My YouTube creator obsession has me fascinated by an ongoing trend I’ve noticed in the CTV industry: A lot of companies that produce free ad-supported channels rely on content that already exists on YouTube.

This week’s PR Roundup explores some fresh takes about the American Eagle/Sydney Sweeney situation, Vogue getting roasted for publishing a Guess ad featuring a model created by AI, and a partnership between USPS and Pantone celebrating the former’s big 250th birthday.

TikTok’s ‘out of phone’ program allows brands to repurpose their TikTok content and target consumers with digital out of home ads in shopping malls, retailers, taxis and more.   TikTok recently expanded where consumers can view its content to include taxis, malls, small businesses and water fountains.   Placing TikTok content on screens outside of its app […]

Bospar understood releasing news on a Friday, especially in the middle of the summer, is traditionally avoided at all costs. But the agency felt RealSense’s story’s news value—and the embargoed media outreach—was strong enough to carry the moment.

Good job opportunities build careers, but great mentors shape them. Before she managed multi-million-dollar event budgets for Fortune 500 companies, Rachel Langley took her first career leap at the British-American Chamber of Commerce.

With Google’s AI summary, consumers are less likely to click through to websites, a Pew Research study finds.  A new Pew Research Center study confirms what retail marketers have likely known for the past year: When Google shows consumers an artificial intelligence-generated summary at the top of search results, they are less likely to click […]

Vanity metrics have been a sugar rush for marketers for nearly two decades, but they’re ultimately unsatisfying. Clicks, likes, page views and time-on-site may look impressive on a dashboard or great in a deck, but they rarely correlate to true success where it matters: revenue, growth and long-term business performance. These surface-level metrics give a […]

Workplace benefits are critical to attracting and retaining top talent in just about any industry, but the topic isn’t typically enthralling. So at Morgan Stanley at Work’s Thrive 2025 conference, which educates human resources professionals on the brand’s employee benefits solutions, the company added a little Hollywood magic to its presence on the show floor. […]

DSPs are building tools to bypass SSPs, and SSPs are trying to cut out the buy side. But the real question in the noise is whether the technology improves effectiveness, says Kara Puccinelli, chief customer officer at Nexxen, which just so happens to describe itself as an end-to-end platform.

With the pace of online culture and digital media, an advertiser might use a new meme at the beginning of a campaign that already feels outdated before the campaign has run its course. “The speed of culture has outpaced ad tech,” said Crystal Foote, founder and head of partnerships at the ad tech company Digital […]