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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
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CMO Council
Five Structural Repairs for Marketing Organizations to Pass the AI Audit
AI has the power to operationalize and scale weaknesses within marketing organizations. So if marketing leaders want to plan intelligently, they’ll have to make a series of structural repairs. Here are five that separate marketing organizations that pass the AI audit from those that fail it.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: BAFTA Apology, Employees More Trusted than CEOs, Burger King Updates Whopper
From a crisis communications misstep on one of the entertainment industry’s biggest stages and new data showing employees now outpace CEOs in brand trust, to Burger King’s surprisingly human response to a decade of customer complaints, this week’s PR Roundup highlights the power—and pitfalls—of modern communications.
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B-to-B Events
What Each Generation Really Wants from B-to-B Events—And What the Data Says
With b-to-b audiences now comprising four generations of attendees (or five, depending on who you ask), conference organizers have their work cut out.