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Leaked Presentation Shows How Google Is Pitching Its 2024 AI Agenda to Ad Buyers

Adweek

Google's big bet on using AI to power ads is getting even bigger in 2024. At Google's Marketing Live event, which kickstarts today, the tech giant is expected to reveal how ads will look in generative AI-powered search, one week after its full U.S. roll-out. Generative AI search is already poised to change how buyers.

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We All Have A Role To Play In Ending MFA

AdExchanger

Like any addiction, buying cheap impressions on made-for-arbitrage (MFA) content is a vicious cycle that feeds itself. If our industry doesn’t stop the cycle at the source, it will continue indefinitely. The need for a solution is growing as junk publishers tarnish the reputation of the open internet. We’ve even reached the point where The […] The post We All Have A Role To Play In Ending MFA appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Retail Media Network Trade-Offs: High Engagement but Low Viewability

Adweek

Beneath the hype, retail media networks offer a unique set of tradeoffs to advertisers, according to new data from ad verification firm DoubleVerify. Brands see huge wins on engagement, but lower-than-average viewability. Retailers' owned-and-operated ecommerce sites, where onsite ads purchased through an RMN appear (such as a consumer packaged goods brand ad appearing on Walmart.

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Why Marketers Shouldn’t Obsess Over Retail Media ROAS Claims

AdExchanger

Closed-loop attribution is a marketer’s dream. But the ease of measuring return on ad spend (ROAS) from placements on ecommerce sites is a “moral hazard,” said Stephen Howard-Sarin, managing director of retail media at Criteo, during Programmatic IO’s first-ever Retail Media Summit on Monday. “The hazard is that ROAS can flatten your strategy and turn […] The post Why Marketers Shouldn’t Obsess Over Retail Media ROAS Claims appeared first on AdExchanger.

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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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Heineken Reenters the Marvel Universe to End a Fight Between Deadpool and Wolverine

Adweek

Last year, Heineken introduced its lower-calorie light beer, Heineken Silver, touting a less bitter taste. Now, it is building on its "All the Taste, No Bitter Feelings" platform by reentering the Marvel Universe and resolving the bitterness between Deadpool and Wolverine. The brand released an ad ahead of the July 26 theatrical release of Marvel.

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Noodling for professionals

Seth Godin

When Miles Davis recorded Kind of Blue with his quartet, they spent a total of four days in the recording studio. They created one of the bestselling and most important jazz albums of all time in less than a week. Of course, they’d been exploring for months. In clubs, in front of an audience, trading fours and taking risks. Studio time is expensive.

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Google unveils AI-powered advertising tools at Google Marketing Live

Martech

Today, Google introduced new creative tools and ad experiences at its annual Google Marketing Live event, held in New York. Here’s what marketers can expect to see at Google, either now or in the coming months. Search ad experience. Among the most inventive improvements to search is a new ad experience currently in testing and slated to become more widely available later in the year.

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Need for Speed: Liquid Death’s Latest Stunt Goes Top Gun For Jet Giveaway

Adweek

Liquid Death is taking its patented outrageousness to new heights--literally--by launching a contest to give away a fighter jet nicknamed The Dehydrator worth about $400,000. The sweeps, where consumers can enter as many as 400 times, is aimed at whipping up a frenzy that will drive retail sales during the key summer season for the.

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Women’s sports marketing set for take-off

Martech

It’s no secret that Caitlin Clark and a number of other young stars are having a huge impact on engagement with women’s basketball. Clark’s WNBA debut smashed records at ESPN, drawing over two million viewers. But did you know the Paris Olympics this year will be the first to feature an equal number of women and men athletes? Fifteen percent of adults who plan to watch the Olympics are aware of this.

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Meet Vidhya Srinivasan: the Google Exec With the Toughest Job in Advertising

Adweek

When she was a kid, Vidhya Srinivasan, Google's vice president and general manager of ads, was sure of one thing: She wanted to be a doctor. She had a large family in India--lots of cousins and older relatives, including her grandmother Vatsala. The household had plenty of engineers already. Besides, Vatsala liked the idea of.

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

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Ad Chatter Season 5, Episode 1: Steve Harrison Talks About Ad Legend Howard Gossage

AdPulp

We have a returning guest! Host Dan Goldgeier chats with Steve Harrison about his new book, co-written with Dave Dye, “The Howard Gossage Show – and what it can teach you about advertising, fun, fame, and manipulating the media.” In this 29-minute podcast, Dan and Steve chat about: • What made Howard Gossage’s work so […] The post Ad Chatter Season 5, Episode 1: Steve Harrison Talks About Ad Legend Howard Gossage appeared first on Adpulp.

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Dwyane Wade and Carmelo Anthony Go Inside Out in New Disney Spots

Adweek

Carmelo Anthony and Dwyane Wade are getting emotional ahead of Inside Out 2. In honor of the June 14 debut of Disney and Pixar's Inside Out 2--and only a week after the House of Mouse's upfront event--Disney is bringing Wade and Anthony together into the world of Inside Out, with the stars taking the audience.

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How to build a hyper-precise audience-first ad campaign

Martech

For years, marketers have chased delivering “the right message to the right audience at the right time and on the right channel.” Fortunately, today’s data and technology landscape, overlaid with media consumption behaviors, makes this kind of brand interaction more than a cliché. Hyper-precision targeting is a powerful, high-impact, low-waste approach to audience-first marketing that drives engagement, conversion rates and lifetime value.

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Jacques Séguéla, 90, Explains Why He Keeps Pitching as Havas Names Health Network After the Ad Legend

Adweek

Jacques Seguela was one of the original Mad Men of France. His prowess as an adman produced notable and lasting campaigns for Citroen, Air France, Club Med and Louis Vuitton. Seguela was the founder of RSCG, which merged with Eurocom to create Euro RSCG, which became Havas. Now Havas is naming a Havas Health network.

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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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From creative briefs to conversations: The key to better marketing alignment

Martech

David Ogilvy famously said, “Give me the freedom of a tight brief.” The sentiment is that the best creative outcomes come when briefs are focused and specific, providing little room for interpretation. Born out of the ad agencies of the 1960s, creative briefs were a way for the account planner — the person closest to the client — to set creative strategy in motion.

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We Need an Open Web Identity Solution to Combat the Opacity of Walled Gardens

Adweek

"Market dislocation"--though a term most often reserved for economists and Wall Street analysts, it could aptly describe the state of online identity today. Recent reports suggest that Apple and Google are considering removing the IP address from their respective devices' and platforms' reporting. This move, which also nods to regulators and privacy advocates, comes on.

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Don’t Call It A Comeback: The Reinvention Of Search Engine Marketing

AdExchanger

For decades, search engine marketing was considered “boring” or “already figured out.” But no more. With the rise of generative AI software and major changes to search platforms even in just the past year or two, SEO and SEM tactics are back. Everyone and their mother is trying to figure out how to make search […] The post Don’t Call It A Comeback: The Reinvention Of Search Engine Marketing appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Google Expands Advertising Into AI Search Engine

Adweek

Google shared how AI will reimagine the traditional search experience at its annual event for marketers, Google Marketing Live, with many highly anticipated details on how ads will fit into this new interface. Ads will be available in Google's AI Overview, formerly known as Search Generative Experience--its AI-powered conversational interface that answers search queries--and will.

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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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The autonomous marketing revolution: Navigating the new frontier of brand engagement by Wunderkind

Martech

The convergence of big data and artificial intelligence (AI) is setting the stage for revolutionary changes in how brands engage with consumers. Traditional marketing methods are struggling to keep pace with the heightened expectations of modern consumers and rapid technological advancements. Print, television, direct mail, telemarketing — these all have their place in brand marketing, but consumers of all ages, all incomes and all genders are now digital creatures.

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Live From New York, It’s SNL’s 50th Anniversary Sponsors

Adweek

Your Weekend Update is coming early courtesy of NBCUniversal. Top line Today, days after TV upfront week, NBCU announced the presenting sponsors for Saturday Night Live's 50th anniversary season, which include Allstate, L'Oreal Groupe, T-Mobile and Volkswagen of America. Between the lines 'Wicked' Start: How NBCU Kicked Off Upfront Week In addition to taking part.

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CALM stamps out dad stereotypes in Father’s Day ads by The Or

More About Advertising

Father’s Day cards can be pretty dispiriting. They show a world where dads are all about drinking, farting, sport, DIY and handing out money. These stereotypes are scrubbed out in a new campaign for CALM by Mother’s sister agency The Or, which enlisted more than 30 artists to redesign generic Father’s Day cards and spread … The post CALM stamps out dad stereotypes in Father’s Day ads by The Or first appeared on More About Advertising.

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How LoanDepot’s Marketing Adapts to Cyclical Changes

Adweek

In this episode of The Speed of Culture, host Matt Britton sits down with Alec Hanson, chief marketing officer at LoanDepot, to discuss the transformative shifts in the mortgage industry, the evolution of marketing strategies in response to digital trends, and the power of personal branding. As the housing market continues its complex journey of.

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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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How Advertisers Might Handle Over-Attribution; Political Ads Still Hinge On Linear

AdExchanger

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Attribution vs. Contribution Ad platform over-attribution is boiling over right now for frustrated marketers. Walled garden platforms aren’t new, but server-side data plugins by Google and Meta, plus the explosion of retail media walled gardens, mean brands might see a dozen platforms claim full […] The post How Advertisers Might Handle Over-Attribution; Political Ads Still Hinge On Linear appeared first on AdExc

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The Ad Strategy Behind Netflix’s NFL Games, According to Ad Sales VP Peter Naylor

Adweek

Netflix has a game plan for the National Football League. At Netflix's upfront event last week (its second upfront presentation and first time in-person), the company rolled out celebrities such as Mindy Kaling and Kate Hudson, announced that it will be taking its adtech platform in-house and gave further details on its upcoming NFL Christmas.

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Short-Form Video is “Taking Over” from Live Shopping in the US

VideoWeek

As retail media emerges as the fastest-growing segment in advertising, video is becoming a key driver in its meteoric rise. In 2018 a Brightcove and YouGov survey found that 76 percent of consumers have made a purchase after watching a video. As a result, tech companies have increasingly explored ways to connect video and shopping. One of the first movers in this space was CommentSold, a video commerce platform launched in 2017, enabling Shopify retailers to host shopping livestreams on social m

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Dan O’Leary of J.M. Smucker on Shaping a Career Out of Left Turns

Adweek

In this episode of Brave Commerce, Dan O'Leary, J.M. Smucker svp and general manager for sweet baked snacks and pet food, joins hosts Rachel Tipograph and Sarah Hofstetter to offer insights into growing into his leadership role by approaching everything from teams to strategy as a building exercise. Early in his career, O'Leary realized that.

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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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Pitch deck: How Amazon is talking to marketers about Performance+

Digiday

Amazon has joined the likes of Google and Meta by launching its own black box-style ad campaign called Performance+. Designed to make campaign creation and management as easy as possible, Performance+, which sits within Amazon’s demand-side platform uses a predictive model to predict the likelihood of users who will convert hourly, in order to drive cost per acquisition performance.

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Woodward Throwbacks Reimagines Furniture With Reclaimed Materials

Adweek

We all appreciate the beauty of furniture that serves a functional purpose while also having a unique story. When furniture is crafted from unconventional materials, it becomes even more intriguing. Detroit residents Bo Shepherd and Kyle Dubay are passionate about sustainability and have dedicated themselves to creating one-of-a-kind furniture pieces from reclaimed and recycled materials.

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As Roblox expands its advertising network, child safety concerns are on the horizon

Digiday

Roblox’s burgeoning ad network could drive significant revenue for the platform — but as the company widens its advertising offerings, it will have to tackle the inevitable child safety challenges that come with such an expansion. The full rollout of video ads on Roblox earlier this month represented the latest step in the company’s plan to transform its core product from a gaming hub into a full-service digital platform à la Facebook or Amazon.

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Adlook Announces Kuba Kossut as New Chief Executive Officer

Exchange Wire

Adlook, a next-generation brand growth platform, today (May 21st, 2024) announced Kuba Kossut as the company’s new chief executive officer. Kossut joined Adlook in early 2024 as the global vice president of market entry strategy – overseeing global development initiatives [.] The post Adlook Announces Kuba Kossut as New Chief Executive Officer appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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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.