Year: 2025
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Marketers
Here’s How Manscaped Groomed Its Brand For Long-Term Growth
When Marcelo Kertész joined Manscaped roughly five years ago – before becoming CMO in 2022 – the men’s grooming brand was spending nearly three-quarters of its budget on performance marketing. It was a page right out of the DTC playbook. Performance is “the perfect tool for breaking through,” Kertész said, “because you can get exposure on par […]
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AdExchanger Talks
Making Your Brand Matter To The Models
You can’t buy your way to the top of a large-language model. At least not yet. But there are things that brands can do to influence how – and if – they get mentioned, says Tracy Morrissey, SVP of media and performance at full-service agency Innocean USA.
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Cynsiders
The Future of Ad Tech: How Protocols and Agentic AI are Forging a Simpler, Smarter Ecosystem
By Brendan Norman, Co-founder & CEO of Classify The ad tech industry is at an inflection point. With programmatic digital media spend poised to surpass $200 billion by 2026, the complexity that has long characterized this ecosystem is finally being dismantled. The drive toward a more efficient, valuable, and transparent future is being powered by […]
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Branding/Marketing
Beyond the Bargain: Winning Consumers When Discounts Stop Working
If it feels like every brand has been running a sale for months, you’re not imagining it. According to a recent CNBC report, consumers are showing clear signs of discount fatigue ahead of Black Friday.
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Cynopsis: Sports
Cynopsis Sports 11/25/25: MLB Strikes New Deals
A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM OMEDA Tuesday November 25, 2025 Good morning! It’s Tuesday, and this is your monthly Cynopsis Sports newsletter. Although it’s still a couple of days away, we’d like to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. And if you’re one of the six lucky NFL fanbases who’ll watch their team Thursday (or anxiously […]
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Marketers
Behind E.l.f. Beauty’s Data-Driven Campaign To Call Out Gender Imbalance In Boardrooms
E.l.f. Beauty’s “So Many Dicks” campaign targets corporate leaders via contextual advertising with the goal of increasing diversity in corporate boardrooms.
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B-to-C Events
The Brief: Turkey Spas and Stonehenge Stunts
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover turkey spa days, hygiene in the Henkel House and a “Doctor Who” stunt at Stonehenge.
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Marketers
How Manscaped Keeps Its Culture of Creative Experimentation Buzzing
Chief Marketer spoke with Manscaped CMO Marcelo Kertész about risk-taking in brand marketing, striking a balance between brand and performance, and what political campaigns taught him about staying agile.
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B-to-C Events
Experiential Marketing Trend of the Week: Hotel Takeovers
Identifying the right venue for the right experience is among an event prof’s top challenges, but upscale-leaning brands have been solving for the pain point by checking into hotels to host pop-up experiences that offer atmosphere, built-in amenities and plenty of space to spread out. From rooftop retail cabanas to self-care suites, here’s how marketers […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
Self-Driving Advertising Is A Myth: Why Automation Can’t Replace Creative Judgment
Generative AI is the new ad land obsession: a shiny promise of a fully autonomous world of self-driving advertising. But behind the hype lies the costly delusion that automation can replace judgment and more content somehow means better marketing. We’ve entered the age of machine-made abundance, where content can be generated faster than it can […]
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