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Real Simple’s Latest Magazine Is Shoppable, Thanks to Pinterest

Adweek

Lifestyle publisher Real Simple partnered with social platform Pinterest on Wednesday to produce a shoppable print magazine, part of a broader push from both parties to shorten the distance between the inspiration and transaction phases of the consumer journey. Real Simple, a Dotdash Meredith property that offers readers home furnishing tips and recipes, introduced the.

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Putting Ads Without Third-Party Cookies To The Test: A Roadmap To Advertising Durability

AdExchanger

Remember that car you had in college? You took it everywhere and used it for everything. You loved it. Sadly, you eventually outgrew it. You needed more room, some basic safety features, and it had a faulty transmission that wasn’t worth replacing. Our industry is facing a similar reality now. We’ve outgrown cookies. Despite the […] The post Putting Ads Without Third-Party Cookies To The Test: A Roadmap To Advertising Durability appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Google Rolls Out SGE, Here’s How Publishers Are Responding

Adweek

Google's AI-powered search tool, formerly Search Generative Experience (SGE), is now available widely in the U.S., with a global rollout following soon, Google boss Sundar Pichai said at Google's I/O conference held in Mountain View, California, yesterday. That's not great news for publishers, who have seen a substantial decline of up to 60% in organic.

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The marketing ROI problem has its roots in marketing culture

Martech

Why is putting a figure on marketing ROI still a problem? While advances in marketing analytics and technology have been made, a significant portion of businesses still report facing difficulties in calculating ROI. In the fall 2023 CMO survey , CMOs report Increased pressure from the CFO to properly report and improve marketing ROI. The problem of marketing ROI is simple, but it’s difficult to solve.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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The unwarranted smile

Seth Godin

When we do something nice for someone, a ‘thank you’ and a smile is nice to receive. And, in many parts of human culture, it’s a bit expected. But when something goes wrong, if we drop a plate or miss a turn or make someone late, it’s particularly delightful and memorable if we are greeted warmly instead of stomped on. The moments when it’s the most difficult to be kind are the moments where it matters the most.

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Shadier Than Forbes? Premium Publishers Are Partnering With Content Farms To Make A Quick Programmatic Buck

AdExchanger

“Uncovering Earth’s Secrets: A Journey Into Its Deepest Hole” That’s the title of a made-for-arbitrage (MFA) article about a failed Soviet-era scientific expedition to drill a hole tens of thousands of feet into the Earth’s crust. But it could easily double as a headline for the latest ad tech exposé. The story referenced above appears […] The post Shadier Than Forbes?

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YouTube Pitches Massive TV Viewership, Ad Targeting at Upfront

Adweek

YouTube asserted its dominance as a video platform that transcends traditional television at its upfront event from Lincoln Center today, boasting billions of viewers and achieving highly relevant ads for its brand partners. "We're redefining what TV looks like, helping creators reach new heights and using AI to expand creativity," said Neal Mohan, CEO, YouTube.

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Martech spending falls to lowest level in 10 years

Martech

Marketing technology spending fell this year, reaching its lowest level in a decade, according to a new Gartner report. Martech is now getting 23.8% of the marketing budget, down from about 25.4% in 2023, according to Gartner’s 2024 CMO Spend Survey. Spending also fell for staff and agencies, while paid media grew. It went from 25.6% last year to 27.9% in 2024.

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Uncommon delivers uncommonly clever Out of Home mould-breaker for The Ordinary

More About Advertising

Uncommon Creative Studio is good at grabbing headlines, in some cases it’s pretty good at rewriting what you can do with a medium too. For years the driving force of Out of Home advertising has been digital (much like most other media) with 3D installations leading the way. Old paper-and-paste (although it probably isn’t nowadays) … The post Uncommon delivers uncommonly clever Out of Home mould-breaker for The Ordinary first appeared on More About Advertising.

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BuzzFeed Still Sees AI As The Savior Of Its Slumping Ad Business

AdExchanger

BuzzFeed took another lap around its AI-related talking points as its advertising business took another lap around the drain. The digital publishing company’s revenue has steadily declined since it went public at the end of 2021, which continued in its Q1 earnings report on Monday. Ad revenue dropped 22% YOY to $21.4 million. Content revenue […] The post BuzzFeed Still Sees AI As The Savior Of Its Slumping Ad Business appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Retail media advertising: How e-commerce is becoming AdTech’s next frontier

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Performance Media Success: Delivering The Best Outcomes At The Most Efficient Spend

Digital Remedy

How Does Performance Marketing Work? In today’s ever-evolving media optimization landscape, the marketer’s ability to combine brand marketing efforts with performance metrics becomes crucial. Performance marketing focuses on transparent and true outcomes with measurable results, setting it apart from traditional advertising methods. Performance marketing works to leverage the power of measurement and insights across multi-channel campaigns to deliver deeper marketing insights that can help adver

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Politico Gets Access to More Reader Data, Launching Its First Consumer Registration Wall

Adweek

The politics publisher Politico began the rollout of its first consumer registration wall on Wednesday, the first step in a larger strategy from the Axel Springer property to gather more information about readers. The registration wall will initially let readers access up to 10 articles before asking them to share basic information--their email, employer and.

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AI in contextual advertising: Beyond the basics

Martech

While Google’s announcement to pump the brakes again on deprecating third-party cookies isn’t exactly a surprise, it’s also not a license for marketers to take their foot off the gas of testing alternative ways to serve relevant ads without cookies. Much of that focus is around testing all the alternative IDs that have flooded the market. However, more and more forward-thinking marketers are also reallocating some of their budgets to AI-driven contextual advertising that is proving to pack a pow

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VIOOH Listed One of the Best Places to Work 2024 by The Sunday Times

Exchange Wire

VIOOH, the leading premium global digital out-of-home (DOOH) supply-side platform, announced it has again been recognised by The Sunday Times as one of the best Best Places to Work in the UK, for the second year in a row. VIOOH has [.] The post VIOOH Listed One of the Best Places to Work 2024 by The Sunday Times appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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TripleLift Extends The Amazon RMN; Do Media Brands Ever Die?

AdExchanger

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Amazon’s Personal REC TripleLift is the first ad tech vendor to partner with Amazon’s Responsive Ecommerce Creative campaigns, Business Insider reports. The real difference with this product is that information and imagery about the product is pulled live by API. It turns product […] The post TripleLift Extends The Amazon RMN; Do Media Brands Ever Die?

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Advertising roundup: iPad Pro ‘Crush’ controversy and other creative ads: May 12, 2024

Bhatnaturally

Last week, both the advertising & tech portals discussed the controversy over the ‘Crush’ ad for iPad Pro. There were few other notable ads (I attempt a weekly compilation as seen in the archives) including Huggies, Volkswagen and Vadilal. Savlon: your hands are not yours A good test of an audio-visual ad’s idea being crystal [.

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Unlocking growth: The power of user communities for B2B SaaS companies

Martech

Building and nurturing an active user community can be a game-changer for B2B SaaS companies looking to drive sustainable growth. Implementing a user community strategy offers myriad benefits, supported by industry data and real-world examples from companies like Gainsight, HubSpot and Rocketlane. Understanding user communities About six years ago, I led a global team at a B2B SaaS startup company.

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The best Mother’s Day ads of 2024

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Mother’s Day is a fantastic opportunity to share our appreciation with the moms and mother figures in our lives, but it is also prime time to see some great ads. The annual maternal celebration took place on Sunday, May 12 this year. In addition to showering moms everywhere with flowers and cards, advertisers jumped at the chance to share their perspectives on the importance of motherhood.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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Adalytics Claims Colossus SSP Is Injecting Fake IDs into Its Bid Requests

AdExchanger

Call it another colossal error in the long history of ad tech spoofing. Colossus SSP, a DEI-focused supply-side platform owned by Direct Digital Holdings (DDH), is the subject of Adalytics’ latest report released Friday. Through matching data logs and the Chrome developer toolkit, it documented the SSP repeatedly misrepresenting IDs in openRTB fields.

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Complaints are a gift

Seth Godin

It’s easy to see a complaint as simple whining, the narcissistic impatience of someone who has enough insulation from the real world that they can share their dissatisfaction over just about anything. But a complaint unheard gives us no way to improve. In our current medical system, doctors can seek to minimize complaints, to explain them away with a negative test or a shrug of the shoulders.

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e.l.f. Beauty Calls for Diversity in Boardrooms With ‘So Many Dicks’ Campaign

Adweek

A striking fact lays bare inequities in corporate leadership: There are more men named "Dick" on public company boards in the U.S. than women or diverse groups. "So Many Dicks," the wryly named campaign from e.l.f. Beauty, uncovers this unsettling truth to underscore the need for more diversity in seats of power. Starting Monday and.

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The advertising industry “has stalled” as it faces a cookieless future

Martech

Quantcast is a global digital advertising, audience insights and measurement platform. Understandably, it has been following the Google Privacy Sandbox saga with close attention. We sat down with their U.K.-based CMO Amit Kotecha in their New York office for a conversation about recent developments, including the latest delay in cookie deprecation and the new report from the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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Publishers Fear Ad Revenue Slide with First-Party Cookies Under Threat

VideoWeek

In the years since Google first announced its decision to remove third-party cookies from its Chrome browser, one consistent refrain spoken at conferences and written in think pieces is that publishers should invest in first-party data. More specifically, they should make sure they’re equipped to collect data on their audiences, preferably down to the level of an individual, and make sure that data is organised in a way which is useful for advertisers.

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Invention or discovery?

Seth Godin

We can agree that Isaac Newton didn’t invent gravity. It was here all along, but he gets some credit for naming it and describing it. And Columbus definitely didn’t discover North America. There had been people living here for tens of thousands of years before he arrived. After Niels Bohr began describing quantum mechanics, the atomic bomb became inevitable.

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Longtime Condé Nast Chief Revenue Officer Steps Down

Adweek

Conde Nast chief revenue officer Pamela Drucker Mann announced her departure from the media company this morning, according to an internal memo shared by the company. Mann, who joined Conde Nast as the sales director for beauty at Jane magazine in 2005, has served as the media company's chief revenue officer since 2019. She is.

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Google rolls out AI Overviews for more complex searches

Martech

Google is rolling out its AI Overviews search to U.S.-based users of Google Search in the coming week. This was just one of several significant developments announced by the company at Google I/O yesterday. What are AI Overviews? AI Overviews give answers to queries using generative AI technology powered by Google Gemini. It provides a few snippets of an answer based on its understanding of queries and the content it found on the topic across the web.

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Solving the Biggest Tech Challenges in RevOps

In this eBook, we’ll run through real-world examples that show how RevOps teams can benefit from modern solutions for the access, management, and activation of their GTM data. Whether you need to improve lead response times, boost adoption of core tools, improve lead qualification, or target and automate your GTM motions, you’ll find examples of how revenue teams are solving some of the toughest problems in modern business.

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UpFronts in Review: Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney and More

VideoWeek

Following the NewFronts which wrapped up just over a week ago, where publishers, social platforms and ad tech companies alike presented their new ad offerings to the market, this week we were firmly in broadcaster territory with the UpFronts. While some major broadcasters have moved away from the annual sales pitch, for most they’re still a cornerstone of the yearly calendar.

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Netflix Is Launching Its Own Ad Tech

AdExchanger

From its upfront stage, Netflix announced that its ad-supported plan now has 40 million monthly active users globally. It also shared plans to launch its own ad tech platform, plus new partnerships with more programmatic platforms and measurement vendors. The post Netflix Is Launching Its Own Ad Tech appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Innovating the Future of Marketing: A Conversation with Jay Friedman, CEO of Goodway Group

Ad Monsters

Discover how Goodway Group is pushing the boundaries of digital marketing with the launch of GRADIANT and G-Comm. CEO Jay Friedman shares the strategic vision, market needs, and future trends driving these innovative initiatives. Goodway Group, a leading name in digital marketing, has embarked on an exciting new chapter with the launch of two groundbreaking divisions: GRADIANT and G-Comm.

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You Can Now Talk to ChatGPT With OpenAI’s Real-Time Voice and Video Capabilities

Adweek

OpenAI announced its new flagship model GPT-4o (letter "o'" for "Omni"), boasting enhanced conversational abilities. This upgrade provides all ChatGPT users with faster, real-time voice and video interaction capabilities. The new chatbot, featuring multimodal capabilities spanning visual, audio and text interactions, allows people to use a phone's camera to allow the AI assistant to read.

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Drive GTM Efficiency with Tech Stack Consolidation

Consolidating your tech stack is an effective cost-saving measure that drives GTM efficiency and adds value to your enterprise. With a cohesive, integrated tech stack, your revenue teams can deliver an excellent customer experience that sets you up to win faster than your competitors.