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One Agency’s Path to Outstanding Video Creative

Amid a fast-changing media landscape — where viewers determine what, how, and when they want to watch content — brands have an opportunity to move quickly to reach people where they are.

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Keeping Up With Walled Garden API Changes Requires Automation

Besides the client-side benefits inherent with constant API parity, your team—no matter what its size—can use its mental and physical bandwidth on business drivers, customer relations, and other high-value, high-satisfaction efforts.

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Gen Z: A Coveted Audience But Where Are They?

Marketers need to change their way of thinking, shifting from a mindset of where is Gen Z to a mindset that reflects understanding the generation and the content they want to see.

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Anatomy of a Rebrand – a Q&A with Kathy Neumann, CMO of Rent

Neumann is the recipient of 12 industry-associated awards including the 2019 OnCon Icon Top 50 Marketer Award as well as the 2015 AMA Atlanta Marketer of the Year Award for Integrated Marketing Campaign, Interactive Marketing & Social Media Campaign.

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Customization in Your Pocket – Restaurant Apps Done Right

Restaurant apps coupled with customization, which hopefully your business can learn to curate and find a sweet spot for success, translate into increased customer engagement and ultimately, enhanced sales. What better way to weather the perfect storm?!

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How We Can Achieve Brand Safety In Podcasting

It’s imperative as an industry that we provide brands with a guarantee for brand safety. Supplying the right tools and intelligent technology solutions can enable the industry to grow in a way that is also safe for advertisers.

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The New(Ish) World of Retail Loyalty

Retailers are experiencing a realisation post-pandemic. While stores were closed, those with loyalty programmes were able to keep in touch with customers.

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Which Brand Mascot is Officially a Twitch Star?

It’s gr-r-reat news in the gaming world! Tony the Tiger, the beloved brand mascot from Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes, is now the first-ever brand mascot to work with video live streaming service Twitch.

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The Era of Cultural Transparency in Advertising

This session explores how to overcome the challenge of connecting with audiences across different geographies and provides actionable insights that you can implement in your visual strategy.

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AWAPAC 2022 Trends Report

We are proud to present this year’s Advertising Week APAC 2022 Trends Report, provided with Clear Hayes.

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Destination Branding Comes of Age

Whilst we are seeing a significant shift in travel, tourism and long-term moves, creating a clear and defined destination brand can hold significant power for a location.

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How to Link Attention to Brand Performance

By ensuring these five areas are working together in harmony, marketers and advertisers can ensure that they are able to harness the power of attention within their campaigns.

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PopIcon Design Evolution: Hootsuite’s Owly

If you have ever used the social media scheduling software Hootsuite, you might recall the presence of a cheeky owl there to greet you. This is Owly, the Hootsuite brand mascot.

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Rethinking the Framework of Brand Response to Tragedies

When a brand does decide to engage, having the right internal and external team is essential to figuring out what a brand’s values are, what causes are important to them, and how they speak about those causes when the time comes.

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When the M&A Deal Falters

What’s more detrimental than a public break up of a relationship or deal, is witnessing a brand that bends in all directions to get the deal done, at the cost of losing sight of what it stands for.

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Navigating Community Management in the Metaverse

As the Metaverse becomes a more popular place for consumers to gather, issues surrounding the behavior of some and how to enforce standards will become further pronounced, and as much in the mirror-world, tough to predict.

We Need To Talk About Dialogue Marketing

Businesses – with the help of experts – can use technical tricks and proxies that help to make comparisons, develop scenarios, or use test & learn approaches.

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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.

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The Future May Be Robots, and That Might Be What News Media Needs

It’s time to peer beyond the deprecation of cookies and find out what tech’s really going to look like in a few years – and what this means for the free press we know and love. Outbrain’s Masahiro (Max) Ueno, managing director JAPAC, takes a look into the crystal ball.

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Think Targeted Advertising Is Over? Think Again

If advertisers can look beyond the chaos of the current moment to see the opportunity that it presents, they will find new spaces to innovate, grow, and thrive even in the challenging conditions that lie ahead.

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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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Employees Are The New Customers

It turns out that what’s good for employees is also good for companies, and it’s time to recognize your employee experience as a high-impact investment in your brand.

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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.

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What are Brand Mascots Tweeting About in Summer 2022?

Brand mascots are some of advertising’s hardest working employees, after all, and they deserve a little break. Let’s see what they’re up to in during summer 2022 as observed through their tweets on Twitter.

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The Unexpected Brands Getting Creative on TikTok

We wanted to explore the challenges facing brands today, and understand how smart marketers are overcoming them. So we got together some of the best and brightest minds in the business at Advertising Week Europe to talk through the big issues.

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Stop Wasting Money on Organic Visitors

​​Google decided long ago that brands would have to spend money to defend their most precious assets from their competitors: their brand names.

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How to Get Unstuck in the Era of the Metaverse, Crypto and NFTs

The challenge for marketers is to shift out of sharing and showboating ‘what if’ mode and find smart hacks to get real quickly, to determine what’s useful and what’s not for their brand and business – and get the most out of that process.

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AML Joins Selbey Anderson

AML is the latest agency to join the new, fast-growth Selbey Anderson marketing services group. Shoreditch-based specialist AML brings ‘simple ideas for a complicated world’ to the SA line up. 

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What Marketers Need to Know about the Metaverse

Claritas data clearly shows that the metaverse is not just for young gamers – enthusiasts include millions of older professionals, some with median household incomes as high as $232,777.

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What Can Brands Learn About ‘Experience’ From Glastonbury

Even if Glastonbury isn’t appropriate for you, wherever your brand is presented with an opportunity to engage in person with customers, these examples highlight how you can present yourself as helpful and credible to make a connection.

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Advertising Week Acquired by Emerald Holdings

Advertising Week today announced that it has been acquired by Emerald Holding, Inc., furthering our reach in delivering the most connected, best-in-class experiences and fueling growth opportunities.   We are incredibly excited to…

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AWEurope 2022 Trend Report

This year’s Advertising Week Europe focused on celebrating London as the Creative Capital while cultivating an environment for thought-provoking discussions, generating new ideas and collaborating with the best of the best.

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2 Become 1: The Art of the Perfect Merger

High profile mergers aren’t a rare occurrence in the business world – just see Disney’s $4bn acquisition of Marvel in 2009 or Verizon’s $130bn takeover of Vodafone.

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Advertising Week New York: New Dates and Venue!

Advertising Week New York 2022 Celebrating the Confluence of Culture, Commerce & Creativity Advertising Week New York has a new home in the historic Lower East Side of Manhattan: The Market Line,…

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Netflix and Ads Are a Win, Win

The reality is that Netflix will likely attract media spend that would have otherwise been destined for other AVOD services, cable, and broadcast.

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Free to Be Queer All Year… Not Just During Pride

Supporting employees and cultivating compassion for LGBTQIA+ employees beyond June By Paul LaFleur, Design Director, Hook The cosmos knew well before I did that being gay was written in the stars. Having…

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Driving Business Through Purpose In Retail

While retail has had its share of challenges in the past two years, the pandemic has also yielded the chance for a long-overdue great retail reset that may help move many retailers into a more stable – and profitable – position.

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The Business Of the Future Must Have Soul

The pair will discuss how a business environment of resilience, ambition and agility is only possible with a culture of psychological safety and unity.

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The Power Of “How Are You”

The question ‘How are you?’ has the power to be so much more than a pleasantry if used correctly.

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Food for Thought with GT Dave

“Avoid falling into the trap of looking and sounding like everyone else.” – GT Dave, Founder and CEO at GT’s Living Foods. Dave shares advice for brands and how Amazon Ads can help your business stand out. 

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Meet “The Real Mad Men of Chicago”

In the new season of Chicago Stories, “The Real Mad Men of Chicago” looks back at the golden age of advertising in Chicago and the hardworking group of Midwesterners that brought iconic campaigns and brand mascots to life.

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Food for Thought with Prexa Graves

Prexa Graves, Senior Director of Marketing, Nestle USA works to connect with consumers by engaging audiences at every touchpoint. Learn how Amazon Ads can help you navigate an ecosystem of fragmented channels.

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The Conversation: Twitter Trends 2022

We’re diving deep into what’s now, what’s next, and what we’ve got our eyes on in the future. Download the full 2022 Twitter Trends Report to keep your marketing ahead of what’s ahead.

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DoubleVerify Global Insights Report 2022

DoubleVerify’s 2022 Global Insights Report examines media quality and performance trends from more than a trillion ads delivered across 2,100+ brands in 80 markets.

Audio Marketing Learning Path

This learning path is designed to help you learn directly from the people currently working in the AI and automation industry.

Strategic Storytelling With .dash

Watch Danielle Dardashti, Founder of .dash Branded Content giving an AWLearn Masterclass on reaching business goals through the science, art and craft of strategic storytelling.

The Phoenix Economy With Axios

Felix Salmon talks about how the business landscape has changed for good and why embracing a new, unpredictable and often volatile world can be good for business.

Brand x Community With Brandon B

Brandon B, the UK’s biggest viral content creator, shares his advice on building relationships between brands and creator communities and how it can lead to business growth…when done right!

AI For Marketers With Google

Google’s Managing Director for the UK and Ireland, Debbie Weinstein, talks AI for marketers including top tips on harnessing the power of AI in your marketing activity today.

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Video Solutions for Marketers

To connect with consumers in a meaningful way, marketers must ensure their branded message is presented in fully on-screen formats to attract attention and solicit engagement.

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How Can Your Digital Advertising Succeed Without Cookies?

One thing is certain: personalized advertising already provides limited knowledge of users’ interests and will soon disappear. Contextual and semantic targeting alone won’t be enough to thoroughly understand online users.

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The Changing Priorities of Women

The rise of staunch individualism combined with a newfound power and freedom to say “no” means brands and businesses need to pay close attention to the wants, needs and desires of women or risk being shut out of life in the new normal.

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The Sports Media Evolution

Sports media 2.0 is very much a living and breathing concept that will continue to converge and evolve.

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Food for Thought with John Denny

Meet John Denny, VP of Ecommerce and Digital Marketing at CAVU Ventures. Watch as he talks about the opportunities and challenges in the CPG and Grocery space, and how Amazon Ads can help grow your business. 

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Designing an Authentic Emotional Connection

For brands, emotions present an important opportunity to engage the audience, and creating an emotional connection is vital to attracting both customers and employees.

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Retail Can Not Only Survive, It Can Thrive

The Role of Digitalisation and the Age of Hyper-Personalisation in Attracting Brick-and-Mortar Consumers  By Alia Gogi, President Asia, Sephora From Beijing to Bangkok, the combination of a growing middle class — and…

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Brand Safety is Human Safety

Brand safety in practice feels anything but personal — an endless problem with layers upon layers of confusion, oversimplifications, and reactive responses.

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How Ads Can Pay in Play-to-Earn Games

As the play-to-earn market continues to thrive, the inventory opportunities for marketers will continue to grow; those most ready to seize them could reap huge rewards.

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Introducing #TwitterPrism

Change is happening. A broad spectrum of brands are working diligently to meet the demands of a rapidly-evolving market by connecting with diverse communities of customers and fans.

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Advertising and Streaming OTT in Events

With a significant number of people using mobile devices and tablets, we’re starting to witness an acceleration in innovations and increased popularity of online streaming.

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How Linear TV Attribution Could Finally Flourish

When a TV buyer can capture ad exposure over multiple weeks or months, marketers will get a more detailed and reliable understanding of frequency, timeliness and what actually drove an outcome.

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Reflections on SXSW 2022, Serendipity, and Resilience

A global pandemic – the Great Accelerator – has kicked off a period of exponential change that’s only just begun. Now is the time to be bold, step forward and fight to be a part of the world that is still being re-built.

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Sustainability Is Not a Cost, It’s an Opportunity

By Martin Johnston, Founder and Managing Director at Earth Strategies The natural world is a masterful blueprint for balance, with everything in alignment. This is as true for the solar system as…

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Personalized Advertising Is Under Attack – Web3 May Be the Solution

Recently, consumer data collection by brands and advertisers has risen exponentially to deliver personalized experiences also personalized advertising. While beneficial to advertisers, this has been crucial to publishers by providing a revenue stream as a way of subsidizing non-paying visitors.

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Brands Navigating the Ukraine Crisis

There are many ways to approach a brand’s stance on Ukraine; companies need to make an informed and deliberate decision and to support it.

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2022: The Golden Age of Social Commerce

While it’s tempting to declare that social commerce is the future, the truth is, social commerce is trending now, growing at a rapid rate that requires brands to not just plan for its prevalence but to dive in today.

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Gen Z vs Baby Boomers: Follow the Money

By focusing on aligning monetization models with the needs and habits of this influential age group, publishers can improve their revenue and strengthen their audience ties. 

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Why You Need an Ideate to Automate Pipeline

Rather than narrowing down social strategies to match creative production capacity, then, we need ways of reducing the workload of taking campaigns out in a truly omnichannel way.

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What the Metaverse Means for Brands and Branding

The metaverse isn’t fully here yet, giving marketers ample time to thoroughly vet their branding strategy testing new approaches, failing spectacularly, and adapting to perfect their technique.

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CTV: What’s All the Fuss About?

While historically, CTV has been viewed as supplementary to linear TV buying, we’re moving into a world where it’s central to a TV buying strategy.

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OTC: The Last Frontier for Design Distruption?

The world of OTC is awash with oval logos, bland brands, and garish colours. And in a category where everything looks the same, consumers can get tired of looking at it. To create intangible worth, over-the-counter products must disrupt the category and wear their values

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Women In Business

This episode of The Marketing Insider is dedicated to women in business and features Jamie Blazevich of Buckeye Broadband.

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What Marketing Can Learn from Engineering

Someone somewhere in your personal or business network is an engineer.  Have a chat with them about what they’re working on. Compare notes on how they get stuff done.  Ask them what they think the metaverse will be for. 

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Why AI Helps Maximize Product Lifecycle Marketing

To grow a product-oriented business in 2022 requires an investment in product lifecycle marketing, bolstered by real-time insights from the millions of customer conversations occurring online.

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The 4 Rules of Successful B2B Marketing

By Karl Kangur, CEO, Result Compass Marketing in the world of B2B needs to take into account certain considerations that don’t apply to customer-faced marketing. For starters, you need to understand how the…

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3 Stages of Transitioning for a Cookieless Future

There are still some unknowns on the horizon when it comes to how a fully cookieless digital landscape will operate in practice, but that doesn’t mean brands and agencies are directionless.

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Data-Driven Creative Strategies in a Cookieless Future

Harnessing first-party data, and ensuring it’s frequently audited will offer a trustworthy foundation to build on. Marketers who start now will have the benefits of valuable insights into their customers’ needs and preferences.

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Doctors are Men and Nurses are Women

Survey findings prompted CPB London to create a stark poster campaign, ‘Imagine’, to mark International Women’s Day on March 8th.

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The Pitfalls of “Assumption-Based” Marketing

The customer relationship is already valuable to the brand, and a thoughtfully-managed brand can provide immense value to the engaged consumer by way of continuing education, special offers and things like loyalty programs.

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Attention is the New Metric

By Caroline Hugonenc, Global VP Insights & Research, Teads There has been a long understanding that current methods to measure the effectiveness of digital marketing aren’t up to the task. For more…

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NFTs & Grandma Pearl

I’d like to thank my Grandma Pearl for inspiring me to dig in and learn what I can about web3 from NFTs to crypto.

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Analyzing the Big Game Ad Matchups

The action on the field during the big game between the L.A. Rams and Cincinnati Bengals was matched only by the advertising contests that played out during the commercial breaks.

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The Coinbase QR Ad Doesn’t… Add Up

Talk to any mobile app marketer who has run a launch plan and you’ll hear stories of one-day surges and topping the App Store charts, only to be left with the disappointing reality that such a surge of users is rarely—if ever—sustainable. That appears to be the case for Coinbase, as well.

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How Brands Win With NFTs and Web3

NFTs are still in such an early phase that no one brand or marketing team is doing it perfectly just yet, but that’s not stopping the deluge of brands jumping in.

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The Future of Ad Effectiveness in a Post-Nielsen World

Emerging Social Commerce Channels Requires Innovative Measurement Tools By Jeff Bander, Head of U.S., Eye Square For nearly seven decades, the concept of measuring advertising effectiveness has been synonymous with a single…

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2022: The Year of the Great Reset

The Great Reset will be remembered not by its initial calling card of ‘the great resignation’ but by the long-term shift in leaders prioritising learning and sparking the infinite power of the great retention.

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It’s Time to Be More David

Everyone bets on Goliath, it’s the sensible thing to do after all. But think about this. David has technology at his disposal and knows how to use it.

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How Adland Can Defund the Business Model of Disinformation

Tackling disinformation, and disrupting the incentives that create it, is a moral, reputational, and commercial consideration. It also feeds into a much broader narrative about responsibility within our online ecosystem.

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How to Harness the Power of Sport in Marketing Year-Round

There is a unique opportunity for marketers to connect with their customers and drive greater engagement this Winter, as sport is a topic that resonates with so many – whether you’re watching, participating, or attending events.

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Welcome to the Era of Efficient Creative

Decisions based on insight and understanding of consumers the brand wants to connect with – consistently asking, “Will this execution work for them?” – reduces subjectivity and ultimately builds efficiency into the creative process.

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What NFTs Mean For the Global Ad Industry

Across the metaverse, spaces and communities are often fiercely sceptical of advertisers. Brands need to adapt to their advertising and communications strategies to operate in meaningful ways in virtual worlds.

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Commerce, Content and the Creator Economy: What’s New in 2022 for Influencer Marketing?

In 2022, a larger number of marketers will adopt and refine their influencer marketing strategies as new capabilities allow them to realise their full potential. From social commerce to advanced measurement and distribution, emerging trends are deepening the value of influencer marketing for brands looking to drive quantifiable business outcomes.

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TikTok Marketing Campaign Tips that Target Gen Z

TikTok is the social media platform of the moment. With over 2 billion downloads and 850 million active monthly users, TikTok is home to passionate followers who enjoy trends and content creation.

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The Digital Transformation in Local-Market Advertising

While it may seem at first glance that the advantages of advanced marketing technology reside out of reach for smaller, less sophisticated advertisers, the fact is that the greatest benefits of modern marketing technology are most readily beneficial to the most modest businesses.

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The Data Divide of a First-Party Future

Now is the time for businesses to go the extra mile to show consumers that they are invested in creating reciprocal value, something that not many audiences are convinced of.

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Iterate to Liberate Your Creative

Everyone wants to run optimal advertising campaigns, but when it comes to honing performance, marketers can often question if they are using their content appropriately and efficiently.

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A Reality Check for the Post-Cookie World

Ultimately, replacing third-party cookies is about the industry working together to help brands connect with people in a responsible and privacy-compliant way.

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The Era of Broad Target Segmentation Is Over

As the nation continues to diversify, brands must broaden their ideas of a target audience. They must move away from defining their consumers in traditional, broad segments like Gen Z or Gen X, and understand the diverse range of individual needs.

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The Marketer’s Dilemma: Redefining Gen Z

Gen Z could fuel growth, but they could also limit it. The actual problem, however, is not with Gen Z, it’s with the hard and fast definitions we use to label them.

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Lessons from the Unicorns of New York City

At Advertising Week New York, during the panel “Unicorns of New York City,” Pat Kiernan, award-winning anchor at Spectrum News NY1 led a discussion with business leaders from two of the most innovative businesses, built right there in New York, to tell their stories. 

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Brand Language: Two Things to Try in 2022

Before you finish your list of New Year’s resolutions, add a couple about brand language. Write in a way that’s simple and inclusive – and rise to the challenges of 2022. 

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History Lesson: 40 Years of TaylorMade Innovation

TaylorMade and Zambezi, with the help of three of the top ten players in the world: Collin Morikawa, Dustin Johnson, and Rory McIlroy, take viewers on a VFX-guided tour of the last 40 years of TaylorMade innovation.

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Third-Party Cookies and The State of Digital Advertising

Both advertisers and publishers are making efforts to harness first-party data and develop new solutions as well as leverage alternative user targeting methods to help restore trust among sceptical digital consumers. While this intent is commendable, the ecosystem has a long way to go to develop a credible solution for the loss of third-party cookies and MAIDs.

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How Media Preferences Are Changing

Each media channel faces individual challenges, in addition to the re-appearance of out-of-home activities. But some principles can be applied across the board to retain or win back customers.

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The Misunderstood Role of Ads.txt in the Transparency Puzzle

The time has come for publishers to hold themselves accountable and play their part in bringing transparency to the industry. It starts by understanding that ads.txt is a great tool that should be utilized to its fullest extent.

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Taking a Holistic Approach to Reaching Fragmented TV Audiences

Those who participate in a balanced collaborative ecosystem will be able to grow addressability across video and TV environments, create new and high-value first-party audiences, and overcome historic silos between linear, digital video, and CTV to measure and value holistically and at pace with modern viewing habits for the first time.

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Inside Google’s Core Web Vitals

How usable is your website? That’s a question everyone should be asking of themselves and their web presence on a regular basis. Fortunately, the answer is easier to obtain than ever before, thanks to Google’s Core Web Vitals. Clickio’s CEO, Alexander Azarov explains.

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2022 SEO Trends and Shifts from 2021

The overarching SEO themes covered here are expected to continue to be important in 2022, and as marketers and SEO’s we will continue to adapt and evolve to provide the highest benefit possible from SEO.

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From CRM to CEM: How and Why to Take the Leap

While it’s tempting to look at sales as the final story, customer engagement means playing the long game—investing in LTV, the lifetime purchasing value of a relationship.

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Social Commerce Saved Our A$$

With around 3.9 billion global active users on social media, brands have to be on all platforms to make it big and reach half of the world’s population – what a gold mine to tap into!

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WTF Happened to Mobile Advertising in 2021?

With mobile advertisers still grappling with the post-IDFA world, more iOS developments expected and Android changes on the (near) horizon, 2022 will be turbulent too.

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The Year of the E-commerce Accelerator

Brand aggregators and accelerators are not really competitors but different approaches to the same goal: sustained growth for brands. And with all the aggregation that has already occurred in the past few years, perhaps acceleration will be the mandate for 2022 and beyond.

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How Accessible Art Readied Consumers for AI-Driven Brands

Tech-driven experiences provide a cool brand immersion and a low barrier to entry for the use of AI. Impactful, tangible instances of tech used for good, while brands getting involved capture greater share of attention.

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Why The U.S. Urgently Needs Media Compliance Auditing

Navigating the media world has become increasingly difficult for advertisers as there continues to be an ever-growing number of agency, or agency-related parties and external supplier influences involved in the delivery of campaigns.

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TikTok – it’s Christmas O’Clock!

Campaigns in the omnichannel environment might be better thought of, not as branches on a tree, but as snowflakes: a vast range of unique moments with shared characteristics.

Climbing the Digital Experience Maturity Pyramid

Ultimately, consistency and authenticity are what will set brands apart. All experiences should reflect the brand’s values and aesthetics. And interactions should feel the same regardless of the device a customer is using.

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How to Succeed in the Evolving World of Digital Video

Video in DOOH can drive brand awareness and even performance that isn’t possible elsewhere, precisely by virtue of existing someplace meaningful in the physical world. Here are some factors to consider, however, for advertisers that want to get the most out of it.

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Advertising’s Contextual Future

By replacing third-party data with first-party counterparts, advertisers are presented with tools that are more potent than ever. From CTRs to conversions and even difficult metrics like retention and attention, contextual ads have seen advertising KPIs soar across the board.

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Activate Your Brand Purpose to Inspire Consumer Action

If you want to generate deeper positive consumer sentiment (and committed action) year-round, make a sustained investment to activate your brand strength around shared values with your consumers. You’ll see it delivers meaningful business value, while impacting the lives of your consumers and communities.

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The Future is Female Awards Return for AWEurope 2022!

Advertising Week Europe, happening 16-19 May 2022 at Picturehouse Central, is searching for outstanding female leaders to apply for our annual Future is Female Awards. We have drawn together some of the…

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The Hidden Work Behind Great In-Store Tech

In this environment of high expectations, new technology trends are also changing the customer experience in stores. New hybrid sales fulfillment options like buy-online, pick-up-in-store (BOPIS) and curbside pickup are gaining popularity.

6 Steps to Content Strategy Success

With a solid content strategy in place, and ongoing optimization, you’ll be able to iterate strategic initiatives throughout the rest of your marketing touchpoints.

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Level Up Your Loyalty: Gamify to Boost Engagement

By Todd Hedberg, The Lacek Group Every parent knows a contest or game can transform many situations by redirecting kids’ unruly energy. Who can sit still the longest? Counting backward from 100.…

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A Conversation with Nestlé on the ROI of Inclusivity

The emergence of Hispanics into the American mainstream is the biggest business growth opportunity of our time, and the effectiveness of engaging this group in-culture and in-language has never been more important.  

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Advertising Week New York 2021 Trend Report

This report brings key trends from AWNewYork to life, examining why they are so important, and discussing the potential impact they will have on our industry, our clients, and our target audiences.

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Data Collaboration is a Competitive Necessity

While some organizations have deep data on their individual customers, few have the breadth to compete effectively without collaboration. Leveraging your best data along with another company’s best data has become a competitive necessity, giving you a breadth and depth of insight you may lack.

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Insights on How Major Retailers Prepared for Black Friday

In the week leading up to Thanksgiving and Black Friday, BrandTotal analyzed paid social media ad campaigns for 28 top retailers, including Walmart, Target, Costco, Macy’s, Best Buy, Home Depot, Nike, Nordstrom, and TJ Maxx — here are the findings.

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The Challenges Facing Influencer Marketing Regulations

Although regulations for influencer marketing are still being defined, the industry would welcome more robust guidelines and is taking steps toward implementing this for the benefit of brands, audiences, and content creators.