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Great Onboarding: The Secret to 88% Employee Retention

Fuel Lines

How to cut employee turnover in half. This is a guest article written by J ohn Paul Strong , the owner of the Birmingham-based advertising agency, Strong Automotive Merchandising. John Paul has developed a very robust onboarding process that I wanted him to share with you. Their original roster of 10 employees and eight clients has exploded today, growing to more than 115 full-time employees and 250 automotive dealers.

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Top Marketing KPIs that Every B2B Company Needs to Track

Single Grain

Realistically, not all of your marketing campaigns are going to generate the results you’re after. Some might fetch good results, while others might convert badly. But no matter what the performance of your campaign may be, tracking proper B2B marketing KPIs always helps you learn something so that you can improve the performance of your current and future campaigns.

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Veteran star creatives launch ancient&modern

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Two survivors of the golden age of British advertising are launching a new creative agency. Copywriter Adrian Holmes, former CCO of Lowe Worldwide, and art director John O’Driscoll, an alumnus of the great CDP and then an award-winning commercials director, are teaming with Seamus O’Farrell, formerly AMV and BBH, to launch the aptly named ancient&modern.

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The Three Best Ads of Super Bowl LIV

AdPulp

Pringles, Pepsi Zero, and Walmart showed up with something to see last night. These three brands know what a Super Bowl commercial needs to be—highly entertaining. There are several ways to achieve this. Pringles and Pepsi Zero are on the highly visual pop culture page, and that’s a good page to be on. Walmart opted […].

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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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A Constitutional Challenge to Watch: Axon Sets Its Sight on the Structure of the FTC

All About Advertising Law

On January 3, 2019, Axon Enterprise, Inc. (“Axon”), a manufacturer of body-worn cameras for law enforcement, filed a complaint against the Federal Trade Commission seeking a declaratory judgment in the District of Arizona. In the complaint, Axon alleges that the FTC’s administrative procedures and structure are unconstitutional, and seeks to enjoin the FTC from pursuing an administrative enforcement action against Axon.

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How to Use UX Testing to Improve Your Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)

Single Grain

According to a survey by Havas , “people wouldn't care if 74% of the brands they use every day just disappeared.” Across the world, only 57% of brands are trusted on average ( and only 33% in North America!) : These figures are shocking, right? They shouldn't be. Today's shoppers place a lot more value on customer experience than ever before.

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What No One Needs Now—Technology That Makes Things Worse

AdPulp

Make the technology easy to use, or lose people, lose elections, lose money, and lose your s**t. E-TRADE understands. This is the kind of customer-focused copy I can get behind: You should be mad that they gave this guy a promotion. You should be made at forced camaraderie. You should be mad at tech that […].

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The Yearning…

Gods of Advertising

The non-addict asks what is the meaning of life? The addict asks: Is this all there is? You called this many things: frustration, dissatisfaction, expectation … the yearning. Desiring something else. More. These unmet desires found respite in drugs and alcohol, albeit temporarily. But it was better than the alternative, or so it always seemed at the time, all the time.

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Quick Tips to Optimize Your Facebook & Instagram Live Broadcasts

Single Grain

Live broadcasts have become a staple of the social media experience. Hundreds of millions of people go live each day on Facebook and Instagram, and viewers are tagging along in droves! The reason that audiences love to engage on live broadcasts with the people and brands they follow is because this format presents them as real, approachable and less-produced.

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Andree’s leave of absence adds to uncertainty at Dentsu

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Dentsu Aegis Network boss Tim Andree is taking leave of absence for health reason, another sign of upheaval at the Dentsu-owned network which handles the Japanese holding company’s giant media business outside its homeland. Andree (below) was in charge of its creative business – chiefly Mcgarrybowen – before succeeding long-time DAN CEO Jerry Buhlmann who.

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

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AdPulp

The Googs is scoring big points prior to Sunday’s big game. Ernie Schenck loves the following ad. The legendary copywriter and Communications Arts columnist says, “…gird your tear ducts, people, because this is as emotional a spot as I have ever seen. And I know a thing or two about emotional commercials. I don’t know […].

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Most Viewed Video Ads: Super Bowl 2020 Post-Game

illumin

The post-game Most Viewed Video Ads top 10 is a slightly different list compared to the pre-game, with some advertiser's disappearing completely off the list (RIP Mr. Peanut, seriously this time). The post Most Viewed Video Ads: Super Bowl 2020 Post-Game appeared first on AcuityAds Inc.

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Who Uses Apps to Learn a New Language?

InMobi

How many languages do you speak? If you’re reading this in the U.S., chances are good that the answer is “just one.” Even though well over 90% of all American high schools offer a foreign language course, less than 1% of those who study a language in school later say they’re fluent in it. To fill in this gap, many turn to mobile apps. Over the past few years, a number of apps have come out that enable users to learn dozens of new languages.

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Former Aegis boss Jerry Buhlmann surfaces at Croud

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We’ve mentioned Jerry Buhlmann a couple of times recently in stories about Dentsu Aegis Network, now its former CEO has surfaced as non-executive chairman of digital marketing agency Croud. Buhlmann (below) is one of a number of investors in a recent £30m minority stake investment headed by Lloyds Bank’s LDC. Founded in 2011, Croud offers.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

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Push Traffic: Guide to Everything You Wanted to Know

Smarty Ads

Based on push statistics for iOS and Android, an average US citizen gets 46 push notifications every day. The opt-in rate for this format is high for Android (91,1%) and IOS devices (43,3%), meaning that people are actually loyal to such kind of notifications and voluntarily subscribe to.

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Why should you market to millennials?

Ad Beat

With nearly $200M in yearly purchasing power, millennials (born between 1981 and 1996) are changing the way brands advertise their products & services in today’s rapidly-evolving, competitive landscape. On a surface level, it’s convenient to simply generalize the millennial generation—they’re always on their phones, and spend an inordinate amount of time crafting an online persona, but they’re also the same people who are the most open-minded about social causes like climate change.

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What To Expect from InMobi Exchange in 2020: InMobi Exchange CAB Next Steps

InMobi

On Tuesday, January 21 at The InterContinental Hotel in San Francisco, we gathered together dozens of the brightest minds in the programmatic world for our first ever InMobi Exchange Customer Advisory Board. Through discussion and debate, we were able to get a firm grasp on where the industry is headed, and determine what our key demand-side and supply-side partners want from us in the future.

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Isobel saddles up for cinema-style Royal Ascot

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The Royal Ascot race meeting in the UK – a key part of “the season” – does rather divide opinion. This year should be particularly interesting from a gossip point of view: will under-fire Prince Andrew accompany Her Maj in one of the open carriages opening the June meeting, if he doesn’t will his offspring.

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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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Digital Transformation Trends in Practice: 4 Tips for CEO's

Smarty Ads

Over the past decade, digital transformation influenced almost every aspect of our everyday lives. With each year, new trends emerge and CEOs from various areas join the race to get the most cutting-edge technologies on their side. Not only should they identify the right trends and the good timing for.

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Communities for Boomers

Advertising to Baby Boomers

The elder-centric housing industry is about to explode every which way. My tongue-in-cheek take on it: 03 December 2018 Where are old people going to live? It used to be that old people lived wherever they lived – and that was that. And I’ve written about this ad nauseam for over fifteen years. A list of related posts: Aging In Place & Universal Design Something you can skim or skip: Selling Universal Design To Baby Boomers/Aging In Place (PDF) … What is ‘aging in place’?

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Understanding the Hyper Casual Game Market

InMobi

The hyper casual game market is one of the hottest spaces in the mobile app world today. The mobile gaming industry has been changed dramatically by the hyper casual genre, with these kinds of mobile games dominating the app download charts. Hyper casual titles typically feature very simple game mechanics, making them easy for just about anyone with a mobile device to figure out and play.

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M&S takes denim pitch up an unhelpful hill

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Does M&S have the faintest clue what it’s doing? Apparently it sells lots of jeans and stuff so it’s charged clothing agency Odd with flogging a few more by making its rather humdrum brand more hip and exciting. Seems sensible enough, if only they could manage to order them in the right sizes (a trip.

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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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Massive DSP Update: New Formats, More Traffic, On-Demand Analytics, and More!

Smarty Ads

Hooray! We are announcing the arrival of numerous amazing updates in the most massive DSP update. Empowered with most advanced technologies and formats, SmartyAds demand-side platform is ready to accelerate your ad campaigns and surprise you with its head-turning new look. Ready? Then buckle up, we’re going to show.

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Paul Simons: Blue Monday can last the rest of a lifetime in adland – why not plan ahead?

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Blue Monday (January 20 this year) is the day when the realities of overspend in December come home to roost. But it’s also a time when structural changes in organisations are implemented. So for many an unlucky person it could be a double whammy of maxed out credit cards and a P45. I have spent.

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Jean-Christophe Conti of VIOOH: how the Super Bowl is becoming a multi-media experience

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One of the biggest events in the advertising world took place on Sunday – The Super Bowl. As ever, competition for space, coverage and making an impact was fierce amongst brands as they looked to capture the hearts and minds of the world’s audience. But it doesn’t come without a cost. This year, a 30-second.

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Heineken buys the world a drink in new campaign from Publicis Italia

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Publicis Groupe may be navigating problems but one of the jewels in its crown is Publicis Italia, not least for its work on Heineken. Here it is challenging stereotypes, not going all LGBT (some of it might be) but riffing on the way waiters and others assume that women drink cocktails and men down beer.

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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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Publicis boss Sadoun says new model is complete – but growth still proves elusive

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Is Publicis (finally) turning the corner or is it still stuck where it was? The French-owned holding company’s results for 2019 show revenue up ten per cent to €11bn and operating margin to to 17.3 per cent (ahead of the market) but organic growth of minus 2.3 per cent, better than the -2.7 per cent.

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New WPP/T&P entity Nucleus makes promising debut for Centrica’s British Gas

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Centrica’s British Gas has a new agency you may not have heard of and its first act has been to sideline long-serving brand mascot Wilbur the Penguin. The agency is called Nucleus and it comprises a range of WPP companies: The&Partnership (BG’s long-serving creative agency in which WPP owns a minority), MediaCom, WundermanThompson and PR.

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Wieden+Kennedy New York produces mini-content master class for McDonald’s

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Big brands are flocking to Wieden+Kennedy in the US (it was a big player at the Super Bowl, not always on top form in our view) and one of its biggest recent wins is McDonald’s, which has abandoned bespoke DDB agency We Are Unlimited for W+K New York. One of the reasons cited by McDonald’s.

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Does Super Bowl spending spree show a new/old direction for troubled consumer goods groups?

More About Advertising

While ad evaluation services argue over who won the battle of Super Bowl ads – New York’s AI-based Realeyes reckons it was Pepsico’s Mountain View Zero Sugar (below), the UK’s System1 reckons Microsoft was tops for emotion – the rush to buy Super Bowl spots at $5.2m a pop has prompted some optimists to believe.

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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.