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Exclusive: iHeartMedia and Deep Blue Take Women’s Sports Audio Network Nationwide

Adweek

When iHeartMedia and Deep Blue Sports + Entertainment took their Women's Sports Audio Network (WSAN) to Cannes Lions, they weren't just seeking brand sponsors--they wanted to show receipts. Today, iHeart and Deep Blue announced WSAN's initial lineup of shows available across iHeartMedia's broadcast, digital and podcast platforms. Plus, starting June 18, WSAN is launching "Women's.

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Strategies to Mitigate Emotional Fatigue in Digital Advertising

The Ad Tech Blog

Understanding Emotional Fatigue in Digital Advertising Key Points Ad fatigue occurs when users see the same ads repeatedly, leading to decreased engagement. Refreshing ad creatives and copy can help reduce ad fatigue. Targeting different audience segments can prevent overexposure. Monitoring ad performance metrics is crucial for early detection of ad fatigue.

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Spam 3.0

Seth Godin

Any fully open system of digital communication will corrode over time. Bad messages will crowd out the good ones. The new normal: Someone finds a database of every residential property, then another of cell phones. An AI is trained to call every homeowner, every day, asking if they’re thinking of selling their home. Millions of calls an hour. The leads (one out of 40,000 calls, perhaps) are sold to real estate brokers.

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Mozilla Acquires Anonym, A Privacy Tech Startup Founded By Two Top Former Meta Execs

AdExchanger

Two years after leaving Meta to launch their own privacy-focused ad measurement startup in 2022, Graham Mudd and Brad Smallwood have sold their company to Mozilla. The acquisition, announced on Monday, came together quickly, said Mozilla CEO Laura Chambers, who declined to share a deal price. Mozilla had initially been talking to Anonym, which uses […] The post Mozilla Acquires Anonym, A Privacy Tech Startup Founded By Two Top Former Meta Execs 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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Publishers Are Increasingly Irked at Perplexity Bots Circumventing Blocks

Adweek

Publisher frustration is mounting at AI search startup Perplexity, which is backed by Jeff Bezos and other tech titans, for circumventing attempts to block its crawlers from accessing and serving up media content, potentially cutting publishers out of billions in ad revenue. The New York Times, The Guardian, Conde Nast and Forbes are among those.

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What HubSpot’s LinkedIn integration means for the future of sales and marketing

Martech

HubSpot’ s LinkedIn integration boosts sales efficiency with real-time data sync but presents new challenges for SMBs in marketing and consolidation. Salesforce has had a tight integration with Sales Navigator for a while, dominating the market by using LinkedIn data to target the right decision-makers. HubSpot, meanwhile, has long lacked this native two-way sync integration — until recently.

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Psychological Effects of Ad Frequency on Brand Perception

The Ad Tech Blog

Understanding the Psychological Effects of Ad Frequency Key Points Ad frequency significantly impacts brand perception. High ad frequency can lead to ad fatigue and negative brand associations. Moderate ad frequency enhances brand recall and trust. Consumer behavior is influenced by the repetition of ads. Effective media planning is crucial for optimizing ad frequency.

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Mark Read and Mark Penn Defend Meeting With Elon Musk at Cannes

Adweek

CANNES, France--Elon Musk's conversation with WPP CEO Mark Read at the Cannes Lions Festival this week didn't just draw a crowd, but frustrations from agency staffers as well.

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Major Ad Tech Companies Launch New Initiative to Accelerate Programmatic TV in Europe

VideoWeek

A number of major ad tech businesses – PubMatic, Magnite, Equativ, The Trade Desk, Cadent, and Adform – this morning announced the launch of the European Programmatic TV Initiative (EPTVI), a joint effort aimed at accelerating growth and adoption of programmatic TV in Europe. The EPTVI is a collaboration with the Project X Initiative, and has a number of broadcasters and agencies on board (though these haven’t been named).

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Are you weather?

Seth Godin

The thunderstorm doesn’t know we exist. Rain dances and wishes are ineffective at bringing or preventing a storm, because it isn’t caused by our actions. Metaphorical weather is tempting to mistake as a response. When someone cuts us off in traffic or doesn’t engage with us the way we might hope for, it’s easy to take it personally.

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

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Emotional Resonance of Sustainability and Ethical Consumption

The Ad Tech Blog

Understanding Emotional Resonance in Sustainability and Ethical Consumption Key Points Emotional triggers play a significant role in consumer behavior towards sustainability and ethical consumption. Marketing strategies that tap into these emotional triggers can enhance the effectiveness of ad campaigns. Consumers often experience cognitive dissonance when their actions conflict with their values.

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What Early Access to OpenAI’s Sora Has Taught David Droga About Creativity

Adweek

CANNES, France--Ad veteran David Droga is one of the few people with the keys to OpenAI's text-to-video tool, Sora, and it's already reshaping how he thinks about creativity. "Not all creativity is worth saving," said the CEO of Accenture Song in a conversation at the Cannes Lions Festival with OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati.

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Advertible Makes Its Case To SSPs For Running Native Channel Extensions

AdExchanger

Native advertising is hardly new. Companies like TripleLift, which created the category of programmatic native, are now in their awkward tween years. Which means it’s about time for something new. Cue Advertible, a “native-as-a-service” programmatic vendor, as put by co-founder and CEO Tom Anderson. The company was founded early last year and only has three […] The post Advertible Makes Its Case To SSPs For Running Native Channel Extensions appeared first on AdExchanger.

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The Western Union trap

Seth Godin

When the telephone began to gain traction, the monopoly of the time, Western Union, decided to get even better at sending telegrams.

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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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49% of consumers believe they can distinguish between traditional and AI ads on CTV

Marketing Tech News

49% of consumers are confident they can distinguish ads generated by AI versus traditional methods, with nearly half (49%) stating they do not care whether an ad was made using AI or traditional methods as long as it looks authentic. That’s according to new insights released today by LG Ad Solutions, to determine consumer perceptions. Read more » The post 49% of consumers believe they can distinguish between traditional and AI ads on CTV appeared first on Marketing Tech News.

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See the Grand Prix Winners of the 2024 Cannes Lions

Adweek

CANNES, France--The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, taking place June 17-21, is known as the Oscars of the ad industry. The work that wins at the festival can change the course of a career or business, while also indicating where the industry is headed. Cannes holds an awards ceremony each night to reveal winners.

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United’s New Ad Network Has Programmatic On Its Flight Plan

AdExchanger

United Airlines really wanted everyone who traveled to Cannes this year for the Lions festival to know it has a media network now. Before takeoff on the 7:50 p.m. overnight Saturday flight from Newark Airport to Nice, France, an ad for Kinective Media, which is the name for United’s new media network, played on every […] The post United’s New Ad Network Has Programmatic On Its Flight Plan appeared first on AdExchanger.

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“What will I tell my boss?”

Seth Godin

If you can’t answer that six-word question, you’re selling a commodity. Organizations don’t buy things, people do. And people at companies aren’t spending their own money, so this is the only question on the table. A cogent story, based on affiliation and status, one that sees and respects the dynamics of the organization, is actually what they’re paying for.

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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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3 traits of an effective marketing CRM product owner

Martech

Your company just bought a shiny new CRM. Great! Now, who drives it? Effective customer relationship management (CRM) is a cornerstone of marketing success. At the core of this is the CRM product owner — a pivotal role that orchestrates the intersection of technology, customer insights and strategy. But what makes a CRM product owner truly exceptional?

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How the NBA Finals Made $76 Billion Media Rights Seem Like a Bargain

Adweek

As an impending NBA media rights deal is pushing the value of league broadcasts above the rim, no one's calling foul on its price. The National Basketball Association continues to put up big numbers for media partners and advertisers alike. Game 3 of the NBA Finals drew 11.426 million viewers to ABC and ESPN, peaking.

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Pandora Integrates With UID2 To Raise The Volume On Programmatic Audio

AdExchanger

The Trade Desk is planting the UID2 flag in another emerging media channel. Pandora is the first digital audio platform to integrate The Trade Desk’s UID2 alternative ID, the companies announced today. The UID2 integration is also Pandora’s first partnership with a third-party ID. The integration adds more addressability for AdsWizz, the end-to-end programmatic platform […] The post Pandora Integrates With UID2 To Raise The Volume On Programmatic Audio appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Phrenology

Seth Godin

For thousands of years, and as recently as the 1930s, phrenology was seen as a useful proxy to judge someone’s character. Carefully charting the bumps on someone’s head, along with the slope of their forehead and other telltale signs was seen as a thoughtful and proven way to determine whether someone was creative, honest or empathic. Even with the nutty pseudoscience we are all surrounded by, it’s pretty easy to tell that this is nonsense.

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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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How to create high-performing email campaigns

Martech

Imagine it’s Monday morning and your inbox is overflowing. Amid the sea of emails, one catches your eye — a message from your favorite sports store about the perfect running shoes for the marathon you’re gearing up for. The subject line hooks you instantly and a click later, you’re looking at content crafted just for you, complete with training tips and a tempting discount.

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Cannes Lions Award Entries Are Down 38% Compared to All-Time High in 2016

Adweek

Whether a matter of time, cost or combination of other factors, the ad world isn't submitting as much work to the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity as in the past. This year, award entries were down about 1% compared to last year--not a significant decline. But looking back to 2016, which holds the record.

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The ANA Says Advertisers Are Spending Way Less On MFA – But Programmatic Ain’t Fully Transparent Yet

AdExchanger

One year ago, the Association of National Advertisers released the first part of its Programmatic Media Supply Chain Transparency Study. But it really should have been named The Lack of Programmatic Media Supply Chain Transparency Study. Because that report, and the follow-up study published in December, uncovered an appalling amount of programmatic waste, including $22 […] The post The ANA Says Advertisers Are Spending Way Less On MFA – But Programmatic Ain’t Fully Transparent Yet appeare

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The intentional stance

Seth Godin

Dan Dennett explained that it began as a survival mechanism. It’s important to predict how someone else is going to behave. That tiger might be a threat, that person from the next village might have something to offer. If we simply wait and see, we might encounter an unwelcome or even fatal surprise. The shortcut that the intentional stance offers us is, “if I were them, I might have this in mind.” Assuming intent doesn’t always work, but it works often enough that all hu

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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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Will you ever trust a B2B tech vendor?

Martech

Trust in business is not quite the same as trust in our personal lives. I think everyone recognizes that. You’ll never trust Salesforce or HubSpot the way you trust your family or your best friend, and I think the people at those companies would whole-heartedly agree on that point. When it comes to trust, the best a B2B tech vendor can hope for is to be where IBM stood when someone coined the phrase, “No one ever got fired for buying IBM.

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Recognizing the Power of Creative, Yahoo Lets Marketers Serve Tailored Ads Via Its DSP

Adweek

Yahoo is celebrating the power of creative to drive campaign results. Yahoo Creative, announced at the Cannes Lions Festival, is a data-driven solution that helps advertisers tailor the creative of their ads based on real-time insights, making them more relevant. And early tests show that it's driving results. "There are 205 million logged-in users that.

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The Cannes Lions Roared As Usual, But The Ad Industry Needs More Than Talk

AdExchanger

Another Cannes Lions is almost behind us. The senior advertising execs who convened on La Croisette confidently shared their visions for the future of transparency, AI, attention, identity, privacy and curated marketplaces. I have been writing about these topics for AdExchanger for years and have sometimes been considered naïve and utopian for pushing for change […] The post The Cannes Lions Roared As Usual, But The Ad Industry Needs More Than Talk appeared first on AdExchanger.

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APIs are “very important” to martech buyers today, but they’ll be crucial for the coming wave of AI agents

Chief Martech

Take a guess at filling in the blank here: __ is to AI Agents as Data is to AI Models The answer, as you likely surmised from my headline, is APIs. Let’s discuss why… Data is the differentiation in AI models For the past year and a half, the hyper hype cycle of AI madness has agreed on only one clear truth: data will be your most strategic asset in the Age of AI.

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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.