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  • ChatGPT Demo: Using AI to Pitch Media

    Scott Dobroski, VP of Corporate Communications at Indeed, demoed a real-time example of using AI for pitching the media on ChatGPT.

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  • Swingline staplers makes its pitch with Take Your Swing campaign 

    With fewer consumers using paper, Swingline taps into broader markets and design-forward staplers to spur sales. Swingline’s marketing VP shares more marketing tactics in a challenged category.   Swingline wants shoppers to buy another stapler. Or just one.   For years, the 100-year-old stapler brand has faced a slow, single-digit decrease in sales, along with the […]

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  • First-Party Data Isn’t Enough—It’s Time to Face the Facts

    By Allyson Dietz, Senior Director of Product Marketing, TransUnion For years, marketers have been sold the dream that first-party data is the key to everything. Own the relationship. Build direct connections. Future-proof your business. As digital privacy concerns mounted and the demise of third-party cookies loomed, the message was clear: collect your own data, and […]

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  • How affiliates drive long-term value at Topdrawer  

    Topdrawer’s top marketer talks tariffs, physical stores and the Wirecutter.   When marketers have to choose between driving conversion and building brand awareness, Topdrawer’s Poonam Chitnis says affiliates can hit both goals.   Chitnis is vice president of operations and marketing executive at Topdrawer, a manufacturer and seller of leather goods, accessories and other “creative tools.” Akira Ito […]

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  • B-to-B Maximalism

    We might thank Barbie for the shift from sad beige to unabashedly bold color play over the past two years. The practice has been seeping into every corner of the event landscape, most interestingly in business conference and trade show environments. This year, however, patterns and textures have joined the mix in what Pinterest and […]

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  • Syndeo Embarks on Cable Industry Documentary

    You oughta be in pictures, cable. And the Syndeo Institute at the Cable Center is working to make it happen.

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  • Hey, TV Upfronts: You Don’t Have To Apologize For Using Ad Tech Jargon

    Amid the glitz of TV upfront presentations, advertising executives take the stage to talk about things like new audience targeting capabilities or to ballyhoo new ad measurement partnerships. How, though, are we supposed to focus on brand lift statistics when we can all hear Lady Gaga belting a vocal warmup offstage?

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  • The AI Imperative Behind GroupM’s “Restructuring”

    GroupM is restructuring, as AI looms over the business model of agency holding companies, and one-click campaign planning comes for agency jobs.

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  • Pinterest Brings Gen Z Wedding Trends to Life at NYC’s City Hall

    Weddings at City Hall in New York City are often intimate and without pricey flourishes, but Pinterest saw an engagement opportunity there by adding special touches to couples’ daytime nuptials during a pop-up outside on April 30. The brand covered their marriage license fees and gifted them free bouquets by Sprig & Social, a champagne toast […]

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  • The ‘Essence’ of Influence: Inside SheaMoisture’s First-ever International Brand Trip

    SheaMoisture took a leap when it hosted its first-ever international brand trip in Montego Bay, Jamaica. The beauty brand whisked away 13 influencers, community leaders and media members to a resort in March for three days of product exploration, live demos, styling sessions and cultural experiences to celebrate the launch of SheaMoisture’s Kalahari Melon Curl […]

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