The PR Power of ‘Barbie’

The PR power behind the “Barbie” film is epic. Visibly noticeable as it turned the tide of fashion, the Barbie craze is truly a revolution!

A Brighter Future for Video Advertising Vs. Search

2024 is a year where these innovations in video will deliver the initial seed of growth that could overtake search in the next 5 years.  If your brand is looking to prepare for the future, you should be gathering insights and testing these new formats now.

The Power of Influence to Influence Power

In my years managing talent, there were a few simple principles that I learned that have been valuable to my work in the social impact space. And it becomes even more critical in the social impact space where we’re asking influencers, creators and celebrities to give their time for free.

The Future of Data Driven Marketing Decisions

Marketers are constantly seeking new ways to leverage insights to inform their strategies. The ever-evolving data driven marketing landscape is the latest frontier for marketers, presenting challenges and opportunities alike.

Why AI Needs a Branding Exercise

AI should function as a tool, not a replacement for individual thought, individual workers. Think of how the internet transformed the workplace, phasing out the inherent necessity for fax machines, printers, and more.

Industry Views from the AI Safety Summit

As AI continues to dominate and concerns over safety ramp up, we spoke to four advertising and marketing experts on what’s next for AI – is it hindering or helping innovation and how it can be incorporated into advertising, marketing and business strategies in 2024?

Advertisers Demand Accountability. When Will Ad Tech Comply?

We can solve the challenges of campaign quality, data breaches and violations of privacy through rigorous processes and certification. Yes, it’s expensive, but it’s worth the protection against the risk of a billion-dollar problem that can affect tens of millions of people worldwide. 

Black Friday Is No Longer Just a Date

Black Friday, like Christmas, isn’t only one day of the year. It’s one of the biggest yearly opportunities for brands and it’s time for advertising around the event to begin reflecting that.

AW360 Q&A with Stephanie Blake, CEO, Skylight

Advertising Week New York delegates already know how special the PENN DISTRICT venue is as it played host to the biggest Advertising Week event ever. We sat down with Stephanie Blake, CEO of Skylight, the company behind the PENN DISTRICT.

Eden Laurin, CEO and Co Founder, Nyssa

A passionate, dogged entrepreneur- I cut my teeth and launched my first retail line as Partner with James Beard winning The Violet Hour and am currently CEO of emerging women’s wellbeing brand, Nyssa Care.

Jeff Robbins, Founder, Instant Biologics

Co-founder of Instant Biologics and Revolution Landscape. Through these businesses I help to create sustainable solutions for environmental problems, improve community health, and contribute to an economy focused on making positive change.

Sara Plotkin, VP, Brand & Creative, Thinx

Sara Plotkin has a diverse work experience in brand marketing and account management. Sara worked at Thinx Inc. from 2021 to the present, initially as a Senior Director, Brand & Content, and then as the VP, Brand & Creative starting in August 2022.

Amanda Harris, Director of Growth, Fishwife

Amanda Harris has a diverse work experience in the field of growth marketing and brand management. Amanda is currently serving as the Director of Growth at Fishwife, a role they started in October 2022.

5 Stats to Know in Building an Elite Global Affiliate Program

Those looking to expand should undertake the initiative as much more than a side project; it will require extensive regional research, strategic prioritization of the partnerships and geos that will help you get traction, and an understanding of the privacy landscape to carve a piece of the growing global affiliate revenue pie.

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know

Businesses are being forced – by their customers, by their governments, by their shareholders – to invest in sustainability, to reduce emissions and inequalities.  This system change is only going in one direction, with pressure groups and punchy start-ups pointing the way that individual consumer and employment choices will follow.

Where Retail Media is Heading in 2024

Understanding how retail data can benefit strategy and define the marketing mix will be unique to each brand, but those that adopt early and build a knowledge base have the opportunity to succeed.

Digging Deeper Into Advertising’s Lost Half

To demonstrate the power of optimizing in-campaign, we studied several campaigns that underperformed and estimated the approximate amount of increase in brand lift if the campaign prioritized the best-possible optimization.

How Thought Leaders Can Stand Out in the Age of AI

Business professionals dedicate years — often decades — of their lives to becoming thought leaders. Why on earth are so many willing to throw away their credibility by allowing generative AI software to write content for them?

The Death of Freemium (Sponsored by Advertising)

It’s not the first time the ad industry has been under pressure though and disruption is often necessary to drive evolution. It remains to be seen what the next few years for ad-based freemium hold but one thing’s for certain, it won’t look the same as it does today.

5 Reasons Brands are Investing in Immersive Commerce

By investing in iCommerce, brands are interacting in a more engaging and collaborative way. This drives deeper customer engagement, which then fuels higher conversions, new revenue streams and improved ROI within this new set of behaviors for GenZ. 

Programmatic Remains ABM’s Next Frontier

There is no better time for a change like this to come along at the DSP level. With many B2B companies trying to do more with less right now, anything that adds efficiency and potentially boosts performance is welcome.

The Supermodel’s Guide to 50+ Marketing

Avoid ageist stereotypes and biases and meet 50+ consumers where they are with a holistic approach that taps into 50+ adults’ wide-ranging information needs, engaged lifestyles, and willingness to invest in themselves, and you’ll enhance your brand’s connections with this dominant demographic in business-building ways.

Kristine Yang, Founder, The Only Bean

We created The Only Bean on a mission to inspire better living through delicious plant-based foods that energizes the mind and body and leaves a small footprint on the planet.

5 Top Strategies for Maximizing Marketing ROI

The big landscape theme for marketers today is the accelerating rate of change in all aspects of reaching customers. Media, customer touchpoints, distribution channels, and the appropriate and effective messaging about your brand are all in a constant state of flux.

Michael Tennant, Founder and CEO, Curiosity Lab

Michael Tennant is an author, keynote speaker, freelance brand strategist, entrepreneur, and the creator of Actually Curious™ the empathy conversation game, Values Exercise™, and the Five Phases of Empathy™.

Marcelo Kertész, CMO, Manscaped

Marcelo holds the position of Chief Marketing Officer at Manscaped, a San Diego-based men’s beauty company, leading cross-functional teams in Marketing, Creative, Digital, Product Design, Packaging, Customer Insights, PR, and Production.

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AWAPAC 2023 Trends Report

Exclusive advertiser insights on the challenges, opportunities and future of Connected TV advertising as a performance channel.

Deb Millard, Brand President, Stripes

Deb Millard is a strategic and accomplished executive with +20 years of brand and retail leadership experience across multiple categories. Deb joined Amyris as Brand President, Stripes at the end of 2021. 

Matt Gehring, CMO, Dutch

Matt Gehring is the CMO at Dutch—the first 24/7 virtual vet service that connects pet owners across the US directly with licensed veterinarians for timely care and solutions.

Nielsen Creator Report

In the categories of fashion, lifestyle and gaming, the study found that Black creators generate 10.5x the media value of their non-Black creators. You can find the full study here.

Group Black Impact Report

This first Impact Report describes the progress we’ve made towards that mission across a range of stakeholders from the period of June 2022 to June 2023.  

Changemakers: Logitech on Reaching Relevant Audiences

Seeing young-adult audiences gravitate toward more personalized and colorful products ranging from the clothes they wear to the phone cases they carry, Logitech realized there was an opportunity to create products that connect with these consumers.

The Future of Viral Content

In an AI world saturated with artificially generated content, relatable human experiences will be one of the few things able to cut through the noise. 

Group Black: Culture in Cannes

It is no secret that traditionally, the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity has exhibited a lack of diversity. So, in 2022, Group Black set out on a mission to change that. And 2023, they returned to the festival on a mission to bring even more inclusivity to the beach than ever before. 

Melissa Orijin, Founder, Orijin Bees

Melissa is the CEO and founder of Orijin Bees, a multicultural toy company that challenges identity norms and celebrates the diversity of Black and Brown children and their communities.

All Advertising is Performance Advertising

The evolution of targeting and measurement capabilities in TV advertising has provided marketers with an opportunity to execute campaigns with greater precision and measure their true performance.

The Real Risk Is Not Trying

It feels like our industry is losing its optimism and succumbing to a postmodern form of cynicism. We are allowing our distrust in tech and other companies that have misused it to drive our vision for how it could be used creatively.

AI and Web3 – Dance Partners Towards a Customized Future

For marketers looking to capture the next frontier of creativity and effectiveness, it’s not about choosing to use AI or enter into the metaverse, it’s about dancing with these technologies and imagining new worlds where there’s no boundary on what’s possible.

Tour de France – A New Arena for Marketers?

What with the recent release of Netflix’s latest sports series ‘Tour de France Unchained’, and the conclusion of the Tour 2023 this weekend, it might be time for brands to start considering whether they’re making the most of an excellent marketing opportunity. 

Unlocking the Metaverse: A Programmatic Guide

According to a 2022 report, 87% of U.S. consumers believe the metaverse will play a significant role in the way they interact with brands and 69% of marketers stated they were looking to build more experiences in metaverse-like environments in 2023.

We Need to Talk About Trust

From police forces to politicians to TV presenters, trust in the establishment has sunk to an all-time low. Mike Foster, founder and strategic creative director at Straight Forward Design, asks how brands can step into the breach.

WTF Is a Digital Twin of a Customer?

Marketers were once able to rely on third-party cookies and other identifiers but, as these fade away and privacy regulation grows, they need to consider ways to continue delivering relevant advertising while ensuring they keep customer data safe.

The Power of Audio as a Full-Funnel Channel

With the global digital audio advertising market expected to leap beyond $10 billion in spending this year, it’s clear that advertisers are waking up to the success that digital audio formats can deliver for their businesses.

Q&A with Pierre Naggar, Director of Sales, UK at MINT

We sat down with industry veteran Pierre Naggar, Director of Sales, UK at MINT to discuss the key challenges for brands in managing digital advertising workflows, why brands should focus on campaign metrics vs audience data, and why AI is not coming for your job.

Conversations with Chris Paul

NBA Star Chris Paul sits down with HBCU students from across the country to discuss his upcoming book, Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court.

GA4: The Countdown Is On

It’s a bit late now to be considered an early adopter, but there’s still time to switch over to GA4 before Google forces everybody to.

The Rise of the Creative Technologist

By identifying problems and using the appropriate technology as a tool to solve them, there is the opportunity for brands to deliver innovative solutions that push the boundaries of what is possible.

Is Your Sonic Identity, or Lack of, Sabotaging Your Goals?

A sonic identity is the essence of your brand translated into sound. It’s the idea that sound or a set of auditory elements are essential to distinguishing your brand and building a preference for it because it has something interesting to say or add, and is worth paying attention to.

Why the Future of Work Depends on VoIP

As a more flexible, feature-rich, and cost-effective solution, cloud calling is poised to carry enterprises into the next phase of hybrid work and empower tomorrow’s businesses to perform at their best.

The Magic of Pitch Theatre

While most of us are now comfortable being back in the room, the halfway house of hybrid chemistry meetings and pitches seems here to stay.

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AWAsia 2023 Future is Female Awards 審査員の発表 / Announcing the AWAsia 2023 Future is Female Awards Judges

Advertising Week Asiaは、第1回AWAsia Future is Female Awardsの審査員を発表いたします。審査員は、多くの優秀な応募者の中から最終選考に進んだショートリストの中から、10名のファイナリストを選出します。受賞者は、6月6日に開催される「Future is Female Awards」の授賞式で発表される予定です。 今年のAdvertising Week Asia「Future is Female…

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