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  User-Generated Content, Tariffs And AI Will Reshape The Ad Market, Says WPP Media

  For proof of the uncertainty facing marketers in 2025, look no further than the industry’s ping-ponging projections for ad spending. WPP Media (the former GroupM), which released its global midyear ad spend forecast on Tuesday, is just the most recent example. Like every prognosticator that’s taken a crack at predicting spending trends for 2025, WPP […]

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  The Rise Of AI Shopping Assistants Will Influence Advertising Strategies

  For generations, advertisers have been trying to get people to notice and buy their products. But what happens when advertisers need to reach something that isn’t a person? That’s the question media agency Kepler is trying to answer with its new software, Kip AIR, created in response to the rise of AI shopping assistants. These […]

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  How This Airline Added Self-Serve Advertising To Its Flight Plan

  Going in-house can feel a little turbulent for advertisers. But brands, such as Spanish airline Iberia, increasingly want more control over their campaign planning, creative and optimization. Until relatively recently, Iberia’s workflow was almost entirely manual. Now, through a partnership with AI personalization platform Clinch and its Flight Control tool, Iberia has been able to […]

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  Scope3-Backed Contextual AI Platform Classify Aims To Disrupt Curation

  There’s a new contextual curation platform in town, and it has the backing of some industry heavy hitters. The startup, called Classify, aims to evolve contextual and semantic targeting beyond keyword-based taxonomies. It offers buy-side deal curation tools, as well as a sell-side product for publishers to package their inventory into curated deals. Classify is […]

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  How Chocolate Brand Tony’s Chocolonely Made Friends In American Candy Aisles

  For any newcomer grocery brand, taking the step from having a strong regional presence to gaining a national retail footprint is always a complicated move. Chocolate brand Tony’s Chocolonely hit that inflection point in the US roughly five years ago, which was when Aidaly Sosa Walker joined as VP of marketing for the US and […]

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  How This Investment App Is Adapting Its Growth Strategy To Deal With Market Volatility

  What’s it like managing user acquisition for a consumer-facing investment and financial planning app during an ongoing trade war? A little tricky. Markets are turbulent, trade policies are unpredictable, and retail investors are trying their best to navigate it all. But Betterment’s customers “have largely stayed the course,” says CMO Kim Rosenblum, who oversees the […]

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  OMD Shares Its Alternative ID Strategy At AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO

  The number of alternative IDs in the market is daunting. But OMD has a philosophy for determining which IDs will work best for brands’ needs. Emily Proctor, the ad agency’s executive director of data and technology solutions, shared that philosophy at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO in Las Vegas on Tuesday. It boils down to this: “Test, […]

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  Google’s Move Toward Attention Metrics Could Be A Viewability Killer, Says Jaguar Land Rover

  Could Google’s embrace of attention metrics help the industry evolve past easily manipulated viewability measurement? Danny Zhu, director of digital and performance marketing at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) North America, thinks so. Google DV360 adding Adelaide’s Attention Unit (AU) metric as an optimization signal is “going to be a game changer for us,” Zhu told […]

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  Unilever CMO on Creating Demand Through a ‘Culture to Cart’ Approach  

  The marketing funnel is dead, said Esi Eggleston Bracey, Unilever’s Chief Growth and Marketing Officer at the POSSIBLE conference in Miami in April. Here’s a look at her “culture-to-cart” approach.

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  AI Will Replace Marketing Jobs As CMO Budgets Stagnate, Says Gartner

  It’s official: AI is coming for marketing jobs. CMOs’ ad budgets are flat this year compared to last year, according to Gartner’s annual CMO Spend Survey. Fifty-nine percent of CMOs said they don’t have enough budget to execute their strategy this year. Overall, brand marketing budgets will average 7.7% of company revenue in 2025, the […]

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