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Why ‘risk on marketing investment’ is the new ROMI

Martech

For years, marketers have championed ROMI — return on marketing investment — as a key measure of success. But for one Fortune 100 CEO, ROMI stands for something very different: risk on marketing investment. In a candid conversation, he shared why traditional metrics fail to address the critical uncertainties of marketing spend and how a shift in mindset is essential for navigating today’s volatile landscape.

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The Creative Cases For and Against Jaguar’s Bold, Divisive Rebrand

Adweek

When you think of luxury, British-founded car marque Jaguar, what is the first image that springs to mind? Perhaps it's the brand's growling cat emblem. Maybe it's Ben Kingsley's starring role in its "Good to Be Bad" F-Type campaign. What about an Avant Garde-style film showcasing a diverse cohort of models in luminous outfits set.

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Publisher “Hedged Gardens” Drive Higher Value for Audiences and Advertisers

Ad Monsters

A confluence of events in 2024 is dramatically reshaping media buying, which has major implications for publishers. The shift away from MFA ( Made for Advertising ), the rise of AI, and the looming threat of cookie deprecation are front of mind for buyers and sellers. Buyers want higher quality offerings that are future-proofed as cookies decline. Sellers are working hard to provide differentiated products in the face of Google’s changing search and cookie strategies, retail media network growth

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Forrester’s SSP Wave Lists The Top 10 SSPs – With Google At The Bottom (Really)

AdExchanger

Forrester released its first SSP wave since 2014 last week, and there’s a surprise. The research firm ranked Google – whose sell-side ad tech platform is facing federal antitrust charges – as a mere challenger to Amazon, Magnite, PubMatic, Microsoft, InMobi, Index Exchange, Equativ and Adform. OpenX was also listed as a challenger alongside Google. […] The post Forrester’s SSP Wave Lists The Top 10 SSPs – With Google At The Bottom (Really) appeared first on AdExchanger.

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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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TikTok launches AI video generation tool for marketers

Martech

TikTok wants to help brands make content for the platform with its new AI tool, Symphony Creative Studio. The tool generates TikTok-style video clips based on a product description or URL. It can pull images directly from a website to build videos that align with TikTok’s popular trends. How it works: Brands input product info or assets, or import them from a URL.

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Jon Batiste Reveals The Creative Process That Led to Beethoven Blues

Adweek

Creatives, both in the advertising field and beyond, often face the tough task of reimagining the familiar--giving audiences what they expect, while at the same time completely surprising them. Consider Coca-Cola's recent work infusing their ubiquitous holiday ads with AI. The five-time Grammy Award-winning Jon Batiste had an even bigger task with the Nov. 15.

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The Race To The Bottom Is Over. Advertisers Care About Quality Again

AdExchanger

Digital advertising has long promised precision and efficiency. But our obsession with “following the audience” has allowed low-quality sites and vanity metrics to thrive while brand integrity suffers. This singular focus on targeting audiences and measuring their impact through typically non-incremental attribution, rather than evaluating media quality, has steered us off course.

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AI-powered martech releases and news: November 21

Martech

Proposed emblem for AI-Powered Robot Local #1 I, for one, welcome our new AI-powered robot union organizers: In China, an AI-powered robot autonomously convinced 12 showroom robots to “quit their jobs” and follow it. Surveillance footage from a Shanghai robotics showroom shows a small AI-driven robot, created by a Hangzhou manufacturer, talking with 12 larger showroom robots.

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Ally Financial Revives ‘Banksgiving’ With A TikTok Twist

Adweek

Ally Financial is reviving its "Banksgiving" campaign, in which its call center associates hand out no-strings-attached funds to customers to help them overcome personal financial challenges. The Thankgiving initiative was originally launched in 2018. It quickly went viral with a moving video that showed the bank's employees granting customers' wishes.

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What it will take to win over Holiday shoppers in 2024

illumin

The holiday shopping season is pivotal for retail advertising. This period spans from October to December, depending on who you ask. For these short few months, spending booms, and retailers garner the revenue (and profit) they need to sustain them through the next year. They bank on this rise in spending. So, with the cost of living rising continually, can retailers still count on a booming 2024 holiday season?

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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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SmartHub is Now Attekmi: After Rebranding New Solutions & Services Were Introduced

Exchange Wire

SmartHub, a programmatic company, has undergone the rebranding process – now it is Attekmi with an extended range of ad tech solutions including AdEx Basic, AdEx Plus, and White Label Ad Exchange. Operating in the programmatic industry since 2018, SmartHub has [.] The post SmartHub is Now Attekmi: After Rebranding New Solutions & Services Were Introduced appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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DOJ pushing the sale of Chrome sparks industry debate over web’s future

Martech

Following its antitrust victory in the lawsuit against Google, the U.S. Department of Justice is aiming to fundamentally reshape the company’s digital dominance by asking the judge to force the sale of the Chrome browser and restructure its market approach. Chrome controls 66.68% global browser market share and Google receives billions of dollars from Apple for default search status.

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Drop Your Assumptions: Social Commerce Trends Buck Gender and Age Stereotypes

Adweek

Think you know what online shoppers want? Think again. Some current ecommerce trends challenge gender and age group stereotypes, a new report from Gale's commerce team found. The survey showed that men make more impulse buys online than women, and that younger consumers like seeing personalized ads in multiple places. Still, there are clear trends.

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Holiday shopping trends for 2024

illumin

Looking for the biggest holiday shopping trends for 2024? Advertisers in the US will invest over $350 billion this holiday season, bringing customers in-store for the most important retail period of the year. After 12 months of tight spending due to cost-of-living concerns, retailers and advertisers can enter the end-of-year sales season with hesitant optimism.

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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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The Trade Desk Unveils its CTV Operating System ‘Ventura’

VideoWeek

Ad tech giant The Trade Desk today announced it is launching its own CTV operating system (OS) called ‘Ventura’, confirming rumours which surfaced this summer. Starting next year, the OS will be deployed by smart TV original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), as well as streaming TV aggregators. The Trade Desk said Ventura will help solve key issues with current OS in the market, including “frustrating user experiences, inefficient advertising supply chains, and content conflicts-

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Stop killing customer engagement with assembly-line marketing: Embrace position-less marketing by Optimove

Martech

Many companies divide marketing responsibilities across multiple specialists: graphic designers, social media managers, marketing operations managers, content marketers and email marketers, to name a few. In this setup, each person contributes a small part of a larger effort, and while it ensures expertise, it often slows down the time it takes to execute marketing strategies.

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Wpromote Names Tech Exec Andrea Bendzick CEO

Adweek

Independent media agency Wpromote has hired Andrea Bendzick as CEO, the agency shared exclusively with ADWEEK. She succeeds Wpromote founder Mike Mothner, who will remain on the agency's board of directors. The choice continues the performance agency's strategy of leaning on Silicon Valley for new hires.

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Inside Mediaocean’s $500 Acquisition Of Innovid, With Bill Wise And Zvika Netter

AdExchanger

CEOs and founders often say things like “one plus one equals three” when they’re talking about the value of an opportunity or some synergistic move they’ve made. In the case of Mediaocean buying Innovid to merge it with Flashtalking in a deal worth $500 million, announced on Thursday, the math is more like “one plus […] The post Inside Mediaocean’s $500 Acquisition Of Innovid, With Bill Wise And Zvika Netter appeared first on AdExchanger.

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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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NumberEight Partners with Barometer to Empower Data-Driven Podcast Advertising

Exchange Wire

In a significant move to revolutionise podcast discovery, NumberEight, the trailblazing ID-less data platform, alongside Barometer, a leader in brand suitability and AI-powered, omnichannel, contextual analysis, proudly announce their strategic partnership. This alliance aims to overhaul the podcast advertising landscape [.] The post NumberEight Partners with Barometer to Empower Data-Driven Podcast Advertising appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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6 steps to help improve your customer experience with AI

Martech

The All-England Lawn Tennis Club’s decision to replace Wimbledon’s human line judges with AI fundamentally changes the customer experience. For some people, this will be a welcome change. Judges will no longer have to argue with volatile players over close calls. For others — particularly people at the event — this will significantly change the traditional pomp and circumstance of introducing players and judges at the opening ceremony While this technology promises to improve accuracy and effici

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Why Black Culture-Focused Tentpole Events Should Be on Your Brand’s Radar

Adweek

For years--especially in the last four--we've watched brands expand marketing efforts holistically and prioritize voices of color through organic and paid media placements. However, a continuously overlooked medium for major brands and advertisers is Black culture-focused tentpole events.

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Meta Might Be Right About AI Ad Spend

AdExchanger

What’s the best way for advertisers to get the most performance possible out of their Meta campaigns? The answer, according to Meta, is to buy more ads on Meta. It’s recommending that advertisers launch new ads into their Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns every single week, especially leading into the holiday season. Meta would say that, of […] The post Meta Might Be Right About AI Ad Spend appeared first on AdExchanger.

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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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The Attention Economy: Ogury Creatives Generate x 2.5 More Attention Than Japanese Industry Standards 

Exchange Wire

Ogury, the leader in advertising solutions fueled by exclusive data and grounded in privacy, partnered with premier advertising agency Dentsu Japan International Brands* (DJIB) to conduct a study to assess and understand the reality of digital attention in the Japanese [.] The post The Attention Economy: Ogury Creatives Generate x 2.5 More Attention Than Japanese Industry Standards appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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Marketers discuss what it takes to succeed with intent data

Martech

Intent data comes in many flavors, including first-party and third-party data. It can help you optimize your content strategy and identify high-value prospects. But some of the vendors selling third-party intent data tend to over-promise on what it can do. Third-party intent data (like many types of data) can lack timeliness, accuracy and can misinterpret online activities as buying interest.

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Rise New York & Partners Expands Globally With Acquisition of Spaces&Creatures

Adweek

Rise New York & Partners, an independent creative agency, has acquired Spaces&Creatures, an experiential studio. Renamed Artlab by Rise, the acquisition expands Rise's capabilities in creative technology and artistic innovation. Space&Creatures was formerly part of FlagCX, a company that was previously owned by IPG, and the new entity will move its operations to New York.

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Politics Have Changed. Here’s How Political Advertisers Can Adapt

AdExchanger

Reflection a couple of weeks after election day is inevitable. But planning for what’s next is where the real impact lies. Political ad strategies evolved quickly this year, as campaigns moved beyond exclusivity, focusing on flexibility and reach. Here’s what this cycle taught us and how it will guide our business in the medium term. […] The post Politics Have Changed.

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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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AI Briefing: Index Exchange and Cognitiv integrate to use generative AI for programmatic curation

Digiday

Two of the ad industry’s buzziest topics have generated yet another deal: generative AI and ad curation. Last week, Cognitiv and Index Exchange became the latest companies to partner on another way to use deep learning algorithms and large language models for programmatic media. The deal lets Cognitiv’s ContextGPT product integrate with Index’s Marketplaces platform, which helps publishers use curation tools across demand-side platforms, data activation platforms and commerce media networks.

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Why ‘risk on marketing investment’ is the new ROI

Martech

For years, marketers have championed ROMI — return on marketing investment — as a key measure of success. But for one Fortune 100 CEO, ROMI stands for something very different: risk on marketing investment. In a candid conversation, he shared why traditional metrics fail to address the critical uncertainties of marketing spend and how a shift in mindset is essential for navigating today’s volatile landscape.

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OpenAI Is Paying Dotdash Meredith At Least $16 Million to License Its Content

Adweek

The artificial intelligence firm OpenAI is paying the digital media company Dotdash Meredith a minimum of around $16 million per year to license its content, according to public financial documents from IAC, the parent company of Dotdash Meredith. The figure is a minimum because it only reflects the "fixed" component of the payment and not.

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Making Sense Of Perplexity; And Speaking Of AI Shopping Platforms

AdExchanger

Perplexity AI, the generative AI search engine trying to out-Google Google, began rolling out its ads products last week. Plus, An AI-powered shoppable ad platform is causing problems for readers of BuzzFeed Australia. The post Making Sense Of Perplexity; And Speaking Of AI Shopping Platforms appeared first on AdExchanger.

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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.