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The Creative Cases For and Against Jaguar’s Bold, Divisive Rebrand

Adweek

When you think of luxury, British-founded car marque Jaguar, what is the first image that springs to mind? Perhaps it's the brand's growling cat emblem. Maybe it's Ben Kingsley's starring role in its "Good to Be Bad" F-Type campaign. What about an Avant Garde-style film showcasing a diverse cohort of models in luminous outfits set.

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AI-powered martech releases and news: November 21

Martech

Proposed emblem for AI-Powered Robot Local #1 I, for one, welcome our new AI-powered robot union organizers: In China, an AI-powered robot autonomously convinced 12 showroom robots to “quit their jobs” and follow it. Surveillance footage from a Shanghai robotics showroom shows a small AI-driven robot, created by a Hangzhou manufacturer, talking with 12 larger showroom robots.

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Why Black Culture-Focused Tentpole Events Should Be on Your Brand’s Radar

Adweek

For years--especially in the last four--we've watched brands expand marketing efforts holistically and prioritize voices of color through organic and paid media placements. However, a continuously overlooked medium for major brands and advertisers is Black culture-focused tentpole events.

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Why ‘risk on marketing investment’ is the new ROMI

Martech

For years, marketers have championed ROMI — return on marketing investment — as a key measure of success. But for one Fortune 100 CEO, ROMI stands for something very different: risk on marketing investment. In a candid conversation, he shared why traditional metrics fail to address the critical uncertainties of marketing spend and how a shift in mindset is essential for navigating today’s volatile landscape.

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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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Rise New York & Partners Expands Globally With Acquisition of Spaces&Creatures

Adweek

Rise New York & Partners, an independent creative agency, has acquired Spaces&Creatures, an experiential studio. Renamed Artlab by Rise, the acquisition expands Rise's capabilities in creative technology and artistic innovation. Space&Creatures was formerly part of FlagCX, a company that was previously owned by IPG, and the new entity will move its operations to New York.

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Why ‘risk on marketing investment’ is the new ROI

Martech

For years, marketers have championed ROMI — return on marketing investment — as a key measure of success. But for one Fortune 100 CEO, ROMI stands for something very different: risk on marketing investment. In a candid conversation, he shared why traditional metrics fail to address the critical uncertainties of marketing spend and how a shift in mindset is essential for navigating today’s volatile landscape.

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Customer experience management in the age of agentic AI

Martech

“I am excited to introduce our next step in this journey,the Webex AI agent. This is in pilot right now, it will be available to our customers in an early calendar quarter in 2025. This AI agent brings together conversational intelligence and generative AI to deliver natural conversations with hyper-personalization.” Those words came from Cisco, the enterprise digital communications and technology company; specifically from Anurag Dhingra, SVP and GM of Cisco Collaboration.

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The Daily Beast Nearly Doubles Revenue, Has Higher Ambitions for Next Year

Adweek

The politics and pop culture publisher The Daily Beast increased its year-over-year revenue by 81% in the third quarter--the first profitable quarter in the 16-year history of the title. The results, reported last week in the public earnings of parent company IAC, are a welcome green shoot for Joanna Coles and Ben Sherwood, the media.

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Holiday shopping trends for 2024

illumin

Looking for the biggest holiday shopping trends for 2024? Advertisers in the US will invest over $350 billion this holiday season, bringing customers in-store for the most important retail period of the year. After 12 months of tight spending due to cost-of-living concerns, retailers and advertisers can enter the end-of-year sales season with hesitant optimism.

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Overnight Cable News Ratings for Nov. 15-18: CNN and MSNBC’s Lost Weekend

Adweek

Friday, Nov. 15 MSNBC triumphed over CNN among Adults 25-54 during primetime led by The ReidOut with Joy Reid as the most-watched show in that advertiser-coveted demo. But CNN still claimed bragging rights for the total day demo, seeing the most A25-54 viewers during the 5 p.m. hour of The Lead with Jake Tapper.

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

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Inside Mediaocean’s $500 Acquisition Of Innovid, With Bill Wise And Zvika Netter

AdExchanger

CEOs and founders often say things like “one plus one equals three” when they’re talking about the value of an opportunity or some synergistic move they’ve made. In the case of Mediaocean buying Innovid to merge it with Flashtalking in a deal worth $500 million, announced on Thursday, the math is more like “one plus […] The post Inside Mediaocean’s $500 Acquisition Of Innovid, With Bill Wise And Zvika Netter appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Adam Driver Reads 5-Star Amazon Reviews for New Holiday Campaign

Adweek

Funny reviews on Amazon have developed a cult following of sorts, and even spawned their own community on Reddit, so the ecommerce giant decided to hop on the bandwagon, with help from a two-time Academy Award-nominated actor. Adam Driver is narrating some of Amazon's "funniest and most iconic" five-star product reviews for the company's "5-Star.

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IAB Tech Lab Has New Guidance On ‘ID-Less’ Solutions And It Wants Your Feedback

AdExchanger

Forget cookieless. Now it’s time for ID-less solutions. No doubt you’ve heard someone drop that buzzword in a conversation recently. But what is an ID-less solution, exactly? As with many ad tech terms, the lack of a standard definition for ID-less solutions has created general confusion, said Shailley Singh, executive VP of product and chief […] The post IAB Tech Lab Has New Guidance On ‘ID-Less’ Solutions And It Wants Your Feedback appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Out of Home Advertising Had Another Record-Breaking Quarter

Adweek

Dollars spent advertising on posters, billboards, and other out-of-home (OOH) placements climbed to $2.04 billion between July and September, according to U.S. trade group the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA). The amount represents a 4.3% increase compared to the same time last year and an all-time high for the third quarter.

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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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Salesforce: AI will drive $61 billion in online Cyber Week sales

Martech

Cyber Week alone will see some $311 billion in spending worldwide, $75 billion in the U.S. and account for almost a quarter of holiday purchases. What’s more, AI is expected to play a big role in this year’s holiday spree, assisting in 19% of Cyber Week sales valued at $61 billion. Global online sales dipped slightly YoY in October, but rose 8% in the first week of November, indicating that activity is picking up for the holidays.

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Ford Unveils Docuseries Capturing a Global Adventure in Its Electric Vehicle

Adweek

Ford enlisted adventure YouTuber Lexie Limitless, the youngest person to visit every country in the world, to circumnavigate the globe in an electric Ford Explorer and chronicle the journey in a Prime Video docuseries. Charge Around the Globe, created by agency Wieden+Kennedy London, marks Ford's entry into the growing crowd of brands using entertainment as.

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Brands Aren’t Ready For Bluesky; Air Travel Got Data-Driven – And Terrible

AdExchanger

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bluesky Thinking The sky is blue, but money is green. Put another way, despite Bluesky’s growing popularity, brands aren’t quite ready to jump on the bandwagon, Adweek reports. Despite serving as a respite for waves of X-weary users after Elon Musk’s acquisition of […] The post Brands Aren’t Ready For Bluesky; Air Travel Got Data-Driven – And Terrible appeared first on AdExchanger.

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5 Gravity-Defying Wicked Marketing Collabs

Adweek

How much is Wicked's marketing budget? That was the million-dollar question on social media last week when an unverified photo of Paris's Arc de Triomphe seemingly lit up in green and pink to mark the movie's release appeared on X. Though the marketing spend for Universal Pictures' flick hasn't been disclosed publicly, its extensive range.

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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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If You’re Not Getting Something Out Of It, Your Customers Get Less Out Of You …

Rob Campbell

One of the things I’ve always rallied against is the view the advertising industry is in the ‘service industry’ Sure, our job is to service our clients need to grow or evolve or deepen their relationships with customers and/or society at large – but that doesn’t mean our job is simply to do whatever our clients want. In fact, what clients want is the last thing we should be doing – it should always be focused on what they need – but nothing highlights ho

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Max Launches New AI-Powered Shoppable Ads Ahead of Black Friday

Adweek

Warner Bros. Discovery is looking to Max-imize its shoppable ads with new AI-powered formats. Ahead of Black Friday, Warner Bros. Discovery Advertising Sales is announcing two new ad solutions for shoppable, including Moments and Shop with Max, which work in unison to create a more seamless ad experience. According to the company, the new formats.

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Zeta stock rebounds after detailed report rebuttal

Martech

Zeta Global’s stock price jumped 15% yesterday as the company issued a detailed rebuttal to a report critical of its financial practices. Shares closed at $25.4 Wednesday after opening at $22. Last week, short-seller Culper Research issued a report alleging the AI marketing cloud company “formed ‘two-way’ contracts with third-party consent farms wherein the Company simultaneously acts as both a supplier and a buyer of consumer data, not only allowing the Company to flatter reported revenue growt

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Legendary Anchor Chuck Scarborough to Retire from WNBC After More Than 50 years

Adweek

WNBC anchor Chuck Scarborough has "announced his intention to 'relinquish the anchor chair' after more than a half-century at NBC 4 New York. Scarborough will conclude his record-setting run as the New York City DMA's longest-serving local television news anchor on Thursday, December 12 at 6 PM. Calling his plans "retirement with an asterisk," Scarborough.

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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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Will The Trade Desk’s CTV OS Gambit Pay Off?

VideoWeek

While it wasn’t unexpected, The Trade Desk’s announcement yesterday that it is launching its own CTV operating system called ‘Ventura’ certainly raised some eyebrows. For a start, while there are obvious tie-ins with programmatic advertising (since smart TV operating systems have privileged access to CTV impressions and valuable viewership data), it’s still a fairly radical departure from The Trade Desk’s core business.

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How The DOJ’s Remedies for Google’s Search Case Will Impact the Ad Industry

Adweek

Separating Google from its popular browser Chrome--it should go without saying--will have repercussions on the ad industry. The Department of Justice requested a federal judge order Google to sell off Chrome, following the antitrust trial where the judge ruled that Google violated antitrust laws by maintaining an illegal monopoly with its search engine.

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Nike’s fond retirement farewell to Rafa Nadal

More About Advertising

Nike has paid a fitting tribute to Rafa Nadal on his retirement from tennis, featuring a V/O from founder Phil Knight, no less. There’s a kind of valedictory air to this in more ways than one: Knight, of course, is no longer CEO (replacing the founder has been no easier for Nike than it was … The post Nike’s fond retirement farewell to Rafa Nadal first appeared on More About Advertising.

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EXCLUSIVE: Geico CMO Damon Burrell To Step Down After Nearly 3 Years

Adweek

Geico CMO Damon Burrell is stepping down after nearly three years as the insurance giant's top marketer. In a memo obtained by ADWEEK, Geico CEO Todd Combs lauded Damon for leading Geico's marketing organization through big changes. "Damon will be with us until January and the search for a successor has already begun," Combs wrote.

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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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IKEA and Mother top UK Effie awards

More About Advertising

IKEA and agency Mother have won the Grand Effie at the 2024 Effie Awards UK for most effective marketing campaign. Its long-running ‘the wonderful everyday’ campaign also won a gold. Other golds went to McCain (which also won the IPA’s Ad Effectiveness competition), McDonald’s, Ford, Specsavers and Tesco Mobile. P&O Ferries, Tourism Australia, Very, Three … The post IKEA and Mother top UK Effie awards first appeared on More About Advertising.

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Tools of the Trade: Evan Schultz from Le Truc

Adweek

Tools of the Trade is an AgencySpy feature to help highlight the many tools that help make advertising and marketing folks successful. The tools can be anything that helps people perform at their top form, from a favorite drafting table to the best software program to a lucky pen, a vintage typewriter or a pair.

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Mediaocean Acquires Innovid, Plans to Merge it with Flashtalking

VideoWeek

Ad tech business Mediaocean today announced it has agreed a deal to acquire Innovid, a specialist in converged TV advertising, for $500 million. Mediaocean says it will merge Innovid with Flashtalking, the ad server it bought back in 2021, also for $500 million. Mediaocean says the combined organisation “will provide a broad array of complementary offerings, including ad delivery, creative personalization, measurement, and optimisation across channels, including digital, social, CTV, and l

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Inside Gap’s Blueprint for Reaching Gen Z With Creators and Nostalgia

Adweek

Gap is trying to stay relevant with Gen Z. In May, Fabiola Torres was hired as Gap's first global CMO in two years. She's a former Pepsi marketing exec tasked with turning around Gap's sales and re-establishing the strong tie to culture that Gap had in the '90s. Much of the marketing strategy focuses on.

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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.