Search Results for: research
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B-to-C Events
Five Ways to Turn Pinterest’s Trends Data into an Event Strategy
Over the last six years, the Pinterest Predicts annual trends report has had an 88-percent accuracy rate, making it less of a forecast and more of a blueprint for what’s to come
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Target Targets Families, White House Reframes Deportation, AI and CEO Trust
From Target’s bid to win back skeptical shoppers, to the White House’s quiet attempt to reframe one of its signature policies, to what actually builds credibility in the AI era—this week offered a masterclass in how brands and institutions communicate under pressure.
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AI
How Realtor.com Is Using AI Creative To Expand Its Ad Footprint
Realtor.com is working with AI marketing startup BrandComms.AI to generate ad creative more quickly and across a wider array of channels.
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Marketers
How Molson Coors Keeps Creative Effectiveness On Tap
For Molson Coors, creative effectiveness is about more than just generating buzz; ad creative needs to boost sales and improve brand health. Who cares how funny or award-winning a piece of creative is if it’s not helping sell beer, said Sofia Colucci, North America CMO of Molson Coors, speaking at the Marketecture Live event in […]
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Branding/Marketing
Why the Startup Label Is Losing Its Meaning (And What to Say Instead)
Today the startup label appears everywhere: a two-person consultancy calls itself a startup; a local retail brand with an online store adopts the label; a profitable, bootstrapped business with no ambition to scale beyond a niche still uses the term.
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AI
AI-Driven Software Startup Mega Raises $11.5 Million In Funding To Help SMBs Drive Sales
Mega’s software tools aim to take some of the work out of the user’s hands by automating brand’s strategy development, execution and reporting.
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Data-Driven Thinking
The Privacy ‘Zealots’ Were Right: Ad Tech’s Infrastructure Was Always A Risk
I’ve been saying for years that addressable advertising was a strategic mistake. Not because targeting shouldn’t exist, but because building an ecosystem dependent on granular identity, location trails and behavioral signals was always going to create exposure we couldn’t fully control. And if we’re being honest, the precision targeting story was oversold anyway. The industry […]
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Programming
Nexstar-Tegna and the Path to Get There
Nexstar has been far from quiet over the past few years, banging on the drum of deregulation and consolidation as the regulatory landscape looks as favorable as ever for the broadcast giant to accomplish both.
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Corporate Social Responsibility
Anthropic Walked the Walk
The refusal of Anthropic to waiver under political pressure and compromise its AI safeguards can lead to improved employee morale, increased productivity, attracting and retaining talent, gaining news business and engendering trust.
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Corporate Social Responsibility
PR Roundup: Claude’s Crash Course, McDonald’s CEO Goes Viral and Why Sustainability Messaging Still Matters
PR Roundup covers Anthropic’s Claude buckling under the weight of its own viral moment, the McDonald’s CEO trying to sell America on a new burger, and a new conscious consumerism report quietly dismantles the narrative that sustainability is dead