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Marketers
Here’s How Manscaped Groomed Its Brand For Long-Term Growth
When Marcelo Kertész joined Manscaped roughly five years ago – before becoming CMO in 2022 – the men’s grooming brand was spending nearly three-quarters of its budget on performance marketing. It was a page right out of the DTC playbook. Performance is “the perfect tool for breaking through,” Kertész said, “because you can get exposure on par […]
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Branding/Marketing
Beyond the Bargain: Winning Consumers When Discounts Stop Working
If it feels like every brand has been running a sale for months, you’re not imagining it. According to a recent CNBC report, consumers are showing clear signs of discount fatigue ahead of Black Friday.
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Cynopsis: Sports
Cynopsis Sports 11/25/25: MLB Strikes New Deals
A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM OMEDA Tuesday November 25, 2025 Good morning! It’s Tuesday, and this is your monthly Cynopsis Sports newsletter. Although it’s still a couple of days away, we’d like to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. And if you’re one of the six lucky NFL fanbases who’ll watch their team Thursday (or anxiously […]
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Marketers
Behind E.l.f. Beauty’s Data-Driven Campaign To Call Out Gender Imbalance In Boardrooms
E.l.f. Beauty’s “So Many Dicks” campaign targets corporate leaders via contextual advertising with the goal of increasing diversity in corporate boardrooms.
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Data-Driven Thinking
Self-Driving Advertising Is A Myth: Why Automation Can’t Replace Creative Judgment
Generative AI is the new ad land obsession: a shiny promise of a fully autonomous world of self-driving advertising. But behind the hype lies the costly delusion that automation can replace judgment and more content somehow means better marketing. We’ve entered the age of machine-made abundance, where content can be generated faster than it can […]
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The State of Audience Data for Broadcast, Cable & Streaming Media
Audience expectations are shifting faster than ever, and broadcasters are under pressure to move beyond traditional ratings to truly understand who their viewers are—and what keeps them engaged. Opportunity is knocking, but few are answering. TV Execs see first-party data as a growth driver, yet most aren’t leveraging it to create real audience value or […]
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Programming
Turning 20: TAC Reaches Milestone, Despite Challenging Landscape
In an era when even the well-funded cable networks are fighting a grueling battle to maintain relevance in the modern media landscape, The Africa Channel recently celebrated 20 years of illuminating what Africa means.
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: Piggy Problems, Cloudflare Outage Response, Bluesky and the Holidays
PR Roundup examines how to respond when your leadership insults members of the media, using the example of Trump and a reporter he called “piggy,” how the Cloudflare CEO responded after another outage and a new report acknowledging that users want brands on Bluesky for customer care.
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Data-Driven Thinking
Why Weakening CIPA Would Hand Big Tech A Free Pass On Data Abuse
Private right of action isn’t just a talking point for future privacy laws; it’s already law. The California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) has included an individual’s right to bring a civil suit since 1967. With privacy under unprecedented attack by data brokers and social media, it is the wrong time to weaken these protections, […]
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Cynsiders
AI, Authenticity, and Creative Firepower Redefine Sports Branding
The age of quality over quantity for sports brands is over, according to marketing agency IMG’s Digital Trends Report 2026. Instead, success lies in being consistently visible, authentic, and responsive, using AI to streamline workflows but investing heavily in creative talent and resources. Additional insights and predictions from the report include: To stay competitive, rightsholders […]