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Publicis Conseil Wins 2025 Cannes Lions Agency of the Year

Adweek

Subscribe Sign In Cannes Lions Agencies Brands Creativity Media TV Commerce Tech Creators Cannes Lions Publicis Conseil Wins Cannes Lions Agency of the Year 2025 The French agency took home 18 Lions across campaigns for AXA, Renault, Orange, and more Publicis Conseil is widely regarded as the leading French agency. Publicis Conseil By Audrey Kemp --> Publicis Conseil has been named Agency of the Year at the 2025 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, marking the second consecutive ye

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And when it breaks?

Seth Godin

Most of the pitch and the demo is all about how terrific our plans are, and how well our gadget works. But if we hope for resilience, perhaps it makes sense to show off how gracefully the system breaks. Because it will break. Because plans won’t work out. Because we’ll be surprised. And then what happens?

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NBCU Advertising Adds Walmart Data to Its Live Sports Playbook

Adweek

Subscribe Sign In Cannes Lions Agencies Brands Creativity Media TV Commerce Tech Creators Cannes Lions NBCU Advertising Adds Walmart Data to Its Live Sports Playbook Walmart Connect and NBCUniversal expand partnership for better targeting and measurement in live sports NBCU and Walmart team up. NBCU, Walmart, ADWEEK Illustration By Bill Bradley --> Walmart is going to play a crucial role in NBCUniversal’s game plan for live sports.

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AI can’t create meaning — that’s still marketing’s job

Martech

Every day, we hear how AI is reshaping marketing. Need 100 social posts tomorrow? Done. Launch a campaign before lunch? No problem. Automation is accelerating everything — but speed alone isn’t a strategy. In 2025, 88% of digital marketers use AI in their daily workflow and the AI-in-marketing market is set to hit $27 billion this year. The broader AI industry?

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Confused by signals

Seth Godin

Even at a distance, we can sometimes tell if someone is educated, rich, powerful or physically attractive. But that doesn’t always correlate with smart, kind or honest. Strong signals might not be the same as useful ones.

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Magna latest to downgrade global ad spending forecast, expects $979B

Marketing Dive

Traditional advertising outlets are expected to see a 3% drop in revenue, reflecting ongoing economic uncertainty, while digital ad sales will increase.

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Lessons from letting AI vibe code a landing page

Martech

I’m no stranger to marketing strategy, messaging frameworks and the kind of narrative clarity that makes a landing page convert. The challenge comes when I send the copy to a developer. Without a UX designer in the middle, I have limited means to show the visualized page, leading to endless rounds of back-and-forth, meaning my creative momentum tends to hit a wall.

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TikTok pushes AI ads that look just like real creators

Marketing Tech News

Social media is crowded with people trying to sell you things. From fast fashion to supplements, influencers have turned casual videos into sales pitches. The business of promoting products online has grown quickly, and platforms are now looking for ways to make it even faster – without relying on real people. TikTok is expanding its. Read more » The post TikTok pushes AI ads that look just like real creators appeared first on Marketing Tech News.

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From Martech Cost Center to Marketing Value Driver: How the Right Metrics can save Martech Adoption?

Martech Series

Marketing technology (Martech) has become indispensable to modern corporate operations. Despite its importance, Martech is generally the first to be sacrificed when companies confront budgetary limitations. The fundamental reason for this is that many executives, particularly CFOs and board members, see Martech as a cost center—an essential but costly instrument that does not immediately contribute to actual revenue production.

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DDB Worldwide Crowned Cannes Lions Network of the Year for 2025

Adweek

Subscribe Sign In Cannes Lions Agencies Brands Creativity Media TV Commerce Tech Creators Cannes Lions DDB Worldwide Crowned Cannes Lions Network of the Year for 2025 Win follows four Grand Prix and two Regional Network awards for the group This is the second time DDB has secured the title, with its first win occurring in 2023 DDB Worldwide By Rebecca Stewart --> Omnicom’s DDB Worldwide has been named Cannes Lions Network of the Year, 2025.

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

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Study shows AI agents struggle with CRM and confidentiality

Martech

Large Language Model (LLM) agents aren’t very good at key parts of CRM, according to a study led by Salesforce AI scientist Kung-Hsiang Huang. The report showed AI agents had a roughly 58% success rate on single-step tasks that didn’t require follow-up actions or information. That dropped to 35% when a task required multiple steps. The agents were also notably bad at handling confidential information. “Agents demonstrate low confidentiality awareness, which, while improvable th

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But what do they say at the meeting?

Seth Godin

This is the way to understand business-to-business selling. After you’ve left with the purchase order, what does the buyer tell the boss? What does the boss tell the investors or the press? This helps decode why giant companies like Google or Facebook buy a company or don’t. It explains why McKinsey can charge 20 times as much for consulting as a former McKinsey consultant can.

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Sprite’s heat-activated digital billboards suggest a future spot for OOH in the media mix

Digiday

As more ad dollars become digital dollars, brands are changing how they use more traditional marketing methods. Marketers at Coca-Cola’s Sprite have been relying on digital out-of-home (DOOH) to cut through the summer heat, for example. Alongside paid social activations on Meta, as well as online video and digital display units, the brand is running digital out-of-home (DOOH) work triggered by rising local temperatures.

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Brands That Wait Now, Pay Later: Why Sitting Out During Uncertainty Is the Most Expensive Ad Strategy

Digital Remedy

When COVID-19 upended the world in early 2020, the ripple effects were swift and far-reaching across every industry, and advertising was no exception. Marketers found themselves in unfamiliar territory: facing rapid shifts in consumer behavior, media consumption, and spending priorities while trying to make the right decisions under extreme uncertainty.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Bad Bunny’s Love Letter to Puerto Rico Earns His Label a Cannes Lions Grand Prix

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Subscribe Sign In Cannes Lions Agencies Brands Creativity Media TV Commerce Tech Creators Cannes Lions Bad Bunny’s Love Letter to Puerto Rico Earns His Label a Cannes Lions Grand Prix Other Entertainment Grand Prix winners include Hyundai, Clash of Clans, and Mercado Livre DDB Latina Puerto Rico By Cydney Lee --> A scavenger hunt around Puerto Rico for Bad Bunny’s latest album earned Rimas Entertainment the Entertainment Grand Prix for music at Cannes Lions on Tuesday.

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7 vanity metrics marketers should avoid, and 7 to replace them

Martech

Marketers, and B2B marketers in particular, often face criticism for focusing on vanity metrics. Vanity metrics are numbers that are easily measurable and look good on paper but don’t directly correlate to business outcomes or provide actionable insights. Let’s take a closer look at seven common vanity metrics, why they’re considered weak and what you can use to replace them.

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Audio advertising: the ultimate guide

illumin

Digital audio advertising is a form of online advertising that involves the promotion of products or services through audio channels. Here’s your quick, handy guide to adding audio to your marketing mix. (UPDATED JUNE 2025) Before exploring programmatic audio advertising, it is essential to understand the foundational principles. Programmatic advertising has had a significant impact on the world of digital marketing over the past two decades.

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Snap’s AI play targets the advertisers tired of Meta and Google

Digiday

Snapchat is betting that AI-powered ad tech might finally help it shrink the distance between itself and the platforms that have long outpaced it. Last month, the mobile messaging app launched its first major iteration of an AI-powered suite of tools called Smart Campaign Solution — akin to Google’s Performance Max or Meta’s Advantage+ — to support advertisers, but particularly SMBs.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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A Smarter Rate Card, Prescribed by the Yield Doctor

Ad Monsters

If your idea of updating your rate card is just tweaking last quarter’s numbers, you could be overlooking major opportunities—or worse, making costly mistakes. James Deaker, aka “The Yield Doctor,” has the prescription for smarter pricing decisions. Produced in partnership with AdMonsters, this video guide is all about what publishers need to review before they even think about changing rates.

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Dove Wins Cannes Lions Media Grand Prix for Championing ‘Real Beauty’ in the Age of AI

Adweek

Subscribe Sign In Cannes Lions Agencies Brands Creativity Media TV Commerce Tech Creators Cannes Lions Dove Wins Cannes Lions Media Grand Prix for Championing Real Beauty in the Age of AI Elsewhere, Indian Railways snagged the PR Grand Prix, while Vaseline earned the Social & Creator Grand Prix. Dove By Cydney Lee --> Dove’s “Real Beauty” campaign, possibly more relevant than ever in the age of AI , earned it the Media Grand Prix at Cannes Lions on Wednesday.

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CFOs want hard numbers, not brand vibes

Martech

This article was co-authored by Rachel Smith , a Sr. Principal Analyst in the Gartner Marketing Practice, specializing in marketing data and analytics, marketing technology and marketing operations. Brand marketing is under the microscope. As CFOs demand harder evidence of impact, marketers must prove how brand investments drive real business results — or risk losing the budget to performance.

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MarTech Series’s Marketing Technology Highlights of The Week Featuring NiCE, Movable Ink, Adobe and more in martech!

Martech Series

Catch up on the latest in martech from Adobe’s new AI enhancements to Movable Ink’s new autonomous capabilities in this weekly martech highlight: _ Marketing and Marketing Tech Quote-of-the-Week! Brands looking to gain more traction in today’s ecosystem should keep one thing top of mind: quality. The quality of where the ads are appearing and the quality of the viewer.

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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Cannes Briefing: What the ad industry isn’t saying about AI

Digiday

To receive this daily Cannes briefing over email, please subscribe here. At Cannes, AI is the loudest topic no one wants to talk about publicly. Everyone has an opinion. Few want their names attached to it. That’s the thing about this year’s biggest theme. It’s not just AI itself that’s destabilizing the industry. It’s the quiet discomfort people have with how quickly it’s moving — and what that says about the work, the value chain and who gets to keep their seat at the table.

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How CTV Is Becoming a Performance Engine

PubMatic

As the digital advertising landscape evolves, connected TV (CTV) is no longer just for brand awareness. It’s rapidly becoming a performance driver. In today’s economic climate, where every marketing dollar is scrutinized and ROI is paramount, CTV stands out as a programmatic advertising channel that delivers measurable results and real business outcomes.

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YouTube’s Neal Mohan Fires Back at Netflix CEO’s “Killing Time” Dig

Adweek

Subscribe Sign In Cannes Lions Agencies Brands Creativity Media TV Commerce Tech Creators Cannes Lions YouTube’s Neal Mohan Fires Back at Netflix CEO’s “Killing Time” Dig Exec also says the platform will defend creators as AI becomes more prominent Kathryn Lundstrom By Kathryn Lundstrom --> YouTube has big streamers on the defense. During a panel discussion at ADWEEK House in Cannes, Ankler Media founder Janice Min asked YouTube CEO Neal Mohan to respond to recent comments made by Netflix CEO Te

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CMOs, CEOs and marketers are all struggling with martech data issues

Martech

Three major surveys released between Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 offer distinct yet complementary views on martech and organizational readiness: The CMO Survey (Duke University). MarTech’s State of Your Stack Survey. Gartner’s CEO and Senior Business Executive Survey. Despite differences in methodology and audience, a cross-analysis reveals troubling patterns in how organizations navigate technology transformation.

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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Relevancy Engines: The New Core of MarTech in the AI Age

Martech Series

In the ever-changing world of online marketing, the advantage goes to those that can relate to the audience on a personal level. The advent of artificial intelligence has fundamentally reshaped this dynamic, propelling relevancy to the forefront of every successful strategy. You see, in the vast ocean of online information, if your message isn’t relevant, it’s simply invisible.

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Why Broadcasters Must Open the Programmatic Pipes for New-to-TV Advertisers

VideoWeek

Broadcasters have long been “the trusted stewards of premium content”, writes Rajeev Goel, Co-Founder and CEO of PubMatic, but as eyeballs migrate to CTV and social video services, opening that premium video inventory to a broader spectrum of advertisers is essential. In this article, Goel makes the case for bringing in advertisers who have never bought traditional TV, and embracing the tech that keeps them in control while affording advertisers full transparency.

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WhatsApp advertising is officially happening

illumin

Meta is introducing ads to WhatsApp as part of its push for more revenue. How can WhatsApp advertising potentially impact its users? One of the world’s most popular messaging services, WhatsApp, is finally getting ads, marking its entry into direct ad revenue for the first time since Meta acquired them in 2014. Announced at Cannes Lions 2025 , the native ads will appear exclusively in the Status section of the Updates tab of WhatsApp, a format similar to Instagram Stories , where users share ph

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Telstra’s Cinematic Spot Wins Cannes Lions Film Craft Grand Prix

Adweek

Subscribe Sign In Cannes Lions Agencies Brands Creativity Media TV Commerce Tech Creators Cannes Lions Telstra’s Cinematic Spot Wins Cannes Lions Film Craft Grand Prix Telstra took top honors in Film Craft, while AMPAS and Idomed earned Grand Prix wins for digital accessibility and striking visual design By Audrey Kemp --> Australian telecom brand Telstra took home the Grand Prix in Film Craft for its emotional and visually stunning ad, “Better on a Better Network.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.