Search Results for: content marketing
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B-to-B Events
EMS 2025: Creativity as a Practice, Hot Topics and Community Experiences
A cohort of ambitious attendees rose with the sun on April 15 for day two of the Experiential Marketing Summit (EMS) at the annual morning 5K through the Las Vegas Strip, while others kicked things off with a moment of mindfulness during a guided morning meditation inside the MGM Grand. And then it was off […]
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AI
Meet The AI Startup Founded By Ad Tech Vets That Wants To Replace Ads With ‘Adaptive Experiences’
It’s like that line from “The Godfather: Part III”: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” OG ad tech entrepreneurs just can’t seem to stay away from ad tech. Case in point: Firsthand, a startup that describes itself as an “AI-powered brand agent platform,” which was launched last year by […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
The Brand Safety Myth: Why Most Marketers Don’t Need Brand Safety Verification
When I started working with marketers in the early 2000s, they were advertising on fewer digital channels than today, and there were fewer nefarious challenges, like fraud and malicious advertising attacks. But brand marketing has gotten more challenging over the years. Today, marketers expect their partners to monitor and measure viewability, engagement and conversions, because […]
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Cynsiders
Navigating TV’s Shifting Landscape
There is a clear path for advertisers to leverage shifting audience expectations, as well as platform capabilities, to find success in a fragmented video advertising ecosystem, maintains Bill Schild, GM of Americas for Channel Factory. What is the most effective way for advertisers to reach their audience while navigating the fragmentation between linear TV and […]
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B-to-B Events
EMS 2025 Opens up with Workshops, Meow Wolf and the 23rd Annual Ex Awards
The 23rd annual Experiential Marketing Summit (EMS) launched with high-octane energy and compelling perspectives on April 14 as a global audience of more than 1,500 b-to-b and b-to-c marketers, trade show organizers, agency execs, meeting planners, event strategists, sustainability champs and technologists gathered at MGM Grand Las Vegas for a three-day huddle guided by the […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
Undermining Ourselves: How Advertising Keeps Getting Standards Wrong
Many well-intentioned advertising standards efforts gather digital dust. Others have even shut down in the face of lawsuits claiming insufficiently broad industry engagement. Why? Because we mistake the release of a proposal for the achievement of standardization and create more noise than clarity. My standards journey began with IAB’s Future of the Cookie (FotC) working […]
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AI
How Oatly Uses Its Packaging and Creative to Stay Original
Swedish oat milk brand Oatly, known for its original, animated packaging and irreverent copy, is taking a wait-and-see approach, trying to “stay fresh” and largely skipping ChatGPT in an effort to avoid “watered down” content.
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Digital & Technology
PR’s Next Evolution: AI, GEO, and the Rise of the Communications Engineer
Kwittken believes that any PR tech should be “human-led and AI-fed, where tools enhance the ability to not only craft effective pitches, but also track media, identify relevant journalists, and predict what’s around the corner for key news topics.
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Video Marketing
Wistia State of Video Report: Engagement Rates Down, Content Less Promoted
Forty-three percent of businesses produce at least one marketing video a week, according to video marketing platform Wistia. But they’re not necessarily maximizing the value of their work.
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B-to-B Events
B-to-B For Me
In light of the recommendation era and the acceleration of AI tools, b-to-b event marketers this year are focused on taking personalization from buzzword to practice, customizing content, and making connections with attendees that speak to their business needs and the individual at every step of the journey. It’s an imperative that’s coming from the […]