Digital + Social
Bob’s Discount Furniture CMO Dishes on Social-First Reality TV Series
Bob’s Furniture Chief Marketing Officer Steve Nesle shares why he’s betting on entertainment content—where the brand marketing is subtle.
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Influencer Marketing
Sprout Social Report: 60% of Brands Doubling Down on Influencer Marketing in 2025
Influencer marketing is on the rise, with 59% of all marketers—and 69% of U.S. marketers—planning to partner with more influencers this year, according to a new report from Sprout Social.
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Influencer Marketing
Gen Z and the Marketing Funnel: Try Nonlinear and RTBs [Reasons to Believe]
Marketers are wooing Gen Z as assiduously as they did millennials, Gen X and baby boomers before them. But not all the methods of courting previous generations of consumers work with Gen Z.
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CTV Roundup
A Not-So-Modest Proposal For A Sports-Specific CTV Viewing Guide
You’d think the United States Congress would have bigger things to worry about right now than figuring out where and when football games are airing… and yet.
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CTV Roundup
Why CTV Won’t Fall Into The Same Commoditization Trap As The Open Internet Did
At AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO event in Las Vegas this week, our executive editor, Sarah Sluis, asked a panel of experts from NBCUniversal, Roku and Tubi if programmatic buying will inevitably lead to a repeat on CTV of what happened with digital media publishers.
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Sponsorships
12 Brand Experiences at the 2025 Miami Grand Prix
A photo gallery roundup of 12 brand experiences at this year’s Miami Grand Prix.
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Branding/Marketing
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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CTV Roundup
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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Social
Report: Marketers Lean into Paid Social as Email Remains a Top Channel
Paid social is the most popular channel for retail marketers, according to a new report from Wunderkind. But email has proven most effective.
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CTV Roundup
This Year’s Big NewFronts Trends: Interactive Ads, Programmatic Possibilities
Instead of simply watching ads on the big screen, consumers are now being encouraged to interact with those ads – a shift in marketing that was particularly apparent at the 2025 NewFronts presentations in New York City this week.
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Marketers on Fire
Marketers on Fire: Visa CMO on Agentic AI, Culture and Commerce
Chief Marketer sat down with Visa CMO Frank Cooper III to discuss the brand’s vision of AI-driven commerce, culture-creating sponsorships, the creator economy and more.