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AdExchanger Comics Through The Years, Featuring Nate Neal

AdExchanger

“I’ve always wanted to meet Nate Neal! I mean, he just gets me.” That’s what the woman seated next to me at a recent conference said when she found out The post AdExchanger Comics Through The Years, Featuring Nate Neal appeared first on AdExchanger.

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In search of chatoyancy

Seth Godin

A cat’s eye is smooth but doesn’t seem to be… there’s a mystery of depth. That illusion is called chatoyancy. The same is true for some sorts of woods (cedar is an exception). The digital age makes it more and more likely we’re experiencing things through a flat screen, and as a result, it’s very easy to file flat experiences away without a thought.

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LUMA Leadership Reshuffles In Ad Tech Cold Streak; Turning A New Page

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The LUMA Escape LUMA Partners – the investment bank of ad tech, essentially – is having a major The post LUMA Leadership Reshuffles In Ad Tech Cold Streak; Turning A New Page appeared first on AdExchanger.

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PetSmart, KitKat, Apple Arcade and other top creative ads of the week

Bhatnaturally

An ad’s first task is to get noticed. The top creative ads in any era – be it in the pre-digital or digital world first stood out from the media clutter of the day. Of course, just being noticed is not enough (being ignored is a worse fate though) – a brand’s message has to be relevant [.] The post PetSmart, KitKat, Apple Arcade and other top creative ads of the week appeared first on Bhatnaturally.

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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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100+ ChatGPT prompts you can’t miss to try out in 2023

Ad Ops Hero

As a digital marketing agency, staying ahead of the curve and providing top-notch services to your clients is of utmost importance. However, coming up with fresh and engaging ideas for social media campaigns, email marketing, and other digital channels can be challenging. This is where ChatGPT prompts can come in handy. ChatGPT is a language model that can generate text in a wide variety of styles, tones, and formats.

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How advertisers are building up their cannabis ad budgets as marijuana regulations loosen

Digiday

This past 4/20, Gbemi Maiyegun was surprised to see just how many mainstream brands were celebrating with cannabis-friendly ads, partnerships and marketing messages. There were the usual suspects like Jack in the Box and Ben & Jerry’s (whose campaign called for justice regarding long-standing records for cannabis-related convictions), but also newcomers like Red Lobster and BIC, which partnered with Willie Nelson and Martha Stewart for a cannabis-themed campaign.

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How advertisers are building up their cannabis ad budgets as marijuana regulations loosen

Digiday

This past 4/20, Gbemi Maiyegun was surprised to see just how many mainstream brands were celebrating with cannabis-friendly ads, partnerships and marketing messages. There were the usual suspects like Jack in the Box and Ben & Jerry’s (whose campaign called for justice regarding long-standing records for cannabis-related convictions), but also newcomers like Red Lobster and BIC, which partnered with Willie Nelson and Martha Stewart for a cannabis-themed campaign.

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The NFL hopes Gen Z influencers will convince people to sign up for the NFL Sunday Ticket

Digiday

YouTube and the NFL are working together to build younger consumer interest in the Sunday Ticket, a package for out-of-market games, by appealing to them through the league’s YouTube channel. Social media influencers were paid to travel to create content around the NFL Draft in Kansas City, MO to encourage football fans to sign up ahead of the upcoming season to promote Sunday Ticket, which launched on April 11th, weeks ahead of the NFL Draft.

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How privacy regulations could help — or inhibit — growth in retail media networks

Digiday

As retail media networks grow their market share among advertisers, new privacy regulations are creating both new opportunities and new risks. Part of the broader world of commerce media, retail media networks sit alongside e-commerce while also competing with e-commerce channels for advertisers’ dollars. But when it comes to data privacy, the industry at large faces various levels of risk: cookies, pixels and trackers on businesses’ websites could inadvertently expose shoppers’ data

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Three years after DE&I was jolted into action, how much progress has the agency world really made?

Digiday

In the nearly three years since George Floyd’s murder shocked a nation and galvanized a movement toward better representation across all industries — but very much with marketing and media at the center of it all — how far we’ve come is subject to serious debate. While some point to statistics that show an increase in employment of people of color, different sexual orientation or physical/intellectual disabilities, others argue that the industry has lost the plot line when it doesn’t empower the

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

what retail media advertising is what a retail media network is how the changes in the privacy landscape benefit retail media networks how retail media network functions market overview of retail media networks

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How privacy regulations could help — or inhibit — growth in retail media networks

Digiday

As retail media networks grow their market share among advertisers, new privacy regulations are creating both new opportunities and new risks. Part of the broader world of commerce media, retail media networks sit alongside e-commerce while also competing with e-commerce channels for advertisers’ dollars. But when it comes to data privacy, the industry at large faces various levels of risk: cookies, pixels and trackers on businesses’ websites could inadvertently expose shoppers’ data

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Video commerce platform Firework tests generative AI with The Fresh Market

Digiday

Video commerce company Firework will start testing a generative artificial intelligence product for its video commerce platform starting in June. As more businesses explore live shopping features, the aim of Firework’s generative AI live shopping solution is to increase consumer engagement and drive conversions — even after the livestream ends. For example, if a consumer asks for a recipe from the video, the AI will provide the ingredients and products featured.

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The NFL hopes Gen Z influencers will convince people to sign up for the NFL Sunday Ticket

Digiday

YouTube and the NFL are working together to build younger consumer interest in the Sunday Ticket, a package for out-of-market games, by appealing to them through the league’s YouTube channel. Social media influencers were paid to travel to create content around the NFL Draft in Kansas City, MO to encourage football fans to sign up ahead of the upcoming season to promote Sunday Ticket, which launched on April 11th, weeks ahead of the NFL Draft.

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Video commerce platform Firework tests generative AI with The Fresh Market

Digiday

Video commerce company Firework will start testing a generative artificial intelligence product for its video commerce platform starting in June. As more businesses explore live shopping features, the aim of Firework’s generative AI live shopping solution is to increase consumer engagement and drive conversions — even after the livestream ends. For example, if a consumer asks for a recipe from the video, the AI will provide the ingredients and products featured.

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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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Media Buying Briefing: Forrester offers solutions to a very flawed pitch process

Digiday

Pitching — and hopefully winning — new business represents the lifeblood of any agency, media or otherwise. We all know that churn in this business is a constant, so filling the new-business pipeline is essential to success and growth. But equally true is how truly grueling and unsatisfying the process is. Forrester’s most recent report, Ditch the Pitch, which is being issued today, also catalogs just how costly that process is, estimating that U.S. agencies spend about $12.5 billion on it annua

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Three years after DE&I was jolted into action, how much progress has the agency world really made?

Digiday

In the nearly three years since George Floyd’s murder shocked a nation and galvanized a movement toward better representation across all industries — but very much with marketing and media at the center of it all — how far we’ve come is subject to serious debate. While some point to statistics that show an increase in employment of people of color, different sexual orientation or physical/intellectual disabilities, others argue that the industry has lost the plot line when it doesn’t empower the

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Media Buying Briefing: Forrester offers solutions to a very flawed pitch process

Digiday

Pitching — and hopefully winning — new business represents the lifeblood of any agency, media or otherwise. We all know that churn in this business is a constant, so filling the new-business pipeline is essential to success and growth. But equally true is how truly grueling and unsatisfying the process is. Forrester’s most recent report, Ditch the Pitch, which is being issued today, also catalogs just how costly that process is, estimating that U.S. agencies spend about $12.5 billion on it annua

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