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CTV Roundup
What Advertisers Miss In Their Quest To Reach Hispanic Audiences
For a moment in time, agencies and brands upped their efforts to reach diverse audiences and spend on diverse-owned media. But that hype has since petered out, in part because brands lack the data to effectively target this audience.
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Tech & AI
Walmart deploys digital price tags to save time
Retail giant Walmart announced it will roll out digital shelf tags to 2,300 stores by 2026 replacing the paper tags it uses now. The omnichannel technology upgrade will help increase efficiency in updating prices, replenishing inventory and picking ecommerce orders, according to Walmart in a press release announcement. Walmart piloted the electronic price tags at […]
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Tech & AI
Michaels EVP on Taylor Swift, why it sells on Amazon, that new handmade marketplace and launching a retail media network
Operating a retail media network is in the cards for craft retail chain Michaels, said Heather Bennett, executive vice president of marketing and ecommerce at the Retail Innovation Conference in June. The chain previously dabbled with operating a retail media network but did not move forward with the initiative — as many of the products […]
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B-to-C Events
Intel’s AI Art Gallery in Toronto is a Consumer Testing Ground for Perceptions
Investing in cutting-edge tech can be daunting, and the traditional store setting often involves cut-and-dried conversations. As part of a year-long campaign surrounding the launch of the Intel Core Ultra mobile processors for first-gen AI PCs, Intel is inviting emerging new media artists to showcase the product’s power in a living art gallery where each […]
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B-to-C Events
How e.l.f. Cosmetics’ Indy 500 Sponsorship Placed Women in the Driver’s Seat
When e.l.f. Cosmetics cruised into this year’s Indianapolis 500 as the first-ever beauty brand to serve as a primary sponsor of a driver, it didn’t just offer a “Lip Oil Change”; it aimed to foster systemic change, too.
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Online Advertising
TransUnion And Ally Bank Pilot The Notion Of A Movable Middle Audience
Some ad campaigns target customers most likely to convert. Another common tactic is to conquest a competitor’s known customers. But bringing in the consumers most likely to convert often means a brand is paying to get a sale that was already coming their way. And targeting competitors’ customers can waste budgets on people who simply […]
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Chestnut and Nathan’s Divorce, PR Job Stress, 2024 State of PR
This week’s PR Roundup looks at a teachable influencer moment from Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs and Joey Chestnut, the current state of PR pros mental health and Muck Rack’s latest State of PR report.
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Marketers
Why It Matters That Google Merchant Center Is Ditching The Word “Feed”
Some ecommerce pros were surprised recently to log in to their Google Merchant Center and see the “Feeds” tabs gone. The disappearance of the word “Feeds” is a sign Google is becoming less reliant on information provided by the brand or merchant to inform its marketing services.
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Data-Driven Thinking
Navigating New Brand Safety Complexities: A Digital Marketer’s Perspective
A couple of years ago, I listened to a speech that affected me deeply and triggered serious self-reflection on my role as a digital marketer. The presentation, “The Decade of Delusion,” based on the book Advertising For Skeptics by Bob Hoffman, painted a compelling and alarming picture of digital advertising as a corrupt, wasteful, secretive […]
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Marketers
Advertisers Are Misinformed About The Ad Industry’s Misinformation Problem
Advertisers that rely on ad tech vendors to protect them from buying ads on shoddy, offensive or deceptive news content are … in for some bad news. Researchers at Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University recently set out to determine how often ads are served to sites that publish misleading stories, propaganda or conspiracy theories […]
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