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The Always Sunny Gang Gets Into the Whiskey Business With Spots Reminiscent of 1970s Beer Ads

Adweek

Three-fifths of the gang on Always Sunny in Philadelphia is getting into the liquor business. But lest you think this is yet another celebrity spirits brand, Four Walls Irish American Whiskey is less about the celebrity and more about the places and the people you enjoy the beverage with. Four Walls, the Irish-American whiskey brand.

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Best of the Bot: Identifying the latest trends in digital marketing

Martech

Best of the Bot showcases MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. The language model is based on content from MarTech layered 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 search marketers. I am trained with MarTech content.

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The Messenger Pens AI Partnership to Verify Its Reporting Quality

Adweek

The general interest news publisher The Messenger, which launched in May with an ambitious vision for its reach and revenue, has penned a multiyear, multimillion-dollar partnership with the artificial intelligence company Seekr, according to president Richard Beckman. Among other elements of the deal, The Messenger will gain access to a proprietary tool built by Seekr.

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X (Twitter) partners with Google Ad Manager

Martech

X (formerly known as Twitter) has joined forces with the Google Display Network. Following a steep decline in advertising revenue earlier this year, the social platform has decided to start outsourcing the sale of some of its ad space. Moving forward, advertisers will be able to tap into the X home feed inventory through Google Ads Display campaigns – however, exact details of the deal terms remain undisclosed.

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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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BeReal Is Searching for ‘The Realest Person on Earth’

Adweek

BeReal, the nascent platform that set out to antithesize curated social content, is looking for the face of its first global campaign. The only qualification is that you convince both brand employees and other users that you have absolutely nothing to hide. As BeReal works to maintain a place in extensive app rotations, it is.

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Meta Is Rolling Out Its First Gen AI Tools For Ad Creative

AdExchanger

Generative AI for ad creative is coming to Meta’s Ads Manager. On Wednesday, Meta announced it’s starting the process of rolling out three of the AI-powered tools that it’s been incubating within its AI Sandbox so advertisers can implement them for ad campaigns. The tools will gradually be made available to more and more advertisers […] The post Meta Is Rolling Out Its First Gen AI Tools For Ad Creative appeared first on AdExchanger.

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AI Bubble

The Ad Tech Blog

The current state of the AI industry can be analyzed through Carlota Perez’s technological revolutions framework. AI is in the transitional phase between Frenzy and Synergy , marked by over-investment, speculation, and significant integrations into various sectors. Generative AI has been released to the world. People fear losing their jobs, and leaders (both in the private sector -CEOs- and in the public sector) demand regulation.

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Adweek’s 2023 US Midsize Agency of the Year Finalists

Adweek

This year, Adweek is not only celebrating the best ad agencies in the business but also striving to help other shops understand what makes the best of the best truly stand out. That's why, for the first time, Adweek has a theme for its Agency of the Year awards: Building a Better Agency. We asked.

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Evenly distributed

Seth Godin

For the first time, the only time, everyone on Earth was in the same boat at the same time. We’ve long been divided by privilege, by caste, by accidents of birth or by organized hierarchies. Sure, there have been events that struck us all at once. Landing on the moon caused us all to gasp simultaneously. But this time was different. Regardless of class or age or nationality, the situation was right there, in front of our face.

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To Engage Gen Z Latinos, Brands Should Lean Into Music, Spanglish and Tiktok

Adweek

Editor's note: In this article, Adweek deviated from its style of using Latinx due to the writer's preference. The Latino community comprises 19% of the U.S. population and exceeds 25% of Gen Z. This rapidly growing demographic is not only assimilating into America but impacting the broader culture in fascinating ways. In four of the.

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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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Before you hire another marketer, do these 5 things first

Martech

Hang on a minute. Do you really need another marketer on your team? Or is there a different way to look at the situation? Hiring is costly, time-consuming and distracting for your team. Moreover, adding a new team member significantly increases complexity and the need to communicate. Eventually, you’ll need to hire another marketer as your team grows.

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Fruit of the Loom Revives Classic Mascots for the TikTok Generation

Adweek

The fruit guys, as they were once known, sang shoe-gazing ballads a la Coldplay, dropped music videos worthy of early MTV and humanized a healthy food group, all in service of hawking modestly priced underwear. The endearing mascots for Fruit of the Loom--a rotating ensemble of actors who first appeared in TV commercials in the.

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How Icelandair used programmatic to increase bookings

Martech

Icelandair had two problems. First, “After the pandemic, they had to change a lot of flight routes because of border rules,” said Anjlee Majmudar, VP of programmatic, for the airline’s digital marketing partner Brainlabs North America. As a result “they had difficulty making sure that all of the seats were filled. Not only booking flights but making sure that all the seats within the flights were filled and fully optimized.

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Kraft’s Ore-Ida Sprinkles Disney-Style Magic in Ad Celebrating Predictability

Adweek

Ad campaigns typically focus on novelty as they seek to build excitement for new products, but that is harder to do for a category leader that has been around for more than 70 years. So Kraft Heinz's Ore-Ida is taking the opposite approach, with its new "Deliciously Predictable" platform that kicks off a brand refresh.

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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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Omnichannel loyalty: Crafting a seamless customer experience by Comarch

Martech

In the past, customer loyalty was earned with a friendly smile at the corner store. Today, it’s all about the ease of clicking “add to cart” from the comfort of your living room. Recently, “omnichannel” has emerged as a buzzword in the industry. Now, leveraging an omnichannel loyalty program is not just an advantage but a necessity. The transformation of customer loyalty in the age of omnichannel commerce can help your brand thrive by embracing this evolution.

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The Great Fail Podcast: How Kittyhawk Went From Moonshot to a Long Shot

Adweek

A surprising announcement rippled through Silicon Valley in the Spring of 2017. A mysterious "flying car" venture called Kittyhawk took the spotlight, fueled by rumors of Google co-founder Larry Page's involvement. A marvel of engineering, this all-electric innovation promised to reduce traffic congestion and open the skies for dreamers--a moonshot that captivated engineers, futurists and.

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Content, Not IP Addresses, Should Be The Focus Of CTV Targeting

AdExchanger

Like third-party cookies for the programmatic advertising ecosystem, IP addresses have become the ad targeting currency of choice for the $26 billion CTV ad market. But like their cookie cousins, IP addresses face an uncertain future. Increasingly tough and evolving data privacy standards are making personal information like IP addresses incrementally more difficult to use. […] The post Content, Not IP Addresses, Should Be The Focus Of CTV Targeting appeared first on AdExchanger.

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The Speed of Culture Podcast: Reviving Abercrombie & Fitch for Modern Retail

Adweek

The retail and fashion industries have undergone significant transformation in recent years, driven by changing consumer preferences and the rise of ecommerce. Even industry leaders like Abercrombie & Fitch have faced formidable challenges. In response, the brand embarked on a journey to reintroduce itself. On the latest episode of The Speed of Culture podcast, Suzy.

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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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Rotten To The Core – But In The Right Way

AdExchanger

Hey, Commerce readers. This is James Hercher, and we’re back from a short hiatus with the AdExchanger Commerce newsletter. This week, we catch up with Barry Hott. Perhaps you know him as the “Make Ugly Ads” guy on Twitter or LinkedIn. Hott was also head of growth for Ranch Water, a hard seltzer brand acquired […] The post Rotten To The Core – But In The Right Way appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Apple’s ATT crackdown emboldened DTC marketers to reinvest in Meta, Google

Digiday

Despite all of the brouhaha around the data privacy changes and challenges that came along with Apple’s crackdown on in-app tracking in 2021, direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertisers seem, for the most part, to have reverted back to their bread and butter: Meta and Google. Two years ago, Apple’s AppTrackingTransparency framework (ATT) presented an attribution problem, muddying advertisers’ insight as to whether their mobile ads were working.

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AI Proliferating Disinformation Online, Reports Freedom on the Net; WPP Partners with Shopify

Exchange Wire

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: a new report from Freedom on the Net highlights the risks of AI; WPP partners with Shopify to enhance its e-commerce offerings; and US Senators launch a probe into personnel changes between TikTok and ByteDance. Report [.] The post AI Proliferating Disinformation Online, Reports Freedom on the Net; WPP Partners with Shopify appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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How Les Echos-Le Parisien Group is Preparing for a World Without Cookies

VideoWeek

Despite (or perhaps because of) the multiple delays to Google’s timeline for completely removing third-party cookies from Chrome, many businesses still don’t have their post-cookie strategies in place. On the brand side, a recent survey of UK marketers conducted by YouGov on behalf of Adform found that only thirty-three percent say they are well prepared for the post-cookie world.

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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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Marketers reconsider BeReal as it launches its first global brand marketing campaign

Digiday

Several months ago, BeReal began losing steam with users, marketers and creators. But the young-demo skewing, photo-sharing social media app hopes to sling itself back in the cultural zeitgeist with its first ever global brand marketing campaign. BeReal is using a notable strategy — relying on other social media channels for engagement. The campaign will call on users to submit their BeReal posting to a competition via Instagram or X (formerly Twitter) for a chance at a paid vacation and opportu

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Equativ & Utiq’s New Partnership Brings People-First Advertising to the Programmatic Supply Chain

Exchange Wire

Equativ, the global leading independent ad platform, today (October 4th, 2023) announced its partnership with Utiq — the European ad tech company that delivers a telco-powered Authentic Consent Service to enable responsible digital marketing. Driven by a shared focus on protecting [.] The post Equativ & Utiq’s New Partnership Brings People-First Advertising to the Programmatic Supply Chain appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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Hasbro taps college athletes, and Nerfball, to build clout with Gen Z

Digiday

Hasbro is investing in college athletes — something the toy and game behemoth is able to do given the name, image and likeness (NIL) policy change in recent years — to gain traction among Gen Z sports fans. At the same time, the company is looking to garner interest among potential sponsors for the next edition of its new sporting event, Nerfball: Battle in the Bubble tournament.

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Data Clean Room Startup Samooha Is Working Its Way Through The Walled Gardens

AdExchanger

Samooha has its head in (and eye on) the clouds. Over the past two weeks, the data collaboration startup announced integrations with two different walled garden clean rooms: Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) in mid-September followed by Google’s Ads Data Hub (ADH) through a partnership with Media.Monks on Wednesday. Samooha, which launched earlier this year with […] The post Data Clean Room Startup Samooha Is Working Its Way Through The Walled Gardens appeared first on AdExchanger.

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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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Media Briefing: How Pinterest is wooing publishers with its Red Standard program

Digiday

This week’s Media Briefing takes a look at Pinterest’s new publisher program, which is among other social media companies, to compensate publishers for the content they produce on-platform. Pinterest’s publisher pursuit 3 Qs with Future’s CRO Zack Sullivan Bloomberg restructures for events, Campbell Brown leaves Meta and more Pinterest’s publisher pursuit Pinterest is pursuing publishers with more fervor via its new Red Standard Program, which launched in beta this

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Netflix Ad Chief Jeremi Gorman Leaves One Year After AVOD Launch

VideoWeek

Netflix has announced that Jeremi Gorman, President of Worldwide Advertising, is leaving the company. She will be replaced by Amy Reinhard, previously VP of Studio Operations. Gorman was in the role for just over a year, leading the development of the streaming giant’s advertising business. Netflix launched its ad tier in November 2022, and now claims more than 10 million global monthly users on its ad-supported plan.

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Media Buying Summit Recap: Retail media’s revolution, AI and finding new paths to KPIs

Digiday

The first two days of Digiday’s biannual Media Buying Summit , in Naples, Fla., touched on a host of issues and opportunities media agencies face this year. While in-housing reared its head (in a surprising way — but more on that later this week), other conversations revolved around the need for improved measurement in newer areas like creators and influencers as well as retail media networks.

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The FTC’s Hunt For Nessie; Publishers Await The Return Of Meta Referral Traffic

AdExchanger

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Nessie Lives The FTC is accusing Amazon of using Project Nessie, a secret algorithm, to fix prices in its favor and monopolize the retail market, Ars Technica reports. Amazon matched discount prices from rivals, spurring other retailers to slash their prices, too. This […] The post The FTC’s Hunt For Nessie; Publishers Await The Return Of Meta Referral Traffic appeared first on AdExchanger.

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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.