Search Results for: loyalty
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Data-Driven Thinking
How Vanity Metrics Stole Marketing’s Credibility – And How CMOs Can Get It Back
Vanity metrics have been a sugar rush for marketers for nearly two decades, but they’re ultimately unsatisfying. Clicks, likes, page views and time-on-site may look impressive on a dashboard or great in a deck, but they rarely correlate to true success where it matters: revenue, growth and long-term business performance. These surface-level metrics give a […]
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Corporate Social Responsibility
PR Roundup: Sony’s Sustainability, AI Summary Crisis, Top 50 Creator-Journalists
This week’s PR Roundup looks at what communicators can learn from Sony’s public pledge for product sustainability, a new list honoring the top 50 independent creator-journalists and the continuing problem of AI summary results for the news industry and earned media.
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Cynsiders
AI Is Only as Smart as Its Signals: Why Identity Comes First
By Chris Hogg, Chief Revenue Officer, Lotame AI-powered tools promise smarter targeting, faster insights, and better business outcomes. But without a durable, privacy-first identity strategy, they can’t deliver. Why? Because the data these tools run on is typically incomplete, inconsistent, or disconnected. The fragmentation of media means that while signals arrive from dozens of […]
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AI
Dentsu’s Carat Partners With An AI Platform To Bring Its Agents (Almost) To Life
Dentsu-owned media agency Carat wants to understand audiences better, and its solution is an introvert’s dream: cut down on human conversations and bring in the bots. On Thursday, Carat announced a partnership with Vurvey Labs (a portmanteau of “video” and “survey”), an agentic AI-powered research platform that uses short video surveys to quickly get insights about […]
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Branding/Marketing
How Six Retail Merchants Are Communicating Tariff-Driven Price Increases to Consumers
Half a dozen major merchants—Fat Brain Toys, E.l.f., Topdrawer, Schmidt Brothers Cutlery, Swingline Staplers and The Honest Kitchen—share strategies on communicating their tariff woes and price increases.
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Shopper/Retail
How retail marketers explain tariff-driven price increases to shoppers: four strategies
Half a dozen major merchants — Fat Brain Toys, E.l.f., Topdrawer, Schmidt Brothers Cutlery, Swingline Staplers and The Honest Kitchen — share strategies on communicating their tariff woes and price increases. The 2025 tariff headlines have kept retailers and shoppers alike on their toes, with taxes on imports going from high to higher, to paused, […]
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: McD’s Bot Problems, Newsletter Bonanza, Office GIF-tionary
This week’s PR Roundup looks at the HR AI crisis for McDonald’s hiring methods, Morning Consult’s latest study on newsletter consumption and subscriptions and a new GIF-tionary for office slang.
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Loyalty Marketing
How Foot Locker’s Marketing Tactics Boost Loyalty and Long-term Growth
A few years ago, Foot Locker’s loyalty program had low customer penetration. Today, 50% of the company’s sales are from loyalty program members, up from just 20% one year before. Here’s how the brand made it happen.
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Branding/Marketing
From Box Scores to Brand Love: How to Turn Sports Data Into Storytelling
On social media, statistics might inform, but storytelling creates connection. Smart communicators don’t stop at the data; they use it as a springboard to craft narratives that resonate, inspire and build brand affinity. Here’s how to approach it.
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Research
Study: Enterprise B2B Marketers Focusing More on Financial Metrics and Efficiency
Enterprise B2B marketers are now emphasizing revenue-focused KPIs over vanity metrics such as clickthrough rates and lead volume, according to a study from B2B marketing specialist 2X and management consultancy Avasant.
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