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3 Tactics Legacy Media Brands Are Using to Stay Relevant

Adweek

Some say traditional media is dying, but legacy brands are finding ways to innovate and endure in an ever-shifting landscape. Leaders from Time, Essence, and Eater convened at ADWEEK's Mediaweek in New York on Tuesday (Oct. 30) to share the strategies that are helping them grow, retain relevance, and reach new audiences. From reinventing print.

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Beyond the funnel: A new approach to content marketing

Martech

Far too many content marketing programs fail to connect the brand to customer problems before the customer starts looking for a solution. At this crucial and overlooked point in the customer journey, most brands provide content about the product and the industry, when they should address specific customer pain points. There’s “a gap that exists in almost every program … when it comes to how to position your brand to put it into the consideration set,” said Liam Moroney at The MarTech Conference

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Gary Vaynerchuk Thinks Brands Are Missing Out on Creative Built for Social Media

Adweek

According to Gary Vaynerchuk, marketers should spend more time developing creative for social media. At ADWEEK's Mediaweek event, Vaynerchuk, a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the agency VaynerMedia, spoke with Jenny Rooney, Adweek's chief brand and community officer. Vaynerchuk said that creative content plays a crucial role in driving reach and providing consumer insights.

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Get more out of your webinars and virtual events with 24/7 engagement by Edna Chavira

Martech

Virtual events and webinars don’t stop when the live stream ends! That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Imagine if your virtual events could continue driving engagement, generating leads, and boosting your ROI for months to come. It’s possible with the right on-demand strategy. Join webinar and on-demand experts from Goldcast for Get More Out of Your Webinars: Strategies for 24/7 Engagement.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Week of October 21 Cable News Ratings: Election Day’s Approach Reels in More Viewers

Adweek

This is TVNewser's basic cable network ranker and cable news report for the week of October 21, 2024. With the presidential election two weeks away, the big three cable news networks focused on politics and were rewarded with high viewership. CNN, Fox News and MSNBC were all up in both measured categories across both dayparts.

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Microsoft Accuses Google; AI Search Engine by Meta On The Cards; IAB Europe’s Retail Media Certification Programme Begins Beta Phase 

Exchange Wire

News in brief: Microsoft Accuses Google; AI Search Engine by Meta On The Cards; IAB Europe’s Retail Media Certification Programme Begins Beta Phase Microsoft Accuses Google In the latest of battles among big tech, Microsoft has accused Google of running ‘shadow campaigns’ [.] The post Microsoft Accuses Google; AI Search Engine by Meta On The Cards; IAB Europe’s Retail Media Certification Programme Begins Beta Phase appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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The run-on sentence

Seth Godin

Periods were an extraordinary invention. It took thousands of years of writing before we settled on this simple convention. The most direct way to improve your writing is to make your sentences shorter. I was reading a magazine article yesterday and was rapidly losing interest. The topic appealed to me, but I couldn’t keep reading. Then I noticed that halfway through the first column, I was still on the same sentence.

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Ogilvy’s Clients Just Received a Curious Package: A Golden Ticket to Ogilvyland

Adweek

Five major Ogilvy clients received golden tickets yesterday morning--but they won't get them into Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. Instead, the tickets promise entry into Ogilvyland: a satirical fossil fuel funfair dreamed up by activists at the climate campaign group Serious People.

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Google Sheds No Tears At Its ‘Funeral’ For Blogs; Rage Against The Recommendation Machine

AdExchanger

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Whose Funeral? Google Search upended online traffic earlier this year with a core update as a follow-up to its “helpful content update” last September. The long and short of it is this: Many niche and independent publishers saw a 70% to 90% decline […] The post Google Sheds No Tears At Its ‘Funeral’ For Blogs; Rage Against The Recommendation Machine appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Cable Was a Locked Room. Streaming Offers Too Much Freedom

Adweek

PRINT HED: Signal Turns to Noise PRINT DEK: The streaming wars have a loser: consumers PULLQUOTE IF NEEDED: "Now that the streaming industry is starting to mature, it's funny how we are circling back a little bit to the original model." Brandon Katz, Parrot Analytics During the 76th Emmy Awards last month, actress Jean Smart.

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Retail media advertising: How e-commerce is becoming AdTech’s next frontier

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Five lessons from week one of This is Strategy

Seth Godin

Once you decide to write a book about strategy , it raises the bar for having a strategy for the launch. People generally focus far too much on the launch of a project. Rocketships need a perfect launch, because just about everything after the launch is simply ballistic. But most of us don’t work at Cape Canaveral. The world of books is a metaphor for a lot of industries, where old methods aren’t working well but persist in sticking around.

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The 2024 Election Battle Has Moved to Streaming, but the Rules are Barely There

Adweek

Political campaigners have been spending billions on ads on streaming services, which promise to marry the persuasiveness of TV spots with the precision of digital targeting. What's still missing from this winning combination is regulation. "The last time they passed a substantial law around campaign finance disclosure.

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Meta Advertisers Prepare For A Holiday Season Of Gifts And Glitches

AdExchanger

Hi Readers, James Hercher here with the AdExchanger Commerce Media Newsletter. Thanks for reading! And Merry Glitchmas to those who celebrate. In the world of online advertising on big walled-garden platforms – Meta in particular – October through November truly is the season of giving. Of giving advertisers ulcers and panic attacks, that is. ’Tis […] The post Meta Advertisers Prepare For A Holiday Season Of Gifts And Glitches appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Meta Beats Revenue Expectations Amid AI Push, But Ad Sales Growth Slows

Adweek

The numbers $40.58 billion: Meta's Q3 revenue, up 19% YoY, narrowly topping Wall Street's $40.3 billion estimate. 96%: The portion of Meta's Q3 revenue driven by ad sales. This is a slight dip from Q2, when advertising accounted for 97% of its $36.5 billion in total revenue. $15.69 billion: Net income, up 35% YoY, or.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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How DPG Media Built Its Own (Mostly) Google-Free Ad Platform

AdExchanger

Publishers know their competition, and, increasingly, they aren’t competing with other pubs; they’re competing with Big Tech. Belgian publishing house DPG Media made news last week for its decision to stop selling in-app ads on the programmatic open market, just one of many moves it’s made on its journey to disentangle itself from the influence […] The post How DPG Media Built Its Own (Mostly) Google-Free Ad Platform appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Exverus Media’s Talia Arnold on Building the Agency She Always Wanted to Work For

Adweek

PRINT HED: Talia Arnold PRINT DEK: The co-founder of Exverus Media on building a people-first agency. In 2014, the founders of Exverus Media set out to build the kind of agency they always wanted to work for. Tired of 12-hour workdays and having no personal life, they encoded flexibility and work-life balance into Exverus' DNA.

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Based On Its Q3 Earnings, Maybe AIphabet Should Just Change Its Name To AI-phabet

AdExchanger

Alphabet, which reported its third quarter earnings on Tuesday, generated more than $88 billion in Q3 total revenue, up 15% from a year ago. Meanwhile, YouTube’s combined advertising and subscription businesses surpassed $50 billion over the past year. This is the first time YouTube has ever hit that milestone. Impressive numbers. But investors seemed to […] The post Based On Its Q3 Earnings, Maybe AIphabet Should Just Change Its Name To AI-phabet appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Amazon Announces NBA Studio and Black Friday Game

Adweek

Ahead of details of the NBA's new media deal recently coming out in unsealed court documents, Amazon was already revealing plans for the league's 2024 Black Friday games and its new NBA studio. At ADWEEK's Mediaweek event on Tuesday, Amazon head of U.S. video and live sports sales, Danielle Carney, announced that Amazon would have.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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The biggest ideal customer profile mistakes businesses make — and how to fix them

Martech

I was approached by a pair of founders at an event the other day. They are struggling to grow their business. I started with my usual first question, “Who is your customer?” This may seem basic, but success in the basics spells success everywhere else. The founders had theories and ideas but didn’t actually know who their customers were. This is not surprising, as most of the teams I speak with have misidentified their customers.

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What the Chief Media Officer Job Looks Like in 2024

Adweek

The role of the chief media officer is evolving, and marketing and media are only pieces of the job description. During a discussion at Mediaweek, three chief media leaders--Brad Feinberg, Molson Coors vp of media and digital; Shenen Reed, General Motors Global Chief Media Officer; and John Terrana, VaynerMedia Chief Media Officer--met for a discussion.

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TV and Digital Drove UK Ad Spend to £10 Billion in Q2

VideoWeek

UK ad spend reached £10 billion during Q2 2024, according to the latest Expenditure Report from the Advertising Association (AA) and WARC. This marks a 13.4 percent increase on Q2 2023, when the market narrowly avoided contraction. While benefitting from these favourable comparisons, the latest quarter also recorded stronger-than-expected digital growth, alongside strong TV contribution driven by the Men’s Euros.

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WRAL Concert Raises Over $1 Million for Hurricane Helene Relief

Adweek

The Music for the Mountains concert put on in part by Raleigh, N.C. NBC affiliate WRAL to help those affected by Hurricane Helene raised over $1 million as of Sunday night. The show was presented by Band Together and Lincoln Theatre in partnership with WRAL and Red Hat Amphitheater, Proceeds will directly benefit the Community.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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Designers Do What Planners Wish They Could …

Rob Campbell

I know it’s Halloween, but how I’m choosing to ignore it because I wrote this post ages ago and I can’t be arsed to write a new one to celebrate the ghosts and ghouls. Hey, at least I’m being honest. So anyway, I love design. In fact, I would go one further … I think design can see opportunities most strategists could never pull off.

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Amazon Prime Video Officially Sold Out of Black Friday NFL Ad Inventory

Adweek

In a conversation at ADWEEK's Mediaweek, Amazon head of U.S. live sports and video sales Danielle Carney confirmed that the streamer sold out of ad inventory for its Black Friday National Football League game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Las Vegas Raiders. And conversations were already kicking off at the beginning of the year.

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Here’s How Alphabet, Snap and Reddit Are Using AI to Drive Revenues

VideoWeek

This week sees a number of tech companies announce their quarterly results, and unsurprisingly, AI has been high on the agenda across earnings calls. Alphabet, Snap and Reddit all posted substantial year-on-year gains on Tuesday, and all cited AI developments as revenue drivers, albeit in different ways. Alphabet AI was the sole topic of CEO Sundar Pichai’s comments, saying the company was “uniquely positioned to lead in the era of AI” due to its full-stack approach to the tech

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Amazon’s Buy It Now Goes Swimming With Shark Tank

Adweek

Amazon Prime customers are accustomed to smashing that "Buy Now" button when they want to make an order pronto. Now, Prime Video--the retail giant's streaming division--is betting that those same customers will smash the "Watch Now" button on its new competition series, Buy It Now. Premiering Oct. 30, the show allows Prime Video to cast.

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Solving the Biggest Tech Challenges in RevOps

In this eBook, we’ll run through real-world examples that show how RevOps teams can benefit from modern solutions for the access, management, and activation of their GTM data. Whether you need to improve lead response times, boost adoption of core tools, improve lead qualification, or target and automate your GTM motions, you’ll find examples of how revenue teams are solving some of the toughest problems in modern business.

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IAB Europe Launches Certification for Retail Media Standards

VideoWeek

Retail media has been heralded as a key growth driver in advertising, recognised by major agencies as the fastest-growing media channel over the next three years. But a lack of standardisation in retail media has posed barriers to investment, with 60 percent of buyers identifying standardisation as the channel’s main growth area over the next 12 months, according to IAB Europe.

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Former Chicago Anchor Brad Edwards Resurfaces with New Career

Adweek

Former WBBM anchor Brad Edwards has a new career after leaving the Chicago CBS-owned television station. He told Axios that he was let go from the station and is leaving journalism to start a communications firm. "'I'm a word nerd at heart, a sentence parser, and I'm driven by impact," he wrote on Facebook.

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Rethinking Revenue: How Publishers Are Prioritizing UX

Ad Monsters

The digital ad game is changing, and so are user expectations. From The New York Times to Dotdash Meredith, publishers are flipping the script—fewer interruptions, more value. Learn how some publishers put user experience first while still cashing in—and how ad-filtering tech helps them balance revenue and UX. When building ad revenue strategies, publishers need to prioritize user experience.

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Snap Beats Revenue and User Growth Estimates

Adweek

Snap beat Wall Street expectations for both quarterly revenue and user growth Tuesday, as the parent company of messaging application Snapchat has been able to lure back some advertisers with better-performing ad features. (Reuters) Sales increased 15% to $1.37 billion in the period ended Sept. 30, Snap said Tuesday in a statement. The social media.

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Drive GTM Efficiency with Tech Stack Consolidation

Consolidating your tech stack is an effective cost-saving measure that drives GTM efficiency and adds value to your enterprise. With a cohesive, integrated tech stack, your revenue teams can deliver an excellent customer experience that sets you up to win faster than your competitors.