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AI
How HelloFresh Brought AI Creative To Times Square
Have you ever walked through Times Square and thought, Wouldn’t it be cool if these giant billboard ads could be produced by AI? This doesn’t seem like a universal experience. But for CDP Hightouch, apparently, this question was top of mind. In June, Hightouch launched a one-day Times Square activation to showcase ads that its […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
Three Advertising Industry Myths The Market Has Already Debunked
Every industry develops narratives that begin as useful simplifications and eventually become accepted truths. Advertising is no different. But the problem is that many of these narratives survive long after the market has stopped validating them. The industry says streaming television is becoming a performance channel, then acts surprised when television behaves like television and […]
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Programming
Operators Warm Up to ESPN Unlimited
About 150 of NCTC’s roughly 700 member companies have signed on to offer ESPN Unlimited to their traditional video subscribers—a modest but growing start, according to Disney’s top distribution executive.
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Pop-Ups
The Brief: Boot Rooms and Beer Windows
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover the Febreze Boot Room Tour, folding pubs and Peroni Portals.
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Festivals & Fan Cons
5 Big Experiential Themes from Fanatics Fest 2026
To know the fan, you must be the fan. And brands that showed up to Fanatics Fest 2026 proved it. We navigated around talent walkways—how stars get from backstage to in-booth panels and appearances—drops and more. Here’s what stuck out.
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Shopper/Retail
How Polywood’s Chief Digital Officer Increases Repeat Purchases, Sales and More
Chief Digital Officer Ben Spiegel shares how he is transforming Polywood into a lifestyle brand with better personalization and a robust in-house marketing team.
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CTV Roundup
How Warner Bros. Discovery Is Creating Value Out Of Dead Air With Pause Ads
Streaming publishers are banking on pause ads to bolster revenue with a more user-friendly ad experience. With programmatic standardization still pending, Warner Bros. Discovery is taking a stab at advancing the capabilities behind its own pause ad formats.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Olive Garden’s Accidental Politics, Gen Z’s New Rules of Fandom and Why Kraft Heinz Is Betting on Disney Magic
PR roundup covers an Olive Garden pasta promotion becomes a political flashpoint, new research on how Gen Z is rewriting the path to sports fandom and why the Kraft Heinz and Disney alliance is one of the best brand partnerships.
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Pop-Ups
Minty Lands in Creator-Rich Miami with a Social-Ready Pop-up
The AI shopping app’s trendy activation highlights brand partners at Swim Week It may be a surprising stat, but Miami is home to the most top Instagram influencers per capita in the U.S., beating out L.A. and NYC. And for a growing brand like Minty, the first AI cashback and savings app in ChatGPT, activating […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
Advertising’s Next Audience Isn’t Human. So We Must Rethink The Value Of Non-Human Traffic
For years, advertising has been all about reaching the right human at the right time. That premise, however, is shifting in an unexpected way. Agentic AI has created new complexity, with autonomous “agents” that can increasingly evaluate, compare and execute decisions, from product research to actual purchases. Human-to-agent isn’t an incremental change. It’s a structural […]