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It can feel like a big win when a favorite regional or startup brand gets picked up by a national chain like Walmart or Target. But it’s important to point out that the retailer isn’t making a bet on that brand. The brand is placing a bet that it’ll be able to hack it on […]
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Quick: What’s the most basic purpose of advertising? Is it to generate specific outcomes? Or is it to create the awareness and affinity that lead to lifetime value and loyalty? The answer is “all of the above.” Still, despite years of talk about “holistic” marketing, too often, advertising professionals view branding and performance efforts as […]
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That sound you hear? Alarm bells ringing in Google’s offices. Plus, women’s sports has been an unexpected accelerant for ad sales.
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The recovery trend of publishers’ businesses seems to be holding as 2024 progresses.
Of the five public media companies included in this earnings analysis, four reported increases in digital advertising revenue year over year, with Dow Jones, The New York Times and Gannett even seeing increases over the same quarter in 2022.
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Political advertising spend has kicked into a higher gear in recent weeks in the U.S.
CTV is becoming an increasingly popular method of reaching swing voters, especially in the local and statewide elections that collectively account for the lion’s share of U.S. political ad spend, publishers, ad tech vendors and media buyers told Digiday.
Experts say that spend is expected to only increase as the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump, and his Democrat counterpart — presumed to be Vice President Kamala Harris — face off in November.
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Seventy-two hours ago, no one really knew what Causeway Solutions was.
Now, it’s a hot topic in advertising circles.
The spark? As is the custom these days, it came from a post by X’s official data account (@XData).
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A recent study that aims to shed light on AI and its application in marketing and agency work reveals that the more you know about AI, the less you’re convinced it’s going to replace human beings.
That’s one of the findings of a joint study between Omnicom Media Group agency PHD Worldwide and WARC, which surveyed 700 marketing and agency executives (in 10 different countries, including the U.S., U.K., Australia, China, Brazil, and others between May and June of this year) to better understand their plans for AI’s incorporation into their work between now and the end of the decade.
The study fits into a broader initiative by the media agency to become a hub of learning and experimentation around generative AI that’s accessible to all Omnicom clients (not just PHD or OMG) as well as the general public.
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Every advertiser wants performance, but not every advertiser defines it the same way. “You can’t really define performance monolithically,” Fred Leach, Meta’s VP of product management, told AdExchanger. On Wednesday, Meta announced that it’s working on a series of AI-powered optimization updates to its ads system so advertisers can customize business objectives and measure incrementality. […]
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