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Four Forces Reshaping Digital Marketing in 2026

If 2025 was a year of change in the marketing world, 2026 will be even more transformative. We can anticipate significant leaps in AI, which will extend to creative decision-making, media targeting, and influencer marketing.

AW SHORTS – BRANDS + MARKETERS

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Journey Advertising 101

Putting yourself in your customers’ shoes is critical to understanding their needs and how you can be of assistance without becoming an annoyance.

Stacy Durand, Founder/CEO Media Design Group, Los Angeles, CA

Getting Your Media Buy To Measure Up

Advertising Week spoke with Durand in depth about the future of streaming vs. linear, media buying strategies and measurement, and her company’s innovative approach to performance video and media buying. 

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Achieving Relevance in the Face of Chaos

That’s a huge amount of change and, in this context, figuring out what the future of advertising might look like and building the ability to remain relevant in it is a very pragmatic, even an existential exercise – not just a theoretical one.