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By Charlie Swift, General Manager, Adstra Services Most lead generation strategies are built on a flawed premise — that the path to better performance is a smaller, cleaner, more refined audience. Marketers layer on criteria, tighten parameters, and chase the “perfect” prospect. Every time they do, the pool shrinks. Cost per lead goes up, volume […]

We used to have a saying at the first agency I worked for: “Money flows to new.”  Back then, “new” meant things like QR codes, mobile video and social media. Then, tech really took off and programmatic advertising, augmented reality and data-driven insights became the new “new.” AI was also a thing, but it wasn’t […]

The latest industry benchmarks grounded in marketer and consumer data—clarifying how channel choices, investment shifts, and behavior trends will shape ROI in 2026. The 2026 Direct Mail Marketing Benchmark Report presents a comprehensive, data‑driven analysis of the current marketing landscape, based on national studies of 500 U.S. marketers and 600 U.S. consumers. The findings reveal […]

What has four wheels and a tech stack so savvy it can geo-target customers, prove performance in real time and deliver a 45 percent boost in retail foot traffic? We’re talking LED billboard trucks, those small but mighty screens on wheels you couldn’t miss if you tried — and that’s exactly the idea.

A new marketing intelligence platform helps brands like nutpods address fragmentation by unifying data and inventory across the digital ecosystem.

Banana Ball’s handling of one recent story holds just as many lessons about the value of restraint and discipline in communicating through a crisis.

Ad agencies have an overwhelming amount of buying tools to choose from. And they’re increasingly relying on AI to focus just on what will help them meet their clients’ needs. Between general-purpose and specialized DSPs, social platforms, CTV environments and direct publisher deals, agencies have to stitch campaigns together across a variety of fragmented systems. […]

Peanut, the social networking app for moms, collected 11,000 signatures to add the word matrescence to the dictionary after an out-of-home campaign.

I’m pretty sure I’ve missed the window on becoming a Crumbl fan — but I can still appreciate the “pretty pictures of cookies” on their CTV ads.

It’s been a week where a stolen truck full of KitKats became a brand-response masterclass, United Airlines turned government dysfunction into a customer feature, and Muck Rack dropped the data every PR pro needs to bookmark.