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5 Brands That Went Big on AI Marketing in 2024, And What They Learned

Adweek

Brands went bonkers for AI this past year, as they increasingly adopted the growing number of tools available to facilitate mundane tasks throughout the creative process and create new kinds of work. While consumers still feel conflicted about brands use of the technology, some marketing departments have found savings by leaning on generative AI in.

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A co-pilot approach to genAI (with prompt examples)

Martech

The relationship between marketers and generative AI has been complicated from the start. Many marketers have approached AI-generated content with understandable skepticism, questioning its ability to capture the nuanced voice and creativity that great marketing demands. Below the surface of these concerns is the fear that AI might eventually replace human marketers altogether.

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OpenAI Gears Up for a Blockbuster 2025: Big Moves, Big Risks, and Potentially Big Rewards

Adweek

With a valuation of $157 billion and a string of strategic moves, OpenAI is setting the stage for what could be a transformative 2025. The company is pushing to dominate the AI landscape by recruiting top advertising talent from Google and Meta, launching a search-integrated ChatGPT, and exploring ad-driven revenue as it refines its for-profit.

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HubSpot to acquire conversational intelligence platform Frame AI

Martech

Today, HubSpot announced an agreement to acquire Frame AI, an AI-powered conversational intelligence company. Frame AIs conversational intelligence allows marketers to pull insights from unstructured data in emails, calls, meetings and other communications. While structured data has long been the foundation of CRM, unstructured datalike conversationsholds the key to deeper insights into customer sentiment, behavior, and intent, said HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan in a company release.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Unlikability Could Be Your Brand’s Secret Weapon

Adweek

Cue the scene: me, 14 years old, sitting in the bleachers at my middle school dance. Not one girl wanted to dance with me. I couldn't figure it out. I had what I thought were top-tier dance moves. But there I was, sulking in a dimly lit corner, on the top row where no one.

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Marketers discuss using AI beyond content creation

Martech

Many marketers are familiar with using generative AI for its content-creation capabilities, but AI presents opportunities to help marketers natively within applications they use in their martech stack every day. Beyond generative AI, opportunities await marketers with machine learning and other forms of AI. What keeps many organizations from moving forward with these initiatives are obstacles around team training and data governance.

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Where do martech practitioners sit in organizations?

Martech

Martech practitioners operate at the intersection of marketing and technology. As such, they can be placed at different places on an organizational chart. Where they are in the organization affects their responsibilities and the associated martech job description. Understanding this also helps with martech team formation. Where martech fits in the organization As a martech practitioner, I have sat in marketing, IT and on a product team.

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Allen & Gerritsen Spins Off Customer Technology Agency CeCo Digital

Adweek

Allen & Gerritsen (A&G) has launched a customer experience technology agency, CeCo Digital, to help marketers keep and grow loyal customers beyond the sale. The agency has tapped Bain partner Raj Heda to lead the new spinoff. CeCo Digital aims to provide marketers with integrated systems across communications, customer experience, and loyalty.

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The US DOJ’s Dual Cases Against Google Are Irrelevant to the Future. Here’s Why

Ad Monsters

Googles reign over search and advertising is under scrutiny, but are the DOJs antitrust cases missing the bigger picture? Mike Seiman, CEO of Digital Remedy, explores how AI, CTV, and evolving search behaviors are reshaping the digital ad landscapechallenging Googles dominance and redefining the future. All eyes this year have been on the U.S. Department of Justices dual anti-trust cases against Google.

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Home Depot’s Secret to Finding Its Boy-Next-Door Models: Hire the Boy Next Door

Adweek

Of all the creative assets in a brand marketer's toolkit, few are as humble (or essential) as the lifestyle photo--those stills and videos that feature a smiling model appearing alongside the product. Scores of agencies stand at the ready to book talent for jobs like this--often slender younglings who'll pair their good looks with a.

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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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Uniphore acquires ActionIQ and Infoworks

Martech

Uniphore announced today that it is acquiring data technology firms ActionIQ and Infoworks. The move is a key part of the companys new Zero Data AI Cloud, aimed at accelerating business AI adoption. The platform is designed to overcome common hurdles in enterprise adoption, such as data access, accuracy and flexibility. The Zero Data AI Cloud helps organizations use their data better by removing the need for complicated data migrations and integrations.

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GroupM: Ad Industry To Surpass $1 Trillion in Revenue for the First Time

Adweek

GroupM projects that the global advertising industry will surpass $1 trillion in total revenue for the first time this year. In its This Year Next Year 2024 End of Year Global Forecast, released today (Dec. 9), the WPP media investment firm estimates that global advertising revenue will increase 9.5% this year, up from the 7.8%.

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Publicis and WPP: does taking over as world’s number one ad holding company actually matter?

More About Advertising

Adland may be full of professional charmers but it’s as competitive as a 16th century Italian court, with assassins lurking behind every arras when it comes to pinching other people’s business. Saatchi & Saatchi wrote the book on this in the 1970s and 1980s as they embarked on their rise to (brief) world domination. One … The post Publicis and WPP: does taking over as worlds number one ad holding company actually matter?

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The Ad Council Raises Over $9 Million to Support Social Impact Campaigns

Adweek

The Ad Council, at its 70th annual public service award dinner Thursday night, honored Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger as an outstanding corporate citizenship, including his support for multiple Ad Council efforts, and the event raised a record-breaking $9.2 million to support its efforts. The event was co-hosted by actors Angela Bassett and Lilly.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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The WIR: MFE Seeks €3.4 Billion Loan for ProSieben Plans, IPG Acquires Intelligence Node, and Madison and Wall Forecasts Trump Impact on TV Advertising

VideoWeek

In this week’s Week in Review: MFE speaks to banks about funding ProSieben moves, IPG makes a commerce media play, and Madison and Wall forecast negative impacts of Trump’s election on TV advertising. Top Stories MFE Lines Up 3.4 Billion Loan for Potential ProSieben Takeover European broadcaster MFE-MediaForEurope, owner of Mediaset and Mediaset Espaa, has held talks with several banks to secure a 3.4 billion loan to help finance any moves it might wish to make next year relating to

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IPG Just Splurged $100 Million on a Retail Data Firm — Here’s Exactly What It Gained

Adweek

Interpublic Group is betting on commerce and retail media. The holding company has agreed to acquire retail analytics firm Intelligence Node. Exact terms were not disclosed, but the acquisition is valued at $100 million, which includes the price of the deal and the costs to scale Intelligence Node. Intelligence Node's 120 employees will become part.

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The problem with shock design

Seth Godin

If attention is what you seek and attention is what you measure, it’s likely you’ll create drama. And drama is inherently short-lived. The managing director of Jaguar said, “We’ve certainly gathered an awful lot of attention over the last few weeks.” Choosing the word “awful” was appropriate. Here’s the design that made Jaguar iconic: Sixty years later, it still turns heads and fuels dreams.

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3 Ways Creators Are Future-Proofing Amid TikTok’s Uncertain Fate

Adweek

The ongoing threat of a TikTok ban just got more serious. Today (Dec. 5), a U.S. federal appeals court upheld a law that requires TikTok's owner, Chinese tech firm ByteDance, to divest itself of the app in the United States by early next year, or face a ban. Unless the Supreme Court intervenes, the decision.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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Federal Appeals Court Upholds Law That Could Lead to TikTok Ban

Adweek

TikTok took a hit in Washington, D.C., Friday, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a law that requires Chinese-based parent company ByteDance to sell the popular video-sharing social platform by Jan. 19 or see the application banned in the U.S. The likely next step for TikTok and ByteDance is an.

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Amazon’s Black Friday Game Scores Big for Advertisers

Adweek

In only its second year hosting the NFL Black Friday game, Amazon has had no problem staying on offense and moving forward. Drawing 13.51 million viewers to see the Kansas City Chiefs eke out a 19-17 win over the Las Vegas Raiders--and increasing its audience 41% from the roughly 9 million who watched the New.

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Ed Trauschke to Retire from WNCN in December

Adweek

Veteran news director Ed Trauschke is retiring from Raleigh, N.C. CBS affiliate WNCN. He joined the station in 2017. His last day at WNCN will be Friday, December 20, 2024. "For the last seven years Ed has overseen the growth and development of our newsroom. He's helped guide CBS 17 News to new heights, instilling.

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Ticker: ABC News Has a New Office Space for 2025

Adweek

Top of the Ticker: ABC News is saying goodbye to its longtime home on New York's Upper West Side. The network is moving south to 7 Hudson Square, site of the recently opened Robert A. Iger building, named after the Disney CEO.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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Here’s the Roundup for the Week Ending December 6

Adweek

Happy Friday to all who celebrate! In this week's edition of stories we didn't write up for one reason or another, we see Byron Allen (pictured) is suing McDonald's, saying the company discriminates against black-owned businesses, and in the "I guess?" category of news, we see a bunch of anchor dudes have been named to.

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Donald Trump Accepts Fox Nation Award as Pete Hegseth Nomination Faces Headwinds

Adweek

Donald Trump's love/hate relationship with Fox News Media was all love on Thursday night. The president-elect received the inaugural Patriot of the Year award during Fox Nation's sixth annual Patriot Awards ceremony, held in Brookville, NY. Chants of "USA!" echoed inside the Tilles Center for Performing Arts as Trump walked onto the stage and was.

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