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  • How to Advertise with More Character

    Trends and Technology   December 12, 2025  

    Zoe Oz, CMO at Bilt, talks about how the financial services brand's new sitcom, Roomies, has been critical to the four-year-old company's effort to create an emotional bond with customers, and how building that relationship is at the core of its marketing strategy.

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  • WSAN Puts the Full Court Press on Audio Advertising

    Trends and Technology   December 5, 2025  

    Laura Correnti, founder and CEO of Deep Blue Sports + Entertainment, says the Women's Sports Audio Network could be a boon for the growing number of partnerships between brands and women's sports.

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  • Audio Advertising Gets Some Fine Tuning

    Trends and Technology   December 3, 2025  

    Despite the dizzying number of media channels — or maybe because of them — radio continues to provide advertisers with effective reach at lower cost per thousand than linear or streaming programming. At the same time, the industry is trying to address some gaps in measurement when it comes to ad buys.

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  • Advertisers Jockey for Position in the Gaming Sector

    Trends and Technology   November 21, 2025  

    While immensely popular with consumers, gaming commands less than 5 percent of global media spending. That's starting to change, as brands like Jack in the Box, Jägermeister, and Lowe's ramp up their investments in the sector either by creating their own online venue or partnering with big gaming platforms.

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  • Thinking About Rebranding? See How Customers Feel First

    Trends and Technology   November 7, 2025  

    Successful rebrands are rarely about aesthetics. They're about connecting multiple dots throughout an organization and making sure that any rebranding efforts align with the company's goals and objectives, get buy-in from employees, and don't alienate core customers.

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  • Marketers Need a New Scorecard for Zero-Click Search

    Trends and Technology   October 31, 2025  

    Search engines fueled by artificial intelligence, or zero-click search, are starting to eclipse traditional search. That's leading marketers to reevaluate their search engine optimization strategy from keyword-stuffing to context-crafting.

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  • GEO Is the New SEO

    Trends and Technology   October 29, 2025  

    Generative engine optimization (GEO), a digital marketing strategy centered on ensuring a brand's name is featured in the top answers provided by platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, and other large language models, is starting to accelerate throughout the marketing and ad sector.

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  • Are CMOs Facing an Existential Threat?

    Trends and Technology   September 12, 2025  

    After several years of CMOs and senior marketers being implored to focus on their company's financial goals and speak the language that upper management understands, the situation is getting worse. According to a recent report from McKinsey & Co., just 31 percent of CMOs thought their bosses understood their role, and a paltry 30 percent say their organizations have a clear view of marketing ROI.

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  • What's on the Table for Client-Agency Relations?

    Trends and Technology   September 5, 2025  

    Justin Thomas-Copeland, who was recently named CEO of the 4As, says the ad agencies best positioned to thrive in the current climate are flexible, fast, and have a large window into their clients' business.

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  • What Marketers Can Learn from SNL's 50th Anniversary Advertising Strategy

    Trends and Technology   August 27, 2025  

    Kimberly Faver, SVP of brand partnerships and marketing at NBCUniversal Advertising and Partnerships, talks about the two-year effort to put together the ad programming for the 50th anniversary of "SNL" and why it was crucial for brands taking part in the festivities to be a little less risk averse.

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  • Marketers Are Rethinking NIL to Build Long-Term Brand Value

    Trends and Technology   August 22, 2025  

    Advertisers of almost every stripe are scrambling to sign college athletes for their name, image, and likeness (NIL). But as the market has surged in the last few years, new regulations are starting to emerge, and marketers are on the hook to make sure their collegiate partners have the kind of values that aligns with their brand.

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  • Alt Casts Are Expanding the Sports Marketing Arena

    Trends and Technology   August 15, 2025  

    Alt casts, or alternative versions of sports broadcasts, are growing at a rapid clip, offering advertisers a more relaxed atmosphere than traditional play-by-play coverage.

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  • Ad Holding Companies Roll Up and Slim Down

    Trends and Technology   July 18, 2025  

    The ongoing wave of consolidation among the big ad holding companies stems from legacy ad agencies trying to adapt to a brand-new media environment, as artificial intelligence and other technological and economic forces upend traditional ad models and roil client-agency relations.

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  • How Brands Bounce Back

    Trends and Technology   July 4, 2025  

    The path to brand redemption is rarely a straight line. Reputational setbacks, product missteps, and marketing blunders that blow up on social media can erode consumer confidence, destabilize internal teams, and distress the company's financials.

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  • Why SMB Marketers Need to Lose Control to Win Customers

    Trends and Technology   June 27, 2025  

    Soyoung Kang, chief marketing and innovation officer at eos Products, puts a premium on listening to what consumers are saying on their social channels about the company and flipping those conversations into cheeky ad campaigns.

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  • How Brands Stem AI's Quest for More and More Energy

    Trends and Technology   June 20, 2025  

    Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to affect virtually every aspect of marketing and advertising. However, the boost comes at a significant environmental cost, as AI applications require a seemingly endless supply of electricity to keep all those data centers percolating. How can marketers help curb AI-driven emissions and reduce their environmental footprint?

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  • How Integrated Marketing Demands Are Reshaping Ad Production

    Trends and Technology   June 6, 2025  

    The dizzying number of influencers, creators, and media channels now available to marketers — combined with the rise of generative artificial intelligence — is altering not only how branded ads are produced, but also how many.

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  • Marketers Need a Fresh Playbook for New Media Models

    Trends and Technology   May 16, 2025  

    Once-straightforward paths to consumers have splintered into a web of platforms, personalities, and algorithms. For marketers, it's both a challenge and an opportunity.

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  • Is Branding the Missing Link for SMB Marketers?

    Trends and Technology   May 9, 2025  

    Marcelo Kertész, CMO at MANSCAPED, says SMB marketers need to create content for venues in which their customers want to engage, not just convert.

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  • How Ally Financial Leverages Large Language Models

    Trends and Technology   May 6, 2025  

    Andrea Brimmer, chief marketing and PR officer at Ally Financial, talks about how the financial services brand has integrated its proprietary AI platform with commercially available large language models and other AI capabilities.

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