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Your Personal Brand is Key for Ad Agency New Business

Fuel Lines

Brian Morris/Brad Ball, the Silver Advertising Agency. Developing your personal brand is one of the best investments you can make for new business. Through my experience working with hundreds of advertising, digital, media and PR firms, I’ve discovered how important it is for the agency owner to be the face of their company. Given the rise of social media, their personal brand story is as essential, or even more so, than the agency’s brand.

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Giles Keeble: is political correctness to blame for the dearth of great advertising?

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Some years ago I was running a workshop in New York. Of the 12 or so people there, only two were men, one of whom was quite opinionated. During a discussion (which he was dominating) I said ‘ok, ok- let’s hear what the girls think’, deafening silence. Eventually one of the women told me she.

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Be the Star of Your Own Story with Coca-Cola and Marvel

AdPulp

Coca-Cola and Marvel Studios joined forces to launch a commercial inspired by the new movie Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame. The commercial will be aired in 57 countries, without any adaptation to regional markets – a first for the global beverage brand. The young heroine of the spot, like the heroes in the film, is willing […]. The post Be the Star of Your Own Story with Coca-Cola and Marvel appeared first on Adpulp.

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Ode to a Manifesto! May I write one for you?

Gods of Advertising

Crazy good… Nothing suits me more than writing a good manifesto! I know I am not alone. Most copywriters get off on writing manifestos. At least they’d better. Writing such documents is at the heart of what we do, and can do, for our clients. Most of you know what I’m talking about. For those unawares, a manifesto (aka mantra or anthem) is the bringing to life in words the highest and most noble aspirations of its subject.

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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 Benefits of Understanding Consumer Lifestyle

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By using decision science to decode a consumer’s lifestyle, marketers can discover key interests and passions that can inform how they connect with audiences. Using live data sources from over 700M+ profiles, we can see things like consumer interests, passions, site-search behavior, and purchase intent. The technology we have available today gives us a holistic view of the consumer which aids in making a lasting connection with brands.

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Plates can now talk back to annoying Instagram foodies

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If you haven’t taken an artfully staged flat lay shot of your food before you eat it, then you haven’t really experienced the meal. So it goes for a generation of foodie Instagrammers who think nothing of holding up proceedings in restaurants and homes to make sure they get the perfect pre-prandial post. Belgium’s Bru.

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How to Identify the Best Brand Safety Tools: 9 Questions to Select Wisely

InMobi

As issues relating to brand safety become ever-greater concerns for advertisers, a number of brand safety tools have come out in the market purporting to address these woes. But can these solutions and management platforms actually protect your brand and ensure no poor ad placements? Unfortunately, there are a lot of tools out there that claim to be able to keep your brand safe but won’t actually be able to.

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Pinning down Pinterest: what its expansion means for advertisers

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Digital Media Lab Photo by Juliana Malta on Unsplash

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Robert Jones of Wolff Olins: satire in branding is welcome – but it doesn’t make you ‘adult’

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Ribena’s new campaign features a blackcurrant grower called Andrew Berry talking about himself as a blackcurrant artist, trimming leaves like a sculptor, and holding a blackcurrant between his fingers like a priceless object. The ads end with the line ‘Blackcurrant artistry since 1938.’ What’s going on here? What does it tell us about ‘repositioning’ –.

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The Need for Better, Faster, and Cheaper Branded Content Continues Unabated

AdPulp

Heineken is the latest in a long line of brands moving creative production to in-house teams. Campaign US reports that the Dutch beer maker is busy building an in-house content hub at its American headquarters in White Plains, New York. View this post on Instagram Start your weekend with an instant spark(le). #OpenYourWorld A post […]. The post The Need for Better, Faster, and Cheaper Branded Content Continues Unabated appeared first on Adpulp.

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

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The Ultimate Brand Safety Definition for Mobile Marketers

InMobi

Is there one central industry-wide brand safety definition within the ad tech space that all digital advertisers must follow? Unfortunately, the answer is no. While there are certain ad placements that are deemed less than ideal by just about all digital marketing pros out there, there’s also a lot of gray areas and nuance when it comes to what brand safety includes and excludes within the realm of programmatic advertising.

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Pinning down Pinterest: what its expansion means for advertisers

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Digital Media Lab Photo by Juliana Malta on Unsplash.

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McDonald’s UK boosts restaurant footfall with Talon’s Out of Home data management platform.

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By Jonathan Conway McDonald’s has partnered with Talon Outdoor and OMD UK on a new approach to Out of Home audience targeting which has increased visits to its restaurants across major cities. Since January 2019, McDonald’s has used Talon’s proprietary Out of Home data management platform (ODMP) technology to deliver advertising campaigns which promote the.

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Updates in FTC and California’s Continuing Enforcement of Continuity Programs

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Thought that the FTC and California planned to cool off on enforcing trial and subscription programs? Think again. The FTC and California continue to bring these actions with alarming regularity. For those of you who haven’t been tracking these issues, last year California’s Automatic Renewal Law was amended to tighten the restrictions on continuity programs.

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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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Are You Leaving Ad Revenue on the Table? A Q&A with Chas Castell of PubRev+

InMobi

The mobile app economy has never been hotter. In 2018, people spent over $71 billion on apps , and downloaded apps 113 billion times worldwide. On the monetization front, in-app advertising remains ascendant. Not only will mobile ad spending overtake spending on all other media by next year, but App Annie has found 60% growth in apps that make money through in-app advertising.

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Brave’s Sophie Russell picks her Desert Island Ads

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Sophie Russell is a senior planner at Brave. Desert Island Ads At Brave we are drawn to the braver ads. Not just brave through wacky creativity, but brave enough to challenge a category and comms status quo.

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Big US ad agency takes Reddit revenge on client for sexist, abusive behaviour

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A Reddit post telling the story of an agency that got its client fired was picked up by Adweek’s Agency Spy. The anonymous writer says he works at a “big” agency, and his story involves the agency’s biggest client, who they nicknamed “Baseball Dad” because he was “the type of neckless marshmellow who gets wasted.

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B&Q hires Omnicom’s Drum to reboot social media

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Omnicom Media Group’s Drum agency has been appointed by B&Q owner Kingfisher as its global social content agency. Kingfisher also owns Screwfix, Castorama, Brico Depot and Koctas. Kingfisher has been shutting stores in France and pulling out of some other European countries. Drum will work at a global and local level with main brand B&Q.

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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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Time for Sainsbury’s to up its game as CMA blocks giant merger with Asda

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To nobody’s great surprise the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked the attempted £7bn merger of Sainsbury’s and Walmart-owned Asda, saying: “It’s our responsibility to protect the millions of people who shop at Sainsbury’s and Asda every week. Following our in-depth investigation, we have found this deal would lead to increased prices, reduced.

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Is chirpy and cheerful the right way forward for VW ads?

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Would you adam&eve it, a bummer from Volkswagen. But actually it’s not the cultured academy in Paddington but DDB Berlin for VW’s new T-Cross, presumably a sign that VW’s T-Roc is starting a family. How many brands does VW need? Starring Cara What’s-her-name and some seeming lookalikes. VW has just finished reviewing all its creative.

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CEO Read in the money as WPP readies first quarter results

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Nice work if you can get it: WPP CEO Mark Read is expected to garner £3.7m in pay and bonuses for 2018 (a big chunk being a bonus for his former role as joint COO.) While ousted boss (and WPP founder) Sir Martin Sorrell is reckoned to be on track to gain a further £15m.

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Can Hornby’s The&Partnership ride to rescue of Change UK?

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Newly-formed political entity The Independent Group, consisting of a handful of Remain-supporting refugee MPs from Labour and the Tories, hasn’t exactly got off to a flying start. For the time being at least it’s known as Change UK as the electoral authorities don’t like TIG. Furthermore the Electoral Commission has rejected its first stab at.

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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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Simon Cowell puts on a snowy show for Barclaycard

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Droga5 London, like its big brother in NYC, believes in going the extra mile and it’s certainly doing that for new client Barclaycard. Barclaycard targets small businesses, among others, and it’s introducing a Repayment Calculator – ostensibly to helps its customers pay less interest, not usually top of mind with credit cards. You have to.

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Wieden+Kennedy confounds the doubters at TK Maxx

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Here’s a jaunty number from TK Maxx – unusual for the embattled UK high street these days – featuring some potential customers who find the TK Maxx palace of varieties experience unaccountably daunting. But, as in all the best musicals, the chorus comes to their rescue – with assertion rather than logic admittedly. Brave in.

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BBH brings home the horror of domestic abuse for Refuge

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Bartle Bogle Hegarty has created a new campaign for Refuge to raise awareness of the stastic that 90 per cent of domestic abuse is witnessed by children. The short film shows a boy covering his eyes and counting, but he’s not playing hide and seek – he is distracting himself from the abuse going on.

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Belgian mobile app helps love lives in new Boondoggle bid

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Thought that picking up women on buses was frowned upon in the Me Too era, not so by Bancontact’s Payconiq mobile banking app in a new campaign from Boondoggle. Old habits die hard, even in app-driven mobile banking. More diverting than most in the category. MAA creative scale: 6.5.

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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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IPA census: creative agencies contract, while media expands

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If proof were needed that ad agency staff are more stretched than ever, the IPA’s latest census is here with the numbers. There are fewer people working at IPA agencies than there were a year ago, and the drop in staff numbers has been at the expense of creative agencies, who have cut their numbers.

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WPP reveals more grim tidings from the US, Sorrell’s S4 announces two timely buys

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Timing is all, as they say, and just as WPP has announced some pretty grim first quarter trading numbers former CEO Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital has chosen to announce two new acquisitions: “food and liquids studio” Caramel Pictures and São Paulo-based programmatic consultancy ProgMedia. WPP first though. Revenue less pass-through costs in Q1 2019.

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Direct Line’s Piers Newson-Smith picks his Desert Island Ads

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Piers Newson-Smith is head of brand strategy at Direct Line Group. He was the architect of Direct Line’s ‘Fixer’ repositioning and led Green Flag’s 2017 brand relaunch. Desert Island (Boxset) Ads Somewhere in the grey area between what people care about in AdLand and in the real world, there’s a few campaigns that made people.

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Is Cadbury’s Darkmilk from VCCP too downbeat?

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Cadbury, which makes a chocolate-like substance for these definition-heavy days, is trying its hand at nostalgia for its new Darkmilk – which is a bit like its milk chocolate and plain chocolate, but isn’t. All clear? Anyway, agency VCCP is continuing its rather downbeat approach for the Mondelez brand, this time by exhuming Jason Donovan.

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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.