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Meta announces genAI video tools for advertisers

Martech

Today, Meta announced new generative AI video creation tools for advertisers on Facebook and Instagram. The tools are rolling out in Advantage+ creative and will be more widely available to advertisers early next year. In May, Meta rolled out genAI tools to resize images, change backgrounds and repurpose existing images to create multiple versions of ads.

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The DOJ Says Google May Need ‘Structural’ Changes to Undo Its Search Monopoly

Adweek

The Department of Justice submitted their proposed remedies to the August federal court ruling that Google illegally monopolizes search, arguing that Google should be prohibited from using their own products like Chrome, Android and the Play App store to advantage their search-related business. The proposed remedies might include a break up of the company, though.

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The Power of Visual Storytelling: How Graphics and Video Content Enhance Your Digital Branding

Ad Rants

In today's fast-moving digital world, where people are flooded with information, businesses must grab and hold attention. Using pictures and videos to tell stories has become a strong way to improve a brand's image and connect with people. By using these methods' attractive and emotional qualities, businesses can make a strong impression and encourage customers to stay loyal.

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Everything costs

Seth Godin

But not all costs are the same. There are three kinds of costs that people get confused about, but understanding them, really understanding them–in your bones–unlocks opportunity. Opportunity cost: If you eat the cupcakes, you can’t also eat the brownies. Every time we choose to do something, we’re choosing not to do something else.

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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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50% of B2B marketers won’t reach 2024 goals

Martech

No less than 50% of B2B marketers won’t reach their goals this year. When sales and marketing teams are firmly aligned, the outlook is much better, with 80% saying they will reach their goals. The insights come from a new Pipeline360 report, “The H2 2024 state of B2B pipeline growth” based on a survey of 500 B2B marketers in the U.S. and U.K.

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5 Questions For… Lawrence Jones

Adweek

Guy Fieri might the self-styled expert on diners, drive-ins and dives, but Lawrence Jones could probably give that spiky-haired chef a run for his Donkey Sauce. The Fox & Friends co-host is a dine-in diner regular courtesy of the Fox News morning show's popular Breakfast with Friends segment, which sends him to eateries across the.

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Buyers Can Now Target High-Attention Inventory In The Trade Desk

AdExchanger

Attention metrics’ play to replace viewability is inching closer to reality. And using attention for ad targeting could help advertisers avoid undesirable ad inventory that games viewability. Attention measurement provider Adelaide announced Tuesday that attention-based segments are available for pre-bid targeting in The Trade Desk (TTD). Buyers can target low-, medium- and high-attention inventory via […] The post Buyers Can Now Target High-Attention Inventory In The Trade Desk appeared f

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Google rolls out new AI-organized search results, AI Overview links

Martech

Google is rolling out AI-organized search results, and the new links and citations format in the Google AI Overviews. AI-organized search results. The new AI-organized search results, as we covered in May , are now rolling out in the U.S. This includes search results organized by web, including articles, videos, forums and more. Google said in its testing, searchers “have found AI-organized search results pages more helpful.

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Press Releases Have Become Way Too Hyperbolic

Adweek

Lindsay Morrow, a senior associate brand manager at Kit Kat, was thrilled to announce the candy brand had added another flavor to its product line: vanilla. Likewise, Aaron McMillan, managing director of hospitality programs at United Airlines, was thrilled to share flights had begun offering an assortment of canned wine to economy passengers. All American.

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The cheap chocolate system

Seth Godin

The first step in building a successful and elegant strategy is to see the systems that are part of our lives. October is a fine month to take a moment to look closely at one: the system that brings us cheap chocolate. Like most systems, it’s largely invisible. The people in it don’t mean to do harm, they’re simply making choices that feel like their best option.

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

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How to Use Instagram Reels to Grow Your Brand

Ad Rants

In the ever-evolving world of social media marketing, Instagram Reels has emerged as a powerful tool for brands looking to engage their audience and expand their reach. With its short, engaging video format, Reels offers a unique opportunity to showcase your brand's personality, products, and values. This article explores effective strategies to leverage Instagram Reels to grow your brand, even if you're just starting out or want to enhance your existing presence.

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Google blasts DOJ’s ‘radical’ proposed breakup plan

Martech

Google today pushed back on “radical and sweeping proposals” from the U.S. Department of Justice in its ongoing antitrust lawsuit over Google’s illegal search monopoly. These proposals are the latest developments in a lengthy and ongoing legal battle. Some of the suggestions are raising alarms about their potential impact beyond the scope of the case.

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Pachinko Producer Explains Why Diverse Stories Are Breaking Out in Streaming

Adweek

For producer Theresa Kang, everything comes down to perspective. Kang, the CEO of Blue Marble Pictures, was born in the United States, but her sister and parents were immigrants born in South Korea, resulting in her growing up in a multicultural household. Her upbringing has always played a major role in her life and the.

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Facing the future

Seth Godin

The Tofflers explained that Future Shock kicks in when the world changes faster than we’re ready for. We react instead of respond, and often shut down in the face of too much of the new. When our world changes (and it always does, more now than ever) we have four choices. And only one of them is helpful. DENY: We can pretend that the world isn’t changing, that nothing is different and angrily push back on any evidence to the contrary.

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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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Challenges in Implementing Federated Learning in Ad Tech

The Ad Tech Blog

Introduction Implementing federated learning in ad tech presents unique challenges that require innovative solutions. This article explores the key challenges and potential solutions for integrating federated learning into advertising technology platforms. Overview of Federated Learning Challenges Key Points Data Privacy: Ensuring user data remains private and secure.

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How to use generative AI in copywriting for an A/B testing program

Martech

AI fans like to rhapsodize about all the great things they can do with ChatGPT and other AI assistants. Here’s a glimpse into how my agency uses an advanced form of ChatGPT to help us with copywriting for an email A/B test. Although I can’t reveal everything — I need to protect my client’s privacy and competitive information — I’ll share as much as possible, including the steps we used to build the test and how ChatGPT helped us get there.

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G/O Media Is Suing Paste Media a Year After Selling It Jezebel

Adweek

The digital media firm G/O Media filed a lawsuit in Delaware court last month against Paste Media, according to public records obtained by ADWEEK. The lawsuit alleges that Paste Media breached the contract the two parties signed last year when Paste Media acquired the titles Jezebel and Splinter from G/O Media in November 2023. The.

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Video And Generative AI Is Meta’s Favorite Combo

AdExchanger

On Tuesday, Meta announced that it’s testing several new generative AI tools, including one that can animate static images and turn them into full-blown video ads. Another test involves adjusting the aspect ratio of a video by automatically generating the unseen pixels within every frame. That way, a video made for Facebook can be easily […] The post Video And Generative AI Is Meta’s Favorite Combo appeared first on AdExchanger.

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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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The inevitable meeting

Seth Godin

When the person you could have been meets the person you are becoming, is it going to be a cause for celebration or heartbreak? This is something we must work on right now, and tomorrow, and every single day until the meeting happens.

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What are marketers’ investment priorities as 2024 winds down?

Martech

Many marketing organizations spent the last couple of years watching their budgets carefully as interest rates rose and VC money dried up. As a result, many companies invested less in technology than they had in previous years. Dotdigital’s CMO Tracker survey asked 750 CMOs from the U.S., U.K. and Australia about their spending priorities. In this episode of the MarTech.org podcast, Juliette Aiken, CMO of Dotdigital, sits down to discuss the findings of the report.

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PayPal Formally Launches Ad Business to Pitch Its Shopping Data to Advertisers

Adweek

PayPal is open to business with advertisers. Today, PayPal is formally launching PayPal Ads, its arm that sells digital ads using data about what people buy across its properties within the U.S. PayPal Ads is led by Mark Grether, an advertising executive who previously built Uber and Amazon's ad businesses. PayPal is pitching aggregated transaction.

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CTV Ad Targeting Sucks Because We Let It

AdExchanger

CTV advertising sucks. Not the ads themselves. It’s the experience of being advertised to that sucks. Although I was boosted and masked throughout recent travel, I somehow picked up the newest virulent strain of Covid-19. The downtime led to a two-day binge-watch of a top-rated streaming show. Did I love the series? Yes! Did I […] The post CTV Ad Targeting Sucks Because We Let It 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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It just barely works

Seth Godin

This is the story of every new software innovation, and in fact, just about everything engineers have ever created. The first Wright Bros. plane just barely flew. The first version of VisiCalc was just barely useful. The earliest bridges were shaky, unreliable and made of vines. The secret of successful product development isn’t an innovation that bursts forth as a polished and finished product.

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Go inside the modern marketing data stack by Snowflake

Martech

Snowflake’s annual Modern Marketing Data Stack report highlights marketing and advertising trends and identifies which technologies are helping organizations like yours use their data to understand their customers and run campaigns that lift the bottom line. Join us for a free virtual event on Oct. 22, 2024, where we’ll unveil the 2025 report’s key findings.

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Adtech Firm Chalice’s Tool Ups Buyers’ Access to Quality Media on the Open Web

Adweek

Programmatic was supposed to use tech to match ad buyers to publishers seamlessly. The fact that ads still regularly land on spammy clickbait, while quality publishers continue to struggle, indicates that a little extra help is needed to link buyers up to quality. Enter new curation tech from adtech AI firm Chalice that looks to.

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Pixability Updates Its Contextual Tools To Analyze YouTube With Generative AI

AdExchanger

To say there’s a lot of content on YouTube is a huge understatement. If you watched each of the site’s almost 4 billion videos back-to-back, it would take roughly 81,500 years to finish, according to media resource Photutorial That’s not including all the new videos uploaded after you’d started watching, at a rate of six […] The post Pixability Updates Its Contextual Tools To Analyze YouTube With Generative AI 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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The Unseen Environmental Cost of Digital Advertising and the Push for Sustainability

Ad Monsters

Jon Schultz, CMO of Viant Technology, shares how his journey from IT to marketing shaped his leadership in ad tech and why sustainability in digital advertising is a crucial yet overlooked challenge. Fresh out of college as a computer science student, Jon Schultz knew that he wanted to be a marketer, and from day one of his 12-year stint at Ford, he did just that.

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How to use Microsoft Clarity for deeper website analytics

Martech

Microsoft Clarity is one of the best analytics tools you might not know about. This powerful, free tool enriches your existing analytics and customer profiling, offering deeper insights into user behavior. This article covers what Microsoft Clarity is and how to set up custom events to maximize its value for your website. TL;DR Clarity is a free, no-frills heatmapping and user session recording tool.

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DOJ’s Plan to Dethrone Google’s Search Dominance Shakes Gen AI Ambitions

Adweek

Conquering generative artificial intelligence (AI) is the next battlefield for big tech platforms, but Google could be on the back foot thanks to the response to its dominance in search. The proposed remedies recommended by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to rid Google of its alleged monopolistic behavior in search have the potential to hamper.

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Exclusive: Connatix And JW Player Merge To Create A One-Stop Shop For Video Monetization

AdExchanger

End-to-end platforms are back in style (unless you’re Google, of course, with antitrust regulators breathing down your neck). On Wednesday, video monetization platforms Connatix and JW Player announced plans to merge into a new entity called JWP Connatix. That’s just a placeholder name, though; there’s a rebrand in the works. The merger was first rumored […] The post Exclusive: Connatix And JW Player Merge To Create A One-Stop Shop For Video Monetization 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.