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How to Boost Conversions with Your Article’s Featured Image

Single Grain

As the web is becoming more visual and interactive, standing out and being remembered is getting even tougher. Visual content can certainly boost engagement and brand memorability, but only if you create an effective visual marketing strategy. First and foremost, you need to start paying more attention to your article's featured image because that's what shows up in many places, strongly impacting your content visibility.

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What’s Your “Truth Well Told”?

AdPulp

Quick. In a sentence tell me what your agency is all about. Come on, we don’t have all day. Ad People Can’t Seem To Sum Themselves Up Darren Woolley is the founder and global chief executive of TrintityP3, an independent global marketing management consulting company. Q. A what? A. He’s a consultant. Over the past […].

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Does more equal less as advertisers – like Pepsico – try to cram everything into their ads?

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Here’s a Christmas number from Pepsico’s FritoLay (who came up with that name?) featuring actress Anna Kendrick cramming in all FL’s many brands to the tune of ‘My Favourite Things.’ There’s also a new one from adam&evenyc with Ryan Reynolds plugging Samsung TVs, Netflix and his own Aviator gin but we won’t bore you with.

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4 Tried and Tested YouTube Marketing Tips for Your Ecommerce Business

Smarty Ads

Whether you believe it or not, YouTube marketing can take your business to nauseous heights. With how popular the platform has become, YouTube now has over a billion viewers. That contains sizeable market potential waiting for you to dive in and reach out to. Marketers have leveraged YouTube to.

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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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VSEO: How Voice Search and Conversational AI Are Changing SEO

Single Grain

Siri. Alexa. Cortana. These three virtual assistants have become household names and a regular part of our daily lives. In under ten years, we’ve actually started to become reliant on our voice search assistants, turning to them to do everything from help us find a local ice cream parlor to play our favorite music to entertain us when we ask it questions like “ Do you love me?

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No One Wants To Be Shot While Shopping for Slacks (Nor At Any Other Time)

AdPulp

Another Monday in America. Another lethal discharge of weapons at a Walmart store, this time in Duncan, Oklahoma. Oklahoma, it must be noted, is an open-carry state. Oklahoma state law explicitly authorizes open carry of both loaded and unloaded shotguns, rifles, and handguns without a license. It’s Okay To Be Afraid I am wondering, are […].

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CTV, ATV, PTV, Who TV?

illumin

The digital advertising industry is notorious for using an exorbitant quantity of acronyms. In the case of the industries next sweetheart, Connected TV (CTV), acronym-mania has truly gotten out of hand. Connected TV is taking the digital industry by storm, and for very good reasons. ¾’s of US Households Have At Least 1 CTV Device […]. The post CTV, ATV, PTV, Who TV?

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6 Tips for Scaling Up Content Production without Sacrificing Quality

Single Grain

Whether you’re head of content marketing in a larger company, part of a lean distributed team, a solo entrepreneur or somewhere in between, scaling up is essential to brand building. According to a Content Marketing Institute survey, 64% of content marketers said their greatest educational need is understanding how to create a scalable content strategy: These content marketing tips are intended to fill that gap.

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Announcing InMobi Exchange Customer Advisory Board

InMobi

We are excited to announce the formation of a Customer Advisory Board for InMobi Exchange! Our flagship Customer Advisory Board features an array of forward-thinking, programmatic-first companies who will help chart the course of InMobi’s innovation as we continue our mission of providing a fully transparent, safe and data-driven programmatic marketplace.

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Big Bayer Consumer Health win boosts MullenLowe

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MullenLowe UK is the lead agency in a big win for the Interpublic-owned agency: a number of pharma giant Bayer’s so-called “power brands” including Bepanthen, Berocca, Canesten, Elevit, Iberogast, Redoxon, Rennie and Supradyn, and integrated campaigns, digital and content for Bayer’s Consumer Health products across EMEA. MullenLowe offices in Germany, Russia, Spain and Turkey will.

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

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Programmatic audio advertising: customer engagement on air + TAVR Media Case Study

Admixer

Programmatic is rapidly evolving into new formats and spreads into new channels. And most recently — to screenless media with programmatic audio advertising. According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) review, the audio advertisement hit $2.25 billion last year against a $1.8 billion in 2017. The audience of digital radio listeners in the U.S. has […].

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MWC 2019: from 5G to OTT Advertising and Immersive Video Content

Smarty Ads

Over the top advertising platforms along with mobile networks of the fifth generation (5G) are among technologies that have been developing for quite a long time.

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Drive Away from the Competition through Actionable Consumer Insights

InMobi

To uncover what the modern car customer looks like, we looked at the data. We used cutting-edge market research and consumer insights solution InMobi Pulse to look at some of the biggest car research properties in the U.S., along with data on how people use the mobile apps of the major automakers themselves. We first looked at the common traits of those in the U.S. who already are customers of the world’s biggest car brands.

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Talon boosts Ada’s capabilities through Tamoco partnership

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Talon continues to invest in proprietary data management platform, Ada, boosting the platform’s capabilities through a partnership with Tamoco, a sensor-driven location data network. The partnership follows Ada’s continued success in helping advertisers to accurately target OOH campaigns on actual observed behaviours, delivering clear return on investment.

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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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Why should brands invest in video advertising?

Ad Beat

In today’s technology-first world, where information is readily accessible and attention spans continue to dwindle, brands everywhere are finding new, innovative ways to communicate with their customers. . You don’t have to dig deep to figure out why video has emerged as the dominant force in the digital marketing universe. For example, including an explanatory video on your website’s landing pages can increase conversion rates by more than 80 percent , and just by mentioning the wo

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How Can You Preserve SEO Rankings after Website Redesign: 10 Steps to Follow

Smarty Ads

If you are interested in redesigning your website, search engine optimization is one of the topmost concerns that you need to think about. Preserving the organic rankings, conserving link popularity, and recycling old content are crucial. According to www.forbes.com, the ranking factors of Google keep changing. When you.

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Understanding the Modern American Beer Drinker

InMobi

Americans drink a lot of beer - whether out with friends, watching sports or doing just about anything else. In 2018, brewers in the U.S. cranked out over 8 billion gallons of beer. There are now close to 7,500 breweries across the country, and the beer industry is now worth more than $114 billion. But, staying competitive in this market is not a foregone conclusion, especially for major U.S. beer brands.

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KFC sends tongue-in-cheek best wishes to turkey sufferers

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KFC and agency Mother seems to be one of the happier relationships in UK adland (shouldn’t say that – hostage to fortune) and, following last year’s Christmas combat between a chicken and a turkey, this year they’ve gone for a series of short films. Bet everyone at the agency wasn’t thrilled about that. KFC UK.

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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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Marketing Philistines Are Everywhere. Don’t Be A Marketing Philistine.

AdPulp

“Training in marketing makes marketers better. It’s the way we all improve and ultimately move the discipline of marketing forward” -Mark Ritson Mark Ritson is a Marketing Week columnist, consultant and adjunct professor at Melbourne Business School. Last year, he wrote about marketing philistinism. I didn’t see the article then, but I see it now. […].

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Why Is Instagram Hiding Likes (& What This Means for Social Media Marketers)

Single Grain

Instagram is now hiding likes. On November 14, 2019, Instagram announced the expansion of their world-wide test in which “you'll no longer see the total number of likes and views on photos and videos posted to Feed unless they’re your own.”: Not everyone understands why, and plenty of people aren’t happy about it. Just a little while ago, studies indicated that a little over 75% of marketers will use Instagram for advertising their brand in 2020.

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M&S and ODD are back for a second helping at Christmas

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Marks & Spencer’s “Go Jumpers” campaign might not have had the emotional impact of John Lewis or the cultural impact of Ikea, but it’s had a sales impact: the featured blue fairisle jumper was the retailer’s biggest selling womenswear product last week, with one sold every minute.

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Wunderman Thompson splits global creative duties between Amsterdam and London

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WPP’s Wunderman Thompson, a big factor in CEO Mark Read’s plans for recovery at the ad giant, has taken the unusual step of appointing two global CCOs, one in London, one in Amsterdam. They are Bas Korsten in Amsterdam and Daniel Bonner in London (both below, Korsten right.) WT global CEO Mel Edwards says: “Bas.

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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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Free streamer Tubi takes the fight to Netflix and new rivals

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Does digital transformation just lead to more anxiety? Sure a few psychologists have written learned papers on the topic and it’s about to get worse as the media world and its aunt launches rival streaming services to take on Netflix – even though lots of people in the entertainment industry doubt that they’ll ever make.

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Adam&eve’s VR epic forPlayStation tries darker

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Adam&eveDDB’s current series for PlayStation is one of the campaigns of the year (admittedly there aren’t so many such extended efforts these days) and here’s the latest for its VR bundle. As with the others it’s dark, dark, darker. Too dark? Be nice to see one of these with a little daylight but the pyrotechnics.

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Andy Murray debuts sports range with Castore

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Indefatigable Brit tennis player Andy Murray, on his way back from a serious hip injury, has teamed with sportswear brand Castore to launch his AMC range and Williams Murray Hamm, best known as a design agency, is in the chair. Thomas Beahon, co-founder of Castore, says: “Andy’s approach to training concentrates on improving himself and.

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Sorrell in hot water over altercation with WPP’s Prior

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Did he or didn’t he? S4Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell clearly had a vigorous exchange of views with Jim Prior (below), boss of his old company WPP’s Superunion brand consultancy, at the recent Web Summit in Lisbon (Sorrell had promoted Prior to be boss of then new WPP entity) but denies he slapped Prior despite reports.

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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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Contrapunto BBDO scores with change of tack for Spain’s Christmas Lottery

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Spain’s Loteria de Navidad (Christmas Lottery) is also known for its ads, recently featuring some winsome albeit effective animation. Contrapunto BBDO in Madrid is taking a different tack this year, which we might call reluctant reality. Dad feels obliged to give his lottery ticket to the new boyfriend (who’s sweetened the pill a bit some.

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WPP contests cost of $300m Triad data acquisition

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Running a big ad holding company must be rather like playing whack-a-mole, except for millions of dollars. Something troublesome keeps popping up just when you think it’s business as usual (if such a state still exists in such companies.) WPP is suing the former owners of digital retail media business Triad (based in St Petersburg.

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Uncommon redesigns Kama Sutra for Habito mortgages

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The Kama Sutra doesn’t usually spring to mind when you’re looking for a mortgage but it has in the fevered imagination of Uncommon Creative Studio, with new print campaign for moprtgage broker and lender Habito, featuring work by acclaimed Israeli artist Noma Bar. Habito CEO Abba Newbery says: “Our adverts are always based on a.

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Advertising Week joins exodus from Andrew’s Pitch@Palace

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Advertising Week has joined the ever-growing list of “supporters” abandoning Prince Andrew”s Pitch@Palace tech initiative, aimed at drumming up funds for start-ups. Andrew, AKA the Duke of York, was due to pitch up at next year’s Advertising Week Europe shindig in London. This follows his disastrous interview with BBC Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis last weekend, widely.

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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.