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The 90-Day Contract: What B2B Marketing Leaders and CEOs Owe Each Other

Something ominous is happening in marketing right now, and no, it’s not AI.
AW Playmaker Agency Award: WPP Media Sports & Entertainment

As part of Advertising Week New York’s AWPlaymaker Awards series, we caught up with the Sports and Entertainment team at WPP Media to explore how creators are redefining fan engagement, why authenticity remains essential to successful brand partnerships, and how marketers can measure cultural impact beyond traditional engagement metrics.
The Localization Trap: Why Global Brands Fail When They Treat America as One Market

The bigger mistake is assuming that America is a single, culturally uniform market. It is not.

AW SHORTS – BRANDS + MARKETERS

Traditional Attribution and Promo Codes Share the Same Blind Spot

Traditional attribution and promo codes share the same blind spot.
AW Playmaker Award: EA’s Troy Smith

As part of the AWPlaymaker Awards, AW360 spoke with Troy Smith, North American Athlete Marketing Lead at EA, about the evolving role of athletes as creators.
Gen Z’s Problem With AI Marketing Isn’t What Marketers Think

Marketers are moving quickly with AI, but I’m not sure enough are asking what consumers think until after the work is already done.
Turning Inspiration Into Action: How Three Executives Put Kindle Scribe to Work After Advertising Week

As the series concludes, the Kindle Scribe’s role extends from recording the experience to supporting the review afterward. The executives’ routines give that process a concrete shape: revisit the notes, identify the next steps and keep the conversations moving.
Cutting Through The Noise of Fashion Week

Fashion Week is no longer what happens on the runway, brands inside and outside the agenda are finding ways to get involved.
DOOH’s Next Frontier: Dynamic Negotiation and the Future of Premium Inventory

Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) inventory has become increasingly sophisticated. Advertisers can now buy screens based on location, audience, time of day, context, share of voice, and rich data signals. Yet the mechanisms used to buy that inventory have remained comparatively rigid.
AW Playmaker Award: Molly Battin, CMO of the Year

For Molly Battin, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at The Home Depot and CMO of the Year at the Advertising Week Playmaker Awards, the most powerful brand partnerships go far beyond logos and celebrity endorsements.
Would Your Reddit Post Survive Its Own Subreddit?

Reddit’s had an interesting run lately and I think a lot of people have read it completely the wrong way round.
Your Brief Is the Middle of the Story, Not the Start

Which conventions are worth keeping? What distinctiveness should you lean into? Where is there room to flex, or to break with convention?
From the Conference Floor to the Boardroom: How Kindle Scribe Is Changing the Way Executives Capture Ideas

At Advertising Week New York 2026, Amazon’s Kindle Scribe offers a glimpse into how business leaders are combining the familiarity of handwritten notes with the convenience of digital technology to make the most of an increasingly demanding professional world.
There Is No Such Thing as Creative Wearout

Conventional wisdom goes something like this: you produce a new piece of creative, you put media behind it, and over time the ad progresses through a predictable lifecycle.
The Fragmentation Problem Marketers Are Still Pretending They Can Buy Their Way Out Of

CMOs and CFOs should challenge media plans on more than low-cost impressions or tidy reporting.

The 90-Day Contract: What B2B Marketing Leaders and CEOs Owe Each Other

AW Playmaker Agency Award: WPP Media Sports & Entertainment

The Localization Trap: Why Global Brands Fail When They Treat America as One Market

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AW SHORTS – BRANDS + MARKETERS

Traditional Attribution and Promo Codes Share the Same Blind Spot

AW Playmaker Award: EA’s Troy Smith

Gen Z’s Problem With AI Marketing Isn’t What Marketers Think

Turning Inspiration Into Action: How Three Executives Put Kindle Scribe to Work After Advertising Week

Cutting Through The Noise of Fashion Week

DOOH’s Next Frontier: Dynamic Negotiation and the Future of Premium Inventory

AW Playmaker Award: Molly Battin, CMO of the Year

Would Your Reddit Post Survive Its Own Subreddit?

Your Brief Is the Middle of the Story, Not the Start

From the Conference Floor to the Boardroom: How Kindle Scribe Is Changing the Way Executives Capture Ideas

There Is No Such Thing as Creative Wearout

The Fragmentation Problem Marketers Are Still Pretending They Can Buy Their Way Out Of

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