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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.
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How Financial Services Brands Can Better Engage Black Audiences
To bridge the gap and effectively engage different subgroups and communities, financial services firms must offer equitable opportunities and ensure that their workforce reflects the diversity of their customer base.
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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.
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Sneak Peek: Carmella Creeper Joins The Monsters Cereals As First Female Monster Mascot
And then there were six monsters! The Monsters Cereals are getting their first new mascot in 35 years with the introduction of Carmella Creeper.
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Four Key Points for Navigating TV Advertising’s Progress
TV is experiencing a rapid evolution, fuelled by European marketers’ ongoing interest and investment in advanced TV channels such as video-on-demand (VOD), connected TV (CTV), and linear addressable.
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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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Here’s Why The Programmatic Open Market Is Petering Out
For adtech companies, it’s a question of who can adjust soonest to be the pioneer who powers the shift from the open market to direct.
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Save The Date: McDonald’s Is Celebrating Grimace’s Birthday Starting June 12!
By Heather Taylor, Editor-in-Chief, PopIcon If you’re a diehard McDonaldland fan like me, chances are when the news about fast food chain McDonald’s celebrating Grimace’s upcoming birthday broke you heard this commercial jingle playing upstairs in your head: Ronald McDonald’s your magical friend! It’s Grimace’s birthday! And Ronald’s the one! To make it magic! To make it fun! These lyrics,…
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AI Opportunities in Ad Exchange and Programmatic Advertising: Not Only ChatGPT
With AI, advertisers can spend much less time creating pictures and texts for the ad, personalize ad content, and target audiences based on their behavior, interests, and demographics, resulting in higher engagement and conversions.
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What AI Will Never Be Able to Do That People Can
You can’t stop progress in terms of technology. But if you’re selling a human experience, you can’t pretend that a robot is doing that.
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How Marketers Can Use AI to Reduce the Noise and Bias of Human Decision Making
As a data driven marketer – who is also human – with human teams on the job — you have to recognize the inconsistencies and flaws in human decision making and then think, “OK, how can I build AI & data into my decision making process”?
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The Art of Personalized Video: How to Connect with Audiences on a Deeper Level
Anonymized data based on consumer opt-in intent is the future. Meanwhile, consumers continue to demand more personalization, and providing more relevant, personalized content catches better attention, ultimately driving ad performance.
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Performance Marketing Audience Targeting in the Post Signal Era
Applying test and iterate methodologies, and empowering marketers to make adjustments with pace, will become the centerpiece of the work.
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Why Frosted Flakes’ Tony the Tiger Is the Greatest Cereal Mascot Of All Time
By Heather Taylor, Editor-in-Chief, PopIcon Who is considered the greatest cereal brand mascot of all time? When PopIcon headed to the advertising community for their take, almost everyone we spoke to agreed it’s a universally GR-R-REAT character: Frosted Flakes’ Tony the Tiger. In 1952, Tony the Tiger was created by Don Tennant at ad agency Leo Burnett. Tony, along with…
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Attention, Attention… Driving Success within Live-Streaming Environments
Pegged as the ultimate metric to understand the relationship between format, placement, creative and ad effectiveness, how does the attention economy work in practice?
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Let Them Eat Cake: Three Sweet Solutions for Advertisers in a World Without Cookies
Like any dependency, the industry’s reliance on tracking cookies can be replaced by habits that are both more sustainable and beneficial.
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4 Winning Web3 Plays Top Brands Are Using to Reach Consumers
Brands that use data to create connections with consumers, and tell authentic stories, will be successful in the internet of the future.
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Doing Business in Ukraine – One Year On
With explosions visible on the horizon, I found myself and my family confined to our house in a village 15 miles north of Kyiv.
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How to Break the Boundaries of Experiential Marketing with VR
If we’re looking to move the needle forward on VR’s effectiveness, we need to start with clear objectives on what it can do to make a better experience for consumers…not just a flashier one.
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It’s Nothing Personal: The Other Kind of First-Party Data
While cookie based audiences are easy—simply select the audience you want to target in your DSP of choice—business data integration requires APIs and manipulating the bidder through different integration points.
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