For the past decade, the advertising industry has worshipped at the altar of data. Every campaign, every media buy, every creative decision is justified through an avalanche of metrics -- CPMs, GRPs, ROAS, impressions, attribution models, and programmatic efficiencies. Data has become the currency of decision-making, a security blanket for executives who want every move to be quantifiable.

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