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Sam Altman’s Move to Microsoft Changes Its Bing Search Battle With Google

Adweek

While Microsoft's swift hiring of Sam Altman could boost its position as the frontrunner in the race of AI, there are unintended consequences that will benefit Google's position in AI dominance, industry analysts tell Adweek. Altman's move to Microsoft capped a whipsaw weekend that began Friday with the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI being ousted.

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B2B email marketing: 3 strategies for advanced personalization

Martech

Picture this: You’re at a private art showing. The curator greets you, recalling your love for impressionist art and leads you to an unseen Monet. It’s perfect. They remembered what you liked, and it shows. That feeling of being special? That’s what we’re aiming for in B2B marketing. Your inbox should be more than a drop zone for flyers.

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Pharma Brands Use AR Snapchat Lenses to Engage Consumers

Adweek

Pharmaceutical companies Dermavant and Botox Cosmetic have turned to Snapchat to teach consumers about their products' FDA-approved use. To coincide with World Psoriasis Day on Oct. 29, Dermavant released a Snapchat Lens themed to its product Vtama that opens an augmented reality mini-game where the user's character can walk across the roofs of stores with.

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Nice bike

Seth Godin

A well-designed bicycle is efficient, inexpensive and delightful. If you use your bike on the right paths, with appropriate goals, it can deliver exactly what you need, while also allowing you to go at your own pace, see what’s going on around you and feel grounded. Until, of course, you get jealous. If you start trying to ride your bike on the freeway, or insist on adding extra seats, electric drivetrains and bright lights, sooner or later, you’re going to end up with a vehicle that

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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.

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Regional Mexican Music Goes Mainstream. Here’s Why Marketers Should Be Thinking Ahead

Adweek

There was a time--not so long ago, actually--when mentioning the artist Bad Bunny among a bunch of brand marketers would have elicited several confused-looking faces at best. But now? You'd probably get an obvious nod. This major cultural shift is perfect evidence of just how reactive the marketing industry can be, oftentimes waiting for cultural.

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What’s Behind Publicis’ Rise to the Top of the Agency Group Pack?

VideoWeek

Just over ten years ago, agency holding groups Publicis Groupe and Omnicom Group shocked the industry by announcing plans to combine their businesses in a “merger of equals”. As one combined entity, the two would have overtaken WPP as the largest agency holding group in the world – their market caps of roughly $14.5 billion (Publicis) and $16.5 billion (Omnicom) surpassing WPP’s $20 billion.

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All Marketers Want For Christmas Is … Performance

AdExchanger

’Tis the season to be spending. Early holiday shopping hit new highs this year: Consumers spent $76.8 billion in October, $4.3 billion more than last year, according to Adobe’s holiday shopping tracker. On top of that, 19% of consumers shop for holiday gifts year-round, according to Gartner’s 2023 Holiday Marketing Guide for Retail. Gartner predicts […] The post All Marketers Want For Christmas Is … Performance appeared first on AdExchanger.

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HBCU Interns Drive Chevrolet Marketing to Fresh Perspective

Adweek

If a company internship imparts some wisdom to the students it employs, that's typically good enough. If those interns teach a company about itself, turn weaknesses into strengths and create a better future for everyone involved, that's the ideal outcome. Seven years ago, General Motors paired its Chevrolet brand with the National Newspaper Publishers Association.

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Roku And Unity Want To Prove CTV Is A Performance Channel

AdExchanger

Roku announced a new partnership with Unity to help gaming and mobile app developers add CTV to their user acquisition campaigns by giving them performance marketing attribution for streaming. The post Roku And Unity Want To Prove CTV Is A Performance Channel appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Working From Home Spurs Ad Block Rates to Rise

Adweek

Mobile and desktop ad-block rates are experiencing a gradual uptick, increasing by 11% in 2023 from 2021, according to ad-filtering tech firm Eyeo and its 2023 Ad-Filtering Report. Buoyed by the work-from-home trend, the rate of ad blocking on desktops in the U.S. reached 27% by the end of the second quarter this year, according.

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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

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Chrome’s Deprecation Trial – No Ad Tech Allowed; Streamers Shed More Content

AdExchanger

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trial And Error Here’s a mouthful: The Google Chrome team has announced a “deprecation trial” so some third-party vendors can retain legacy services that depend on third-party cookies when cookie deprecation happens next year. What does that mean in layman’s terms? Vendors can continue […] The post Chrome’s Deprecation Trial – No Ad Tech Allowed; Streamers Shed More Content appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Sanofi Shares How It’s Working to Reduce Carbon Emissions in Media

Adweek

The issue of media decarbonization has been increasingly buzzy, but many brands and agencies have trouble finding the best measurement paradigm to reduce the carbon impact of their media spend, and even more, advertisers don't even know how to start connecting carbon to advertising, according to previous Adweek reporting. At Adweek's NexTech event Nov.

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Digital events platforms: Best of the Bot

Martech

Best of the Bot showcases 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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Adweek Podcast: Tech Trends and Media Friends

Adweek

The deprecation of third-party cookies has been a trending conversation for a while now, but there is a lot more going on when it comes to the rapid evolution and impact of tech in the ad industry. In this episode of Yeah, That's Probably an Ad, community editor Luz Corona and Europe brand editor Rebecca.

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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!

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EU raises antitrust concerns about Adobe’s purchase of Figma

Martech

Adobe’s $20 billion bid for cloud-based product design platform Figma is being hit with an antitrust complaint by E.U. regulators. An in-depth investigation by the European Commission came to the preliminary conclusion the deal could significantly reduce competition for interactive product design tools, vector editing tools and raster editing tools.

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Web Summit 2023: How Brands Can Integrate AI to Make It Anticipatory, Not Reactive

Adweek

LISBON, Portugal -- On Web Summit's PandaConf stage, Qualcomm chief marketing officer Don McGuire and Code and Theory CEO Dan Gardner spoke with Adweek about introducing AI to the marketing organization.

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Amazon Sponsored Products: Everything You Need to Know (Updated 2023)

Ad Badger

Over the past few years, Ad Badger has been at the forefront of managing countless Amazon sellers, empowering them to. Read More Amazon Sponsored Products: Everything You Need to Know (Updated 2023) The post Amazon Sponsored Products: Everything You Need to Know (Updated 2023) appeared first on Ad Badger.

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Creator Eric Sedeño’s Mission to Leave a Positive Impact on Social Media

Adweek

At its best, social media can be a space for fun and creativity. This is what you'll find when watching Eric Sedeno's content on TikTok and Instagram. Sedeno may be known for his funny TikTok videos, but he started out with a career in graphic design. Along with growing a community across social platforms, he.

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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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Brand safety concerns mount as X (formerly Twitter) pulls out of MRC audit

Digiday

Marketers will have to keep (blindly) trusting X, formerly Twitter, when it says it’s a safe place for advertising. Unfortunately, they can’t verify those claims independently. The platform recently opted out of independent auditing by Ernst & Young for its Media Rating Council (MRC) brand safety credentials. X cited existing resource constraints and ongoing technological challenges as the reasons it could not continue with the formal audit right now, though the company is open t

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Sojern Reveals First Of Its Kind ‘State of Destination Marketing 2024 Report’

Exchange Wire

Sojern, the leading digital marketing platform built for travel, is excited to announce the launch of the “State of Destination Marketing 2024” report for destination marketing organisations (DMOs). This first-of-its-kind report, produced through a partnership between Sojern and Digital Tourism [.] The post Sojern Reveals First Of Its Kind ‘State of Destination Marketing 2024 Report’ appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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How to Use Adjust Bids by Placement on Amazon PPC (2023 Update)

Ad Badger

In early 2019, Amazon rolled out some fresh bidding features aimed at empowering Amazon Sellers to optimize their PPC campaigns. Read More How to Use Adjust Bids by Placement on Amazon PPC (2023 Update) The post How to Use Adjust Bids by Placement on Amazon PPC (2023 Update) appeared first on Ad Badger.

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Samsung TV Plus Unveils Stellar Festive Drama Schedule as Consumption of FAST Content Gathers Pace This Christmas

Exchange Wire

Samsung Electronics Ltd announces an exciting new drama-fuelled package of award-winning television programmes, launching across new and existing UK Samsung TV Plus channels. Available for free across millions of Samsung devices, this latest launch further strengthens the business’s commitment to [.] The post Samsung TV Plus Unveils Stellar Festive Drama Schedule as Consumption of FAST Content Gathers Pace This Christmas appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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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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Influencer agency Billion Dollar Boy creates new unit for emerging tech — like generative AI

Digiday

Influencer agency Billion Dollar Boy last week created a new division, called Muse, to incorporate generative AI and other emerging technologies into its offerings to clients. This comes as influencer marketing agencies continue to experiment with AI tools for everything from creator search and discovery to content generation. Billion Dollar Boy, which recently expanded to New York and New Orleans from its U.K. headquarters, has been developing its own creator management platform using AI to imp

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The Guardian launches cookie-free ad solution; Apple & Disney among companies to suspend ads on X; Tesco trails scan-free checkouts 

Exchange Wire

In today’s ExchangeWire digest: The Guardian launches new cookie-free ad solution; Apple and Disney among companies to suspend ads on X; Tesco trails scan-free checkouts The Guardian launches new cookie-free ad solution At its Upfronts presentation last week, UK newspaper The Guardian [.] The post The Guardian launches cookie-free ad solution; Apple & Disney among companies to suspend ads on X; Tesco trails scan-free checkouts appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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Marketing Briefing: As clients manage a difficult year, ghosting normalization leaves some agencies without answers

Digiday

This year hasn’t been easy for agencies. Ghosting — when agencies are in talks for a project or even a potential agency-of-record assignment but never hear back — hasn’t helped. And some agency executives say they’ve dealt with or heard about a higher level of ghosting this year, attributing the normalization of the practice to overwhelmed marketers who are so focused on short-term wins that any longer-term planning goes out the window.

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Now media giant GroupM finds itself focus of WPP restructuring drive

More About Advertising

Looks like WPP’s once-mighty GroupM media operation is going the same way as the ad holding company’s creative agencies with yet another restructuring. Now its various media agencies, EssenceMediacom, Wavemaker, Mindshare and MSix & Partners, are no longer in charge of their budgets with spending being allocated on a group-wide country basis.

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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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The Rundown: OpenAI’s upheaval raises new questions about the industry’s generative AI players

Digiday

OpenAI’s current mercurial state is prompting plenty of questions about what the fallout might mean for the future of generative AI. It’s been a chaotic few days in the AI world. On Friday, OpenAI’s board unexpectedly ousted cofounder and CEO Sam Altman and removed both Altman and Greg Brockman — OpenAI’s cofounder and president — from the startup’s board.

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Is It Scary When You Find Barbed Wire Interesting?

Rob Campbell

Recently I met someone called Jim, who designs – among other things – barbed wire. When I was introduced to him, I first thought it was a pisstake. I never thought of barbed wire being something designed … and I certainly didn’t think there would be different versions of it … but apparently there is, as demonstrated by the photo above that shows different barbed wire over the years.

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From AI voice cloning to personalized playlists, how SiriusXM Media’s Lizzie Widhelm is automating audio ad sales

Digiday

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify The podcasting advertising industry looks a lot different today than it did even two years ago thanks to programmatic audio ads. While the bread and butter host-read ad format still packs a punch when it comes to driving listener engagement and conversions, those ads aren’t scalable, said Lizzie Widhelm, svp and head of ad innovation and B2B marketing at SiriusXM Media.

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Preferred Deals, and How to Setup Them in Google Ad Manager?

Automatad Inc.

Share Tweet Share One truth that says all: “Premium inventories are always reserved for premium buyers and for direct deals.” Source: Statista Publishers prefer using direct or guaranteed deals to sell their inventory because it gets them high value and demand, along with extensive control and transparency over the dealing process. This blog explores preferred deals, breaks down the steps to set preferred deals in GAM, and gives tips for effective preferred deals and suggestions for when you can

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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.