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Raves, Merch Drops and Games: How Complex’s Neil Wright Does Experiential

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As the head of collaborations and experiential at Complex Networks, where he has been charged with launching and overseeing franchises like ComplexCon and its virtual sister event, ComplexLand, Neil Wright has come a long way from his first foray into event marketing: canvassing music festivals at dawn to promote underground raves in 1990s Los Angeles.

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Why Meta Is Investing Big In Business Messaging

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An interview withDan LevyVP, Business MessagingMeta is struggling to get its wheels turning on Reels. A leaked internal report recently revealed that Instagram Reels get 10 times less engagement than videos on TikTok. But Meta has seen more success with business messaging, which Mark Zuckerberg highlighted as a priority during Meta’s Q2 earnings call in.

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Why NBC Traveled Back in Time to Reboot Quantum Leap

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NBC is taking a calculated leap of faith with its latest reboot. In May, the network announced it was bringing back Quantum Leap, which originally ran for five seasons from 1989-1993. The '90s series focused on the time-traveling adventures of Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula), who would leap into people from the past, taking a.

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What Does “Premium” Mean, Anyway?

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The word “premium” gets thrown around a lot. Marketers chase “premium” publishers to reach “premium” audiences. DSPs and SSPs promise “premium” inventory. And every publisher wants to sell itself as a “premium” supply. But what exactly does “premium” mean? It seems the definition varies depending on who’s using it – that “premium” is in the. Continue reading » The post What Does “Premium” Mean, Anyway?

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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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BDG Is Shuttering Tech Title Input and Laying Off Staff at Mic

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The downturn in the digital advertising market has affected yet another publisher, marking at least the third official round of layoffs prompted by the slowdown since May. On Monday, executives at Bustle Digital Group shared internally that by the end of the day the media company would be shuttering its tech title Input, which reports.

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Is CTV Ad Buying Heading To Open Exchanges?

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Just because the media world has gone fully digital doesn’t mean we need to impose early digital models and constraints on every opportunity, said Philip Inghelbrecht, CEO of Tatari. More CTV inventory will roll into programmatic pipes in coming years, he writes, but the notion that it'll achieve programmatic domination is faulty — CTV inventory is still very different from digital.

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Owl Labs and BlueJeans by Verizon Partner to Offer New Meetings+ Bundle Subscription for Companies to Conduct More Effective Hybrid Meetings

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With First 360-Degree Bundled Offering on the Market, Customers Can Now Access Owl Labs Hardware and BlueJeans Video Conferencing Software Together for an Affordable Monthly Fee. Owl Labs, the first company to build AI-powered, 360-degree video conferencing solutions, and BlueJeans by Verizon, the secure video collaboration platform for a work-from-anywhere world, announced a partnership that provides access to Owl Labs’ award-winning meeting technology combined with BlueJeans Meetings video con

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Adweek’s 2022 Experiential Awards: Celebrating the Best Innovative Activations

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Last year, it was a bit of a struggle to honor innovative and breakthrough IRL campaigns, given that the world was still largely hunkered down during the pandemic. But for our fourth annual Experiential Awards, there was no shortage of outstanding activations to highlight as consumers began to adapt to the new normal--and were champing.

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Walmart Connect goes international and adds self-service

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Walmart’s marketplace media platform, Walmart Connect, is expanding and adding self-service, making it easier for advertisers and brands to promote products. Search Brand Amplifier. This boosts products advertised in the Walmart marketplace to the top of search results. The company says this will benefit newer and smaller brands which haven’t achieved high organic listings.

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Brandweek Podcast: Why Miami Will Become Web3’s Silicon Valley With Jesse Kirshbaum and Mags Kala

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On Episode 5 of Brandweek: The Podcast, senior producer Al Mannarino and general manager of podcasts John Heil sit down with Jesse Kirshbaum, CEO of NUE Agency and editor in chief of Beats and Bytes, and Magdalena "Mags" Kala, founder of Double Down, to discuss the final day of Brandweek which explored the power, promise.

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

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Marketing Technology Highlights of The Week: Featuring Algolia, PubMatic, Outbrain, G2 and more…

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How can B2B marketers foster better long-term customer relationships? Find out what the experts do by browsing through this weekly martech highlight: __. MarTech Quote-of-the-Week! There are several best practices that all marketing leaders should follow that can be broken down into two parts. The first, and larger part, is human resources. By this, I mean coaching, team-building, recruiting, and communicating.

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The Ghost of Covid Past: A Look Back at the Evolution of Brand Voice

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It's 2022, and a voice is much larger than a sound you hear. It's delivered in visual, auditory and written mediums in a way that builds not only trust but a sense of familiarity. Quickly, brands are abandoning trying to connect with people over their value propositions and instead connecting with people in a far.

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VideoAmp CTO Tony Fagan Tapped to Take Expanded Role in Order to Continue Company’s Mission to Lead Innovation In Measurement

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Software and data platform VideoAmp, announced Tony Fagan, Chief Technology Officer, will take on an expanded role following a company reorganization that affected approximately 2% of the workforce in order to continue staying ahead of shifts in technological and market trends while driving value for clients and the industry. Fagan, hired in August 2021 in order to focus on the acceleration and innovation of VideoAmp’s planning, measurement and optimization solutions, along with the data that su

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Adweek Teams With PRODU and Circulo Creativo to Honor Hispanic Creatives in Marketing

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All year, Latin media company PRODU and nonprofit Circulo Creativo USA provide platforms for today's biggest Hispanic and Latinx talents in marketing and entertainment. This Hispanic Heritage Month, the two are continuing their collective mission to celebrate culture-shifting creativity through a new profile series created in partnership with Adweek.

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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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League of Legends enlists Lil Nas X for championship anthem

Marketing Dive

The artist will release the song “Star Walkin’” ahead of the championship event and will also create an in-game cosmetic skin.

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Walmart’s New Try-On Tech Works With Customers’ Own Photos

Adweek

Walmart is offering its customers more ways to try on clothes virtually with a new tool that superimposes products on photos. The new feature, Be Your Own Model, offers shoppers the option of fitting an item of clothing onto an existing photo of themselves using machine learning image recognition. Walmart previously only let customers choose.

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LeadingResponse Launches New Prospect Marketing Platform for Clients

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Hub to connect clients with consumers, marketing solutions and technology. LeadingResponse, the leader in performance marketing for professional services, launched a new fully online account management portal, Hub, for its clients in the Financial, Legal, and Healthcare markets. Hub improves campaign management performance as clients have the ability to manage, pay, and rebook campaigns across the LeadingResponse solution portfolio.

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Creative Flavor: Valentina Sulbarán Brings Her Full Self to Her Work

Adweek

Dieste group creative director Valentina Sulbar?n developed a very early appreciation for the power of the pen. Just how early? "Since the moment I learned how to spell my name, I fell in love with writing," she told Adweek. "Journalism was my first interest, but it wasn't until my last few years in college when.

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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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ComplyCube Enhances SaaS Platform with Codeless KYC Outreach

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ComplyCube, the leading identity verification platform, has announced that it has enhanced its Web Portal with the ability to perform seamless customer data outreach without the need for deploying software or writing a single line of code. The new addition particularly appeals to businesses still conducting identity verification and Know Your Customer (KYC) checks manually, requesting identity documents sent via email, which is highly prone to human error and inherently insecure.

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How a Coalition of Agencies Is Cutting Through Politics to Push for Better Climate Policy

Adweek

If you've ever found yourself in an argument about climate change, you know the terminology around it can be a bit charged. The issue is uniquely political in the U.S., making it hard to have productive conversations about the problems global warming is creating. The Potential Energy Coalition, a nonprofit research and creative shop with.

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Adsta Selects InMobi Commerce to Bring Power of Video to Its Grocery Retail Media Network

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Partnership Combines National Reach of Adsta’s Network of 50 million+ Grocery Shoppers with InMobi’s High-Impact Video Experiences to Help Improve Product Discovery Experiences. Adsta, a media market platform geared towards consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands looking to expand their grocery media reach, has announced a groundbreaking partnership with InMobi Commerce.

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239 Agencies Landed on Clean Creatives’ Second ‘F-List’ for Working With Fossil Fuel Clients

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In its second annual "F-List" report released today, activist group Clean Creatives calls out 239 agencies, representing all eight major holding companies, for working on behalf of fossil fuel companies. Announced from New York, where brands, agencies and nonprofits are gathering this week for Climate Week, Clean Creatives' report charts over 15 years of activism.

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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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Sendoso Partners with San Francisco Firefighters to Deliver Joy, Presents During Dreamforce 2022

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Sendoso teams up with San Francisco Fire Department and Jeffrey’s Toys to help Dreamforce attendees send more than 600 gifts to kids in need. Sendoso, the leader in delivering branded, B2B experiences through gifting, announced it is taking over Jeffrey’s Toys, the oldest toy store in San Francisco, from September 20-22 to help deliver toys to children in need during Dreamforce 2022.

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Experiential Captivates Consumers as Brands and Agencies Eye the Next Big Collaboration

Adweek

There isn't a single farmer on staff at TBWAChiatDay N.Y., but that didn't stop the agency from creating a program for Lay's called Golden Grounds that had roots--literally--in the soil. The early 2022 project, launched in the football-frenzied lead-up to Super Bowl 56, took dirt from NFL stadiums around the country and used it to.

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Autosphere Now Leverages AWS Technologies to Transform Communication Service Providers Into Highly-Automated Enterprises

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Value-focused automation company Autosphere has launched its intelligent Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution on Amazon Web Services to empower communication service providers (CSPs) in achieving enterprise-wide automation. Autosphere is pleased to announce that they have extended their intelligent automation capabilities, to run on the AWS cloud, making it easier for CSPs to accelerate their business process automation.

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Never Have I Ever’s Maitreyi Ramakrishnan on ‘the Ultimate Form of Self-Expression’

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Age: 20Claim to fame: Maitreyi Ramakrishnan beat out 15,000 contenders for the lead in Mindy Kaling's Netflix original Never Have I Ever, now in its third season. This year, she has voiced Priya in Pixar's Turning Red and Zipp Storm in My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale and My Little Pony: Make Your Mark (which.

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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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Distributed Commerce Company, Fermat, Launches with $12M from Greylock and QED Investors To Boost Acquisition for Brands and Audience Engagement for Influencers

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Fermat – which lets brands sell directly through influencer content – is now available to any brand on Shopify. Fermat Commerce, a distributed commerce company, announced the launch of its product that lets brands sell to consumers directly through influencer content. The company also announced it raised $12M in seed funding from Greylock and QED Investors, with participation from Courtside Ventures and a handful of angel investors.

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With Connected Stores, Instacart Doubles Down on Omnichannel Grocery

Adweek

Instacart is pushing further into omnichannel grocery shopping with the launch of Connected Stores, a bundle of technologies that promises to "help grocers build a unified, seamless, personalized experience both online and in-store"--as well as to remain competitive in the evolving grocery space.

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Roku enlists agencies to help small businesses with streaming ads

Marketing Dive

Camelot Strategic Marketing & Media is the first agency to join Roku’s new OneView certified partner program.

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With His New Global Media Company, Kevin Hart Shakes Up Hollywood—and Madison Avenue

Adweek

There's being stretched thin, and then there's Kevin Hart's current schedule. The actor/comedian/media mogul/entrepreneur extraordinaire is phoning in for a chat at the end of yet another overstuffed day. That morning, he flew to Atlanta from Charlotte, N.C., where he performed the previous night during his 60-city Reality Check standup U.S. tour. Then he put.

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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.