The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence has enabled the industry to focus on collecting the right data—and make it actionable. Marketers are prioritizing metrics that inform strategic decision-making. They’re using new, and much improved, technology and taking cues from neuroscience. As a result, they’re gathering meaningful intel from, and about, their audiences, then reimagining their […]

This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover COLAsseums, Date Week adventures and Barbie’s StreamHouse.

Is the marketing funnel as we know it officially dead? Variations of that eternal question were posed over and over again to panelists at Paramount Advertising’s Performance Now summit in New York City on Tuesday. But despite some speakers joking that “funnel” has become “the new F-word,” no one really took the bait. In fact, […]

Digital advertising has long promised precision and efficiency. But our obsession with “following the audience” has allowed low-quality sites and vanity metrics to thrive while brand integrity suffers. This singular focus on targeting audiences and measuring their impact through typically non-incremental attribution, rather than evaluating media quality, has steered us off course. The digital landscape […]

The editors of Event Marketer have unveiled the winners of the 2024 Experience Design Awards, an annual recognition of outstanding event design, innovative builds, interactive tech, and environmental creativity across a wide variety of consumer-targeted and business-to-business event formats.

What’s the best way for advertisers to get the most performance possible out of their Meta campaigns? The answer, according to Meta, is to buy more ads on Meta. It’s recommending that advertisers launch new ads into their Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns every single week, especially leading into the holiday season. Meta would say that, of […]

Reflection a couple of weeks after election day is inevitable. But planning for what’s next is where the real impact lies.  Political ad strategies evolved quickly this year, as campaigns moved beyond exclusivity, focusing on flexibility and reach.  Here’s what this cycle taught us and how it will guide our business in the medium term.

Ford Raptor owners are an activate and engaged audience. In fact, when the brand decided the group needed an in-person community landing point to talk all things high-performance vehicles, via the inaugural ticketed Raptor Rally in September, some 300 vehicle owners registered for an action-packed day of driving experiences, workshops, exclusive Ford announcements, and networking. […]

Change is hard for a company like Nielsen, which has been around so long it even predates the first publicly available television sets.

Jessica Alter, co-founder of the nonprofit Tech for Campaigns, believes political campaigns should model their digital ad strategy on that of seed-stage startups. She joins the podcast this week to talk through this year’s unexpected election results.