Adweek
MARCH 6, 2025
Google will "explore bringing ads into" its new AI Mode, the company told ADWEEK. AI Mode, rolled out in beta Wednesday, can conduct multiple searches at once to serve up in-depth, multi-step responses to complex user queries. While ads aren't yet available in AI Mode, Google said it will "leverage learnings" from ads products built.
Martech
MARCH 3, 2025
For decades, the marketing qualified lead (MQL) has been the centerpiece of B2B go-to-market (GTM) strategies. It has shaped how marketing teams operate, how sales teams prioritize outreach, and how executives measure marketing’s contribution to revenue. However, the MQL no longer fits this purpose. It’s not just an outdated metric; it represents a way of thinking that disconnects GTM teams from real business impact, misaligns incentives and fails to reflect how modern buyers behave.
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Ad Monsters
MARCH 19, 2025
Floor pricing in ad tech isnt as simple as it seems. Dive into why transparency around dynamic floors matters, whats driving SSP practices, and how publishers and buyers can reclaim clarity in the auction. Image credit @keithepetri It started with a tweet. Well, technically, it started on the Marketecture Live stage, when Sincera’s Co-founder, Mike OSullivan, made a point about how publishers should (and shouldnt) be handling floor pricing.
AdExchanger
MARCH 30, 2025
Privacy lawyers and ad tech folks often dont speak the same language. But at least now theyve got an acronym in common: MSCA. It stands for Multistate Substantial Compliance Assessment, and its a new tool developed by privacy compliance startup SafeGuard Privacy that businesses can use to do vendor due diligence and manage their compliance […] The post SafeGuard Privacys MSCA Tool Aims To Simplify The Chaos Of Compliance appeared first on AdExchanger.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
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.
Seth Godin
MARCH 10, 2025
Freelancers looking to build a career have two good options: Be so good at doing the work by hand that you’re a better alternative for a client than using AI. This is going to get more and more difficult. Be so good at having AI work for you that you’re the obvious choice when there’s work to be done. The lousy options are to insist that you don’t use AI, but to be slower, more expensive and not as good as the AI option.
Digiday
MARCH 25, 2025
It’s hard to deny that AI will have a larger part of media buying even as marketers will stall, resist and negotiate every inch of the way. And who can blame them? The uneasy feeling that handing over control to AI, whether through Googles Performance Max or Metas Advantage+ which each promised easier media buying, puts them further from understanding what theyre actually buying has been gnawing at them for a while.
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Martech
MARCH 3, 2025
I’m in a writing group with some of the world’s most brilliant minds. Several members are leadership consultants, so I get early access to some of their insights about being a “leader.” It’s funny because leadership is tough to define but easy to spot. We all know when we’ve experienced a bad or good leader. We are willing to throw our heads through a brick wall for a good leader and want a brick wall to crush a bad one.
Ad Monsters
MARCH 4, 2025
Googles AI Overviews and rival AI search tools are keeping users on their platforms, decimating referral traffic for publishers. As lawsuits mount, is there a way forward for the open web? For decades, publishers and Google enjoyed a symbiotic relationship: publishers created content, and Google indexed it. In return, search traffic drove visitorsand revenueback to publishers sites.
AdExchanger
MARCH 20, 2025
Generative AI advocates hype the technologys ability to liberate workers from tedious tasks. As it turns out, that use case is well suited to the curation craze sweeping digital advertising. The process of setting up curated private marketplaces (PMPs) for bespoke audiences and vetting what inventory gets included can be incredibly time-consuming and tedious for […] The post How AI Helps GroupM Take The Tedium Out Of Curation appeared first on AdExchanger.
Seth Godin
MARCH 9, 2025
While it’s tempting to compare suffering, inconvenience, unfairness or general no-goodness, it’s not helpful. Someone else’s trauma doesn’t diminish yours. In fact, when we can find the space to see that others have their own mess to deal with, it opens the door for forward motion. The past happened, but all that’s available to us now is the choice of what to do about it.
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Adweek
MARCH 10, 2025
Flau'jae Johnson has been an LSU Tiger, an NCAA Champion, a rapper, a business major, and a prolific endorser--but being financially stable has become a similarly important part of her identity. As March Madness tips off, Johnson is using her sports marketing partnership with credit firm Experian to help fans get there as well. She'll.
Adweek
MARCH 3, 2025
BlackRock-backed CTV advertising platform MNTN is divesting production shop Maximum Effort "to an affiliate of its original owner," according to an IPO securities filing made Friday. Maximum Effort was founded by actor Ryan Reynolds and producer George Dewey in 2018. In the filing, MNTN said that on Feb. 28 "the Company entered into an agreement.
Adweek
MARCH 5, 2025
WPP is deepening its artificial intelligence toolset and making a strategic move into generative AI with a stake in Stability AI. The holding company's investment in Stability AI is meant to deepen access its advanced AI models for creating images, videos, 3D designs, and audio. In return, Stability AI will benefit from WPP's marketing expertise.
Adweek
MARCH 5, 2025
Microsoft is blurring the line between search and shopping with new AI-powered ads in its generative AI chatbot, Copilot. It unveiled several AI ad formats and tools today at its Advertising Accelerate event in the Dominican Republic, including Showroom Ads, an interactive split-screen experience that mimics in-store guidance, and branded AI agents that let brands.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
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!
Adweek
MARCH 12, 2025
The world of FAST is changing, well. fast, according to a new Gracenote report. Today, Gracenote, Nielsen's content data business unit, released new research, data, and insights on the evolving landscape of free ad-supported TV services (FAST), providing information for distribution platforms and advertisers seeking to monetize consumer engagement and understand the shifting streaming environment.
Adweek
MARCH 14, 2025
Publicis Groupe has snagged The Coca-Cola Company's media and data business in the U.S. and Canada from incumbent WPP, two sources with knowledge of the matter told ADWEEK. The result came after the beverage company held a competitive closed door review with both holding companies, which ADWEEK reported on last week. It means a crucial.
Adweek
MARCH 14, 2025
The CEO of Brooklyn-based creative shop Madwell, Christopher Sojka, is lashing out against distressed employees--according to internal communications obtained by ADWEEK--for pushing back against the agency's in-office policies after not being paid in time, and for speaking to the press about the company's financial woes. The indie shop, which has serviced major brands including Verizon.
Adweek
MARCH 10, 2025
A teddy bear is typically a symbol of childhood innocence, comfort, and play. But in a harrowing ad from nonprofit Sandy Hook Promise, the stuffed animal serves as a stark reminder of how the gun violence epidemic is impacting childhoods across the U.S. As the organization's latest public service announcement (PSA) reminds viewers, teddy bears.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
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.
Adweek
MARCH 4, 2025
Amazon wants a bigger piece of TV ad dollars that are going programmatic. The company is launching a new tool called Complete TV within its demand-side-platform, Amazon DSP, for advertisers to plan and manage their TV budgets, including linear and streaming deals. With Complete TV, advertisers can track their upfront commitments--year-long TV budgets that are.
Adweek
MARCH 3, 2025
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store named three new agencies of record on Monday: Blue Engine, Prophet, and Viral Nation. Communications firm Blue Engine will be Cracker Barrel's AOR for public relations, experiential marketing, and partnerships. Prophet will work on Cracker Barrel's brand marketing efforts, such as brand communication, restaurant redesigns, brand marketing campaigns, and a.
Adweek
MARCH 5, 2025
Telecoms giant T-Mobile on Wednesday announced that it closed a deal on Monday to acquire Blis, an adtech company specializing in location-based advertising, for approximately $175 million in cash. Blis' technology forgoes identifiers like third-party cookies and relies on privacy-conscious tools for ad targeting based on location data. T-Mobile believes the company's capabilities will complement.
Adweek
MARCH 17, 2025
South by Southwest brings nearly half a million people to the city of Austin, Texas, each spring for its sprawling series of conferences and festivals. For many marketing professionals, it's a tentpole event on par with CES or Cannes Lions--but offering a different audience and focus. While CES showcases futuristic tech and serves as a.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
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.
Adweek
MARCH 2, 2025
The race for the Best Picture statue wasn't the only dramatic narrative playing out on Oscar night. Throughout the evening, viewers have been treated to a four-part mini-movie courtesy of first-time sponsor Prudential. The custom campaign was orchestrated for the financial giant by Disney's in-house creative studio, Disney Creative. (The Mouse House owns ABC and.
Adweek
MARCH 2, 2025
The race for the Best Picture statue wasn't the only dramatic narrative playing out on Oscar night. Throughout the evening, viewers have been treated to a four-part mini-movie courtesy of first-time sponsor Prudential. The custom campaign was orchestrated for the financial giant by Disney's in-house creative studio, Disney CreativeWorks. (The Mouse House owns ABC and.
Adweek
MARCH 3, 2025
After the Academy Awards, even celebrities might be contemplating a hearty, comforting breakfast to recover from Hollywood's biggest night. To cap off the celebrations, McDonald's has dropped a commercial spotlighting the go-to breakfast orders of Hollywood stars, including some Oscar-winning and nominated actors. Kieran Culkin, who won the Academy Award for best supporting actor for.
Adweek
MARCH 17, 2025
PepsiCo may be looking to add to its growing portfolio of healthier brands, as sources with knowledge of the talks recently told Bloomberg the food and beverage giant is in advanced discussions to acquire Poppi for more than $1.5 billion, perhaps as early as this week. The move would give PepsiCo shelf space in the.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
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.
Adweek
MARCH 3, 2025
Chairman and CEO Rodney McMullen is no longer in stock at Kroger, as the supermarket chain announced his resignation Monday following an investigation into his conduct by the company's board of directors. Kroger would not offer specifics, only saying that McMullen's activity was inconsistent with its policy on business ethics but unrelated to the business.
Adweek
MARCH 3, 2025
Interpublic Group (IPG) has sold R/GA to a group led by private equity firm Truelink Capital and the agency's global leaders. Los Angeles-based Truelink will own a majority stake in R/GA. R/GA's management, including global CEO Robin Forbes and chair and global chief creative officer Tiffany Rolfe, will also take a stake in the business.
Adweek
MARCH 4, 2025
Meta introduced generative artificial intelligence-powered digital assistant Meta AI in September 2023 across Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp, and the company is reportedly developing a stand-alone application. Now, it's working on bringing the power of Meta AI to businesses of all sizes. Meta AI has more than 700 million monthly active users, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Adweek
MARCH 4, 2025
Stagwell agency GALE has named Andrew Noel as its new global chief executive officer (CEO) and Sophia Zhang as its North America CEO, it exclusively shared with ADWEEK. The longtime execs succeed founder and CEO Brad Simms, who informed GALE's staff last month that he will retire. The transition is effective immediately. Simms founded GALE.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
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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