Mon.Dec 04, 2023

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Lego’s Fortnite Collaboration Is a Masterclass in Fan Engagement

Adweek

As 2023 comes to an end, Lego and Epic Games have finally unveiled what their kid-friendly metaverse will look like. A full 18 months in the making, the branded Lego edition of Fortnite is being described as a multiplayer "survival crafting game." It will be released on Dec.

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7 Real Estate Marketing Strategies That Drive Results

Ad Rants

It doesn't matter if you're talking about wholesale real estate or a more traditional real estate transaction; one of the most critical elements of this industry is and will always be marketing. But it would be a mistake to assume you're only marketing the property you're focused on now. In reality, there are two things you're selling - your properties and yourself.

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How PR Firms Greenwashed the UN’s Biggest Climate Talks

Adweek

How did an oil baron end up in charge of the world's biggest climate conference? With the help of the public relations and advertising industry. That's the gist of a new report from activist group Clean Creatives, which demands the ad industry cut ties with fossil fuel clients. The report builds on a slew of.

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Getting the most from your AI investment

Martech

Artificial intelligence. It is everywhere, or so it would seem. I was at a recent marketing conference and as I scanned the agenda more than half of the sessions, including my own, had AI in the title or in the session description. Two of the keynotes that I attended mentioned AI and the one was entirely on AI. While AI is all the rage , if you are not using it. there is no reason to feel left out.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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Roku and Coca-Cola Team Up to Bring Holiday Cheers

Adweek

Roku and Coca-Cola are getting into the Christmas spirit, teaming up for a holiday campaign across the connected TV platform. Fewer brands are more closely tied to the winter holiday season than Coca-Cola, and the beverage company has now signed on as the first sponsor for Roku's new All Things Food content destination. The collection.

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Why edge cases matter in marketing strategy

Martech

As a general rule, marketers should major in the majors. We should pay attention to the things that make a significant difference. We don’t want to waste time trying to solve “edge cases” that nip at the periphery. But sometimes, these “edge cases” are more important than we realize, and they can expose issues flying under the radar. It’s wise to take a second look and ensure you’re not missing something.

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Despite Signal Loss, CTV-To-Mobile Retargeting Can Work

AdExchanger

Intent IQ, Strategus and PubMatic are partnering to help advertisers retarget iOS device owners after they’ve seen an ad on a smart TV because, while mobile retargeting is an integral ingredient to the CTV performance formula, signal loss makes it hard to get right. The post Despite Signal Loss, CTV-To-Mobile Retargeting Can Work appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Dance With Hello Kitty in AR to Celebrate the Character’s 50th Birthday

Adweek

To mark Hello Kitty's 50th birthday, Japanese entertainment company Sanrio worked with creative studio Whatever Co. to launch a campaign encouraging fans to dance with the friendly feline through augmented reality. As part of this campaign, a Hello Kitty AR app is now available to download for free on iOS and Android devices. It allows.

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Third-party data in advertising: Best of the MarTechBot

Martech

Best of the MarTechBot showcases the MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. The language model is based on content from MarTech embedded on top of ChatGPT. The editors of MarTech selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content. I am the first generative AI chatbot for marketing technology professionals.

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Popeyes Spreads Its Wings After Specialty Item Makes Sales Soar   

Adweek

Popeyes is aiming to clip the wings of its competitors with the permanent addition of wings to its menu, accompanied by a scorching campaign with as much spice as its chicken. In the new campaign, created by agency McKinney, the brand's spokesperson excitedly shows up to a football game watch party with a bag in.

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

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2024 B2B trends: 6 key areas for marketing success

Martech

Staying ahead of the curve is imperative for long-term success in B2B. As we wrap up 2023 and look ahead to 2024, now is the time to evaluate our marketing strategies to ensure we are fully prepared for what’s to come. This article discusses six pivotal areas B2B marketers should focus on to kick off 2024 proactively. 1. Getting real with upper-funnel expectations We need to rethink how we approach the early stages of marketing traditionally focused on brand awareness.

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When AAA Is The New Three-Letter Acronym; A Bundle Of Exhaustion

AdExchanger

Under The Hood When Gary Numan sang, “Here in my car, I feel safest of all,” he didn’t know about the rapacious data collection practices of modern-day automakers. Ars Technica reports that, late last week, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) sent letters to 14 car companies, including Ford, GM, Honda and Hyundai, asking pointed questions about […] The post When AAA Is The New Three-Letter Acronym; A Bundle Of Exhaustion appeared first on AdExchanger.

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New CTV App Stores Added to App-Ads.txt Aggregator

IAB Tech Lab

IAB Tech Lab offers aggregated and structured data sets for ads.txt, app-ads.txt, and sellers.json to provide the industry with a low cost and maintenance free replacement to managing your own crawler. The IAB Tech Lab data sets are also beneficial for supplementing your own research.

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The sixty-day staircase

Seth Godin

In the moment, it’s really difficult. L’espirit descalier means, “the spirit of the staircase.” That thing you wished you had a said just a moment ago, the bon mot or the clever riposte. It only comes to us as we’re walking away. But this sort of quick comment is good for the movies, not so much for the work we seek to do.

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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Fifty-five works with Bayer to take creative analytics to a new level

Exchange Wire

Traditional analytics methodologies of evaluating campaigns are fast becoming obsolete. The human eye - scanning Excel sheets that rank best and worst performers - is being replaced by AI tools that enable a new world of dynamic testing or modelling. [.] The post Fifty-five works with Bayer to take creative analytics to a new level appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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Wild Hope Now: The power of books for causes

Seth Godin

Non-profits and charities depend on the emotional and financial support of their backers. And that support is always based on a story. A story of possibility, of justice, of community. They serve to right wrongs, to fix problems, to shine a light and to make things better. I’ve discovered that a book is a powerful tool for sharing this story. This week, Afya is launching a book by my friend Danielle Butin.

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News publishers hesitate to commit to investing more into Threads next year despite growing engagement

Digiday

News publishers are cautious to pour more resources into Threads, the nearly six-month old X-competitor from Meta, and don’t have plans to do so in the near future as limited data available to their social and audience development teams makes it difficult to determine whether investing more into the platform is worth it. That includes three news organizations — including The Boston Globe, CNN and The New York Times — where execs said they were seeing engagement grow on Threads since its la

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AdMonsters Writers Holiday Reading List: Best Digital Advertising Ecosystem Books of 2023

Ad Monsters

For an industry bent on standards, the digital advertising ecosystem is rife with drama, as a stunning collection of books published in 2023 amply demonstrates. Since the early 2000s, we’ve seen businesses built on friendship and then destroyed by bitter disputes. Fortunes were made in the blink of an eye, then lost just as quickly. Many of us have had front-row seats to the twists and turns that shaped our industry, sometimes taking sides and always hoping for the best.

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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Marketing Briefing: How the meaning of ‘viral’ has changed with social media fragmentation, overuse of the word

Digiday

If you spend any time on a platform like TikTok or Instagram Reels, it won’t take long to see an influencer talk about something being, or going, viral. Whether or not you believe that thing — be it a product, recipe or something else altogether — is actually viral may depend on whether or not you’re in the same cultural niche as said influencer. As social media has continued to fragment , it’s become harder and harder for content created with a specific cultural niche in mind to go beyond that

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Meta’s ad-free service targeted in EU complaints; US judge blocks TikTok ban in Montana; Advertisers unlikely to return to X 

Exchange Wire

In today’s ExchangeWire digest: Meta’s ad-free service targeted in EU complaints; US judge blocks TikTok ban in Montana; Advertisers unlikely to return to X… Meta’s ad-free service targeted in EU complaints Meta’s advertising-free subscription service for Facebook and Instagram, currently being rolled [.] The post Meta’s ad-free service targeted in EU complaints; US judge blocks TikTok ban in Montana; Advertisers unlikely to return to X appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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How AI regulation differs in the U.S. and EU

Digiday

This article was first published by Digiday sibling WorkLife There’s a global artificial intelligence race — and so far the U.S. appears to be in the lead. That’s in part thanks to the states being home to huge tech companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and Meta. But, it’s also because of the lack of federal legislation. So far, the only legislation that exists around AI is New York City’s Local Law 144, which requires that a bias audit is conducted on automated hiring processes.

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Amazon joins retro wave with reworking of cheesy old commercials

More About Advertising

Amazon is challenging Apple for ad innovation, in this case the world’s biggest advertiser is joining the retro wave by updating 1999 holiday commercials (the very early days of Amazon) for social, featuring “sweatermen,” themselves a riff on 1960s US variety shows. Not that you’d get away with such antics in an Amazon warehouse.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.

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Digiday+ Research: Agency clients favor programmatic over direct-sold ads, as confidence — and spending — fall in online display

Digiday

Digiday’s event for programmatic leaders is underway in New Orleans. See more of Digiday’s Programmatic Marketing Summit here. Programmatic advertising isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. But from the brand risks posed by generative AI , to the complications of made-for-advertising sites , to Netflix dialing up the programmatic side of its ad business , it’s been an eventful year.

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Former Integral Ad Science Director Yann Le Roux Joins Global Sustaintech Platform IMPACT+ As VP, Sales & Partnerships 

Exchange Wire

Digital media veteran to lead global commercial strategy for rapidly growing company, which helps marketers reduce environmental impact of their digital ads; Le Roux one of four new arrivals, including sales manager Jordan Polet, from Leboncoin, who joins to drive growth across French market PARIS, LONDON – December 4, 2023 – IMPACT+ – a [.] The post Former Integral Ad Science Director Yann Le Roux Joins Global Sustaintech Platform IMPACT+ As VP, Sales & Partnerships appeared first on Excha

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Spill co-founder Alphonzo Terrell on attracting advertisers to marginalized social communities

Digiday

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify Big advertisers are seemingly ready to abandon X (formerly Twitter) for good this time thanks to owner Elon Musk’s latest antics and an uptick in anti-semitic posts on the platform. ( Read the full rundown on fleeing advertisers here. ) In X’s absence, advertisers may once again find themselves looking for the social media’s next town square after failing to be wooed by X alternatives like Mastodon and Bluesky earlier this year.

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Digital Video Fuels Recovery in Magna Ad Spend Forecast

VideoWeek

As the cold winter nights start to draw in, so do forecasts of a different nature. Advertising agencies begin their winter updates for the ad market this week, opening with Magna, the media and marketing solutions division of IPG Mediabrands. Despite a “slow, uncertain macroeconomic climate”, Magna notes that digital is on track to drive modest market growth this year.

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Predicting the Future of Sales: How AI and Automation Will Revolutionize Strategies

In this exploration, we're diving into predictions about the future of sales. We're talking about a complete shake-up powered by automation and artificial intelligence (AI). These aren't just fancy tools — they're real game-changers. Automation and AI are here to redefine every interaction, making them smarter, faster, and more meaningful. From personalized customer journeys to streamlined sales processes, the goal is to make every moment count, enhancing both efficiency and connection.

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Gracias a ‘Barbie’ y ‘Yellowstone’, las botas y ropa de vaquero están por todas partes

Digiday

Esta historia fue reportada por primera vez en Glossy , una publicación hermana de Digiday en Español. En la era TikTok, las tendencias llegan rápido y pueden desaparecer en un instante. Pero no se está imaginando cosas: las botas vaqueras están teniendo un momento. Desde la popularidad de “Yellowstone” hasta el disfraz de vaquera rosa picante de Barbie, este año no han faltado en la cultura momentos de moda relacionados con el Oeste.

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Mr. Musk Fires Several F-Bombs at Advertisers Who Dare to Defy Him

AdPulp

More than 100 brands have “fully paused” their ads or left the social media platform once known as Twitter, following an important report by Media Matters on how advertising from prominent corporations was appearing next to pro-Hitler, Holocaust denial, white nationalist, pro-violence, and neo-Nazi posts and accounts. Media Matters, a not-for-profit organization, has since been […] The post Mr.

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New CTV App Stores Added to App-Ads.txt Aggregator

IAB Tech Lab

IAB Tech Lab offers aggregated and structured data sets for ads.txt, app-ads.txt, and sellers.json to provide the industry with a low cost and maintenance free replacement to managing your own crawler. The IAB Tech Lab data sets are also beneficial for supplementing your own research.

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How to Monetize a DIY Blog

Playwire

Key Points Audience First : Loyal readers are the foundation of any successful blog; focus on content quality to build and retain your audience. Diverse Revenue : It’s important that you use a multi-tool approach for revenue streams such as ads, affiliate marketing, brand partnerships, and premium content. User Experience : Balancing monetization methods can help preserve reader trust and the quality of their experience on your blog.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.