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Panic is Not a Strategy for Ad Agency New Business

Fuel Lines

How to implement sales intelligence for agency growth. No one opens an advertising agency because they have a passion for sales. That’s why many agencies only have one dedicated new business specialist or include it in the laundry list of owner responsibilities. By not prioritizing additional revenue opportunities, it only gets done when work is slow or the worst happens.

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What is Social Commerce and Why Should Your Brand Care?

Ad Espresso

It’s no secret that the world of buying and selling online is constantly changing. Keeping up with the latest and greatest trends in digital commerce is about as hard as, well, keeping up with the Kardashians. And just when you thought you had your ecommerce strategy nailed, there’s been a major paradigm shift. With the Read More.

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Giles Keeble: Howard Gossage was right all those years ago, we need more generalists

More About Advertising

I recently came across a D&AD discussion in which Naresh Ramchandani argued the case for generalists. It reminded me of Howard Gossage, who — apart from being a wonderful copywriter — once set up Generalists Inc. as a sideline. Inspired perhaps by Marshall McLuhan (who he introduced to the wider business world) Gossage talked about.

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Bronze Seeks Silver Shows The Personal Side of A Pivotal Era In the Ad Industry

AdPulp

“Even with every advantage I was given, I’ve had to plan, sweat, and fight for each move on this marketing game board.” -Mat Zucker There are two styles of books advertising professionals write when they want to tell their career “war stories” and impart some of their learned wisdom: Either it’s a cradle-to-boardroom minutiae-laden biography […].

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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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How to Build Millennial Advertising Campaigns?

Smarty Ads

Perhaps every marketer today knows that each target audience persona requires a different strategy and attitude. This way targeted advertising performs well for most business goals, such as increasing ROI or driving brand awareness. In order to make your marketing efforts work it is important to understand.

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lemonads’ Vertical of the Month: Clairvoyance

Lemonads

For this issue of Vertical of the Month, we’ll shine a light on the clairvoyance industry, give readers a summary of how it’s fared so far in 2020, and share tips to create better clairvoyance campaigns. Believing in extrasensory and supernatural services is a personal choice, but there is no denying that this vertical has a lot of potential for affiliates.

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You Won’t See This in the Trades: Rodrigo Maycotte Admires Stan Richards

AdPulp

A week and a day have passed since Stan Richards opted to step down after the firestorm of controversy surrounding his comments in an internal creative review for Motel 6. Comments that were quickly passed along to the client, who then fired the agency. What I’ve heard through the grapevine since is the activist role […]. The post You Won’t See This in the Trades: Rodrigo Maycotte Admires Stan Richards appeared first on Adpulp.

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The Best Video Ad Networks and Where to Find Them

Admixer

Advertising priorities are constantly changing, and in 2020 they gravitate more and more towards video ads network. 30 years ago, TV was paramount to reach and engagement, then the web arrived and display ads captivated the audience for decades. Finally, digital video content came to the foreground. According to the eMarketer report, by 2023 digital […].

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Why Retailers With a Clear App Strategy Will Win in This Market

InMobi

Retail brands have an especially tough road in front of them – and that’s even before considering the damage wrought by COVID-19. E-commerce, fast-shifting consumer habits, mobile showrooming, rising costs and more have all dramatically upended the retail landscape. So what can retailers do to more effectively ensure their survival despite these short-term and long-term trends?

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Mindshare’s Nick Emery: when’s a prank a hanging offence?

More About Advertising

According to Mail Online Mindshare global boss Nick Emery was fired after entering the loo for a wee and baring his bottom, visible during a Zoom call. Pretty silly but enough to bring an abrupt end to a 20-year career at WPP’s Mindshare? There’ve probably been times on Zoom when most of us would welcome.

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

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Live Entertainment Is Missing, And We, the People, Badly Miss It

AdPulp

Last month, I asked Rob Schwartz, CEO of TBWAChiatDay NY this pointed question. Adpulp: Who and/or what do you admire in the ad biz today? Schwartz: I think the best advertising today is coming from one place: The Lincoln Project. All of their work is relevant, surprising, emotional, and exceptionally powerful. And people are talking […]. The post Live Entertainment Is Missing, And We, the People, Badly Miss It appeared first on Adpulp.

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Ad Law in the Age of COVID-19 and Regulatory Reactions

All About Advertising Law

The COVID-19 crisis has spawned a new wave of predatory behavior toward consumers, with the marketing of coronavirus-related products and untested cures. Regulators have responded to these behaviors swiftly and in a variety of ways. Richard Cleland, assistant director – division of advertising practices at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and Venable attorneys Melissa Steinman and Kristen Klesh addressed the advertising enforcement trends stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and offered their

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Harbolnas Indonesia: Gearing up for the Sale Season

InMobi

Harbolnas: The Massive Indonesian Sale Season Brought on by the rising popularity and usage of online retail, eCommerce shopping dates have become a major cultural phenomenon worldwide and an integral part of consumers’ shopping calendars. The Indonesian online sale season popularly known as ‘Harbolnas’ is known for overwhelming offers and purchases, presenting brands with a massive opportunity to acquire and engage customers.

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Is adam&eve’s Halloween horror movie for Mars Temptations the cat’s whiskers?

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No idea what adam&eveDDB has up its sleeve for John Lewis this Christmas but the agency has had another opportunity to flex its movie-making abilities. For Mars’ Temptations cat treats this Halloween. In the middle of an ambitious multi-media/social effort is ‘Scaredy Cat,’ billed as the world’s first horror movie for cats (who clearly don’t.

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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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Do What’s Necessary? Or Do What’s Easy? Strategists Know the Difference

AdPulp

This new article in our Emerging Voices Series is made possible by the generous support of Adpulp’s patrons on Patreon. Please join us and help pay writers. Life is a series of forks in the road. The same is absolutely true of a career in strategic communications. Somewhere early in your career, you’ll go […]. The post Do What’s Necessary?

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How many technologies does it take to build a consumer journey?

illumin

It’s a well known fact in advertising: the consumer journey is highly fragmented. There’s a vast range of opportunities for consumers to learn, compare prices, and make purchase decisions. This reality has created similar fragmentation in the way marketers approach the consumer journey. Massive investments into technology to build, deploy and understand the consumer journey […].

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In the New Normal: Gearing up for the Festive Season in the Philippines

InMobi

Unlike the other festive seasons, this year sees an incredible rise in online sales. What does that mean for marketers? How are the Filipinos gearing up for the much-awaited Christmas? InMobi brings forth all the nitty-gritty details of the consumer sentiment, shopping trends, and the best ways for marketers to leverage the festive season sales in the post-COVID world in the Gearing Up for the Festive Season Report.

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‘Vote.’ Time replaces the logo on its cover for the first time in 100 years

More About Advertising

Time Magazine is calling its readers – and anyone passing a news stand – to action, by replacing its logo with the word “Vote” on its final cover before the US Presidential Election on 3rd November. It’s the first time the magazine has replaced its logo since its first issue in 1923. The artwork is.

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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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Chipotle Sends Its Workers Back To School (Tuition-Free)

AdPulp

In the ad agency business, we know that all the company’s assets walk out of “the building” at the end of the workday. It’s another way of saying that ad agencies don’t have hard assets—that all the value is in the team. What about other fields like the restaurant industry…do restaurant owners and operators see […].

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20+ Best Push Ads Networks - Which Are the Best Push Advertising Networks in 2021? (Ultimate Guide 2021)

Lemonads

It doesn’t matter if you’re a new or seasoned affiliate , you’re probably heard of push notifications and how profitable this ad format can be. Push advertising has become a staple in the affiliate world because it is used by thousands of affiliates to connect with audiences around the globe There’s no denying that push notifications are here to stay, but there are dozens or even hundreds of traffic sources you can work with.

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What Retailers Need to Know for the 2020 Holidays: Q&A With Celtra on Retail In-App Advertising Best Practices

InMobi

We recently chatted with Nikki Gertner, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Celtra, to discuss about how retailers should approach digital advertising during the 2020 holiday shopping season and how they should be thinking about their mobile ad creatives. What should creatives look like for retailers looking to drive app installs/UA (user acquisition) this holiday season?

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Mother London launches a new agency, called Other, to ‘reflect these unique times’

More About Advertising

Mother London has launched a new creative agency, called Other, which exists “to find new and interesting ways to help brands and businesses grow and develop now and in the future,” with creative leadership from Kyle Harman-Turner, best known for his “Epic Strut” ad for MoneySupermarket.

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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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Next Level Customer Care, Care of The “Buy Now” Blocker from Fifth Third Bank

AdPulp

Is it a bank’s job to help its customers save money? The more customers’ deposits remain in the bank, the more the bank can use the money to invest, so yes. It’s also the right thing to do. But how? How does a bank move people to care about saving money, instead of spending money? […]. The post Next Level Customer Care, Care of The “Buy Now” Blocker from Fifth Third Bank appeared first on Adpulp.

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12 Types of Interactive Content to Drive Better Engagement

Single Grain

Content is no longer king. Nowadays, interactive content is the boss, with 93% of marketers rating interactive content as highly effective at educating prospective customers: Today’s online shoppers want to interact with brands. They want to actively engage with products and services before making a purchase. Consumers want to see product images, watch videos, and play around with different types of interactive content to get a feel for what it would be like to purchase a product or service.

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Social Ad Scout Review 2022: Spy Hidden Insights Of Winning Ads!

Lemonads

Our Social Ad Scout Review will help you uncover all their features and insights you’ve been looking for in a spying tool and by the end of this article, you’ll fully understand if Social Ad Scout will be the right spying tool for you to use! If you’re having trouble trying to figure out why your competitors’ strategies are working and what their secret sauce is , you can do so by using a spy tool!

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MAA blast from past: ad maestro Orson Welles at work

More About Advertising

My friend George Parker reminds us that, contrary to what we asked here, there has been at least one good wine campaign – Orson Welles for Paul Masson: ‘we will sell no wine before its time.’ In Adscam and also MAA comments. The great man, who also appeared for Domecq and voiced Carlsberg as I.

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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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Pen 15: Analysis of random episode for Alcohol, Tobacco and Drugs (ATOD).

Gods of Advertising

Most of the television shows and movies I watch contain a preponderance of alcohol, tobacco or drugs. Many of them are integral to the plot itself. Platforms like Netflix and Hulu (among many, many others), free and clear of network restrictions, opened Pandora’s Box in terms of sexual and violent content. To say nothing of the Internet. Some of the most popular and/or critically acclaimed shows on any screen are predominantly about illicit drug use, alcoholism and related topics: Breaking Bad (

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In Toronto, Public Safety and Public Transit Are One

AdPulp

Waiting on a train and riding a train used to be a time to calm your mind, to think, or maybe read. It’s slightly more nervewracking now that any enclosed space where other humans breathe is a health risk. Perhaps it’s better in Canada. Canadians are such sensible, practical people. For instance, in the nation’s […]. The post In Toronto, Public Safety and Public Transit Are One appeared first on Adpulp.

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Meat is murder: Mother and Greenpeace unleash the monster in the kitchen

More About Advertising

A new campaign from Greenpeace takes aim at deforestation across South America, with help from a young boy and an angry jaguar, which has been displaced from its natural habitat in Brazil in order to make room for grazing cattle and animal feed plantations. The film, narrated by Brazilian actor Wagner Moura (Pablo Escobar in.

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MAA blast from the past: Southern Comfort

More About Advertising

Covid-19 is reported to be driving many of us to drink, so which tipple should we choose? Booze ads are arguably the hardest because you can’t say very much – so most advertisers veer between what they think are trendy, attractive consumers and ‘heritage.’ Has there ever been a good ad campaign for wine? Back.

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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.