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How to Win a Board Game Full of Ad Ops Burning Challenges

Ad Monsters

Imagine the deck of cards on the table where each is a challenge, and you’re looking to kick back and laugh. When the tensions run high, the game ceases to be fun, turning into a relentless passion for victory. The daily routine of an ad ops manager, whether they work for a marketing agency or represent a web content publisher, is pretty much like a board game.

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Programmatic Advertising Comes to the New York Subway

Adweek

Buying ads on the New York City subway is moving into the digital age. In recent years, ads on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's trains and platforms have helped grow digitally native startups, firms like Casper and Hims, into household names. But despite being a place for buzzy brands to advertise, the process of buying ads.

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Startup Culture: When your first 10 engineers leave

The Ad Tech Blog

Valuation at the expense of your startup culture is not a good experience. In the world of startups, company valuation is often seen as the holy grail. Founders work tirelessly to raise funding and increase their valuation, hoping to attract more investors and build a successful company. But what happens when this focus on valuation comes at the cost of losing your first 10 engineers?

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How to build a customer journey orchestration strategy

Martech

Customer journey orchestration (CJO) uses different tools to provide seamless experiences for customers and increase revenue. Because customer journey orchestration casts a broad net across the entire customer lifecycle it’s essential to have a strategy for your technology. “When we talk about customer orchestration, we’re talking about much more than just a buyer’s journey,” said Carlos Hidalgo, CEO of martech consultancy Digital Exhaust, at The MarTech Conference.

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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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Oracle To Shut Down AddThis – Completely This Time

AdExchanger

Oracle is subtracting social sharing widget AddThis from its marketing cloud. As of May 31, Oracle will permanently terminate all AddThis services globally, including in the US. The post Oracle To Shut Down AddThis – Completely This Time appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Huggies’ Body Positive Campaign Celebrates Diverse Baby Bums

Adweek

Huggies, stoking body positivity at the earliest life stages, has launched a music-driven ad campaign that showcases baby bums of all shapes and sizes, with an original earworm song as the soundtrack, a companion storybook and a giveback program for families in need. The work aims to "celebrate a wide variety of squishy baby tushies,".

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5 critical leadership skills every marketing ops pro needs

Martech

Marketing operations can be chaotic, and mastering leadership skills in such a dynamic environment can be an uphill battle. While the web is overflowing with leadership listicles, these suggestions must be taken further to determine what skills are needed and why. It’s time to move beyond advice like “become a better communicator” and use language that makes this actionable for everyone.

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Comic: Nonplussed.

AdExchanger

By guest artist Lila Ash A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem… The post Comic: Nonplussed. appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Paramount+ With Showtime Arrives June 27

Adweek

Just a day ahead of Warner Bros. Discovery's Max launch, Paramount gave a date for its own merged streaming service's debut. Topline The new Paramount+ with Showtime plan is coming to the U.S. on June 27 and will combine all of Paramount+'s existing content with Showtime's premium series. Between the lines The premium plan will.

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71% of CMOs lack the budget needed to execute marketing strategy in 2023

Marketing Dive

Martech is the recipient of the biggest boost in spending while labor faces the largest pullback, a dynamic that could present challenges down the line.

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

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3 steps to make AI work for you

Martech

I’m amazed at how fast ChatGPT has progressed from “It’s the coolest thing ever” to “It’s going to take our jobs” to “We have to tweak it because it doesn’t have enough information” to “It’s ‘Terminator Genisys’ all over again.” Dig deeper: Three things ChatGPT needs which only you can provide Many marketers are using ChatGPT to write subject lines.

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Meta Develops Twitter-Rival App; Google Faces Legal Action in India

Exchange Wire

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Meta's plan to launch an app to rival Twitter revealed; India's government plans legal action against Google; and Apple restricts its employees' use of ChatGPT. Meta to launch Twitter rival as early as June Instagram-parent Meta is [.] The post Meta Develops Twitter-Rival App; Google Faces Legal Action in India appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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Marketers Lukewarm on Meta’s Twitter Clone App

Adweek

Marketer response to Meta reportedly building its own decentralized Twitter clone app this summer is tepid, three industry leads told Adweek. That's mostly due to questions circling around the platform's handling of data, adoption and monetization. Meta is reportedly working on a text-based app that would compete against Twitter, which has had its fair share.

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ArcSpan Claims Its New DMP Lets Publishers Monetize Their First-Party Data

AdExchanger

ArcSpan's new DMP, called AMS, was specifically built to organize a publisher’s first-party data into buyable contextual audiences and also highlights which audiences are likely to drive the most revenue. The post ArcSpan Claims Its New DMP Lets Publishers Monetize Their First-Party Data appeared first on AdExchanger.

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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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What inflation’s cultural impact means for marketing

Martech

When inflation is high the cost of living rises and wages, although rising too, never quite keep up. This has an impact on our pockets. But in addition to the economic consquences of inflation, there are subtler cultural consequences too. That’s something marketers need to understand. Kate Muhl, a consumer insights expert and VP, analyst at Gartner, shared this insight. “It’s important to think about the idea that there’s more happening with inflation than just economic i

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Survivor bias and the mistake of stability

Seth Godin

An asteroid has never destroyed the Earth, therefore an asteroid never will. This brand has been involved in scandals before, and it has always come back stronger, so there’s nothing to worry about. There have been technology changes before, but we’ve always managed to find clients for what we do. Survivor bias is the trap of only considering the successful entries when thinking about risk.

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WBD Launches Comprehensive Social Campaign Ahead of Max Debut

Adweek

With less than a day to go until Warner Bros. Discovery launches Max--the new streaming service combining HBO Max and Discovery+ content--the company unveiled a comprehensive social marketing strategy headlined by Jason Momoa and Issa Rae. For launch day on May 23, all HBO Max brand social and audience handles will become Max. With a.

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Generative AI Is Coming Soon To Search, Performance Max And Google Ads

AdExchanger

Forget Skynet. The robot revolution will be fought between large ad platforms (mainly Google, Meta and Amazon) trying to woo advertisers with generative AI and promises of better performance. The post Generative AI Is Coming Soon To Search, Performance Max And Google Ads appeared first on AdExchanger.

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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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Marketers under pressure to cut martech spend

Martech

Marketing budgets remain flat in 2023 having failed to climb back to pre-COVID levels. That’s one takeaway from Gartner’s latest CMO Spend and Strategy survey unveiled at the Gartner Marketing Symposium and Xpo in Denver. Another key finding was that 71% of CMOs believe they lack the budget successfully to execute this year’s strategies.

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The first person

Seth Godin

“I” is first person. “You” is second person. “She” “They” “It” are all third person. So far, so good. But how can ChatGPT use the word “I”? And when we talk about ChatGPT, is it “he” or “she” or “they” or “it”? Because anything that is an “it” shouldn’t be able to say “I” We probably need a form of “it” that can be used by ChatGPT when

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These Are the 2023 Winners of D&AD’s Most Coveted Pencils

Adweek

D&AD has awarded its top honor of a Black Pencil to two pieces of creative work: a music video from Pharrell, 21 Savage and Tyler, the Creator; and a device that turns the heartbeats of children with heart defects into musical rhythms. The industry awards body reserves its Black Pencil for truly groundbreaking work and.

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Advertisers Love Their CTV … Despite An Abundance Of Programmatic Landmines

AdExchanger

Connected TV may be online advertising’s go-to golden child – but buyers beware. CTV buys can be risky, says Chris Kane, founder of Jounce Media. The post Advertisers Love Their CTV … Despite An Abundance Of Programmatic Landmines appeared first on AdExchanger.

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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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Customer engagement: Moving from value creation to value expansion

Martech

Customer engagement is essential to the growth of any business, yet so many companies fail to do it effectively. This could be due to messy data, limited resources or lack of expertise. Many companies do well in creating value for their customers, but the real key to a consistent growth engine is found in expanding value. Learn why you should aim for the latter when it comes to engaging customers.

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More is More

Seth Godin

More hope. More health. More security. More innovation. More breakthroughs. More connection. More creation. More joy. The climate movement doesn’t have to be about asking individuals to bear the burden of systemic problems. It’s not about living with less. It’s about demanding more. From your employer, your community, your local government, your country.

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Meow Wolf Taps Into ’90s Mall Culture to Hype Its New Exhibit

Adweek

A typical American mall scene--circa the 1990s--gets a trippy makeover where aliens mingle with shoppers and mannequins come to life, stores have sardonic names like "Earholes" and mall walkers form a cult-like community. This surreal take on a well-known shrine of conspicuous consumption comes courtesy of art collective and entertainment company Meow Wolf as a.

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Keeping Pace With AI: Key Considerations For Privacy Practitioners

AdExchanger

Instead of keeping tabs on static data assets, organizations must adapt to a world in which data is embedded in ubiquitous and rapidly evolving AI tools. The post Keeping Pace With AI: Key Considerations For Privacy Practitioners appeared first on AdExchanger.

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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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Oracle subtracts social sharing tool AddThis

Martech

Oracle has removed social sharing and insights tool AddThis from its marketing cloud services. Customers who used AddThis widgets on their sites, enabling visitors to share content on social platforms, have seen the tools disappear with little warning. A company notice provided by Oracle said that it had planned to terminate all AddThis services, effective May 31.

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As GDPR turns 5 years old, the U.S. ad industry seeks to peddle influence

Digiday

Facebook owner Meta was fined earlier this week for yet another privacy infraction in Europe, just days ahead of GDPR entering its fifth year of enforcement. Such a high-profile player in the sector being hit with a €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) fine — this time by the Irish data protection authority for mishandling EU user data when transferring it to the U.S. — underlines the fact that every ad tech operator must make compliance with such laws their top priority.

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Kroger to Add Digital Smart Screens to 500 U.S. Stores

Adweek

To enhance its in-store shopping experience, grocery chain Kroger partnered with tech company Cooler Screens to bring digital smart screens to 500 of its stores across the U.S. These screens will replace traditional refrigerator and freezer doors in supported stores. The screens will place a digital overlay in front of the physical products, providing shoppers.

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79% of Americans Aged 50+ Are Streaming Viewers

MNTN

Streaming services aren’t just the domain of the youths. A new study from DeepIntent and Roku found that 79% of adults aged 50+ are currently already streaming viewers, with 52% of them streaming more than last year. And a significant amount of those in this age group can only be reached on CTV—21% have forgone linear altogether and exclusively rely on streaming services.

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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.