to these agents’ requirements rises.

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