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Meta’s AI-fueled Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns Underwhelm Marketers

Adweek

Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns (ASC) have been among Meta's most high-profile ad product launches in the last year, but some marketers are finding the results lacking. The tool--which lets artificial intelligence, instead of the marketer, choose which audiences to serve an ad--has helped the company regain some of its mojo with buyers who had diverted spend.

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A marketer’s guide to AI: Working with text generators

Martech

( This is the second in a series about how generative AI is impacting marketing. The first part is The rise of generative AI.) Despite the proliferation of visual content, words and text are still the mainstay of digital marketing. Without words to provide context, our images and videos wouldn’t have the meaning we all so desperately crave. Our content often revolves around words — from calls-to-action to product descriptions to social posts — marketers rely on language to tell a story.

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Lego’s Latest ‘Find Your Flow’ Campaign Aims to Help Adults De-Stress

Adweek

Lego is not just a toy company that attracts construction-minded children--it's a brand that crosses generations. And to acknowledge that broad fanbase and remind them that play is worthwhile at any age, the brand has produced a campaign focusing improving mental health through sound. With the aim of reaching adult builders, Lego has released a.

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Is CTV Hitting Maturity?

AdExchanger

Connected TV advertising is maturing. More subscribers are streaming with ads, inventory is growing and prices are normalizing. The post Is CTV Hitting Maturity? appeared first on AdExchanger.

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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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Bloomberg Media Restructures Sales Team to Streamline Events, Integrated Marketing

Adweek

Business and financial news publisher Bloomberg Media is restructuring its sales and marketing divisions around industries like tech, finance, auto, luxury and consultancy, rather than geography, to streamline operations and strengthen its appeal to advertisers, according to chief revenue officer Christine Cook. To lead the newly reorganized divisions, Cook created two new jobs and made.

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How to boost marketing engagement with behavioral science triggers

Martech

You can spend a lot of money trying to increase the results of your marketing communications. But you don’t have to. If you have a halfway decent marketing martech stack and follow the best practices for your channel, maximizing engagement and response becomes easier. Just add behavioral science into your messaging. It won’t cost you a dime — and the results can be instantaneous.

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IAB Tech Lab Enters The Sandbox; The Google Trial Behind Closed Doors

AdExchanger

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Line In The Sandbox The Chrome Privacy Sandbox was hyperactive when it launched in 2019. (Remember the sudden appearance of all those bird names?) That was back when the deadline to remove third-party cookies was Q2 2022. But in 2021, Google Chrome […] The post IAB Tech Lab Enters The Sandbox; The Google Trial Behind Closed Doors appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Hyatt’s Crystal Vinisse Thomas Is Changing the Cultural Event Space One Stay at a Time

Adweek

As post-pandemic excursions continue, travelers are looking beyond beaches and mountains and adding cultural experiences to their itineraries. According to Viator's 2023 Travel Trends, there was a 228% increase in cultural tourism compared to 2021. And that doesn't always mean flying off to Paris, Rome or London. Travelers are increasingly getting their share of next-level.

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Trends in using AI for marketing: 2023-2024

Smart Insights

What AI-based tools and digital marketing techniques should businesses from small to large be considering? I’ve been fortunate to be involved in digital marketing for over 25 years now. The opportunities presented by AI recently are the most exciting developments … The post Trends in using AI for marketing: 2023-2024 appeared first on Smart Insights.

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Small and Midsize Agencies Find Landing New Business Increasingly Difficult

Adweek

New business is drying up for agencies ill-equipped to find clients in a squeezed market. This is according to RSW/US, the 18-year-old business development firm that works with ad agencies, marketing services firms and PR firms. Since 2010, the firm has surveyed agencies to diagnose new business trends. This year, it fielded the survey over.

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

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This week’s roundup of AI-powered martech releases

Martech

Before we dive into the roundup, here’s a quick look at some recent research on marketers’ use of AI: More than half (51.3%) of global marketing leaders say cost is a significant barrier when adopting AI, according to a new study by Algomarketing, a workforce solutions and marketing operations consultancy. Also, 77.5% said that they have had to delay the implementation of AI and automation due to concerns about bias and fairness.

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Everything You Need to Know About AMC+’s New Ad Tier

Adweek

AMC's The Walking Dead has a new way to bring fans to tiers. Today, AMC Networks announced that it's begun rolling out the ad-supported version of AMC+ on its direct-to-consumer platform and apps, with third-party platforms and channel providers on the way in the weeks ahead. The tier premieres at $4.99 per month, featuring less.

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Prog IO: The Conversation About Alt TV Currencies Is Getting Real

AdExchanger

It may look as if there hasn’t been much progress with alternative currencies – at least not commensurate with the hype. But just because alt currencies didn’t take over the upfronts this year doesn’t mean there hasn’t been movement, according to ad buyers on stage at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO conference in New York on Tuesday. In […] The post Prog IO: The Conversation About Alt TV Currencies Is Getting Real appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Spotify and Roku Offering In-App TV Video Ads Is Music to a Marketer’s Ears

Adweek

The world of TV marketing just got a little bigger, thanks to Roku and Spotify. Top line Today, Roku and Spotify announced they are teaming up to bring video ads to Spotify's app on Roku, expanding the companies' existing partnership. Between the lines Roku and Spotify first partnered more than a decade ago when the.

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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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Comic: Mysteries Of The Deep

AdExchanger

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem… The post Comic: Mysteries Of The Deep appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Impact Through Relationships With Dara Treseder

Adweek

In a dynamic conversation at Brandweek, Dara Treseder, CMO of Autodesk, shared insights on marketing leadership and the transformative power of creativity. Her journey to chief marketing officer began at GE Business Innovations and GE Ventures, where she learned impactful lessons from influential leaders like Sue Siegel and Beth Comstock.

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Spotify introduces video ads on Roku

Martech

Audio streaming platform Spotify is introducing video ads on its Roku app. Advertisers who participate in Spotify’s Video Takeover ad experience — seen by users on mobile, tablets and desktops — will now be able to add CTV as an option. Why we care. The key to digital marketing is being able to reach users on any device. That’s a best practice for user experience, but it also applies to advertisers.

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Watch All the Panels From Brandweek 2023

Adweek

Adweek's biggest marketing event of the year returned for its sixth annual edition in 2023. Brandweek took place from Sept. 11-14 in Miami, where the marketing and advertising industry's leaders gathered to discuss how brands can stay relevant amid economic and consumer uncertainty. Over the course of four days, attendees both in-person and virtual gained.

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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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The CTV Advertising Guide 2024 is Now Available to Download

VideoWeek

We’re delighted today to be launching the digital edition of the CTV Advertising Guide 2024. You can download your free copy here. The guide lays out the current state of play in the European CTV advertising market. This year’s edition features an interview with Netflix’s President of Worldwide Advertising Jeremi Gorman, updated versions of our landscape maps for the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain (which include SPO products released by DSPs and SSPs), and features covering br

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Snap Shutters AR Enterprise Services Unit Less Than a Year After Launch

Adweek

Less than a year after its debut, Snap will discontinue its AR Enterprise Services (ARES) unit. Launched in March 2023, the ARES technology suite was designed to allow customers to bring Snap's AR tech into their own apps, sites and stores. In a note to employees, Snap CEO, Evan Spiegel, said, "After exploring our options.

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Google Business Profile: The Greatest Tool in Your Toolbox

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One key component to running a successful business is building awareness. In digital marketing, we often think about the buyer’s journey through the marketing funnel, starting with the awareness stage and ending at the conversion stage. A great way to bring awareness to your business is by creating a Google Business Profile (GBP), a free tool offered by Google.

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How Canadian Publisher La Presse Is Growing Ad Revenue With Data Clean Rooms

Adweek

Since 2017, 130-year-old Canadian publisher La Presse has been digital only, a shift that's led to a focus on growing online audiences. The publisher has grown from 4 million monthly unique visitors in 2019 to over 4.6 million as of July 2023, according to data by Comscore, which only has data from the last five.

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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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A small shopping list (floss and more)

Seth Godin

Here are some books and household items that I wanted to share. I’m mostly into audiobooks these days–a good narrator combined with a good author is pretty rare and wonderful… It turns out that a breakthrough rice cooker is a bargain, even if it seems expensive at first. The Cuckoo is an extraordinary device. It comes in many shapes and colors, most of them will not be to your taste, but persist until you find one.

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Meta adds a human element to AI, while others warn it all could be too ‘human like’

Digiday

Not to be outdone by the other tech giants launching new advances in generative AI products and tools over the last few weeks, Meta unveiled a number of major hardware and software updates related to its ambitions for virtual reality, mixed reality and generative AI at the annual Meta Connect developer conference this week. Between debuting the new Quest 3 mixed reality headset and new Ray-Ban smart glasses, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg previewed the numerous new genAI tools it’s creating for users,

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Barb is CFlight’s “Natural Home” Says Measurement Duo

VideoWeek

Earlier this month, it was announced that Barb, the UK’s TV measurement body, will take over the running of CFlight, the cross-platform advertising solution for tracking reach and frequency across linear and VOD. CFlight was created by US broadcaster NBCUniversal, and the UK version jointly developed by Sky, ITV and Channel 4 in 2021. It will be managed by Barb from January 2024.

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Why publishers are questioning the effectiveness of blocking AI web crawlers

Digiday

A number of publishers — including Bloomberg and The New York Times — were quick to block OpenAI’s web crawler from accessing their sites , to protect their content from getting scraped and used to feed the artificial intelligence tech company’s large language models (LLMs). But whether this tactic is actually effective is debatable, according to conversations with five publishing executives.

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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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The Future of Ad Monetization

Digital Turbine

Panel discussion with Google, Kolibri Games, LoopMe, and Digital Turbine at Gamescom During Gamescom in Cologne this August, Digital Turbine hosted an intimate event for app developers to connect and discuss current challenges in ad monetization. Though some of the insights were shared off the records, we are excited to bring the main discussion takeaways on what the future holds for mobile ad monetization.

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Snapchat sunsets its AR Enterprise division as it vows to give advertisers AR tools

Digiday

Snapchat’s decision to close its AR Enterprise division has raised questions about the platform’s evolving augmented reality strategy. Launched in April 2023, this division aimed to assist businesses in integrating Snapchat’s AR technology into their own applications. However, the investment needed to broaden AR capabilities to meet the needs of retail clients as well as the growth of generative AI has made it harder for Snapchat to “differentiate its offering,” per

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Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform

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Reddit said Wednesday that the platform is revamping its privacy settings with an aim to make ad personalization and account visibility toggles consistent. Most notably though, it is removing the ability to opt out of ad personalization based on Reddit activity. The company said that it will still have opt-out controls in “select countries” without […] © 2024 TechCrunch.

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Why Activision Blizzard Media is using an Attention Measurement Scorecard to raise marketers’ confidence in gaming

Digiday

To give marketers a better idea of the reach and power of in-game ads, Activision Blizzard is beefing up its offerings in the field of attention measurement. In Q4 of this year, Activision Blizzard Media will start beta testing of a new measurement tool dubbed the Attention Measurement Scorecard. It’s a free attention measurement service offered as an additional benefit for brands advertising within Activision Blizzard Media titles, with the goal of raising brands’ and marketers’ confidenc

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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.