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Burnout in Digital Advertising Demands Real Changes

Basis

Let’s start with this: Burnout is real. Though it’s not a medical condition, burnout is nevertheless a very real, very definable occupational phenomenon that can tax a worker’s physical and mental health. The famed Mayo Clinic defines job-related burnout as “a special type of work-related stress—a state of physical or emotional exhaustion that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity.

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A Bleak Midwinter: Why Advertisers Are Checking Plans Twice This Christmas

VideoWeek

Where Christmas is traditionally a time to loosen one’s belt, this year the opposite applies. The cost-of-living crisis has seen a shift in priorities for customers facing soaring energy bills, and marketers are having to react accordingly. “It’s important that advertisers are aware of changing consumer habits, as people are becoming increasingly careful and conscientious about where they spend their money this Christmas,” says Danny Smith, Video Investment Manager at WPP’s media unit Grou

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Less Than 1% of Clothing Is Made Into New Garments. These Brands Want to Change That

Adweek

The waste created by fast fashion is so staggering in scope that it's nearly impossible to visualize. That's prompting innovative brands to chart a new path forward--one that diverts fashion waste from landfill, instead using it to create a more circular, sustainable system. Brands such as SuperCircle, For Days and Evrnu are developing new models.

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How AI Helps You Build A Data-Driven Marketing Strategy

Ad Rants

This article is an informative and precise description of how AI applications help the marketing sector to make deliberate choices based on the collected and analyzed data. In addition to a thorough explanation of how AI can be handy in this field, you'll find the main examples of how AI helps to solve marketing problems. AI technology is a comprehensive term that encompasses a wide range of technologies such as natural language processing, ML, deep learning, computer vision, and many others.

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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 an engaging career path

The Ad Tech Blog

The following is my take on seniority levels. Junior engineers are very productive. They are eager to try new technologies, and once they do, they move fast. They are very optimistic, so they don’t test their code thoroughly. They need a clear goal or will procrastinate. Semi-senior engineers are comfortable with specific design patterns/technologies.

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Inside Bidstack’s Plan To Build An SSP For In-Game Ads

AdExchanger

An interview withJames DraperFounder and CEOBrands are starting to look at video games as an inventory source, but there’s no scaled programmatic infrastructure to help aggregate supply in video games. Continue reading » The post Inside Bidstack’s Plan To Build An SSP For In-Game Ads appeared first on AdExchanger.

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8 Tactics for an Effective YouTube Social Media Strategy

Ad Rants

YouTube is the second biggest website worldwide. It's also the most popular video-sharing platform that everyone can agree on. Whenever you've come to think about video content, YouTube will stand out first among other channels. Now that everyone tunes in on YouTube for everything, such as watching the news, finding recipes, and checking the latest gadget unboxing, having content on this platform can benefit you as a business.

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Sitting idle

The Ad Tech Blog

Engineers without anything to do is the worst nightmare for founders. I often found myself panicking because I did not know which task to assign to someone. Most managers will create busy work such as research, PoCs, and testing. There is nothing wrong with those tasks, but they are not a good sign if you create them because you don’t want your engineers to be idle.

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Does Apple Really Care About Privacy?

AdExchanger

Uriah Av-RonPartner and Founder“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Uriah Av-Ron, Continue reading » The post Does Apple Really Care About Privacy? appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Why Apple’s Ad Is a Milestone in Disability Representation

Adweek

Though about 15% of the global population is disabled, people with disabilities remain far underrepresented in advertising. But a new ad from Apple is notable for featuring an inclusive, disabled cast demonstrating their talents. Apple's campaign, titled "The Greatest," launched this week ahead of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) on Dec. 3.

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

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Digital Experience Platforms (DXPs): What Are They And Should You Build One?

Ad Rants

In digital marketing, delivering an excellent customer experience is essential to success. And to do that, you need a Digital Experience Platform (DXP). But what exactly are DXPs, and why do you need one? Let's take a closer look. What's A Digital Experience Platform (DXP)? A digital experience platform is a comprehensive software solution that assists organizations in creating, managing, and delivering personalized digital experiences to their customers across all channels.

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Playbooks and Runbooks

The Ad Tech Blog

The most outstanding professionals I’ve met have playbooks and runbooks. It is not so much about their degrees, their experience, their network, or in which projects they’ve been part. It is the fact that they were able to translate all of that into a system that produces results. We developers do this all the time without knowing it: We have a problem We write a solution It provides results every single time a user uses it.

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Marketers using more data sources in search of better data quality

Martech

Marketers are hoping more data sources will translate into better quality data. The average number of sources used by marketers grew by 50% from last year to this, according to a new Salesforce study. By the end of next year the total will be nearly twice what it was in 2021. Last year companies used an average of 10 different sources. That increased to 15 this year and is projected to hit 18 by the end of 2023, according to Salesforce’s eighth annual “State of Marketing” report.

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The Creator Economy Is Entering the Metaverse and Claiming Territory

Adweek

The metaverse is still something many of us struggle to understand. Thanks to creators who are teaching us more about it, like Michael Le, we're starting to put the pieces of this complex puzzle together. Le is known for making dance videos and trend-centric content with his family on platforms like TikTok. Now he's ready.

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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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Meet The MSPA, The IAB’S Answer To State Privacy Laws

AdExchanger

As of Thursday, the IAB’s multistate privacy agreement (MSPA) is available for advertisers, publishers and ad tech partners to sign and begin using to track their data flows. What is. Continue reading » The post Meet The MSPA, The IAB’S Answer To State Privacy Laws appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Breaks and Brakes

The Ad Tech Blog

After a few solid sprints, the next logical concern is the team’s velocity. How can I measure speed? Is my team moving fast enough? It is very tempting to default to micromanagement and to measure each engineer’s performance. I’m not against individual performance (it is helpful for compensation adjustment), but it doesn’t tell the whole story about your team’s speed.

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Sendoso launches a freemium eGifting service

Martech

Sendoso, the corporate branded gifting service, this week announced the launch of a freemium offering, Sendoso Express. With no contracts, subscriptions or fees, it is aimed at the SMB market. It will allow businesses to send unlimited eGift cards from well-known vendors, paying only for the value of the cards themselves. Sendoso’s full offering supports the sending of a wide variety of gifts, not just cards, with customization and personalization available.

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That’s Not All, Folks: How Looney Tunes Is Growing Its Following on TikTok

Adweek

Duck season? Rabbit season? For Warner Bros. Discovery's Looney Tunes, 2022 has been TikTok season. Looney Tunes set up shop on TikTok March 1, and the account soared past 1 million followers by July 28. The momentum continued through the third quarter, as the account @looneytunes picked up more than 868,000 new followers during the.

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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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Syntropy Partners With Zenlayer to Deliver Low-Latency Network on Demand to WEB3 Users

Martech Series

The partnership will enable Zenlayer to tokenize excess bandwidth and offer it on demand through Syntropy’s blockchain-based Open Bandwidth Exchange (OBX). Syntropy, a Web3 network software company, partners with Zenlayer, a massively distributed edge cloud service provider, aiming to provide enhanced network capacity to global Web3 network users. Under the agreement, Zenlayer will bring its edge infrastructure to the Syntropy network through the Open Bandwidth Exchange (OBX), giving Syntropy’s

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Contractors and Employees

The Ad Tech Blog

In today’s market, there are companies paying between $40-80 per hour to contractors. Let’s say you are going through Series B and need to expand your team to 100 engineers. That would be a total of $128k per month, $1.53M per year. The remote workforce cost is increasingly getting closer to what you would pay for a US-based engineer ( average of $122k.).

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Yahoo and Taboola sign “30-year” exclusive ad agreement

Martech

Content publisher Yahoo announced today it is buying nearly 25% of content recommender Taboola as part of a 30-year exclusive advertising agreement. What Taboola gets. Taboola — which The Wall Street Journal refers to as a “clickbait giant” — will be the only source of native advertising for all of Yahoo’s digital properties for the next three decades.

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More Users Can Build Houses in Clubhouse

Adweek

Social audio application Clubhouse has been beta-testing Houses--which it calls "a new way to host meaningful conversations"--and the beta will gradually begin rolling out to more users starting Thursday. Clubhouse said in a blog post Thursday that Houses let users create a group of community members, fans or friends through invites, and members of Houses.

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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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AdExplainer: Data-Driven Linear Vs. Addressable TV

AdExchanger

Lots of people are talking about addressable TV. “Data-driven linear,” though? Not so much. But despite the fact that data-driven linear (DDL) doesn’t get as much attention as its somewhat sexier addressable cousin, it’s becoming an increasingly popular choice for linear advertisers attempting to make more informed media buys. The post AdExplainer: Data-Driven Linear Vs.

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Pepsi brings ‘Pilk’ to the masses with Lindsay Lohan holiday ad

Marketing Dive

The concoction, which mixes the soft drink with milk, is part of a “dirty soda” trend that’s recently taken off thanks to TikTok.

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2 essential steps for a successful ABM go-to-market strategy

Martech

Account-based marketing (ABM) go-to-market strategies help B2B marketers engage buyers in an intelligent way, communicating with key decision makers on their preferred channels. In order to get a new ABM go-to-market plan in place, or to restart an existing one, it’s important to have a solid strategy first, and then build out your stack. Let’s take a look at two important steps to take when executing a successful ABM go-to-market strategy. 1.

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Keurig Dr Pepper Demands 360-Day Payment Terms in PR Agency RFP

Adweek

Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) completed a U.S. PR review of its water, tea and juice portfolio this week after kicking off the RFP process on Oct. 3. Now the brand is facing scrutiny for stipulating that pitching agencies either agree to exceptional 360-day payment terms or obtain financing from a third-party bank. KDP declined to.

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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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Disney Integrates With VideoAmp To Bolster Its Clean Room With Measurement

AdExchanger

Clean rooms are ad tech’s answer to data privacy. But they can also give advertisers more accurate reach and frequency measurement through first-party audience matching. Disney has been building out its clean room for roughly a year, and just announced an integration with VideoAmp, which will bolster clean room measurement with VideoAmp’s TV viewership data.

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Top AI and ML Trends to Keep a Tab on and Why

Martech Series

Since the pandemic, we have seen significant growth in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) and they will continue to stride along the path of disruption. AI and ML will be as significant as fire or electricity; in fact, maybe even more. We are already observing the potential of AI from the way it has been used to explore space, support cancer treatments, and tackle climate change.

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5 Yelp facts business owners should know (but most don’t)

Martech

If you ever want to hear a business owner rant, just grab some popcorn and casually bring up Yelp. The mere mention of the controversial company’s name generates a range of emotions — often negative with a tinge of despair. At best, business owners are frustrated with the volume of sales calls they receive. At worst, they are receiving many negative reviews they don’t know how to handle.

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Yahoo Paid Zero Cash for Its 25% Stake in Taboola

Adweek

Yahoo is not paying cash to own the approximate 25% stake in content recommendation ad-tech firm Taboola, according to sources familiar with the situation, marking a sign of the times as the economy braces for a long winter. Taboola, which is publicly traded, will issue new shares as part of the deal giving Yahoo an.

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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.