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McDonald’s Made Scented Billboards That Smell Like Its French Fries

Adweek

A delicious smell can inspire cravings and lure passersby into a restaurant. McDonald's put that power to the test by deploying a series of billboards diffusing the scent of its bestselling french fries. Amsterdam-based agency TBWANeboko collaborated with Raul&Rigel, a production company specializing in fabricating unusual billboards, to produce a series of unbranded, blank red.

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Martech’s moment of truth: Why product excellence beats slick sales pitches

Martech

The beat drops, the lights flash and a charismatic salesperson struts across the stage, extolling the virtues of their latest martech solution. It’s a scene from a bygone era when companies could woo clients with flashy presentations and empty promises. But those days are over. Today’s consumers are digital detectives with a wealth of information at their fingertips.

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Creators and Strategists Say These Are the Social Trends to Watch

Adweek

The role of the social media manager is not a quiet one. New platforms, changing behaviors and fast-moving cultural trends make it a tumultuous landscape. At ADWEEK's Social Media Week event, experts discussed the future of Instagram, the use of X and brands' involvement with community-driven platforms. Brand strategist and culture writer Peyton Dix; author.

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SAP Emarsys launches AI Product Finder

Martech

Omnichannel customer engagement company Emarsys, which has been part of SAP since 2020, announced the launch of AI Product Finder, a new solution for product recommendations and personalized customer experiences. The move responds to consumer interest in AI for commerce, with Emarsys’ own data showing 64% of consumers believe AI has improved their commerce experiences.

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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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LinkedIn Makes Its Case for a Permanent Spot in Social Strategy

Adweek

Businesses know they need to be on LinkedIn to find employees and interact with other companies. But it hasn't necessarily been a pillar of brand strategy - creating an identity and finding prospective audiences can sometimes feel challenging if some consider posting on LinkedIn "cringe." Melanie English, director of social marketing at LinkedIn, said on.

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Shifting Screens: AMC’s Streaming Struggles and Ad Tech Evolution

Ad Monsters

As the streaming era changes TV consumption, AMC Networks adapts by focusing on high-quality content and innovative ad tech solutions. Streaming’s rise is drastically changing TV consumption, and cable companies are pivoting to join the revolution. But even the streaming era is birthing many new CTV challenges, and consumer concern over subscription cost is a major factor.

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Knotch’s New Content Platform Takes A ‘Less Is More’ Approach To AI

AdExchanger

Generative AI is going through its more-is-better phase. More ads! More content! More automation! More productivity! But pumping out content in bulk isn’t what marketers should be using AI for, said Anda Gansca, CEO and founder of Knotch, a platform that helps brands analyze their content based on performance tied to specific business objectives, usually […] The post Knotch’s New Content Platform Takes A ‘Less Is More’ Approach To AI appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Vicks and Crest Have Memorable Logos, While Duane Reade and Proactiv Struggle With Recall

Adweek

When Sponsorship Research International polled 7,000 consumers in 1995 to see how well they recognized brand logos, it found that the McDonald's logo trounced the Christian cross: 88% of consumers identified the golden arches, compared to 54% who could identify the religious symbol. In today's attention economy, the potency of logos is crucial, especially for.

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Launching GOODBIDS

Seth Godin

Over the next few days, I’m going to feature a new project we launched today. A small and mighty team has been working on this for a year. I want to share the highlights along with some of the critical design choices we made along the way Each year, charities in the US raise about a billion dollars a day from individuals. That money goes to great use–for the arts, for healthcare, for education, for countless projects that benefit our communities.

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Publishers Caught in the Crosshairs of Vendor MFA Tools

Adweek

"Some brands are blocking your website." A publisher received this news in February from one of its supply-side platforms, but neither the publisher nor the SSP knew why. After some digging, the block came from an adtech tool from DoubleVerify to help brands block made-for-advertising websites (MFA), a vogueish industry catch-all term for websites designed.

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

what retail media advertising is what a retail media network is how the changes in the privacy landscape benefit retail media networks how retail media network functions market overview of retail media networks

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AI experiment exposes sexism in football for Lay’s

More About Advertising

In Brazil, AlmapBBDO and PepsiCo’s Lay’s used AI to make sports journalist Elaine Trevisan sound like a man when she was commentating on a football match. As a result, she got a lot more respect on social media, and no comments suggesting she go back to the kitchen etc. No surprises there, but it’s always … The post AI experiment exposes sexism in football for Lay’s first appeared on More About Advertising.

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How Do These Awful People Sleep at Night? On Mattress Firm Beds

Adweek

More than 50 million Americans have chronic sleep disorders, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while as many as 84 million adults routinely miss out on the recommended amount of shut-eye. But the folks who star in the new Mattress Firm campaign are not among that crowd. In fact, they sleep like.

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Sharing Isn’t Always Caring; Will Apple Pass The Private Relay Baton?

AdExchanger

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Broker A Peace Data broker Adstra is suing IPG-owned businesses Acxiom and Kinesso for allegedly stealing trade secrets and sharing its data between them while launching a competitive product, Digiday reports. Adstra was originally founded as the American List Counsel way back in […] The post Sharing Isn’t Always Caring; Will Apple Pass The Private Relay Baton?

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How LTK Powers Seamless (and Lucrative) Deals for Creators and Brands

Adweek

Younger consumers put a lot of stock in the opinions of their favorite influencers. That's become increasingly evident in the era of social commerce, with 73% of Gen Z consumers and 68% of millennials saying they look to creators to inform their purchase decisions, according to a study by Northwestern University and commissioned by LTK.

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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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MarTech’s CRM experts to follow

Martech

Martech is marketing and CRM is arguably the original martech. It changed everything. Because it is so useful, CRM is constantly evolving to meet the newest challenges and customer behaviors. How do you keep up with all those changes? How do you learn the optimal strategies? By following the best in the business. So here, in alphabetical order, are MarTech’s CRM experts to follow.

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BravoCon Officially Out for 2024, Returning in 2025

Adweek

Bravoholics, you might want to sit down. Top line NBCUniversal confirmed today that BravoCon is out for 2024, with the event not returning until 2025. Instead of the annual fan convention, NBCU will host a series of Watch Party by Bravo events this year.

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Dove pledges not to use AI in communications, spurring marketers to think about AI and ‘brand ethos’

Digiday

As generative AI continues to evolve, marketers are faced with a choice: Does using the technology in marketing and advertising make sense for their brands? And if it does, then how do they go about doing so? Using AI in that way doesn’t make sense for all marketers, of course, which is why it’s not surprising to see Dove come out this week with a statement that the beauty brand, known for its now 20-year-old Real Beauty campaign, does not plan on using the tech in its advertising.

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YouTube adds new shopping features to increase seller revenue

Martech

YouTube introduced four new updates for shopping creators, aimed at enhancing conversions, providing inspiration, and offering more choices. They are: Shopping Collections. The Affiliate Hub. Enhanced tagging. Fourthwall. Why we care. For YouTube Shopping creators and brands selling products on the platform, these new capabilities and features make it easier to promote your products and increase revenue from older content.

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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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Research Briefing: Publishers bank on their own first-party data amid Privacy Sandbox concerns

Digiday

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. In this week’s Digiday+ Research Briefing, we examine publishers’ reservations about Google’s Privacy Sandbox, how subscriptions aren’t the revenue driver they once were for publishers and how X is once again telling advertisers it’s serious about brand safety, as seen in recent data from Digiday+ Research.

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Marmite sneaks in to NYC with WhatsApp smuggling ring

More About Advertising

Will Marmite ever be one of the big global brands consumer goods giant Unilever wants to keep? Mega-ice cream brands Magnum and Ben and Jerry’s are currently under the hammer (Unilever has belatedly realised they’re seasonal, so a bit of a nuisance) so what hope is there for a condiment Brits either “love or hate?” … The post Marmite sneaks in to NYC with WhatsApp smuggling ring first appeared on More About Advertising.

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With Cookies On The Way Out, Publishers Need To Pick A Path Forward Soon

AdExchanger

The way we experience content will soon change. One morning in the near future, you’ll open your favorite mobile app or visit your favorite website and face a sign-up wall that didn’t exist before. Targeted advertising is under threat. The death of cookies on Chrome, and their Android equivalent – mobile advertising IDs – is inevitable, and […] The post With Cookies On The Way Out, Publishers Need To Pick A Path Forward Soon appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Interpublic Group duo sued in a case alleging ‘misappropriation’ of ID data

Digiday

Two entities within Madison Avenue giant Interpublic Group have been named defendants in a court case in which plaintiff Adstra alleges that Kinesso and Acxiom conspired to develop a competing identity-resolution product unfairly. The dispute centers around Acxiom and Kinesso’s alleged misconduct regarding a data licensing agreement and the misappropriation of Adstra’s trade secrets for unfair competition, citing multiple complaints over data licensing, including the unilateral alteration of agr

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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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Demanding certainty

Seth Godin

The defenders of the status quo often demand certainty when facing decisions about the future. It sets up the conditions for doing nothing, because certainty never happens until the future arrives. It’s much more useful to look at probabilities. Flipping a fair coin has a 50% chance of coming up heads. That’s a risky bet. On the other hand, there’s more than a 95% chance that the sea levels in Miami will be significantly higher in ten years.

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Media Briefing: Publishers’ audience authentication strategies are put to the test

Digiday

Incremental authentication Publishers are seeing how much more valuable authenticated audiences are compared to random passersby visiting their sites. But with authenticated users representing a minority of the traffic, publishers are under pressure to persuade more of their site visitors to submit their emails, which can be appended to third-party cookie-replacing deterministic IDs like The Trade Desk’s Unified ID 2.0 and LiveRamp’s RampID.

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Enhancing Transparency and Combatting Ad Fraud: Upgrade to Supply Chain Plus API

IAB Tech Lab

The IAB Tech Lab’s Supply Chain API has been a cornerstone for subscribers seeking accurate and up-to-date Ads.txt and App-ads.txt data for millions of domains, mobile apps, and CTV environments. In response to customer and member feedback, we are introducing the Supply Chain Plus API. The new service tier comes […] The post Enhancing Transparency and Combatting Ad Fraud: Upgrade to Supply Chain <strong>Plus</strong> API appeared first on.

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How a revamped Green Media Product hopes to solve ‘problematic placements’

Digiday

The marketing industry’s efforts to showcase its environmental wares will peak as Earth Day 2024 (April 22) draws ever closer, with ad tech players eager to demonstrate their efforts to minimize the sector’s carbon footprint. Ahead of this, Brian O’Kelley’s Scope3 unveiled GMP+, the latest iteration of its Green Media Product offering.

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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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WPP Signs Generative AI Deal with Google Cloud

VideoWeek

Agency holding group WPP has signed a deal with Google Cloud which will see Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro generative AI model integrated into WPP Open, the agency’s ‘operating system’ used across the company. The deal is part of WPP’s pledged annual investment of £250 million in AI, data, and technology. WPP’s chief technology officer Stephan Pretorius said the deal significantly upgrades the generative AI capabilities available to WPP and its clients, enabling it t

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Profiting From The Cliche …

Rob Campbell

Years ago I wrote a post about how Borat was deeply prejudiced and yet – because it was done for humour – it was totally fine to use the worst stereotypes to define and express a culture, heritage or community. Now of course that’s something comedians have hung onto for years. The ability to leave no subject on the table. To let humour challenge myopic beliefs and attitudes.

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5 strategies to enhance user ad experience: a guide for gaming publishers

Smaato

Reality check: gamers generally prefer minimal interruptions from ads while playing. However, with advancements in advertising and technologies, publishers can address this challenge and enhance the overall user experience for players — all while running ads. Understanding user demographics, preferences, and behavior means that we can tailor ad strategies to.

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Mother drags up in Berlin and is ‘Never still’ in Shanghai

More About Advertising

In the construction industry, the bias is barely even unconscious: it’s a place where men are men, and they earn 43% more than women. Mother Berlin is turning all this upside down for tradeswomen’s collective TaskHer. The “Trade Places” campaign features women dressed up as men to talk about their experiences in a bid to … The post Mother drags up in Berlin and is ‘Never still’ in Shanghai first appeared on More About Advertising.

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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.