Mon.Jun 24, 2024

article thumbnail

Dungeons & Dragons Exec Teases Stranger Things Ahead for 50th Anniversary

Adweek

Jess Lanzillo rolls deep with Dungeons & Dragons--and not just with her trusty D20 die. "I kind of backward engineered my way into D&D," Lanzillo reveals to ADWEEK in her first interview as the new vp of franchise and product for the iconic strategy game, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. The Indiana-born gamer.

article thumbnail

Impact of Algorithm Changes on Social Media vs. Email Marketing

The Ad Tech Blog

Algorithm changes impact both social media and email marketing in significant ways. Understanding these impacts can help marketing managers and digital specialists optimize their strategies for better engagement and conversion rates. Overview of Algorithm Changes Impact Key Points Algorithm changes can drastically affect social media visibility. Email marketing is less susceptible to algorithm changes but is still impacted by deliverability rules.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Read the Pitch Deck This Firm Used to Raise $1.1 Million to Automate Media Buying

Adweek

Ability AI, a martech startup focused on automating media buying across platforms like Meta and Google, secured $1.1 million in a pre-seed funding round today. The investment was spearheaded by SMRK venture capital, with participation from tech experts from firms like Google, Meta, Deloitte and The Economist. With a current valuation nearing $10 million, Ability.

Media 321
article thumbnail

Disney Expands Its Audience Graph And Clean Room Tech Beyond The US

AdExchanger

Disney expands its audience graph and clean room tech to Latin America, marking the first time it's available outside the US. The announcement precedes the launch of Disney+ with ads in Latin America. The post Disney Expands Its Audience Graph And Clean Room Tech Beyond The US appeared first on AdExchanger.

Audience 121
article thumbnail

State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

article thumbnail

Liberty Mutual Names Bandits & Friends Its Creative Partner, Shifting Away From Goodby Silverstein & Partners

Adweek

One year after Goodby Silverstein & Partners laid off executive creative directors David Suarez and Danny Gonzalez during a company restructuring, the pair has won the Liberty Mutual Insurance account away from GS&P for its new agency, Bandits & Friends. Liberty Mutual confirmed to ADWEEK that Bandits would be the lead partner to its internal.

Agency 317
article thumbnail

How brands like Klarna and Mars are using AI in marketing operations

Martech

Now that the novelty of AI has settled and marketing teams are using it across their operations in creative, efficient ways, we’re starting to see some interesting case studies emerge. Brands like Mailchimp, Klarna, JPMorgan Chase and Mars are going all-in on AI and integrating it across marketing workflows — from brainstorming and content creation to analytics and optimization.

Marketing 120

More Trending

article thumbnail

The Best Of Cannes 2024: Key Moments And Trends For The Year Ahead

AdExchanger

Another Cannes Lions is in the books. If last year’s event felt like the best to date, this one felt even better. The challenges facing digital advertising feel bigger than ever, however. We’re still grappling with entrenched but unfounded fears that prevent marketers from supporting premium publishers. And media quality concerns threaten to turn partners […] The post The Best Of Cannes 2024: Key Moments And Trends For The Year Ahead appeared first on AdExchanger.

Media 117
article thumbnail

This Election Season, Misinformation and Brand Safety Are on Advertisers’ Ballots

Adweek

The burgeoning national political season isn't just about campaign promises and competing candidate agendas: It's about advertising. According to Forrester Research, 82% of B2C marketing executives in the U.S. have concerns about marketing their brands during this year's presidential election cycle. Advertisers, publishers and platforms will face additional challenges as an even greater deluge of.

article thumbnail

NYT’s Joy Robins On Returning To Programmatic, Keeping Things Premium And News Avoidance

AdExchanger

Strolling the Croisette in Cannes during the Lions festival is a bit like walking a real-life version of the online advertising supply chain. It’s an omnium gatherum of agency holding companies, ad platforms, ad tech vendors, brands, retailers and traditional publishers, including The New York Times, busily buying, selling and striking deals in the sunshine. […] The post NYT’s Joy Robins On Returning To Programmatic, Keeping Things Premium And News Avoidance appeared first on AdExchanger.

Ad Tech 113
article thumbnail

Adidas’ ‘Hey Jude’ Remake Becomes England’s Rallying Cry for the Euros

Adweek

An Adidas ad that borrows The Beatles' classic 1968 track, "Hey Jude," for UEFA Euro 2024 has made a big impact in England, where a new generation has set its sights on winning the soccer tournament. The commercial, created by agency Johannes Leonardo, shows support for the English team and specifically Jude Bellingham, who exemplifies.

Agency 290
article thumbnail

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

what retail media advertising is what a retail media network is how the changes in the privacy landscape benefit retail media networks how retail media network functions market overview of retail media networks

article thumbnail

Media Buying Doesn’t Have To Be A Mixed Bag

AdExchanger

Growing up in rural southern Italy, town festivals honoring various saints or traditions were a recurring delight. My grandfather or uncle would always take me and, without fail, buy me a special bag of candy unique to these fairs. I enjoyed some of the sweets, but others weren’t to my taste, and I still recall […] The post Media Buying Doesn’t Have To Be A Mixed Bag appeared first on AdExchanger.

Media 110
article thumbnail

Inside Search Consultants’ Changing Processes to Connect Brands With Agencies 

Adweek

Last year, Simone Oppenheimer Mandel and Rachel Segall, co-founders of the consultancy NBZ Partner, clandestinely began acting as agency search consultants and are now formally launching a new service offering, NBZ Match. The co-founders hope to evaluate a broader variety of agencies than many traditional search consultants and avoid overreliance on well-known shops.

Agency 279
article thumbnail

Robots.txt Can’t Fight Generative AI; Streamers On The Margins

AdExchanger

Generative AI is breaking established internet etiquette to sate a bottomless appetite for training data. Also: The streaming wars continue. The post Robots.txt Can’t Fight Generative AI; Streamers On The Margins appeared first on AdExchanger.

110
110
article thumbnail

7 AI Stories From Cannes Lions You Might Have Missed

Adweek

Yachts have been stripped of their adtech signage, trophies polished and placed proudly in cabinets, ADWEEK House has closed for the season, and (for some) the rose wine headaches have eased off. Cannes Lions is over for another year. Whether you were there or not, you likely noticed the specter of AI looming large over.

Media 278
article thumbnail

The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

article thumbnail

Why psychological safety is the key to marketing team innovation

Martech

Psychological safety is essential in today’s workplace, but many leaders struggle to achieve it. Workplaces with increased psychological safety saw a 27% reduction in turnover, per a Quantum Workplace survey. Yet, McKinsey’s 2021 survey found that only 26% of leaders create psychological safety for their teams. Yikes! How can we, as marketing leaders, address this gap?

Marketing 107
article thumbnail

Paramount+ Price Increase Continues Streaming Trend of Pushing Subscribers to Ad Tier

Adweek

Paramount+ is continuing a costly streaming TV trend. What's happening Today, Paramount+ announced price increases for both Paramount+ with Showtime and the Paramount+ Essential plan, its lowest ad-supported tier. Paramount+ with Showtime will increase by $1 to $12.99/month, and the Paramount+ Essential plan will increase by $2 to $7.99/month for all new subscribers.

278
278
article thumbnail

Connecting digital experience to strategy: Best of the MarTechBot

Martech

Best of the MarTechBot showcases the MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. See more about how marketers are using MarTechBot here. 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.

article thumbnail

Driving Awareness, Growth and Loyalty With Shake Shack

Adweek

On this episode of the Marketing Vanguard podcast, Shake Shack CMO Jay Livingston discusses his unique journey from finance and technology to marketing. Livingston also offers insights into his current role, including the importance of performance marketing and collaborations for driving success at Shake Shack. He's also candid about the challenges and changes Shake Shack.

Finance 264
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Leprechauns

Seth Godin

Is there a rainbow underneath your pot of gold? Sometimes, we get it backwards.

103
103
article thumbnail

‘Considerably less ready’: Marketers’ post-cookie preparedness has dropped by 23% since 2022

Digiday

While publishers are attempting to quell marketers’ concerns about the state of the open programmatic ad market , the buy-side is indicating that there are bigger factors at play that are contributing to their lost appetite than just MFA and fraud scares alone. A study from Adobe (which surveyed 2,841 marketers between Feb. 27 and March 7 in the U.S., Australia, France, Germany, India, Japan and the U.K.) found that fewer marketers are feeling prepared for third-party cookie deprecation than in

Cookies 94
article thumbnail

APAC Ad Market to Grow 8.5%; New York Governor Signs Social Media Bills; TikTok Makes First Amendment Case 

Exchange Wire

On today’s news digest: APAC Ad Market to Grow 8.5%; New York Governor Signs Social Media Bills; TikTok Makes First Amendment Case The APAC ad market is expected to see growth of 8.5% this year to reach USD$289bn (£223bn). Similarly to [.] The post APAC Ad Market to Grow 8.5%; New York Governor Signs Social Media Bills; TikTok Makes First Amendment Case appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

Media 75
article thumbnail

Inside Linda Yaccarino’s first 12-months as X’s CEO

Digiday

Linda Yaccarino was a whirlwind at Cannes Lions this year. From villa interviews in the hills to celeb chats on the Croisette, yacht hangouts in the marina to pitching advertisers in X’s ( formerly Twitter ) plush Carlton suite — she, it seems, was everywhere. It was quite the contrast from last year when she was a no-show as X’s newly appointed CEO.

Media 92
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

True&North’s David Clayton: take your creative idea on a near-death experience

More About Advertising

Even in the age of AI, our industry lives and dies by its creative ideas. But if a big idea never sees the light of day, was it ever that big in the first place? The CMO role has hugely expanded. Clients are accountable for profitability and identifying sources of future growth, and agencies need … The post True&North’s David Clayton: take your creative idea on a near-death experience first appeared on More About Advertising.

Agency 69
article thumbnail

As Oracle’s ad business collapses, layoffs and uncertainty ripple through the industry

Digiday

Any hope of Oracle’s advertising division continuing under new ownership is fading fast, as the company’s bosses show zero interest in selling it off. They’re done with advertising, leaving its executives to face the fallout. Digiday understands several hundred layoffs were involved in Oracle’s advertising division’s closure, with the majority of those staffers learning of the plans when they were announced publicly during the tech company’s latest earnings call earlier this month.

article thumbnail

TV Provides Premium Environments for Retail Media

VideoWeek

Retail media is “one of the most promising ad markets”, according to Philippe Boscher, Head of Digital, Data, Research, Adressable TV & Innovation at TF1 Publicité. But so far the formats have been largely limited to banners on ecommerce websites. “It’s not very appealing for a brand,” says Boscher. But by combining retail data with TF1’s premium video inventory, TF1 PUB can provide data-driven CTV placements.

Retail 69
article thumbnail

Marketing Briefing: Brands set to focus on influencer and OOH activity at Wimbledon

Digiday

Wimbledon means strawberries, celebrity crowd sightings and Centre Court meltdowns. It also means an opportunity for marketers to catch the eye of viewers and casual audiences drawn to the most prestigious event in tennis. Sports tentpole events have been cited as one of the main drivers behind rising ad spend this year in reports by IPG’s Magna and GroupM, and last week’s Cannes Lions festival was dominated by sports stars and sports marketers.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Freely Expands Smart TV Lineup with Toshiba, Sharp and Panasonic

VideoWeek

Freely, the collaborative streaming service from the UK broadcasters, has announced partnerships with four more major smart TV manufacturers, making the connected TV app available on new Toshiba, Sharp, Panasonic and Metz models. Freely launched at the end of April on Hisense TVs, before adding Bush to its smart TV roster last month. The latest additions expand the lineup to a total of six smart TV partners.

article thumbnail

Google’s delays aside, why marketers can’t pause post-cookie planning

Digiday

While Google’s latest delay in deprecating third-party cookies in Chrome might offer some reprieve for teams still behind on post-cookies prep, it also underscores the intricate landscape of digital advertising. The delay, attributed to “ongoing challenges related to reconciling divergent feedback from the industry, regulators and developers” in a recent Digiday article , emphasizes the need to map the post-cookies landscape.

Cookies 83
article thumbnail

Landor CCO Teemu Suviala: my Cannes Lions takeaways

More About Advertising

What were the trends and themes at Cannes? We saw more brands embracing the now, living in the moment, moving fast with the culture, favouring present over nostalgia. Prime examples of this were the Grand Prix-winning DoorDash Super Bowl ad and Coors’ viral moment when Shohei Ohtani, the famed Japanese baseball player, damaged a billboard … The post Landor CCO Teemu Suviala: my Cannes Lions takeaways first appeared on More About Advertising.

article thumbnail

GARM’s lead sheds light on new standards for sustainability measurement in media

Digiday

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify Making the digital advertising ecosystem more sustainable has been a burgeoning topic for the past couple of years, but the biggest excuse that’s been holding back companies from making moves to actually reduce carbon emissions is the lack of standards around measuring emissions in the first place.

Media 80
article thumbnail

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.