December, 2023

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X to Double Down on SMBs Following Musk’s Advertiser Attack

Adweek

Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, will target more small and midsize businesses (SMBs) to win advertising following owner Elon Musk's attack on departing brands from the platform. According to the Financial Times, as advertisers such as Apple, Comcast, Disney, IBM, Lionsgate Entertainment, NBCUniversal, Paramount Global and Warner Bros.

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AI Briefing: Creative ways companies used AI in advertising in 2023

Digiday

As the generative AI boom took off in early 2023 , there were plenty of predictions about how soon — and to what extent — companies would start using generative AI in their marketing. Nearly a year later, it’s clear many are feeling increasingly comfortable. Just last week, the global hotel search company Trivago released a new ad campaign as part of a broader rebrand.

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The Top Ad Tech Data Privacy Stories Of 2023

AdExchanger

Rather than rounding up the obvious online privacy trends of 2023, let’s dive into the weeds. Because we’ve spent enough time and spilled more than enough ink this year talking and writing about Big Tech privacy fines, enforcement actions and the unutterably slow phaseout of third-party cookies in Chrome. That said, this article would be […] The post The Top Ad Tech Data Privacy Stories Of 2023 appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Revolutionizing Workplace Communication: The Next Wave

Ad Rants

In an era defined by constant technological advancements, it is no surprise that workplace communication is undergoing a profound transformation. The traditional modes of interaction, such as face-to-face meetings or endless email threads, are gradually giving way to more efficient and innovative methods. Whether implementing artificial intelligence or harnessing the power of virtual reality, these cutting-edge approaches promise to enhance productivity and foster a more seamless exchange of ide

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

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.

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2024 Predictions: Better customer experience is on the way

Martech

Marketers will improve customer experience in 2024 so brands can remain competitive and demonstrate to customers that they matter. Every year the bar gets raised. In 2024, keys to customer success will include better personalization delivered at scale by ramped-up automation and generative AI. And better digital content will surface, if organizations put in place the necessary guardrails for generative AI to fuel the anticipated content surge.

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Eight marketing maxims

Seth Godin

Trust is worth more than attention. Helping people get to where they seek to go is more effective than hustling people to persuade them to go where you’re going. Choose your customers, choose your future. Tell ten people. If they don’t tell the others, make a better product. Creating the conditions for the word to spread is the job of the marketer.

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Information Asymmetries in Digital Media Will Eat You Alive. If You Let Them.

Ad Monsters

The ANA’s Programmatic Media Supply Chain Transparency Study finally elevates the role that systemic “information asymmetries” play in allowing programmatic waste to persist. You should also check out the ANA’s Qualitative Report from August. It includes a wealth of interview quotes; everything the study participants were willing to tell the ANA under condition of anonymity.

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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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The E-Commerce Revolution: Selling Safety Shoes Online - Trends and Best Practices

Ad Rants

In today's fast-paced digital era, the safety shoe industry is transforming, and businesses increasingly recognize the importance of embracing e-commerce. This article explores the current landscape of safety shoe e-commerce, delving into trends, benefits, challenges, and best practices that can propel safety shoe businesses to thrive in the online marketplace.

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Breaking down data silos: Overcoming obstacles and planning for the future

Martech

This is the second of two articles exploring data silos in marketing. Part one can be found here. Every company has issues with siloed data. Many companies know this but continue to use systems that provide information to various parts of the organization. This is where organizations face their most significant obstacle — lack of leadership with vision.

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

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Rewrite for humans

Seth Godin

My building had an elevator problem. The management company sent everyone this note: Please be advised we have been experiencing intermittent issues with the elevator. Our priority is your safety, and we are taking immediate action to address the situation. After a thorough investigation by our electrician, it has been identified that there may be an issue with low voltage affecting the elevator’s performance.

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Naomi Osaka Built a Business Empire, and a Family, in Time Off From Tennis

Adweek

In January, Naomi Osaka announced to the world that she'd be stepping away from tennis in 2023 as she prepared to give birth. Her daughter, Shai, arrived in July, and--a little more than two weeks later--Osaka returned to her tennis training to begin fulfilling a dream: "for my kid to watch one of my matches.

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Yahoo Advertising Rolls Out Yahoo Blueprint, an AI-powered Media Buying Suite

Ad Monsters

If ad tech innovation were being redefined for 2023, Yahoo would be listed at the top of that entry. After shutting down its SPP earlier this year, the legacy brand has been on a tear rolling out new features for the buy side to drive better results from their ad spend. Yahoo Blueprint — the latest tool emerging out of the house of Yahoo Advertising — is an AI suite for media buying powering performance-based solutions fueled by over 335 million logged-in Yahoo users. “What sets our AI su

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Google’s AIs Decide To Handle A/Bs; Ended, The Streaming Wars Have

AdExchanger

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The AI A/B Google Ads industry liaison Ginny Marvin was called out during a recent Q&A session hosted on an SEO-focused Discord server. SEO folks had spotted instances where Google clearly A/B tested different ad copy options without a brand’s awareness or approval, Search […] The post Google’s AIs Decide To Handle A/Bs; Ended, The Streaming Wars Have appeared first on AdExchanger.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

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!

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7 Real Estate Marketing Strategies That Drive Results

Ad Rants

It doesn't matter if you're talking about wholesale real estate or a more traditional real estate transaction; one of the most critical elements of this industry is and will always be marketing. But it would be a mistake to assume you're only marketing the property you're focused on now. In reality, there are two things you're selling - your properties and yourself.

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6 ways to use generative AI for your marketing

Martech

Generative AI is revolutionizing digital marketing by altering how we create, analyze and optimize marketing strategies. This technology leverages artificial intelligence for tasks like content creation, data analysis and customer engagement. Understanding and harnessing its capabilities allows marketers to achieve new levels of efficiency and creativity.

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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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Exclusive: Google Lets Advertisers Opt Out of Search Partner Network on All Campaigns Following Adalytics Report

Adweek

Google is now giving buyers more tools to avoid ads showing up next to unsavory content following the findings of an Adalytics report last week, Adweek has exclusively learned. The Adalytics report examined a lesser-known pocket of Google inventory called the Search Partner Network (SPN). This network includes publishers who use Google's search interfaces on.

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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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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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Recipe for Disaster: Impossible Foods CEO Says Plant-Based Meat Marketing’s ‘Wokeness’ Hurt the Category

Adweek

If the CEO of Impossible Foods, Peter McGuinness, wrote a primer on marketing, a few of his first tenets might be: Never alienate the American heartland, and don't wag your finger at folks who love their burgers and chops. McGuinness, speaking at the Adweek X conference in Los Angeles Monday, admitted that plant-based meat brands.

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Exclusive: New Firm Deep Blue Shakes Up Women’s Sports and Entertainment Landscape

Adweek

There's a new player in town. Giant Spoon partner Laura Correnti is set to shake up the women's sports world by launching Deep Blue Sports + Entertainment, a new firm that wants to become the agency of record in women's sports. The firm will provide agency services that include platform development and brand strategy, media.

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The 20 Best Ads of 2023

Adweek

As 2023 draws to a close, Adweek's annual roundup of the year's best ads is a celebration of something that may seem simple: creativity. But anyone who does creative work knows the struggle of it, the days that feel like drudgery--and how remarkable it feels to break through. When we looked back on the work.

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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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Brands Shift Spend From X to Alternatives for Super Bowl 2024, Reassessing Deals

Adweek

Historically, X (formerly Twitter) has grappled with subpar ad products. That, coupled with the lack of a closely aligned sales team, could find the platform missing out on one of its highest revenue-driving periods, the Super Bowl. X's former ability to drive real-time conversations with moments such as Brand Bowl winners--which highlighted the best-performing brands.

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One Team, One Dream: What Marketers Can Learn From Dove and Nike Partnership

Adweek

Dove and Nike have teamed up to launch the Body Confident Sport program with a mission to boost girls' body confidence in sports. The Body Confident Sport program is a first-to-market, providing a scientifically proven set of online coaching tools to build body confidence in 11 to 17-year-old girls. It's a match made in partnership.

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5 Times Activists Roasted Adland’s Fossil Fuel Addiction During the Hottest Year Ever

Adweek

This year was officially the hottest ever recorded, thanks to humans' industrial-era obsession with burning fossil fuels. And despite a weak, loophole-riddled agreement to transition away from those climate-warming fuels at the United Nations' recent climate summit, the world is on track to see much more warming in the years to come. Meanwhile, despite a.

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The Adweek 50: Honoring Indispensable, Behind-the-Scenes Business Leaders

Adweek

While 2023 has been a challenge for many sectors of the marketing ecosystem, there are unequivocal standouts whose products and people are driving business forward. Just look at Nvidia, which is transforming how marketers work; or Kroger, Target and Albertsons, retailers embracing their roles as media platforms; or Uber, which has turned rides and deliveries.

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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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Lego’s Fortnite Collaboration Is a Masterclass in Fan Engagement

Adweek

As 2023 comes to an end, Lego and Epic Games have finally unveiled what their kid-friendly metaverse will look like. A full 18 months in the making, the branded Lego edition of Fortnite is being described as a multiplayer "survival crafting game." It will be released on Dec.

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Creative Trends 2024: Humor and Creators Will Lead the Way

Adweek

It's that time when everyone weighs in on what they think the next year will have in store for us. The creative agency world is certainly no different, but its trends might be more difficult to predict. Luckily, people at agencies around the globe with their collective fingers on the pulse of creativity have let.

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Ad Agency Trends 2024: How Agencies Plan to Use AI

Adweek

This is the time of year that everyone weighs in on what they think the next year will have in store for us. Unsurprisingly, artificial intelligence is on everyone's minds. Some see AI as a source of good while recognizing it has its downsides as the technology advances. Agency leaders around the globe have their.

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Marketers’ Gen-AI Priorities for 2024

Adweek

As the generative artificial intelligence hype cycle cools down from the launch of ChatGPT last November, marketers' expectations of the tech in 2024 will extend beyond simple chats to decoding client briefs and gathering real-time data on campaign performance, as well as cleaning up reams of unstructured data. How Zipcar's Gen AI Campaign Drove Brand.

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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.