Sat.May 21, 2022 - Fri.May 27, 2022

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Why we care about AR and VR: A guide for marketers

Martech

If there ever were a golden word in marketing, it’d be evolution. As consumers access more advanced technology, old marketing strategies fail to impress them. This is why modern marketers need to adapt to the constantly changing media and technology landscape to appeal to customers. Two innovations marketers should stay abreast of are augmented and virtual reality devices.

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How to make an impact in your first 100 days in a new job

Smart Insights

7 strategies, tactics and tips to stand out. Plan your first 100 days on the job, as a new starter, to make an impact in your marketing career Starting a new job can be tough. In the first 100 days … The post How to make an impact in your first 100 days in a new job appeared first on Smart Insights.

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DDG has a tracker blocking carve-out linked to Microsoft contract

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DuckDuckGo, the self-styled “internet privacy company” — which, for years, has built a brand around a claim of non-tracking web search and, more recently, launched its own ‘private’ browser with built-in tracker blocking — has found itself in hot water after a researcher found hidden limits on its tracking protection that create a carve-out for certain advertising data requests by its search syndication partner, Microsoft.

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Comic: Media Planning “Research”

AdExchanger

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…. The post Comic: Media Planning “Research” appeared first on AdExchanger.

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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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4 strategies to help marketing teams improve workflow and collaboration

Martech

There’s nothing virtual about the sea change marketing teams have experienced in the last two years. The fact that marketers are working remotely over digital channels is a very concrete reality calling for new approaches to workflow. Here are four tactics to help your team adapt. Improve visibility and centralize. Virtual meetings, chat apps, automated calendars and workflow management software all became necessary to bring together teams from remote workspaces.

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The TV Upfronts in a New Streaming World

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It’s that special time of year when the stages are set and the red carpet is rolled out–not for an awards show but the annual TV upfronts. For the first time since the pandemic, media companies and advertisers were back face-to-face in what was once the buying event of the season. As the TV landscape has changed, however, so too have the upfronts. What was once a pivotal event to inform advertisers of the fall TV slate, this year’s upfronts saw a shift in focus to a reach story as the core playe

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The Programmatic Prognosticator Who Sees The Tide Turning From Walled Gardens To The Open Web

AdExchanger

Laura Martin, a media and tech analyst at investment bank Needham & Company, opened her presentation at AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O in Las Vegas this week by singing her own walk-on music. “I came in like a wreccckkkkkiiiiinnnnggggg baaalllllllllll.” The Miley Cyrus single was an apt choice, since Martin came in hot with some bold, contrarian.

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Instacart launches shoppable ads

Martech

This week, grocery delivery and pickup platform Instacart announced the rollout of shoppable ads. Participants in the pilot program include Dove, PepsiCo, Mondelez International and S.Pellegrino. Video and display units. Shoppable video and display units can be seen by users in the Instagram Marketplace as they shop products from specific grocery retailers.

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Navigating the Great Resignation: Find Stability With an Ad Ops Partner

Ad Monsters

They’re calling it “the great resignation.” Employees are leaving their jobs at record rates, and companies are having a hard time retaining their talent. Publishers heavily rely on their ad ops teams, and as we all know, personnel turnover can be rather disruptive, especially when it happens in ad ops. Publisher ad ops teams handle and manage various critical tasks within their organizations, such as trafficking, programmatic management, inventory management, technical campaig

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Twitter agrees to pay $150M for breaking privacy promises

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Twitter has agreed to pay $150 million as part of a settlement with regulators over allegations that the social media company misrepresented the “security and privacy” of user data over several years. The FTC and Department of Justice said that between May 2013 and September 2019, Twitter asked users for personal information to secure their accounts, but then used that information to target users with ads.

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

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Cryptocurrency ad spend plummets as market crashes

Marketing Dive

Marketing spend for the top four crypto sites fell dramatically in March after peaking during the Super Bowl.

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The rise of omnichannel content platforms

Martech

Everyone knows that content technology represents a key piece in the martech stack. The past five years have seen traditional enterprise content management (ECM) vendors transitioning from document management to content services platforms, and web content management (WCM) vendors struggling to broaden their scope as mythical “digital experience platforms.” Meanwhile, a parallel, and potentially a more interesting, trend has been taking place on the content side of the martech world.

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Upcoming VlogBox Get-Together Webinar To Examine Data Analytics and User Engagement

Ad Tech Daily

The VlogBox Get-Together webinar will be held on 31 May, at 12 PM EDT and will focus on strategies designed to make targeting more effective, as well as a deep drive into geo-communities. Anna McMichael, VlogBox’s strategic partnerships director, together with experts from IRIS.TV, and Wantent, will discuss strategies that can be used for effective viewer […].

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TikTok partners with Hootsuite, Sprinklr, Emplifi and more to make it easier for brands to reach users

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TikTok is extending its Marketing Partner Program to add new content marketing partners, the company told TechCrunch. The expansion will allow marketers to manage their TikTok accounts without leaving their third-party content marketing platforms. The short-form video app is partnering with Sprout Social, Hootsuite, Sprinklr, Emplifi, Dash Hudson, Khoros, Brandwatch and Later for the initial launch.

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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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PubMatic Brings Audience Targeting to the Sell-Side with ‘Connect’ Platform

VideoWeek

PubMatic today launched Connect, a new addressability tool which will essentially unite the company’s existing identity and targeting tools into one omnichannel platform. PubMatic says Connect will enable media buyers to take a “portfolio approach” to audience addressability, combining a range of different signals to help identify whoever they’re looking to reach.

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Why we care about advertising: A marketer’s guide

Martech

With digital transformation, advertising isn’t just about growing brand awareness or planting a seed. Advertisers and their adtech partners can reach audiences big and small at any stage of the funnel, delivering cross-channel ads across multiple touchpoints. And they aren’t just using traditional demographics and ratings, they’re leveraging device-level or user-specific data, as well as contextual insights, to serve the right message to the right customer at the right time.

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CTV Emerges as Europe’s Leading Video Platform for Ad Attention: New Research from ShowHeroes Group

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A striking 80% of European users prefer CTV, with connected TV generating a significant increase in ad attention and engagement compared to YouTube and linear TV, a ground-breaking new study has found. The research from ShowHeroes Group, a leading global provider of video solutions for advertisers and publishers, used state-of-the-art Tobii eye tracking glasses, along […].

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Google begins rolling out ads in YouTube Shorts globally

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Google is starting to gradually roll out ads in YouTube Shorts around the world, the company announced at its Marketing Live event this week. The official launch comes as the company has been experimenting with ads in YouTube Shorts since last year. Starting this week, video action campaigns and app campaigns will automatically scale to YouTube Shorts.

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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 TikTok Capitalizes On The Twin Trends Of Creators And Online Commerce

AdExchanger

TikTok's content relies heavily on influencers and creators. As prime ad real estate for targeting younger "video native" audiences, TikTok is using its market positioning with brands to capitalize on both the creator marketplace and ecommerce through shoppable video trends, said Melissa Yang, TikTok's head of ecosystem partnerships, speaking at AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O conference earlier this week.

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Contentstack debuts no-code Automation Hub

Martech

This week, content experience platform (CXP) Contentstack debuted their Automation Hub, a no-code composable architecture tool. What it does. The Automation Hub simplifies, on the front end, the deployment of composable architectures used for content creation in building digital experiences for customers. Instead of having to write code to integrate content from different sources and vendors, the Automation Hub allows marketers to pull everything together and build full content experiences using

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VC News: SoftBank Leads Firework’s $150M Series B for Next-Gen Video Experiences Platform

Ad Tech Daily

Firework Closes $150M SoftBank Vision Fund 2-Led Series B to Continue to Build the Future of Commerce Livestreaming commerce leader receives major leg-up in bid to redefine customer experience and engagement for Web 3.0 SAN MATEO, Calif. — Firework, the leading livestreaming commerce and digital transformation platform, has secured $150 million in Series B financing, […].

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Aive automatically generates different video ad formats for all platforms

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If you’re working for an advertising agency or you’re in charge of a brand, editing and exporting a video ad that works across all social and web platforms can be a lengthy and time consuming task. French startup Aive speeds up the process quite drastically as it can automatically generate all formats and all durations from one source video. When you create a new video to showcase your brand, you usually start with a 16:9 video with a duration of a couple of minutes.

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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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TikTok takes page from Twitch as battle for creators intensifies

Marketing Dive

A Live Subscription feature promises predictable monthly income, which could appeal to a creator base that’s felt the double-edged sword of overnight virality.

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What you need to know from Google Marketing Live

Martech

Here’s everything marketers and advertisers need to know from yesterday’s Google Marketing Live 2022. Performance Max upgrades. Google is helping more advertisers try their most automated campaign type, Performance Max. These enhancements include: In-store goals Burst campaigns for seasonal foot traffic ‘Experiment tools’ to help test potential lift More insights Support for Search 360 and the Google Ads app Optimization score recommendations Read more: 6 updates coming to Google Performan

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How to Schedule Instagram Stories: A Quick Guide [2022]

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Instagram Stories are an excellent way to engage with your followers, improve brand sentiment, and even drive traffic to your business website (formerly via swipe-up links and now through link stickers). But with all the creative possibilities, posting Instagram Stories on a regular basis can be strenuous and time-consuming — especially if it’s a major Read More.

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Amazon.com marketing strategy 2022: E-commerce retail giant business case study

Smart Insights

What goes into the Amazon marketing strategy secret sauce? Our business case study explores Amazon's revenue model and culture of customer metrics, history of Amazon.com and marketing objectives In the final quarter of 2021, Amazon reported net sales of over … The post Amazon.com marketing strategy 2022: E-commerce retail giant business case study appeared first on Smart Insights.

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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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Charting the Customer Journey From End-to-End With Michael Chiang, Director, Campaign Operations, NYTimes

Ad Monsters

The New York Times is lauded as the poster child for getting audience targeting with first-party data in a privacy-first world right. And those accolades come with good reason. In fact, they built their own data program for their direct-sold program and that has accounted for more than 20% of the media behemoth’s core revenue. They have fully replaced third-party data in their direct-sold program, now selling more audience targeted impressions than ever before.

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Why event technology is critical to marketing success

Martech

“The world has changed,” said Vanessa Lovatt, chief evangelist at Glisser, in her presentation at The MarTech Conference (scroll down to watch the video of their session). “Eighty-three percent of employers are saying that the shift to remote working is good, 72% of US execs are investing in tools for virtual collaboration, and 54% of employees want to work remotely three days a week or more.” She added, “As more and more workers become remote, you need to be able

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How to Post on Instagram From a Computer [3 WAYS FOR MAC AND PC]

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When Instagram launched in October 2010, it only allowed users to post content from their mobile phones using the Instagram app. However, many Instagram users have been looking for ways to post on Instagram from their desktop (PC or Mac) computers. If you’re one of these users, you’re in luck. In this article, we’re breaking Read More.

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Saving Mobile Targeting: What We Do to Address IDFA-Concerns of App Publishers and Advertisers

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In September 2020, news about IDFA restriction in IOS 14 shattered the ad tech world. Apple announced a new App Tracking Transparency framework according to which every time users launch a new app from the app store, they provide their permission before data is shared with third-party.

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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.