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TV ad revenue challenged by writers’ strike

Martech

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) went on strike in May, putting new scripted episodes of shows on hold until they get a better deal. How bad is this for TV ad revenue? Ad revenue is already slipping from talk shows, soap operas and sitcoms, a category that makes up 9% of the $26 billion in TV ads overall, according to a study taken in June, before the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA went on strike, by ad sales intelligence company Media Radar.

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As GenAI Content Explodes, So Does the Need for Watermarking

Adweek

Authenticating AI-generated content, or watermarking, has gained traction these last few months. In July, companies including OpenAI, Google and Meta made voluntary commitments to the White House to implement guardrails to help make invisible watermarking safer and more transparent. Meta's Instagram appears to be testing new notices to identify content created or modified by AI.

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Most likely, your team is not doing anything

The Ad Tech Blog

You’re a startup founder or a team lead, your brain buzzing with the day’s tasks. You look across the virtual room (a.k.a, your Slack channel), and there’s a creeping silence. An engineer hasn’t updated their progress in hours. Panic seizes you as you wonder: “ Is this person working? ” But your well-intended check-in turns into a three-hour Zoom marathon.

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CTV Ad Spend Has Increased by Nearly 400% Since 2019

MNTN

All of the key Connected TV metrics—including time spent and user numbers—are on the rise, according to a new article from Insider Intelligence. And advertisers have taken notice: the piece reports that CTV ad spend has skyrocketed by nearly 400% since 2019, fueled by a surge in streaming during pandemic lockdowns. Future ad spend projections are even more astounding, with the CTV ad market expected to soar nearly $13 billion higher in 2024 than it was in early 2020.

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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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Sprout Social acquires Tagger Media

Martech

Social media management software company Sprout Social acquired Tagger Media, an influencer marketing and social intelligence platform, for $140 million. The acquisition adds the ability to discover influencers and plan campaigns around them to Sprout Social’s broad social media management and analytics offerings. Tagger Media offers a unified SaaS solution for brands and agencies that allows marketers to measure the impact of influencer campaigns through ROI and trends reports.

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McDonald’s Raises Its Arches Again in an Infectious Ode to Summer

Adweek

McDonald's "Raise Your Arches" campaign, which launched in January, was so successful that the brand extended it into 35 additional markets. The uplifting ad demonstrated the power of the brand, with people playfully raising their eyebrows at each other to reference its iconic golden arches--without ever mentioning McDonald's name. Now the fast-food chain has continued.

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Kicking and Streaming: Is ESPN’s Newly Announced Platform Sounding Cable’s Death Knell?

MNTN

Long gone are the days when everyone watched their favorite shows and sports through their cable subscriptions, thanks to the rise of streaming TV ( a subject we have been tracking for years ). At the beginning of this year, 2.3 million US households canceled their cable subscriptions—bringing the percentage of households with cable to its lowest penetration in three decades.

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Marketo’s July releases: A manager’s guide

Martech

Marketo released a native function for creating visualizations of Smart Campaigns. The feature, Engagement Map, lets users explain how smart campaigns work more efficiently. Another notable feature released last month is Web Services Error, which identifies API users responsible for creating an error. This will reduce the time needed to troubleshoot web services error notifications.

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Yes, Brands Can and Should Still Partner With Actors

Adweek

Now that Hollywood's actors have joined screenwriters in a dual strike seeking higher pay, restructuring of residuals and prohibitions on AI, brand-side clients have questions about how talent partnerships with brands and commercial work may be impacted. Not only are actors permitted to work in commercials during the strike, but this is a great time.

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The Big Story: We’re Going On A Treasure Hunt

AdExchanger

Why DoubleVerify is acquiring Scibids. Plus: How the ascent of YouTube TV has led CTV advertisers to land premium inventory for a song. The post The Big Story: We’re Going On A Treasure Hunt appeared first on AdExchanger.

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

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Brid.TV Platform Update 6.6.2. — Two-Factor Authentication and Report Templates

Brid.tv

In our last update, we launched an array of minor improvements and bug fixes. In this platform update, we are bringing some more significant changes. Check out the highlights from this update and the entire platform update 6.6.2. changelog below. Two-Factor Authentication Now, account owners can activate two-factor authentication for each user of their account.

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Unlocking the true value of a new email address

Martech

Email remains a powerful and cost-effective tool for content delivery and marketing offers, despite frequent predictions to the contrary. But acquiring new email addresses requires a lot of effort, which raises the question of return on investment. How much can you afford to spend on a new email address? Let’s start with a very simple calculation: Value = revenue from emails ÷ deliverable email addresses For example, if your email program brings in $100,000 and you have 100,000 deliverable names

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Adnatomy: How Upwork Created a Zombie CEO for Its Musical Campaign

Adweek

Freelancing platform Upwork started out as Elance-oDesk in 2013, but it took a dead CEO to bring the company to the forefront of the talent marketplace economy. The campaign, "This is How We Work Now," by agency Alto, features a dead-but-resurrected CEO, Jack, who sings to his employees to shake it up and make up.

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Will Triple Whale Continue To Be A Popular Analytics Vendor If It Makes Money?

AdExchanger

In just two years, Triple Whale became a popular tool for Shopify merchants and social-based ecommerce sellers. But it did so by getting its data visualization and analytics service into The post Will Triple Whale Continue To Be A Popular Analytics Vendor If It Makes Money? 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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Analyzing Amazon PPC Advertising Stats: What You Need To Know [The PPC Den Podcast]

Ad Badger

SUBSCRIBE Spreadsheets galore! Stephen Noch, Campaign Manager at Ocean PPC, joins Michael for their bi-annual data review. They analyze shocking. Read More Analyzing Amazon PPC Advertising Stats: What You Need To Know [The PPC Den Podcast] The post Analyzing Amazon PPC Advertising Stats: What You Need To Know [The PPC Den Podcast] appeared first on Ad Badger.

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Electrolux’s data and analytics roadmap to improved customer experience

Martech

Global home appliances company Electrolux owns over 70 brands, including Frigidaire and AEG. They sell approximately 60 million household products in around 120 markets. With an organization of this size, there was great value to be gained by unifying data and deploying analytics. But to implement this kind of change, Electrolux needed a roadmap. The organization formed a global consumer and analytics team in 2021.

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WPP CEO Mark Read on ‘Disappointing’ New Business Growth, Utilizing AI and Elon Musk’s X

Adweek

With a drop in global marketing spend impacting WPP in the first half of the year, CEO Mark Read is being cautiously optimistic about the rest of 2023 and beyond. WPP, the world's largest agency network, has lowered its growth projection for the year from 3%-5% to 1.5%-3%, partially due to a the "disappointing" addition.

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Will The Real CMO Please Stand Up?; A Little Search Goes A Long Way

AdExchanger

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Visionary, Vision Is Scary CMO tenures are shrinking. Confidence in CMO decision-making is down. Yet the demands on The post Will The Real CMO Please Stand Up?; A Little Search Goes A Long Way 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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Anti-smart

Seth Godin

There’s a difference between intellectual and smart. A plumber is smart, they know how to do a skilled and effective job on the task at hand. Intellectualism isn’t about practical results, it’s a passion for exploring what others have said, though this approach is sometimes misused to make others feel uninformed or to stall. If you want to know what the scholars have written, ask an intellectual.

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4 AI categories impacting marketing: Workflow automation and RPA

Martech

In this four-part series, we’re exploring four categories of artificial intelligence (AI), how they can meaningfully impact marketers and their customers and what to potentially avoid. So far, we’ve explored generative AI , predictive analytics and personalized customer journeys. The last article of the series will look at workflow automation or robotic process automation (RPA), or AI-based tools that enable repetitive tasks to be performed by software rather than humans.

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Pet Food Has a Massive Carbon Footprint. Bug-Based Proteins Can Change That

Adweek

Americans have a lot of pets--and those pets eat a lot of meat, with massive implications for the climate. To shrink the carbon footprint of our furry companions, brands like Jiminy's and Lovebug want to swap animal protein for insects. "Our dogs eat the same thing every day. Swap it with a sustainable alternative, and.

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Warner Bros. Discovery Loses Nearly 2 Million Subscribers, Pins Its Recovery On Streaming

AdExchanger

Warner Bros. Discovery lost 1.8 million global streaming subscribers this quarter, but streaming ad revenue is up 25% YOY, thanks to the merged company's new streaming service, Max. The post Warner Bros. Discovery Loses Nearly 2 Million Subscribers, Pins Its Recovery On Streaming 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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Looking for Alternatives: How Developers Grow Games Beyond Walled Gardens

Digital Turbine

Panel discussion with Playtika, Plarium, and Digital Turbine at Israel Mobile Summit, June 29, 2023 In June, Israel Mobile Summit gathered about 2,000 industry experts in sunny Tel Aviv. For us at Digital Turbine it’s an opportunity to hear the market, meet with publishers, discuss challenges, and shape the industry’s future together with the leading mobile game developers.

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How call analytics is helping SMBs improve marketing and sales

Martech

Web analytics and call analytics have a lot in common. Both collect, measure and analyze data on who contacted you, what they are interested in and even what got them to use this channel. Where they differ is that recordings are a lot more difficult to parse than digital data. This made call analytics enterprise-level expensive. That’s changed and now they can be considered by businesses of all sizes.

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How Much Should an Agency Pay a New Business Hire? This Study Reveals How Much

Adweek

Heads of growth, directors of new business, chief marketing officers--all roles with similar remits that have grown in importance over the years as agencies are forced to claw their ways toward growth in a world where fees are shrinking and shareholder pressure is growing. This past year, there's been movement across the industry, most notably.

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Amplifying Programmatic Podcast Advertising With SXM Media

AdExchanger

For programmatic podcast advertising to really take off, buyers want the same assurances they’re used to on other channels, including brand safety controls and effective targeting. It’s a process, says The post Amplifying Programmatic Podcast Advertising With SXM Media 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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Should we assume rational goodwill?

Seth Godin

There’s often a choice between following the cultural dictates of a given group or seeking out demonstrable facts and the scientific method. Which do you expect most people would choose? Which would you choose? When we revert to a testable analysis of what works, we’re relying on the one thing that all humans share: reality. But cultural connection, peer pressure and the power of affiliation and status often short-circuit that analysis.

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Competing with Twitter (X.com) and Instagram: Tying the Threads together

Martech

It came out of nowhere. It looked like Twitter. It behaved like Twitter. It promised to be friendlier than Twitter. It was Threads, Meta’s abruptly unveiled competitor to Twitter, linked with Meta’s Instagram and designed to win the hearts, minds and engagement of Twitter users dismayed by Elon Musk’s disruption of the long-establised town square of the Internet.

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CBS Reveals When Yellowstone Will Make Its Fall Debut

Adweek

CBS isn't horsing around when it comes to Yellowstone's broadcast premiere. The network recently announced a reshuffled fall lineup amid the ongoing writers and actors strikes. Now, CBS has set its updated fall premiere dates, with Yellowstone hitting the airwaves on Sept. 17, starting with Season 1. CBS Is Latest Network to Shake Up Fall.

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Organic Marketing Is Duolingo’s Lingua Franca

AdExchanger

Brand and performance marketers don’t always speak the same language. But for language-learning app Duolingo, they are complementary. The post Organic Marketing Is Duolingo’s Lingua Franca 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.