Search Results for: data
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: MapQuest’s Unlikely Comeback, USPS Navigates a Public Information Crisis, and New Research Says Corporate Credibility Is at a Breaking Point
PR roundup covers how MapQuest won a map-naming controversy, what the USPS mail-in voting statement reveals about communicating clearly in chaos, and new research shows corporate credibility eroding fastest among the educated, affluent audiences.
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AI
ChatGPT Ads Hit A $1 Billion Run Rate. Here’s What Advertisers Say Will Get Them To Spend More
Like a kid playing dress-up in their parent’s clothes, OpenAI is trying to look all grown up. But it still has quite a ways to go. Earlier this week, OpenAI announced that its ads business hit a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate. For those less trained in finance-bro vocabulary, “annualized revenue run rate” is […]
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Marketers
How Halo Collar Uses Data And Incrementality To Raise Both Awareness And Sales
Halo Collar, a dog collar brand with direct-to-consumer origins, is preparing for its retail expansion by honing its first-party data strategy and incrementality measurement.
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Corporate Social Responsibility
AI Data Centers Must Go Beyond Sustainability Claims to Win Back Their License to Operate
The media narrative around artificial intelligence (AI) and data centers has shifted dramatically. The next phase of data center communications begins with asking people to trust that these facilities are more efficient or sustainable.
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Corporate Social Responsibility
The Power of Causing a Crisis: What Meta’s Payout Can Teach About Advocacy Communications
Advocacy campaigns can often take on companies many times their size, like Meta, throwing them into crisis. Sustained-pressure communications runs on a different logic than defense.
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Crisis Management
AI Promised Efficiency. Now Communicators Have to Clean Up the Mess.
The AI correction phase is a moment for communicators, but only if the industry stops treating it like a siloed IT initiative happening somewhere else in the building.
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AI
AI Bots Are Now Your Colleagues, Thanks To Optimizely’s Latest Launch
The phrase “AI is everywhere” is becoming truer every day. It’s in NYC subway ads. It’s in daily workflows and embedded into Slack channels. And now, it’s in the employee org chart. On Monday, AI marketing platform Optimizely announced the launch of Virtual Teammates, which are exactly what they sound like: AI personas, each with […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
Google’s Bidding Change Proves Agentic Advertising Has An Agency Problem
Google Ads recently changed how target-based bidding behaves on budget-limited campaigns. The algorithm now bids more aggressively to track closer to whatever target ROAS or CPA you’ve set, regardless of historical performance. Google flagged the change in advance and was transparent about the expected outcome: a campaign with a $10 target CPA that has been […]
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Programming
Nielsen Recalibrates TV Currency
Nielsen is heading into the new broadcast TV season with yet another refinement of its audience measurement.
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CTV Roundup
How Reach TV Brings Streaming And Advertising To America’s Airports
If you’ve ever killed time at an airport staring up at the TV mounted to the wall by your gate, then you’ve been part of Reach TV’s audience.