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The 4 types of content buyers want

Martech

We now can generate more content than ever before, but should we? What if we knew what buyers wanted and made more of that instead of producing what’s fast and/or easy? Last month, I shared insights from our research highlighting the gap between content marketing and the buyer’s journey. Specifically, roughly 80% of closed sales deals we evaluated couldn’t be connected to marketing content.

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Amazon Is Quietly Bringing Ads to Rufus, Its Gen AI Search Engine 

Adweek

Amazon is starting to plug ads into generative AI. Sponsored ads--Amazon's core search ad format--could start appearing in placements for Rufus, according to Amazon Ads' product releases for September. Rufus is Amazon's seven-month-old shopping assistant that uses gen AI to help people find products within Amazon's mobile app. Rufus is a chatbot that can answer.

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Your Day One Recap: DOJ vs. Google Goes Deep Into The Ad Tech Weeds

AdExchanger

It’s not often one gets to hear sworn witnesses in federal court explain the intricacies of header bidding under oath. But that’s what happened during the first day of the Google ad tech-focused antitrust case in Alexandria, Virginia on Monday. It was like a crash course in ad tech – and ad tech history. The […] The post Your Day One Recap: DOJ vs.

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Getting AI to do your work

Seth Godin

That’s the first step, certainly. If you don’t, your boss will. The second step is to take the time you’ve freed up and do work that the AI can’t do.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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6 tips for creating a winning email marketing calendar

Martech

Your calendar is not just a pretty collection of dates and ideas; it’s the blueprint for a successful email marketing program. A strategically built calendar offers a bird’s eye view of your year ahead, ensuring you hit every big sales opportunity and highlight everything that sets your business apart. Below are six tried-and-tested pointers to unlock the full potential of your email marketing calendar. 1.

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Scripps Closes Upfront Seeing ‘Overwhelming’ Demand for Women’s Sports

Adweek

The E.W. Scripps Company has crossed the TV upfront finish line, and women's sports scored big. Brian Norris, the company's chief revenue officer, told ADWEEK that Scripps saw low single-digit growth in volume, which was largely "due in part to our commitment to women's sports." Norris said it was "no secret" that Scripps was all.

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The Role of Color Psychology in Neuroaesthetics

The Ad Tech Blog

Understanding the role of color psychology in neuroaesthetics can significantly enhance advertising and marketing strategies. This article delves into how colors influence human emotions and behaviors, providing valuable insights for marketing managers, advertising executives, and media planners. Understanding Color Psychology in Neuroaesthetics Key Points Colors can evoke specific emotional responses.

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Nearly half of US consumers feel ignored by marketers

Martech

Do your customers feel like you’re giving them enough attention? Forty-four percent of Americans say they feel ignored by the media and most advertisers. And it’s not that consumers aren’t hearing from brands. Part of the problem is they’re inundated with ads and worry about being tracked online. A full 67% of consumers said they hate being “trailed” by targeted ads.

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Intrepid Travel Targets Climate Week NYC Attendees With Biggest Ad Blitz Yet

Adweek

Last year, sustainable tour company Intrepid Travel spent $1 million on an ad blitz during Climate Week NYC. This year, the brand is doing it again but with a $5 million budget and a campaign called "Only Intrepid." The goal of last year's campaign, "Good Trips Only," was to expand the Australia-based company's brand awareness.

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Buried DOJ Evidence Reveals How Google Dealt With The Trade Desk

AdExchanger

The Google antitrust trial is focused on Google’s supply-side business and publisher ad server, which is why the DOJ features relatively few DSPs and buy-side competitors. However, in the process of the investigation into Google, the Department of Justice unearthed a vast trove of separate evidence. Some of these findings paint a whole new picture […] The post Buried DOJ Evidence Reveals How Google Dealt With The Trade Desk appeared first on AdExchanger.

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

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Banana Equivalents

Seth Godin

Bananas are (slightly) radioactive. The banana equivalent dose (BED) is a measurement of radiation. It’s definitely not enough to hurt you. When we think about risk, the BED is a useful way to find perspective. Is the exposure this new thing will cause on the order of a banana? If so, perhaps we shouldn’t worry about it so much. A chest x ray might be like eating 100 bananas… it gives us a scale we can work with.

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The fading third place: A reflection on Starbucks and society

Martech

The aroma of freshly ground coffee beans filled the air as I stepped into the Seattle Starbucks in the late 1990s. A college student on the brink of adulthood, I was drawn to Starbucks’s promise of sophistication. More than just a beverage, Starbucks introduced me to a new coffee culture. As I approached the counter, I ordered my first tall latte, or maybe it was a grande; I can’t quite remember, but I do recall having a new, more sophisticated way to say small, medium or large.

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Inside Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building Escape Game

Adweek

Who's ready to test their detective skills? The fourth season of Hulu's Only Murders in the Building premiered last month, and to promote the series, the streamer debuted new escape room experiences in New York City and Los Angeles that will be open for the next year. This isn't the first time Hulu launched an.

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The DOJ vs. Google, Day Two: Tales From The Underbelly Of Ad Tech

AdExchanger

A publisher, an ad exchange, an ad buyer and an ad server walk into a courtroom. No wait, that was on Monday. But Day Two of the Google antitrust trial in Alexandria, Virginia on Tuesday was just as intensely focused on the intricacies of ad tech as on Day One. Testimony began in the morning […] The post The DOJ vs. Google, Day Two: Tales From The Underbelly Of Ad Tech appeared first on AdExchanger.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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The bitterness loop

Seth Godin

Spoiled leads to bitter. A sense of entitlement is a trap, because bitterness demands more evidence and seeks to maintain dominance over the other emotions. When we’re busy looking for more reasons to be bitter, we’re not taking the time to do generative work, to connect and to find opportunities to make things better. These are the enemies of bitterness… it’s easy to make bitterness worse by seeking more reasons to be bitter.

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Salesforce launches new, ‘more trustworthy’ generation of AI bots

Martech

Yesterday, Salesforce launched Agentforce — generative AI bots the company says can be trusted to take action on their own. Agentforce is “the third wave of AI — advancing beyond copilots to a new era of highly accurate, low-hallucination intelligent agents that actively drive customer success ,” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said during the press conference.

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He Likes It! Hey Mikey! Life Cereal Revives an Adorable Ad Icon

Adweek

Mom has toothpaste in her hair, dad isn't sufficiently caffeinated, and siblings are pillow fighting in a messy start-of-the-day scene that's likely replicated in some form in countless American households. With an adorable fresh-faced youngster at the center, narrating the mayhem in a catchy song, Life Cereal kicks off its first concerted marketing effort in.

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Don’t Go Dark On Advertising During Election Season, New Research Suggests

AdExchanger

TV and video measurement provider iSpot is fielding a lot of election season concerns from buyers as political ad spend increases in the weeks leading up to the 2024 presidential election. The post Don’t Go Dark On Advertising During Election Season, New Research Suggests appeared first on AdExchanger.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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A labor of love

Seth Godin

That’s magical. To have the resources to expend labor on something that fills us with joy. If you’re lucky enough to encounter this, perhaps it makes sense not to confuse the issue by also trying to turn it into labor for maximum profit. When we focus on one, we often decrease the other.

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Scaling local advertising with automation in the new media landscape by Fluency

Martech

Today’s advertisers face a daunting operational challenge: scaling customized, local advertising campaigns across a growing number of channels. Overall digital ad spend continues to grow, and new channels, financial media and retail media networks are emerging. As the space gets more complex, both in-house and agency ad teams are stretched thin, trying to do more with the same — or less — people and budget.

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Former Google Ad Exec Testifies Its Ad Operations Resisted Innovation And Its Ad Server Team Was ‘Lazy And Slow’

Adweek

A former Google advertising executive testified in the US antitrust case against Google, painting a picture of a company where it can be difficult to make change. The Department of Justice is trying to prove that Google's ad business is a monopoly with tools that control how both advertisers and publishers buy and sell digital.

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Google Ads Will Now Use A Trusted Execution Environment By Default

AdExchanger

If the digital ad ecosystem is going to mature to a new stage of privacy consciousness, advertisers must be better stewards of their first-party data. One aspect of that evolution is the idea of trusted execution environments (TEEs), which are new cloud-based ad exchanges that help match first-party data sets and browser data for targeting […] The post Google Ads Will Now Use A Trusted Execution Environment By Default appeared first on AdExchanger.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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When did we lose consciousness?

Seth Godin

In medical TV dramas, losing consciousness is something that happens suddenly and dramatically. We can all tell… the body is still there, but the mind is gone, at least for now. Unfortunately, this happens in real life. At work. In our personal lives. For a few minutes or even a decade or more. We stop noticing. We fail to appreciate. Most of all, we stop making decisions.

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Measuring customer acquisition cost: Best of the MarTechBot

Martech

Best of the MarTechBot showcases the MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. See more about how marketers are using MarTechBot here. The language model is based on content from MarTech embedded on top of ChatGPT. The editors of MarTech selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content.

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A Top The Trade Desk Exec Testifies That Header Bidding was Decimated at Google Trial

Adweek

"Open Bidding decimated header bidding," Jed Dederick, chief revenue officer of The Trade Desk, told a courtroom in Virginia on Sept. 10 as he testified as a witness in US v. Google, the Department of Justice's case that accuses Google of operating an advertising monopoly. Dederick's testimony is a good statement for the Department of.

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DOJ vs. Google, Day Four: Behind The Scenes On The Fraught Rollout Of Unified Pricing Rules

AdExchanger

On Day Four of the Google ad tech antitrust trial in Virginia, we boarded a time machine that took us back to April 18, 2019. That was the day that Google convened an in-person and livestreamed meeting with publishers in NYC to discuss a bundle of new changes to its auction dynamics, including the move to […] The post DOJ vs. Google, Day Four: Behind The Scenes On The Fraught Rollout Of Unified Pricing Rules appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Solving the Biggest Tech Challenges in RevOps

In this eBook, we’ll run through real-world examples that show how RevOps teams can benefit from modern solutions for the access, management, and activation of their GTM data. Whether you need to improve lead response times, boost adoption of core tools, improve lead qualification, or target and automate your GTM motions, you’ll find examples of how revenue teams are solving some of the toughest problems in modern business.

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Fubo Launches New CTV Ad Format; Roku Enters UK Retail Media Partnership; Meta’s Latest EU Compliance Updates   

Exchange Wire

Today’s news: Fubo Launches New CTV Ad Format; Roku Enters UK Retail Media Partnership; Meta’s Latest EU Compliance Updates Leading sports streaming platform Fubo has launched a new CTV ad format for branded video content – The Triple Play – bringing [.] The post Fubo Launches New CTV Ad Format; Roku Enters UK Retail Media Partnership; Meta’s Latest EU Compliance Updates appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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How to make the most of your market research data

Martech

Market research is indispensable for businesses, guiding strategies and decisions with data-driven insights. However, many organizations fail to take advantage of all of them. This diminishes the research’s value and weakens marketing’s credibility. The issue often lies not in the research quality, but in how it is treated post-delivery.

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Week of September 2 Cable News Ratings: All Networks See Post-Labor Day Weekend Drop

Adweek

This is TVNewser's basic cable network ranker and cable news report for the week of September 2, 2024. The post-holiday period was not kind to networks as all three cable nets saw a drop in their week-to-week numbers in total viewers and the prized demo of Adults 25-54. MSNBC and CNN saw steeper drops as.

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Better pockets

Seth Godin

Every coat needs better pockets. There are categories of products or services where there’s a universal area for improvement. When in doubt, make the pockets better. The interesting work is in realizing that you might offer a product or service where there are non-universal preferences. Areas where improvement isn’t valued. The Birkin bag is not a good value or particularly functional.

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Drive GTM Efficiency with Tech Stack Consolidation

Consolidating your tech stack is an effective cost-saving measure that drives GTM efficiency and adds value to your enterprise. With a cohesive, integrated tech stack, your revenue teams can deliver an excellent customer experience that sets you up to win faster than your competitors.