Year: 2025
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Acquisition
The Credibility Ladder: Aligning B2B Sales With the Modern Buyer Adoption Journey
The historic marketing funnel, which treats buyers as leads to be captured, no longer reflects modern B2B buying behavior. Abdul Rastagar, co-founder of Sirona Marketing, offers up a new model: the buyer-aligned credibility ladder.
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Cynsiders
Streaming Meets Shopping
What isn’t “shoppable” these days? At the Cynopsis ScreenShift conference October 14 in NYC, panelists will discuss the promise – and ways to fulfill that promise – of “shoppable TV.” Among them, Sal Candela, VP, Global Agency Partnerships at Roku, shared some initial thoughts he shared in advance: What do brand marketers need to consider […]
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Marketers
Survey: B2B Content Needs Soar, but Marketing Budgets Don’t
B2B content production is skyrocketing, according to a report from 10Fold Communications. Among the 400 senior marketing executives surveyed, 91% said they’re producing more content this year than in 2024—and not just a little more.
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Programming
Disney Jr. Strikes While the Iron’s Hot
Following in the mighty footsteps of “Marvel’s Spidey and His Amazing Friends” is Disney Jr.’s newest preschool entry in the superhero canon: “Marvel’s Iron Man and His Awesome Friends.”
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B-to-C Events
San Diego Comic-Con 2025: The Big Experiential Recap
For more than 50 years, superfans of comics, movies, gaming and other popular arts have jetted to Comic-Con International for the community, the content, the cosplay—and the experiences. During this year’s event, July 24-27, EM joined the geek squad for a three-day jaunt through San Diego and its Gaslamp District, all in search of the […]
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B-to-C Events
Executive Q&A: Celsius’ CMO Talks Infusing Energy into the 2025 MLS All-Star Game
Celsius scored some major wins during the 2025 MLS All-Star Week. Building on its first-time presence last year, the Official Energy Drink of MLS arrived in Austin, TX, ready to hype up soccer fans for the All-Star Game on July 23. Celsius incorporated its new Live. Fit. Go. campaign, the largest marketing initiative in the […]
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CTV Roundup
Here’s What It’s Like Watching Netflix’s Live WWE Broadcast For The Ads
Even if you attend one of Netflix’s WWE events in person, you won’t be able to escape the ads. I now know this from experience.
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B-to-B Events
Introducing the 2026 Experiential Marketing Summit Advisory Board
To ensure that the Experiential Marketing Summit is evolving to meet the needs of modern event marketers, we’ve selected a new class of leading brand marketers to serve as Experiential Marketing Summit Advisory Board members for the next two years. We are proud to include this esteemed group in our EMS “Brain Trust” and can’t […]
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AI
Cloudflare’s AI Tollbooth: Innovation or Gatekeeping?
When Cloudflare announced it would start blocking Perplexity AI’s stealth crawling, it became a formidable gatekeeper of the open web.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
PR Roundup: Peloton Messaging Conflict, DEI Visibility and Trust, Communicating Tariff Price Increases
PR Roundup examines Peloton’s conflicting messaging, a study showing that LGBTQ+ visibility in advertising and messaging is important to consumers, and tariff price increases are here—so how should that be communicated?
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