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Cannabis Edibles Move From Kids’ Table to Honored Guest as Holiday Sales Bust Records

Adweek

Popular edibles brand Kiva Confections, in an "off the wall" experiment, launched a first-of-its-kind seasonal product back in 2019--a THC-spiked gravy to go with cannafans' Thanksgiving turkeys. The savory sauce not only lit up social media and the national press--late night's Stephen Colbert even did a segment--it sold out immediately. Granted, it was a limited.

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Sitting idle

The Ad Tech Blog

Engineers without anything to do is the worst nightmare for founders. I often found myself panicking because I did not know which task to assign to someone. Most managers will create busy work such as research, PoCs, and testing. There is nothing wrong with those tasks, but they are not a good sign if you create them because you don’t want your engineers to be idle.

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Outfront Media Takes Social, OOH Combo to Next Level With Revamped Prime Offering

Adweek

The math is simple for full-service out-of-home media company Outfront Media: Social plus out-of-home equals social out-of-home. Chief marketing officer Jodi Senese told Adweek the OOH sector has been undergoing a digital evolution over the past decade, adding, "A lot of the assets have turned digital, with live boards that look like giant iPads on.

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Nerf launches into NIL marketing, AI imaging with social content

Marketing Dive

Videos across social media will feature top college athletes in friendly competitions for the chance to douse someone with a Super Soaker.

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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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CMOs Aren’t Convinced Their Agency KPIs Stack Up

Adweek

In a landscape where CMOs are dealing with reverberations from the pandemic, a looming global recession and widespread geopolitical upheaval, it would be all too easy to let agency performance evaluations slide. However, according to the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), the practice is holding steady. Research from the global organization conducted in partnership with.

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Crown Royal’s digital collectible sends care packages to troops

Marketing Dive

Consumers can nominate someone they think is deserving of a digital crown through the end of the year.

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Amazon Launches New Clean Room Solution in Overhauled Ad Offering

VideoWeek

Amazon’s cloud computing division Amazon Web Services (AWS) has unveiled an overhauled ad offering, AWS for Advertising and Marketing, which brings together new and existing features geared towards advertising from AWS and a number of major partners. One of the stars of this new initiative is AWS Clean Rooms which, as the name suggests, is a new clean room solution designed to allow multiple different companies in the digital advertiser space match up their datasets in a privacy-safe manne

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Twitter Officially Introduces Twitter 2.0

Adweek

Twitter issued its first official communication since Elon Musk's takeover of the company in late October that didn't come from the Twitter account of "Chief Twit." When Musk issued his ultimatum to employees Nov. 15, forcing them to choose between committing to "long hours at high intensity" or leaving the company, he referred to Twitter.

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Channel99 will help marketers measure the performance of channels and vendors

Martech

Channel99 launches today with a free mobile app and the promise of a full platform offering in the New Year. It aims to provide technology that can measure not just the activity driven by marketing channels and the vendors that power them (i.e. LinkedIn and Facebook in the social media channel), but the impact that activity has on business outcomes.

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Audible Names Susan Jurevics as First Global Brand Chief in Push to Unlock ‘Next Level’ Growth

Adweek

With the audiobook market set to hit $35.05 billion by 2030 and a podcast explosion that simply won't quit, Amazon wants your ears. That's why the business has appointed Susan Jurevics to oversee global brand strategy for its listening platform Audible. Jurevics joined the company in 2019 to oversee its international business. She has spent.

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

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Webinar: Your winning CTV advertising strategy in 2023

Martech

Your B2B audience is full of avid TV watchers. In the days of linear television, it was nearly impossible (and very expensive) to target them accurately, which meant the TV screen was virtually off-limits for B2B marketers. Now, Connected TV has entered the scene, with digital roots and third-party data providers that allow for precision targeting of B2B audiences. .

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LinkedIn Details Updates for B-to-B Advertisers

Adweek

LinkedIn closed out November with a flurry of new advertising features and enhancements to pages on its platform. The professional network's new Group Identity option leverages its first-party data by grouping members based on shared professional traits such as company, industry or job title, letting business-to-business marketers measure, optimize and target without needing individual trackers.

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Salesforce winter 2023 release: The business executive’s guide

Martech

More than 150,000 companies are Salesforce customers. Salesforce’s share of the CRM market is about 25%. Few customers take advantage of the thrice-yearly release updates rolled out to every Salesforce user. I get it. Folks aren’t always paying attention to the releases because they’re focused on running their business, tending to the million things that come up each day.

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This Film Shows How Period Stigma Nearly Stopped the First Woman Soccer Referee

Adweek

Conversations around reproductive rights remain at the forefront of many industries and political agendas. However, one common experience--menstruation--still remains heavily stigmatized as many still face discrimination. In an effort to reinforce the importance of fighting gender biases, Kimberly-Clark brands Kotex and Brazil's Intimus launched a short film following the story of the first Brazilian woman.

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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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Shutterstock Is Embracing – And Grappling With – The Ethical Conundrum Of AI Art

AdExchanger

An interview withChris “Skip” WilsonVP, Brand MarketingAI-generated art can be weird, beautiful, remarkably on point, hilariously off the mark and, at times, oddly terrifying. It lives comfortably in the uncanny. Continue reading » The post Shutterstock Is Embracing – And Grappling With – The Ethical Conundrum Of AI Art appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Spotify’s 2022 ‘Wrapped’ Curates Listeners’ Personality Through Their Favorite Tunes

Adweek

Audio streaming platform Spotify unveiled this year's Spotify Wrapped Wednesday, and it is highlighting Latin artist Bad Bunny as this year's most streamed artist globally on the platform through a video campaign. It's Bad Bunny's third consecutive year as the most-streamed artist globally, marking the first time any artist accomplished this on Spotify.

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Keurig Dr Pepper Ticks Off Agencies; Is TikTok More TV Than Social Media?

AdExchanger

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Ailment Is Worse Than The Keurig Keurig Dr Pepper sparked a rare joint agency outcry regarding an RFP. Continue reading » The post Keurig Dr Pepper Ticks Off Agencies; Is TikTok More TV Than Social Media? appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Acast Launches Self-Serve Platform to Get Brands of All Budgets Running Podcast Ads

Adweek

Podcast platform Acast has made its self-serve ad platform widely available to all advertisers, including those running campaigns as low as $250, ahead of an uncertain economic climate. The tool has been running for two months, available for just 100 of Acast's ad customers, and is already seeing early signs of success. The tool lets.

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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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Thanksgiving Shopping Numbers Were Huge – But Did Retailers Benefit?

AdExchanger

The Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday online shopping bonanza was in full effect this year. But it’s hard to make judgements about whether this season is helping buoy retailers and brands. Continue reading » The post Thanksgiving Shopping Numbers Were Huge – But Did Retailers Benefit? appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Instagram Begins Testing Sharing to Reels Via Third-Party Apps

Adweek

Instagram began running a limited alpha-test in which creators can share video content directly to Reels from select third-party integrated applications, enabling them to use the tools they are comfortable with minus interruptions to their workflow. The platform said it began the test with a small group of developers that focus on video creation and.

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Coke names new marketing lead for North America amid strategy shift

Marketing Dive

The appointment is one of several leadership changes taking effect in January as the company tries to reduce complexity and improve speed.

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Mother Expands to Berlin and Hires Droga5’s Alexander Nowak as Leader

Adweek

Creative agency Mother is expanding to mainland Europe for the first time by opening in Berlin. Alexander Nowak, Droga5's former global head of art, will lead Mother's Berlin business as chief creative officer and creative partner. The move reunites Nowak with his former creative partner Felix Richter, who joined Mother earlier this year as global.

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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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Instacart Announces New Advertising Solutions to Deliver More Value and Savings to Consumers

Martech Series

-New Suite of Coupons and Promotions Will Help Consumers Save from 5,500+ Brand Partners on Instacart. -Athletic Brewing, General Mills, Sola Company and Halo Top Among First Brands Leveraging New Instacart Ads Promotions Offering. Instacart , the leading grocery technology company in North America, announced Instacart Promotions, a new suite of advertising solutions for brand partners to deliver more value and savings to consumers as they shop across the Marketplace.

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Celebrities Are the Ticket to a Memorable Super Bowl Ad

Adweek

The Super Bowl has become a high stakes wager for brands looking to market during a premier sporting event. In exchange for Fox's 2023 asking price of $7 million per 30-second slot, advertisers can hit an audience that averages more than 100 million people. Last year's Super Bowl drew an estimated 208 million viewers. With.

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Digiday Names Tiger Pistol “Best Social Marketing Platform” for the Third Time in Annual Technology Awards

Martech Series

Continuous innovation for companies that need localized campaign strategies at scale among top reasons for Tiger Pistol’s most recent win. Tiger Pistol , the leading collaborative advertising platform that delivers local activation at scale, received the 2022 Digiday Technology Award for Best Social Marketing Platform, marking the company’s third win of this prestigious industry award. “Our world-class team of social advertising and channel marketing experts has clearly created

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Twitter Quietly Discontinues Covid-19 Misinformation Policy

Adweek

Twitter's policy on misinformation related to Covid-19 is no more, as the company quietly updated a nearly two-year-old blog post with a terse, one-sentence statement and no explanation for the move. The social network said atop its updated blog post, "Effective Nov. 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the Covid-19 misleading information policy.

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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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LiveIntent Announces Identity Enrichment on Salesforce AppExchange, the World’s Leading Enterprise Cloud Marketplace

Martech Series

Customers can enjoy accurate and enriched CRM data via up-to-date, deterministically matched unified profiles to perform marketing in the Identity-driven Era. LiveIntent announced it has launched Identity Enrichment on Salesforce AppExchange, enabling brands to efficiently bridge their customer data deterministically to continuously authenticated licensed identity, demographic, and behavioral data from the LiveIntent Identity Graph.

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Ugg’s Feel House Evolves From PR Stunt to ‘Crucial’ Marketing Strategy

Adweek

If there's such thing as an emotional support brand, Ugg would fit the bill. The California-based brand--known for its shearling boots and cozy apparel--stepped up its comfort game with Ugg Feel House, a hybrid experiential and retail concept designed to cater to both a community of creatives and young, fashion-forward consumers unfamiliar with the brand's.

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iZooto Partners With Local Media Consortium To Help Local Newsrooms Kickstart Audience Marketing

Martech Series

The Local Media Consortium, a strategic alliance of local media publishers and iZooto, a publisher-first marketing automation platform, announced a strategic preferred partnership that will provide audience engagement and retention services to the LMC’s members. iZooto is a multi-channel platform enabling publisher growth via web push notifications, Messenger push notifications, app push notifications, onsite popups, and News Hub to help publishers build, engage, grow and monetize their readers

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Snap, New Balance Team Up on Holiday Gifting Concierge Lens

Adweek

New Balance tapped Snap Inc.'s augmented reality technology and voiceML speech recognition technology to recommend the right accessories, apparel and footwear as gifts for people Snapchatters perceive as Explorers, Homebodies, Runners or Style Seekers. The two companies combined on the Holiday Gifting Concierge lens, which will be available through Dec. 31, via Lens Carousel or.

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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.