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Here’s What Top Marketers Learned at SXSW 2025

Adweek

For many marketing professionals, it's a tentpole event on par with CES or Cannes Lions--but offering a different audience and focus. South by Southwest brings nearly half a million people to the city of Austin, Texas, each spring for its sprawling series of conferences and festivals. While CES showcases futuristic tech and serves as a.

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Why 2025 is the year for martech optimization, not expansion

Martech

2025 is not the year for bold leaps into expensive platforms but a time for strategic caution. Here’s how to make 2025 the year of smart, strategic martech decisions. Here’s how to make 2025 the year of smart, strategic martech decisions. The answer? You’re not alone. It will be necessary to do the following.

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Retail media networks continue to grow: 2025 predictions

Martech

Improving this experience, especially for non-endemic brands, will continue to be a priority for 2025. In 2025, look for AI to help automate the processes and workflows behind these experiences. Clean rooms and data collaboration Data platforms and data collaborations will be a big part of the growing RMN space in 2025.

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Key CTV Trends Driving Advertising Innovation In 2025

AdExchanger

In 2025, connected TV (CTV) will revolutionize advertising yet again, offering marketers a blend of massive reach and performance-driven results. Its power to connect broad audiences with lower-funnel impact makes it the ultimate game-changer in modern marketing.

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2025 Programmatic Advertising Trends to Know

Basis

The ability to integrate new innovations into existing strategies, while also balancing this innovation with practicality, will define success in 2025. Then, of course, Google walked back its formal cookie deprecation plans, pivoting instead to a user opt-in approach thats set to take place sometime in 2025.

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Customer experience and brand: 2025 predictions

Martech

Here are some of the ways marketers will adjust and leverage customer experience to achieve these goals in 2025. 2025 will see brands continuing to create connected experiences, but those that will succeed are entering it with a new mindset, said Britt Mills, VP of CX solutions at digital consultancy Bridgenext. The result?

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55+ Predictions for 2025 Marketing Trends

Karola Karlson

In 2025, I decided to do the annual fortune telling slightly differently… As I failed to finalise my personal INs and OUTs list in time for the NYE (I got as far as hypocrisy: OUT and coconut: IN ), Im going to make up for this oversight in my business-realm predictions. The key social media trend in 2025 will be: less is more.