Digital + Social
Crayola Grows Up: How a 123-Year-Old Kids’ Brand Is Rewriting its Playbook for Adults
With the launch of Crayola All Grown Up, the brand is making its biggest push yet toward marketing to adults.
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CTV Roundup
Better Attribution Makes Live Sports A Performance Play
To squeeze the most juice out of their live sports campaigns, many marketers are adopting programmatic buying and marketing mix modeling, both of which are also drawing more advertisers to the digital live sports cornucopia.
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CTV Roundup
FAST Content Isn’t Always ‘Premium,’ But That’s Where TV Ad Innovation Is Happening
The FAST channel ecosystem is providing advertisers with a sandbox (no, not that sandbox) to test new CTV formats, targeting tools and programmatic buying methods.
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Shopper/Retail
Can Celebrities Provide Authentic Brand Representation? The Home Depot Says Yes.
David Beckham stars in The Home Depot’s “Build it Like Beckham” marketing campaign tied to the FIFA World Cup.
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CTV Roundup
AI Is Redefining Premium Content – Which May Not Be A Good Thing
At AdExchanger’s Programmatic AI conference, media experts discussed how the rise of AI-generated content is changing the industry’s understanding of “premium” content.
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CTV Roundup
Let’s Be Upfront About Performance
During upfronts, publishers flexed their ad performance muscles at media buyers all week long in an effort to appeal to the biggest demands media buyers have during their upfront negotiations: flexibility and results.
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Shopper/Retail
Claire’s Shifts Target Market to Tweens With ‘On-Trend, On-Time’ Products
Chief Brand Officer Michelle Goad shares how Claire’s is elevating its stores and shifting its brand perception through offering trendy products for tweens.
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Shopper/Retail
Duluth Trading Launches Cheeky Underwear Marketing Campaign
Workwear apparel retailer Duluth Trading doubles its ROAS in the lower funnel with humorous campaign.
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CTV Roundup
What ‘Heated Rivalry’ Reveals About LGBTQ+ Media And Marketing
As a queer media trade reporter, I often wonder whether media companies and marketers are interested in trying to form a connection with me based on my queer identity. It’s a question I got to unpack onstage at POSSIBLE 2026 in Miami earlier this week, when I moderated a panel about how the TV show […]
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Shopper/Retail
Liquid Death CEO on Building a Provocative Brand, Small Marketing Budgets and Super Bowl Ads
Liquid Death CEO Mike Cessario shares how taking risks and keeping marketing costs low can yield big results.
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CTV Roundup
Streaming Platforms Are Embracing Vertical Video. But At This Point, Is It Worth It?
It seems like all the streaming services are getting into vertical video these days. But ads aren’t on the menu yet.