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This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover Jargon Bars, smartphone-themed fashion shows and Il Fresco di Peroni.

This week, I’m ruminating on the word mirage. It is a useful term for the ongoing debate over if and when agentic shopping – as in, people assigning agents the latitude and payment info to make purchases on their behalf – will actually happen. Unlike “illusion,” say, or a term like “potential” or “promise,” the […]

Analysts have long been waiting in anticipation to see how the NFL’s next media rights deals will play out.

 By Stephen Upstone, CEO & Founder, LoopMe   Generative AI is rapidly changing how people find information online. As answer engines condense multi-step browsing journeys into direct responses, traditional discovery patterns have completely transformed. Approximately 60% of searches now end without a click onwards to a website, meaning that the open web model that long […]

Tom Kaneshige, Chief Content Officer at the CMO Council, explains why the strongest marketing results come from pairing machine intelligence with human judgment.

At POSSIBLE 2026 in Miami, the ad industry was over the hype around AI.  Industry experts got real about how agentic AI is actually changing advertising workflows today. And they called out the pie-in-the-sky use cases that could be longer-term possibilities for AI, but that aren’t currently – pardon the pun – possible. In conversations […]

The path to purchase hasn’t just shortened — it’s splintered. As AI fragments where consumer intent forms, retail media must reckon with what it’s actually good at. Molly Hjelm, CVP of RedVest Media at Ace Hardware, makes the case that the answer was there all along: influencing decisions at the moment they’re made. Why has […]

To make connect with new audiences, Performance Golf developed a beginner’s program, which launched in January and focuses on golf etiquette, terminology and basic techniques.

Boathouse’s Fifth Annual CEO Study showed that 71% of the 150 CEOs surveyed said their CMO put the interests of the company ahead of their own, up from 55% last year. However, a scant 15% of the CEOs gave their CMO’s performance an A grade, down from last year’s 24%.

How top leaders at The Home Depot, Cloudflare, Walmart, Coca-Cola, U.S. Bank and PepsiCo are approaching AI integration, implementation and adoption within their marketing organizations.