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Your CMO, Not Your CTO, Should Lead AI Strategy

Adweek

Two years after the launch of ChatGPT, the business world is finally waking up. This isn't just another tech trend that VCs will throw money at while screaming "disruption"--one that may be gone in another year. AI is the new electricity. It will impact everything. Companies are fumbling in the dark, trying to figure out.

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Guardrails and governance: How to protect your brand while using AI

Martech

Marketing has traditionally served as the “guardian of the brand,” ensuring organizational consistency across all channels. AI creates brand assets at scale, offering speed and efficiency. However, it also introduces new risks. Here’s how it changes guardrails and governance and what to do about it. Guardrails vs. governance While closely related, guardrails and governance serve different but complementary functions in AI-powered marketing organizations.

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6 Platforms That Will Define Retail Media in 2025

Ad Monsters

Retail media is on track to hit $106 billion by 2027, with giants like Amazon and Walmart dominating, while innovators like Instacart, Kroger, and Home Depot carve out specialized niches. In 2023, eMarketer called retail media the third and likely the biggest wave in digital media. So far, the ad revenue data hasnt proved the research company wrong.

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How AI Has (Already) Become The Foundation Of Digital Advertising

AdExchanger

Generative AI is quickly becoming the bedrock of the digital advertising landscape. That might sound like a bold statement after all, generative AI only hit the mainstream two years ago. But while many industries are just beginning to explore the potential of generative AI, advertisers have been leveraging AI and machine learning for years. […] The post How AI Has (Already) Become The Foundation Of Digital Advertising 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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The Top Rising and Declining Job Titles in Marketing

Adweek

Although the number of U.S. jobs in advertising, public relations, and other related services remained flat throughout 2024, the jobs themselves are changing. Exclusive data from LinkedIn shows how. When comparing the quantity of marketing-related job titles on LinkedIn user profiles in 2024 versus 2022, no position experienced more growth than "Sales Marketing Supervisor," which.

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Retail media networks continue to grow: 2025 predictions

Martech

Over the last year, the RMN space saw new in-store standards and solid growth. This is likely to continue. Here are a few ways we expect to see this dynamic space continue to mature. Growing in-store networks While retail media networks have gained some attention [in 2024], I believe their full potential remains largely untapped, said Melanie Babcock, Vice President, Orange Apron Media and monetization at The Home Depot.

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Why early generative AI ads aren’t working and how creatives will shift to integrate the tech into their work

Digiday

Marketers are faithfully obsessed with the shiny new thing when it comes to their brand activations. So its no surprise that in year two of having generative AI at their disposal, marketers have rushed to use it in their advertising. But so far, consumers arent as enamored with generative AI created ads as marketers have been. Throughout 2024, the marketers who obviously used generative AI to make their ads ( Toys R Us , Under Armour , Coca-Cola ) or touted the possibilities of generative AI in

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Great Minds Think Unalike: Advertising Week’s 20-Year Evolution

Adweek

In this episode of The Speed of Culture Podcast, Suzy founder and host Matt Britton chats with Ruth Mortimer, global president of Advertising Week. From blending entertainment and education to embracing creativity in a tech-driven world, Ruth delves into the evolving advertising landscape, the role of inclusivity, and the importance of staying curious in shaping.

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The influencer marketing space kicks off 2025 with another acquisition

Martech

Influencer marketing and social media management platform Later announced Friday it acquired Mavely for $250 million. Mavely has a network of more than 120,000 creators who the company says drove more than $1 billion in gross merchandising volume for more than 1,400 major brands, including Nike, Anthropologie, Lululemon, Macy’s, Old Navy and Adidas.

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The Dawn Of First-Party Data: Navigating The New Advertising Landscape

AdExchanger

Back in 1966, McKinsey astutely observed, Change gets costlier every day, yet not changing can be costlier still. This statement rings truer than ever in todays rapidly evolving advertising landscape. As data proliferates across customer touch points, marketers face the challenge of delivering optimal experiences without comprehensive audience understanding.

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

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How AI could shape content and ads in 2025

Digiday

Tech giants and startups alike have spent the past year building new generative AI tools for users and advertisers. From AI images for programmatic ads to a growing number of AI-generated TV commercials, brands are starting to explore new ways of thinking about creative across various platforms. The final weeks of 2024 had big news with expanded access and improved outputs of generative models like OpenAI’s Sora, Amazon’s Nova and Google’s Veo.

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CES 2025: Marketers Hunt for Competitive-Edge Tech

Adweek

Since 1998, when the exciting new innovations were DVDs and alarm clocks with nature sounds, CES has kicked off the year for the tech industry. The conference itself has been around since 1967, but didn't settle into its once-a-year, early January cadence until the late 1990s. For the marketing industry, it's an opportunity to scope.

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Lessons from AI’s 2024 rise and a pragmatic path for marketing in 2025

Martech

As 2024 comes to a close, its impossible to ignore the central theme that has shaped marketing and technology this year: artificial intelligence. From breathtaking advancements in generative models to bold proclamations about the agentic era, the year has been dominated by promises of transformation. And yet, for all the excitement, theres a significant gap between these bold visions and the day-to-day realities of most companies.

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Breaking Away From Low-Quality Data

AdExchanger

Scott McKinleys journey from professional cyclist and captain of the 1988 US Olympic Road Cycling Team in Seoul, Korea, to CEO and founder of data validation provider Truthset was more linear than one might think. Cycling is the ultimate test of truth, McKinley says on this weeks episode of AdExchanger Talks. You race 120, 130 […] The post Breaking Away From Low-Quality Data appeared first on AdExchanger.

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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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Marketers look to unconventional sports to move the needle for their brands

Digiday

Sports marketing spend shot up in 2024. Amid soaring viewership figures for last years Olympic Games , worldwide ad spend on sports-related advertising rose to $60.9 billion, according to WARC. But sports marketing doesnt always just mean chasing the largest audience possible. In 2025 brand marketers are set to seek audiences via niche, unconventional sports opportunities.

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Bracing for a TikTok Ban: 5 Key Implications for Ads, Creators, and Businesses

Adweek

With a potential TikTok ban set to take effect on January 19 in the U.S., the ripple effects will be felt far beyond its millions of users in the country, causing major disruptions to the broader digital landscape. In April last year, Congress passed a law banning "foreign adversary-controlled applications" from app stores, which could.

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3 reports in GA4 that use analytics to eliminate customer friction

Martech

Feel like your marketing team is drowning in analytics reports? Youre not alone. Data surrounds todays marketers, making it difficult to understand how to connect business problems to the data that offers a solution. One use case for web analytics data is reducing customer friction points. In a presentation at the Fall MarTech Conference , Julie Jones, product manager at Baylor Scott & White Health, demonstrated for marketers how to create an actionable list of events they need to track and

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AdExchanger’s Top Comics Of 2024

AdExchanger

Every Friday, AdExchanger publishes an original comic creation inspired by trends in the online advertising industry. We get together to spitball ideas and then share them with our very talented comic artist Kevvo. From the rise of curation to the Google ad tech antitrust trial in Virginia, he helps us translate the biggest news into […] The post AdExchangers Top Comics Of 2024 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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Brands flocked to women’s sports in 2024. Did that push up overall sports marketing spending?

Digiday

Whichever way you look at it, 2024 was a slam dunk year for womens sports. The WNBA enjoyed a banner season featuring newly minted superstars such as Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese while the NWSL saw TV audiences rise by almost 20% compared with the previous season, according to CBS. Advertiser dollars followed. During the 2024-25 broadcast year, GroupM still the industrys largest media agency network, at least for now has driven more client spending toward women’s sports, increasing it 1

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TikTok’s North American Ad Chief Steps Down as Ban Nears

Adweek

Sameer Singh, TikTok's North America head of ad sales, is leaving the company, according to an internal memo reviewed by ADWEEK. The announcement comes as the popular video-sharing app faces mounting pressure, with a U.S. ban set to take effect on January 19. Singh joined ByteDance in 2019 and has been a central figure in.

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British Gas decorates C4 home shows with T&Pm idents

More About Advertising

Centrica-owned British Gas and ecotech brand Hive are sponsoring Channel 4s home shows, flagged by 24 idents from T&Pm. They use all the tropes of the home improvement genre, but the admiring comments are directed at the British Gas engineer rather than the dcor. A second series of idents will tick the sustainable living box … The post British Gas decorates C4 home shows with T&Pm idents first appeared on More About Advertising.

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What is dynamic ad insertion (DAI)?

AdvertiseMint

For those looking into what is Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI), it transforms the advertising landscape by offering personalized and seamlessly integrated ads into live and on-demand video content, changing the game for OTT advertising agencies. Unlike traditional TV advertising , DAI takes a page from the Meta advertising playbook and uses advanced data analytics to target viewers based on their demographics, behavior, and preferences.

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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 mobile game publisher HOMA worked with TikTok to create a viral hit inspired by #CleanTok

Digiday

In June 2024, the mobile game developer HOMA published Clean It, a casual game inspired by the #CleanTok TikTok trend and the game became a viral hit. The game launch, the result of a collaboration between HOMA and TikTok, is the latest example of the TikToks intentional bid to court game publishers onto its platform. Clean It was not the first TikTok-inspired game to be published by HOMA, whose most popular titles include mobile games such as Merge Master and Aquarium Land.

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How AI Will Impact the TV Industry in 2025, According to 15 Executives

Adweek

Whether you love or hate to hear about it, artificial intelligence is everywhere, and it's here to stay. In the past year, AI has dominated every industry. But in the TV space, it seems like everyone is still trying to figure out how it's going to be used. More personalized user experiences and more AI-generated.

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Your Shortcut to Short-Form Video Advertising Success

Brid.tv

Todays digital landscape and social media platforms are driven by short-form video content , and video advertising is no different. Short-form video ads , with their concise and engaging format, are perfect for grabbing attention in a world with diminishing attention spans. But what does it take to succeed with this format? Let me break it down for you lets explore the ins and outs of short-form video ads, their benefits, and how you can leverage them to drive results for your brand.

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What’s the difference between adtech and martech

illumin

Technical advancements blur the lines between MarTech and AdTech so much that they the terms are used interchangeably. Martech(Marketing Technology) and Adtech(Advertising Technology) are distinct aspects of modern marketing that are differentiated and simultaneously overlap and complement each other. Heres how to spot the difference, and the applications of both.

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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 definitive Digiday guide to what’s in and out for advertising in 2025

Digiday

Another year, another remarkable give and take for the advertising industry. See below for what we think is in store for 2025. In Anti-woke corporate backlash Out DEI corporate wave In Fragmentation of brand safety Out Industrialization of brand safety Continue reading this article on digiday.com. Sign up for Digiday newsletters to get the latest on media, marketing and the future of TV.

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5 Reasons to Be Optimistic About the Media Industry

Adweek

Working in media--let alone reporting on it--can be a grim task. It often feels like the industry is perpetually on the verge of collapse, with news about layoffs, closures, and declines in trust and readership dominating the headlines. The reality is more complex. There are plenty of challenges ahead for journalism and media, but there.

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Expert tips for running profitable amazon sponsored product ads

AdvertiseMint

In todays competitive ecommerce landscape, a typical Amazon advertising agency will leverage Amazon Sponsored Product ads effectively can make all the difference in driving sales. The key to success lies in employing a data-driven approach that includes optimizing product listings, strategic keyword targeting, and ongoing campaign management. This guide will highlight essential insights into running profitable Sponsored Product ads on Amazon, providing readers with invaluable strategies to enhan

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MAA Ads of the Year: Etsy’s ‘Where’s Wally?’ from Orchard Creative

More About Advertising

This one won the Christmas prize, a stroke of genius from Orchard Creative to enlist book stalwart ‘Where’s Wally?’ Wally (Waldo in the US) wasn’t the only literary giant to appear at Christmas, Roald Dahl’s BFG made a telling intervention for Sainsbury’s too. But we keep being told that ads are about storytelling, making emotional … The post MAA Ads of the Year: Etsys Wheres Wally?

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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.