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According to UPS, We Are in the Midst of a ‘Jefa’ Movement

Adweek

The World Economic Forum states women made up nearly 50% of U.S. entrepreneurs in 2022. Although there are two million Latina-owned small businesses in the country starting more businesses per capita than any other racial group, there are still challenges when it comes to funding, resources and overall support. This is why emprendedoras--women entrepreneurs--were the.

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The email marketer’s guide to effective marketing automation

Martech

We email marketers are always searching for easier ways to do our jobs. We don’t want to skimp on quality, but we have had to learn how to do a lot with a little because we’re chronically understaffed and underfunded. Marketing automation gives you a way to have regular emails that focus on predictable behavior so we can send out an email when a customer achieves a goal or reaches a trigger or intent point.

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Omnicom Media Group Leaders Explain New Agency-as-a-Platform Model

Adweek

Holding company agencies sprawl, rife with redundancies and complexity that leave clients with questions. While some of its competitors execute mergers to tackle that challenge, Omnicom Media Group (OMG) has found its own solution: the agency-as-a-platform (AaaP) model. Simply put, the group wants the market to view it as a platform--a multifaceted and flexible organization.

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Marketers more optimistic even as budgets fall

Martech

Marketers are feeling much more optimistic this quarter, according to the CMO Survey from Deloitte. Nearly half (49%) reported feeling “more optimistic” about the U.S. economy, up from 30.1% in the spring survey. The Marketer Optimism Score, which measures marketer sentiment on a scale of 0 to 100, went from 58.3 in the spring to 66.5 currently.

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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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Pat McGrath Labs Works With Google to Let New Yorkers Try on Makeup in AR

Adweek

Makeup brand Pat McGrath Labs and Shop with Google will host an AR pop-up experience in New York that will allow visitors to virtually try on various makeup products. Called "The ARt of Beauty," the event will be open to the public from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 20-22. Visitors will be able to.

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Facebook Doesn’t Want Your Money; The Times Backtracks On In-App Programmatic

AdExchanger

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Not Buying It There’s been a burst of reports about new subscription-based, ad-free social media products. (Looking at you, Facebook.) It’s easy for these announcements to get caught up in trends like the pivot to subscriptions or revenue diversification. But it is not […] The post Facebook Doesn’t Want Your Money; The Times Backtracks On In-App Programmatic appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Will Money Move from Desktop and Mobile to CTV After Cookies Disappear?

VideoWeek

Once third-party cookies are finally removed from Google’s Chrome browser next year, we’re likely to see significant shifts in where advertisers spend their money. And one big winner could be CTV says James Wilhite, VP of product at Publica by IAS. In this interview, Wilhite discusses what he expects to see happen in a post-cookie world, the role of contextual targeting in CTV, and the opportunities which have opened up for Publica since its acquisition by IAS.

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General Mills Lets Shoppers ‘Creep to a New Beat’ in AR Cereal Game

Adweek

To celebrate Halloween, General Mills and marketing agency VMLY&R Commerce launched an augmented reality game featuring Carmella Creeper, the newest character in General Mills' Monster Cereal lineup. For the past 35 years, the General Mills monster group has consisted of three characters: Count Chocula, Franken Berry and Boo Berry. Carmella Creeper, an undead DJ, is.

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Judgment

Seth Godin

AI pushes us to do what we actually get paid to do: make decisions. Craft used to drive our hours or even days. Get the pen lines just right. Source the Letraset. Get your instrument in tune. Sweat the details, because the details are everything. Now, I can choose from 1,000 typefaces, and they’re all optically correct. Autotune has transformed commercial music, and the new AI grammar tools make it trivially easy to make edits or find errors.

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Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Deal Will Be a New Lure for Brands

Adweek

"Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more," explained Sarah Bond, Microsoft's corporate vice president for game creator experience and ecosystem at Xbox. Bond was speaking with McKinsey in January 2022 while explaining the technology company's interest in the video gaming sector. She said the tech giant's direct.

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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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What are the defaults?

Seth Godin

Perhaps they were chosen a very long time ago. Or with very little thought. It could be that the constraints that led to the default are long gone. They might be perpetuating bad choices, injustice or sub-optimal outputs. The best way to fix something is to look at what we assume is the ‘right’ starting spot. In persistent systems, it might be difficult to change the default setting, but knowing what it is and how it got there is a great place to begin.

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Adweek Podcast: Happy Hour With Tip Top Proper Cocktails

Adweek

When you think of cocktails, canned drinks may not be the first thing that springs to mind. But startup Tip Top Proper Cocktails has been shaking up the drinks industry with its range of high-end mixed beverages since its launch in 2019. From gin and tonics to espresso martinis and margaritas, Tip Top has it.

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Promote your seasonal discounts with a Promo campaign

Ad Wisey

Just in time for the holidays, we are happy to present the Promo campaign – a short-term advertising campaign that tells all of your current and potential customers about the limited-time offers in your store and drives 2x-3x ROAS compared to all the regular ads you run. Promo ads feature the offer from your store – say, 20% off on Black Friday – and a seasonal video ad creative.

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Substance Abuse Is Up. Marketers Could Be Making It Worse

Adweek

Thousands die from alcohol poisoning and drug overdoses in the U.S. each year. Yet language used by both consumers and brands is barbed with terms linked to substance abuse.

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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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Some Black-owned publications push back on MFA reform amid declining traffic

Digiday

Some Black-owned publishers feel the crackdown on made-for-advertising sites (MFAs) unfairly puts them at a disadvantage — particularly while grappling with declining referral traffic from social platforms. More ad dollars are making their way to Black-owned publishers , as a result of agencies’ commitments to spend a percentage of their media budgets with Black-owned publishers after the media reckoning spurred by the murder of George Floyd in 2020.

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Burger King Made a Camp Horror Film for Its Halloween Menu

Adweek

Burger King got spooky for Friday the 13th by launching a horror film with agency partner Dentsu Creative to promote the Ghost Pepper Whopper and Ghost Pepper Chicken Fries added to the chain's menu for Halloween. Produced by Wild Gift Content and directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, who was nominated for an Emmy for his work.

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Omnicom Media Group aligns with SSPs through its CASA initiative to fight fraud and MFA abuse

Digiday

Continuing its Advertising Week-related rollout of efforts to better define standards and create accountability within various elements of the media landscape, Omnicom Media Group today is targeting the vast world of programmatic buying and the sell side. Under the umbrella of its Council on Accountability and Standards in Advertising (CASA), OMG is essentially arguing for the buy and sell sides of the industry to work more closely together and play less of a game of telephone with each other.

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Mutual Learning and Inspiring Insights With Katie Welch

Adweek

Katie Welch's journey into the world of beauty marketing has been marked by a commitment to authenticity and an unyielding passion for mentoring the next generation of marketers. She sees mentorship not just as a one-way street but as a dynamic exchange of knowledge and insight. Now, as a successful CMO, Welch is paying it.

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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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Advertising Week Briefing: Why content creators are hopeful that AI will not replace them

Digiday

The crunch of Advertising Week is back — and maybe in true full force for the first time since the pandemic. Early Monday, long queues snaked around the new venue near Penn Station as attendees waited for badge pick-up. Lines and wait times didn’t stop there. Restricted access to activations like Google’s pop-up about its AI tools occasionally led to a sense of frustration among attendees, who grumbled about the logistics while they were in line.

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New YouTube ad package helps brands capture cultural, sports moments

Martech

YouTube today introduced Spotlight Moments – a new advertising package that will serve your brand’s videos next to “the most relevant and engaging content associated with the moment.” How it works. Using, AI, YouTube can identify popular videos around cultural moments. For example, with Halloween coming up, Spotlight Moments: Lets advertiser serve ads across Halloween-related content on YouTube.

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IPG’s Channing Martin on stalled DE&I efforts and why conversations must continue 

Digiday

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify For the most part, the advertising industry’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts have been an uphill battle, even after the promises and commitments that were made in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd. The industry’s stalled DE&I progress has been a point of critique. Despite the promises, media companies are still mostly hiring white people as of this year.

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AdSense VAT explained

Oko

OKO works with Google AdSense publishers from all over the world, but has a particularly strong customer base in Europe, including in the UK. That means that we do occasionally receive a slightly panicky phone call from website owners who’ve earned significant AdSense revenue and are suddenly aware that they have not been paying value-added […] The post AdSense VAT explained appeared first on OKO Digital.

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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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Marketing Briefing: Why Peet’s Coffee’s major brand push is brewing up brand storytelling over product pitching

Digiday

To better compete with the likes of global coffee giants, Starbucks and Dunkin, Peet’s Coffee, in it’s biggest brand marketing campaign ever, has launched a super charged media mix to boost brand awareness. Notably, Peet’s new messaging comes at a time when economic headwinds and inflation loom above both shopper’s wallets and the industry at large, bringing marketing budgets under regular scrutiny.

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Azerion Acquires Hawk & Consolidates its Position in the Digital Advertising Market Amsterdam

Exchange Wire

Azerion announces today (October 16th, 2023) the completed acquisition of Hawk, a French-based digital advertising technology platform with offices also in the UK and Germany. The companies will provide advertisers and agencies easy access to large audiences in emerging areas [.] The post Azerion Acquires Hawk & Consolidates its Position in the Digital Advertising Market Amsterdam appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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Another virtual day, another virtual dollar: Is This The Metaverse? Podcast, episode 6

Digiday

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify Where there is play, there is usually work, too. The metaverse is no exception. Meta’s first virtual reality tool under its Horizon metaverse brand was Horizon Workrooms, a tool that allows VR headset users to virtually sit alongside each other inside a metaversal office, taking meetings as if face-to-face.

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Final Shortlists Revealed: Ad Tech Personality Of The Year and Ad Tech Rising Star 2023

Exchange Wire

With The Wires just weeks away, we can now announce the final nominees for our prestigious Ad Tech Personality of the Year and Ad Tech Rising Star awards. ExchangeWire are delighted to announce the shortlists for two of ad tech's most [.] The post Final Shortlists Revealed: Ad Tech Personality Of The Year and Ad Tech Rising Star 2023 appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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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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Shifts in TV viewing habits are supercharging consumers being open to ads 

Marketing Tech News

63% of British adults are open to ads in exchange for free streaming content with 60% subscribing to up to three streaming services, according to a study by global advertising technology firm, The Trade Desk. As more viewers continue to shift their viewing habits to content on connected TV (CTV), the research results highlight significant. Read more » The post Shifts in TV viewing habits are supercharging consumers being open to ads appeared first on Marketing Tech News.

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The Streaming World Needs To Get Smart About Subscriber Churn

AdExchanger

As streaming platforms navigate a seismic shift – pivoting to profitability after a decade of all-out growth mode – they’re racing to develop their subscriber-retention muscles. But they also need to step back to ensure they’re flexing those muscles in the right way (specifically, getting a better and broader understanding of the full subscriber journey) […] The post The Streaming World Needs To Get Smart About Subscriber Churn appeared first on AdExchanger.

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From the Frontlines of DMEXCO 2023: SmartHub’s Experience

Smart-Hub

DMEXCO 2023 emerged as a prominent fixture in the digital marketing landscape, annually drawing together thousands of global experts to delve into cutting-edge technologies and their practical applications. On September 20 and 21, over 800 thought leaders convened to explore pivotal themes such as artificial intelligence in marketing, the evolution of retail media, automation, the emergence of Web3, sustainability, and other pertinent subjects.

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How Nespresso Courts Coffee Connoisseurs, Particularly Gen Z

AdExchanger

Nespresso is big on Reddit. So big, in fact, that a few years ago, Reddit approached the Italian luxury coffee brand to see if it was interested in creating a branded presence on the platform. Reddit doesn’t generally seek input from brands in its community-based subreddits. But it made an exception for Nespresso because of […] The post How Nespresso Courts Coffee Connoisseurs, Particularly Gen Z 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.