Trends
Chief Marketer Unveils 2026 Marketers of the Year
Chief Marketer’s Marketers of the Year honors an elite group of executives who are redefining what’s possible in modern marketing. These leaders aren’t reacting to change—they’re driving it.
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Tech & AI
Digital Trends Report: The Tech Set to Influence the Sports and Media Landscape
Sports marketing agency IMG has released its eighth annual Digital Trends Report, highlighting the technologies and innovations set to influence the sports and media landscape over the coming year. Ashley Shaner, IMG’s Vice President of Strategy & Operations for Digital, shares key insights.
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Research
Harris Poll: Marketers Must Combat Algorithmic Sameness and Appeal to a Lottery Mindset
According to Harris Poll research, marketers need to oppose the trend of “beigeification” created by repetitive, omnipresent digital media and social algorithms, and cater to a public that has adopted a lottery mindset.
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Marketers
WPP Raises Its Ad Growth Forecast Thanks To The AI Boom – But That Doesn’t Mean It Will Last
Thanks to mitigated tariff effects and the AI boom, WPP Media’s 2025 ad spend forecast has good news for marketers.
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Festivals & Fan Cons
BravoCon 2025’s Brand Partners Help Deliver the Ultimate Fan Experience
NBCUniversal brought back BravoCon this year after skipping the event in 2024, and it pulled up to the Caesars Forum in Las Vegas in a big way. Not only did the convention showcase Bravo’s most popular reality series across four jam-packed days of live events featuring more than 150 Bravolebrities but it also provided plenty […]
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Social Media & SEO
TikTok and AI Engagement Lift the Fastest Growing Brands in 2025
Morning Consult’s Fastest Growing Brands report sparks conversation in the communications and marketing industries. The findings point to major shifts in how consumers discover, trust and engage with brands.
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Shopper/Retail
Cyber Monday Takes the Cake for Biggest Online Shopping Day
U.S. consumers spend $14.25 billion online on Cyber Monday, a 7.1% year-over-year increase. Online Black Friday sales surge 9.1%.
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Marketers
New Social Media Platform Fizz Gives Brands A Crash Course In Marketing To College Students
The people who know how best to market to college students are other college students – and that’s doubly true on a social media platform whose entire user base is college students. Teddy Solomon and Ashton Cofer dropped out of Stanford to focus full time on Fizz, an (optionally) anonymous social media platform they co-founded in […]
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Influencer Marketing
Nate’s Honey Leans Into Lipton Tea Collab, Targeting Runners and Social Listening
While sales of honey grew nearly 6% over the past year, lack of awareness of its versatility and wellness benefits is preventing even more growth, according to Nate’s Honey’s top marketer. So it turned to collabs to get the word out.
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Trends
Broadridge Survey: Most Companies Miss the Customer Experience Mark
A new survey finds that 71% of consumers say that most of the companies they do business with need to improve their customer experience.
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Video Marketing
Volvo Focuses on Content and Connection with Its ‘Family Car’ Docuseries
When Volvo was deciding how to celebrate its 70th anniversary in the U.S. market, the brand marketing team homed in on the bond between Volvo owners and their cars with “The Family Car: An American Love Story” docuseries.