Year: 2025
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B-to-C Events
Field Report: Everything We Experienced at Netflix House Philadelphia
Tucked inside a suburban mall about 19 miles outside of Philadelphia sits a vibrant playground where lights, cameras and calls to action transform superfans into the heroes and villains from their favorite films and series. The fog is thick, the plots love twisting, and the rivalry is real. Welcome, outcasts, pirates, demon hunters and debutantes… […]
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B-to-B Events
IAAPA Expo 2025: Sights, Sounds and Scents from the Attractions Industry’s Annual Show
The week before Thanksgiving marks IAAPA Expo’s annual return to the Orange County Convention Center and takeover of Orlando’s I-Drive tourist district, gathering the global attractions industry for a week of conference sessions, show floor exploration, networking and celebrations. From Nov. 17-21, more than 40,000 professionals took part in 170-plus education events and walked a […]
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Marketers
The Sweet Strategy Behind Busy Bee Honey’s Unexpected Blue Makeover
Baby blue probably isn’t a color most shoppers expect to see in the honey aisle at their local supermarket. But that dissonance is exactly why Barkman Honey chose that color for its newly rebranded Busy Bee Raw Honey packaging, which first hit stores in September.
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The Big Story
The Shifting Dollars Flowing Through Programmatic Pipes
Inside Omnicom’s shift in spend from The Trade Desk DSP to Amazon DSP.
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Programming
Turning 20: TAC Reaches Milestone, Despite Challenging Landscape
In an era when even the well-funded cable networks are fighting a grueling battle to maintain relevance in the modern media landscape, The Africa Channel recently celebrated 20 years of illuminating what Africa means.
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Programming
In the Wild: BravoCon Returns to Vegas
NBCUniversal’s BravoCon took over the Caesars Forum in Las Vegas from Nov. 14-16, putting on a three-day superfan experience that showcased Bravo’s diverse reality programming through panels, activations, parties, photo ops and more.
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: Piggy Problems, Cloudflare Outage Response, Bluesky and the Holidays
PR Roundup examines how to respond when your leadership insults members of the media, using the example of Trump and a reporter he called “piggy,” how the Cloudflare CEO responded after another outage and a new report acknowledging that users want brands on Bluesky for customer care.
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AI
AI in Ad Tech: Is It Evolution, Revolution, or “Too Early to Tell”?
James Deaker, aka The Yield Doctor, outlines how AI is reshaping ad ops—from incremental improvements to major workflow shifts and the emerging unknowns teams should keep an eye on.
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B-to-C Events
NBCUniversal Breaks Down its Growth Strategy for BravoCon and Brand Partners
Social media algorithms were buzzing this past weekend as one of the industry’s titans of superfan events, BravoCon, went down in Las Vegas. Beyond the tea that was spilled and the spicy moments that emerged at more than 100 panels, parties, reunions, game shows, photo ops and off-site celebrations, 22 brand partners—15 of which were […]
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Marketers
The Onion’s CMO Peels Back The Layers Of Its Unconventional Marketing Strategy
It takes a certain kind of advertiser to want to promote its brand alongside a headline like “RFK Jr. Greets Trick-Or-Treaters With Big Bowl Of Ape Glands.” That’s a real headline on The Onion, by the way. It’s no surprise, then, that the satirical news site has to get creative with its marketing and monetization, […]
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