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How Blockchain Solana Turned Community Criticism Into a Resonant Campaign

Adweek

While the crypto sector has received negative attention since events including the FTX scandal and publication Rolling Stone calling NFTs "worthless," brands in the space have been doubling down on refining their messaging and strengthening their marketing to appeal to a wider audience. For blockchain platform Solana, what began as a groundswell of community critique.

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Yahoo’s New DSP Feature Relies On A Mix Of AI And First-Party Data

AdExchanger

AI-driven performance optimization is all the rage these days. Now, Yahoo is getting in on the action with the release on Tuesday of Blueprint, a new feature for its DSP that offers midflight optimization recommendations to meet campaign goals and help advertisers determine a person’s lifetime value and likelihood to convert. The solution relies on […] The post Yahoo’s New DSP Feature Relies On A Mix Of AI And First-Party Data appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Only A Third Of Every Programmatic Dollar Reaches End User, ANA Report Finds

Adweek

A new industry-wide report shows how buyers, including top advertisers, continue to waste money on inefficient supply paths and low-quality media. Media quality and the cost of media are not correlated, according to the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) programmatic media supply chain transparency report. The study analyzed campaign data from 21 brands, including State.

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How Soda Brand Poppi Is Quenching Its Thirst For Closed-Loop Attribution

AdExchanger

CPG brands buy digital media to make their in-store sales pop. But attempts to measure the impact of digital ad dollars on physical sales often fall flat. Blame it on retail data silos, said Graham Goeppert, VP of digital commerce and media at probiotic soda brand Poppi. Real-time inventory information typically sits separately from sales […] The post How Soda Brand Poppi Is Quenching Its Thirst For Closed-Loop Attribution appeared first on AdExchanger.

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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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WhatsApp Business Brings in Dentsu to Evolve Customer Relationships

Adweek

Meta has hired Dentsu as the customer relationship solution provider for its encrypted messaging platform WhatsApp's business-focused arm. WhatsApp Business is an extension app that allows companies to create a profile and then communicate directly with customers to offer updates and answer questions in real time.

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The head of marketing

Seth Godin

It’s easy to be confused about this job, because it’s not one job, it’s at least three. This is why it’s a difficult job to fill, and why turnover is so high–we’re not allocating resources or setting expectations in a way that matches the work to be done. Marketing strategy: This is the work of positioning, story telling, status and affiliation.

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3 tips to tackle the annual marketing budget challenge

Martech

Creating the annual marketing budget is notoriously challenging. Trying to justify every line item to finance teams that don’t understand marketing can be frustrating and overwhelming. This article explores practical tips for navigating the annual budgeting process smoothly. 1. Appoint a lead to run the annual budget planning process In a perfect world, someone on the marketing operations team manages the overall marketing budget, working closely with a trusted finance partner.

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C-Suite Collaboration Is Strengthening Kickstarter’s Brand

Adweek

The relationship between chief executives and chief marketers can be a famously tumultuous one, but not at Kickstarter. Having made the leap from CMO to CEO himself, Everette Taylor has assembled a collaborative team to help him reinvigorate the crowdfunding platform, and less than a year in it's driving results.

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The ANA Releases Its Second Transparency Report – Hits The Open Web As 25% Waste

AdExchanger

The Association of National Advertisers is coming for your ad tech margin. That’s the TL;DR from the ANA’s second Programmatic Media Supply Chain Transparency Report, which published today. It isn’t fair to summarize a report that spans 125 pages and took three years to complete into a few brash words (the report was also split […] The post The ANA Releases Its Second Transparency Report – Hits The Open Web As 25% Waste appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Smirnoff’s Ad Boss Discusses the Power of Intersectionality

Adweek

Smirnoff is leaning further into intersectionality and inclusivity with a colorful campaign and series of experiences that celebrate the magic that happens when people from different backgrounds socialize together. In mid-2023, the vodka brand unveiled a fresh tagline devised by newly appointed agency McCann, "We Do We.

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

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AppsFlyer Ends The Year With Another Acquisition

AdExchanger

AppsFlyer just closed its second acquisition in less than one month. On Tuesday, AppsFlyer acquired oolo, an AI-powered user acquisition and monetization platform that automatically analyzes live app data to forecast performance, identify growth areas and detect ad revenue anomalies. Uncovering issues with campaign performance or a piece of creative – then drilling down to […] The post AppsFlyer Ends The Year With Another Acquisition appeared first on AdExchanger.

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JoanxMedia Founders Uncover Why Their Media and Creative Collaboration Truly Works

Adweek

Occasionally, creative and media agencies will partner together in a pitch in order to have the scale needed to compete against holding companies, but those collaborations are often in one-off instances. But Joan Creative and Crossmedia are bucking that trend with a formal partnership that has proved that working together can be a boost to.

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AI-powered cold email: A nightmare in the making?

Martech

A successful cold email program — or “prospecting,” if you prefer — takes careful handling. You’re reaching out to strangers one-on-one to persuade them to initiate a business relationship with you. It’s like calling someone you’ve never met to arrange a dinner date. (Do people even do that anymore?) Cold emails take delicacy and precision. You have to show quickly that you know enough about your contact to have a reason for emailing them out of the blue and that engaging with you would drive a

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Uber Eats Drops a Holiday Cabaret Remix With Real Housewives’ Luann de Lesseps

Adweek

Bravo's multi-spinoff franchise The Real Housewives has delivered glamour to spare since the first episode dropped in 2006. For the 2023 holiday season, The Real Housewives of New York City alumnus Countess Luann de Lesseps wants to tell the world that simplifying gift giving is about the classiest thing you can do. Teaming up with.

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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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ANA study finds 25% of programmatic ad dollars are wasted

Martech

Of the $88 billion spent on open web programmatic ads, $22 billion is wasteful or unproductive, a study by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) found. The ANA’s Programmatic Media Supply Chain Transparency Study focused on the open web ad market and did not address the opportunity of walled gardens. It included 21 marketers and 12 supply chain companies, and tracked $123 million in total ad spend with 35.5 billion impressions between September 2022 and January 2023.

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Brave Commerce Podcast: Redefining Relationship Selling

Adweek

On this episode of Brave Commerce, Kristof Neirynck, global chief marketing officer and managing director at Avon, joins hosts Rachel Tipograph and Sarah Hofstetter to discuss the evolution of relationship selling and the innovative approaches Avon has adopted in the contemporary market. As the conversation begins, the hosts reflect on Avon's enduring legacy of 137.

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Is Chumbox Economics Feeding The Industry’s MFA Problem?

AdExchanger

In 2022, according to company filings, customers spent a whopping $2.4 billion buying clicks from Taboola ($1.4 billion) and Outbrain ($1 billion). In the same period, the two firms paid publishers $1.6 billion for placing their infamous “chumboxes” on their websites. Both Taboola and Outbrain refer to these costs as Traffic Acquisition Costs (TAC).

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E.l.f. Cosmetics Brings Lipstick to Snapchat Bitmojis

Adweek

To promote its O Face Satin Lipstick, e.l.f. Cosmetics worked with Snapchat to launch the platform's first Bitmoji Beauty Drop, allowing Snapchat users to claim a free digital item for their Bitmoji for 24 hours. Snapchat users in the U.S. and U.K. will be able to tap the e.l.f. Cosmetics Drop banner in the app's.

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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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Blue-Chip Or Green-Chip Agency Accounts; Google’s Epic Mistake

AdExchanger

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Win Is A Win? Blue-chip accounts are coveted on Madison Ave, but it’s impossible to tell which clients are really the key wins for the agencies involved. Winning the McDonald’s or Coca-Cola account comes with cachet and solid earned media, but the […] The post Blue-Chip Or Green-Chip Agency Accounts; Google’s Epic Mistake appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Behind the Pop Culture Roots of Pepsi’s Modern Retro Redesign

Adweek

Blame Pepsi for the plot of Home Alone. Each holiday season, a new generation of viewers watches McCaulay Culkin's Kevin McCallister fume as his bed-wetting cousin Fuller shotguns a 1990-vintage can of Pepsi just before they're supposed to share sleeping quarters. When Kevin's brother Buzz eats the last slice of cheese pizza, Kevin flips out.

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Major trends in martech for 2024: the real changes underway in a 99% platitude-free report

Chief Martech

There was a meme circulating around social media last week of an agency marketer rambling in a “thought leadership” interview on TikTok. I have no idea if it was parody or real. Or more accurately, if it was intentional or accidental parody. It was a jumbled jubilee of buzzword bingo – personalization, data, brand, experience, customer-centricity — that wound up saying absolutely nothing at all.

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Super Bowl 58 Ad Tracker: Watch All the Teasers and Spots

Adweek

Super Bowl 58 (or Super Bowl LVIII for the Roman numeral traditionalists) is virtually sold out to advertisers, according to CBS, the network airing the game. More than two months before the game, only a handful of advertisers have revealed themselves, which means this Super Bowl ad tracker will be updated as for announcements, teasers.

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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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Why the Detroit Lions chose direct-to-consumer distribution to diversify its advertising revenue

Digiday

Pre-season games have traditionally offered NFL teams chances to generate additional ad revenue via commercials and brand partnerships. However, recent adjustments to the NFL schedule have led to a reduction in the number of pre-season games to three games per team , consequently limiting the inventory available for teams to capitalize on monetization opportunities.

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Telemundo Leadership Shakeup: Luis Fernández Replaces Beau Ferrari as Chairman

Adweek

Telemundo is ending the year with a major leadership shakeup. Today, Cesar Conde, chairman of NBCUniversal News Group, announced that Beau Ferrari will exit his role as chairman of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, with Luis Fernandez now taking on the position. Ferrari, who has served as chairman for three years, will transition to a position as.

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Why the first Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer might be gaming’s biggest marketing moment of 2023

Digiday

Rockstar Games published the first official trailer for the hotly anticipated “Grand Theft Auto 6” on Dec. 5 — and immediately sparked a frenzy of excitement within the online gaming community. It’s been over a decade since the most recent entry in the wildly popular “Grand Theft Auto” series came out in September 2013, meaning anticipation for “GTA 6” has been building for years.

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Dentsu X Names Shenda Loughnane Global Brand President

Adweek

Dentsu X, the communications and media division of the advertising agency network, has named Shenda Loughnane as its new global brand president, succeeding Sanjay Nazerali, who is leaving the business. Loughnane will take up the position from Jan. 1, stepping up from global managing director of iProspect, a role she has held since November 2021.

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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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Why AI, revenue diversification and ad spend are the defining 2024 trends for media companies

Digiday

Will Barker, manager, strategic customer success, BlueConic The media and publishing industry is constantly evolving. With this, it’s often difficult to keep up with the latest trends, especially with fast-evolving technologies emerging all the time and ripple effects remaining from the global pandemic. To ensure 2024 is a fruitful year, media companies and publishers should look out for the major trends likely to dominate the industry and how first-party data will come into play.

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Mike WiLL Made-It Is Creating Harmony Beyond Beats

Adweek

Music is often referred to as the universal language because it can evoke emotions in anyone regardless of the language the artist is singing or rapping in. But while most people have favorite artists, many do not know the producers behind them who come up with the beats and other song elements. Music producer Mike.

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Future of TV Briefing: How TV and streaming advertising’s programmatic deal model is being updated

Digiday

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how the streaming ad market’s programmatic guaranteed vs. private marketplace debate is reaching a compromise. Programmatic preferred Apple and Paramount look to sell a streaming bundle, Disney’s not selling ABC and more Programmatic preferred This much holds true: TV and streaming ad buyers would prefer their programmatic purchases to be conducted via private marketplaces, whereas sellers would pick programmatic guaranteed deals.

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The Colorful World of Marketing With Victoria Lozano

Adweek

In a new episode of Marketing Vanguard, Victoria Lozano, evp of Marketing at Crayola, recently shared insightful perspectives on the evolving role of marketing leadership. Lozano, responsible for steering Crayola's marketing strategy, emphasizes the importance of strategic decision-making and clarity in the dynamic CMO landscape. "If you could get those two things [building brand equity.

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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.