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Report: TikTok Tracked Journalists From FT, BuzzFeed, While Investigating Leaks

Adweek

It seems that every time TikTok takes one step forward on the path toward earning the trust of users and regulators, the ByteDance-owned video creation application then takes two steps back. Hannah Murphy of Financial Times reported that four employees on the ByteDance internal audit team--two in China and two in the U.S.--improperly obtained the.

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Social media top beneficiary as economy forces ad budgets to shift

Marketing Dive

Advertisers in Q4 spent more on social media, search, CTV, mobile in-app and streaming audio, per Advertiser Perceptions.

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Twitter Reportedly Slashes Public Policy Team

Adweek

Public policy apparently isn't hardcore enough for Elon Musk, either. Despite regulatory scrutiny in the U.S. and abroad, Twitter laid off members of its public policy team Wednesday night, Erin Woo of The Information reported.

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5 tips to extract true value from your data

Martech

“Data is an asset.” We hear that phrase in countless vendor presentations, conferences and advertisements. And for some companies, data is, indeed, an asset. For example, high-tech companies like Google are built on the value of their data. Google began by analyzing data from the web. With its search engine at the heart of data collection, it could offer data gathering of adjacent fields and analysis from that data.

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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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Making Great First Impressions: Why Creatives Wish They Could See These Ads for the First Time Again

Adweek

Repetition and frequency are drilled into every advertiser as key to winning eyeballs and new consumers. Ads are notorious for being more effective after many viewings, as repeating a message multiple times can increase brand awareness and consumer recall, if done correctly. But some ads make great first impressions. They grab the viewer immediately and.

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Triscuit embraces its unapologetic side with Gordon Ramsay

Marketing Dive

The Mondelez brand shared exclusive details on a repositioning campaign rolling out next year that leans on the chef’s “crunchy but wholesome” persona.

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App installs continue to grow despite digital slowdown, report finds

Marketing Dive

In spite of the headwinds from Apple’s privacy changes and looming economic pressures, installs grew 10% year-over-year in 2022.

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Mars Wrigley North America’s New CMO Gabrielle Wesley Leads M&M’s Back to the Super Bowl

Adweek

M&M's is officially returning to the Big Game, and it's doing so with a new CMO at the helm. Today, Mars Wrigley North America confirmed M&M's participation in next year's Super Bowl under the guidance of its newly appointed chief marketing officer, Gabrielle Wesley. The brand last participated in the event in 2021 with its.

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What’s in store for OOH in 2023?

Exchange Wire

Digital out-of-home (DOOH) is back on the rise. Investment in the medium was rising steadily until 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic curbed spend. So will 2023 see this upward curve continue? As part of our predictions series, we asked the [.]. The post What’s in store for OOH in 2023? appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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Video Games Are Dominating Hollywood and Changing Viewing Habits Forever

Adweek

Some of the best TV right now has been coming from delightfully and unabashedly nerdy sources. TV adaptations of The Wheel of Time, The Rings of Power, The Sandman and House of the Dragon are streaming beloved storylines from high fantasy and sci-fi literature to living rooms across the world. Leveraging IP with an established.

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

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How Penske Media uses a CDP to help advertisers reach digital users

Martech

Less than two years ago, Penske Media Corporation (PMC) began implementing a customer data profile (CDP) from Treasure Data to unify data across big-name titles like Billboard, Rolling Stone and Variety. PMG has 130m unique monthly visitors across all their digital properties. With the first-party data unified in the CDP, users authenticated on one digital property could then be identified on another one.

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Platforms Are Pivoting to Video. Publishers, Again, Follow Suit

Adweek

Beginning in the summer of 2020, social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram and YouTube--as well as Pinterest, Twitter and even Amazon--began launching and promoting vertical video products in a sweeping response to the ascendant popularity of TikTok. While consumer adoption of the format has skyrocketed, the pivot has prompted publishers, particularly those that rely heavily.

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Campaign Trail: How Johnnie Walker centers women’s empowerment in brand creative

Marketing Dive

As whiskey’s consumer base widens, the brand partnered with comedian Lilly Singh to write and produce a series of videos around women’s rights.

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YouTube Nabs NFL Sunday Ticket Package, Ending DirecTV’s Three-Decade Run

Adweek

The NFL's coveted Sunday Ticket package has a home in streaming for the first time. Google and the NFL reached an exclusive multiyear deal to bring all out-of-market Sunday afternoon NFL games broadcast on Fox and CBS to YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels. The subscription-only Sunday Ticket package has been with DirecTV since 1994.

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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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GDN, The Gol-Darn Network; Back To School With Team Day?

AdExchanger

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. AdExchanger’s daily news round-up will return in 2023. Enjoy your holiday, and may we all resolve to make. The post GDN, The Gol-Darn Network; Back To School With Team Dayā appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Back Market Hires OMD’s Luke Forshaw as First UK Marketing Chief

Adweek

Back Market, the online marketplace dedicated to refurbished electronic devices, has hired Luke Forshaw as its head of brand and marketing for the U.K. as it continues its international growth. The company, which recycles old technology and sells it on, currently employs more than 700 people internationally to serve its mission to reduce mass production.

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Predictions for Mobile Advertising in 2023

PubMatic

If you remind digital marketers about the so-called “Year of Mobile,” you’re likely to get a laugh. That, of course, is because most of the 2010s ended up being the Year of Mobile. Now, it’s clear mobile is far more than just a year, it is a constantly evolving opportunity and channel. To that end, here are some ideas about what’s to come in new year – and era – of mobile advertising from Lashanne Phang, senior director of mobile at PubMatic.

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25 TV Execs and Insiders on 2022’s Most Important, Yet Overlooked, Trends

Adweek

The 2022 TV year included a $43 billion mega-merger, an influx of FAST channels, AVOD tiers and constant executive shuffling. And with all that disruption, it's easy for other important television trends to get overlooked.

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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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Comic: Link Decoration

AdExchanger

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

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Hero Media Launches GoodFeed, a Social Platform Catered to Women

Adweek

Black-owned media and tech company Hero Media launched its own social platform, GoodFeed, catering its content toward women-identifying audiences. The platform launched in October to select users and was made publicly available this week. Similar to YouTube, users can create a channel to host editorial content like written articles, audio and videos.

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ZoomInfo Sets Company Record with 29 Top Product Ratings on G2 Winter Grids

Martech Series

Industry Grids Use Customer Satisfaction and Market Presence to Evaluate Software Products. ZoomInfo , a global leader in modern go-to-market software, data, and intelligence, has earned 29 No. 1 rankings across 87 grids in the G2 Winter 2023 Grid Reports, setting a company record for top rankings and expanding its leadership in Enterprise categories.

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Instagram: How to Delete a Note

Adweek

Instagram's Notes feature allows users to share posts containing text and emoji that will automatically disappear after 24 hours. Creators also have the option to delete Notes early, rather than allowing them to disappear naturally. Our guide will show you how to delete a note in the Instagram mobile application. Note: These screenshots were captured.

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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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To Panic or Not to Panic—A Look at Netflix’s Recent Miss With Advertisers

MNTN

The path to Netflix’s ad-supported offering hasn’t exactly been a smooth one. For years, the service promised to remain advertisement-free. Then, in April 2022, after reportedly losing hundreds of thousands of subscribers, the streaming heavyweight indicated that it would pursue an ad-supported model after all. In July of this year, much to the surprise of many industry experts , Netflix announced Microsoft as its advertising partner.

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Read These Articles to Make Sense of Digital Advertising in 2022 (and Get Ahead on 2023)

Basis

The end of the year: It’s a time for reflection, planning, and…presents. Lots of presents. Preferably, presents we actually like , and will use, instead of stashing them in our regifting closets for the next holiday season (what, you don’t have a regifting closet?). So, in the spirit of the season, we wanted to give our readers a little something that should fire on all those aforementioned cylinders.

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Will AI Be the Driver of Your Next PR Lead?

Martech Series

Like countless other industries, the PR world has lagged behind other areas of technological innovation, but are still trying. Certainly, building bigger lists of semi-relevant journalists to blast to, faster, really isn’t the place we should be focusing. Every day, journalists are bombarded with pitches that bear little if any relevance to their previous work.

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The Big Story: What Deserved The Hype In 2022

AdExchanger

Data privacy. Clean rooms. Measurement. Gaming. M&A. Which trends deserved the hype – and which ones didn’t – in 2022? We dig into some of the biggest topics of the year. The post The Big Story: What Deserved The Hype In 2022 appeared first on AdExchanger.

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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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Sogolytics Unveils Users’ Favorite Features and Top Solutions of 2022

Martech Series

Annual showcase highlights top feedback management and analysis features and solutions, as voted on by Sogolytics users. Sogolytics, leader in feedback and experience management, recently wrapped up the year with its #FavoriteThings: Top Sogolytics Features & Solutions of 2022 webinar. This annual webinar highlighted the year’s most-loved feature updates and most impactful best practices.

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How agencies approached the metaverse in 2022, and what potential it holds for 2023

Digiday

There is still significant debate on the eventuality of the metaverse. It might be too soon to declare 2022 as the year the metaverse took off, but that has not stopped media agencies from trying to innovate. Many seem to agree the metaverse’s exact future going seamlessly between the physical world and virtual one is unclear. Some see it as the inevitable future; others remain skeptical that it will be anything like the book and movie “Ready Player One.”.

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Check Point Software Technologies Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls

Martech Series

Check Point is a Leader for the 23rd time for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Visiona. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions globally, announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls. Check Point Software is the only vendor that has been listed as a Leader for the 23 rd time.

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What publishers want from platforms in 2023

Digiday

Publishers and platforms have tumultuous relationships. Rather than a symbiotic relationship, however, the balance often swings in favor of the latter, causing publishers to flail in the unanticipated wake of platforms’ algorithm changes, prioritizations of certain content or formats, and even their threats to remove news in response to regulation via congressional bills.

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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.