Digital + Social
Sweetgreen Tapped Atmosphere TV To Introduce World Cup Viewers To Its Wraps
Sweetgreen used the World Cup as a marketing opportunity to promote its new wraps. The brand tapped the video advertising startup Atmosphere TV for help running a video ad in those public spaces where people were likely watching the World Cup.
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CTV Roundup
Dynamically Inserted Billboards In TV Content: Groundbreaking Or Distracting?
For some marketers, the billboards that appear in the backgrounds of TV scenes – or heck, even just the blank walls of a building – feel like prime real estate for even more ad placements.
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Shopper/Retail
Naturium CMO Jake Galtere Explains Why Community Is the Skincare Brand’s Superpower
Naturium, the skincare brand owned by E.l.f. Cosmetics, launched a new campaign that features 11 real customers. CMO Jake Galtere shares the details.
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CTV Roundup
How AI Can Enhance Content Without Generating It
As much as consumers complain about AI-generated content, advertising experts say AI still has an important place in video creation and production, including for ads. But using AI in content without turning off consumers is a tricky dance.
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CTV Roundup
Inside The Trade Desk’s Pitch For Ventura TV OS
The Trade Desk is muscling its way into the TV operating system business with its Ventura OS – but the real story is what TTD’s ambitions reveal about conflicts of interest within the industry and the inherent mismatch between consumer and advertiser needs.
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Shopper/Retail
Florastor CMO Shares Creator Challenges and An Unexpected Male Customer
Florastor just launched a skin probiotic. CMO Bindu Shah shares why the product is resonating with men, how it keeps tight guardrails on its influencers and how it’s launching a product with Lindsay Hubbard.
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Shopper/Retail
Martha Stewart Shares Marketing Tips To Stay Relevant
In her keynote address at Salesforce Connections, Martha Stewart discusses taking risks, trying new technology and authenticity as a way to stay relevant across generations.
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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.