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Build Your Social Media Strategy in 8 Easy Steps

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A well-thought-out social media strategy is one of the best tools you have for helping your brand rise above the fray. But in today’s crowded social media landscape, competition can be brutal. Everyone is not only fighting for engagement—they’re spending more to get it. And with social media costs projected to increase 73% over the Read More.

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Time for WPP and its rivals to be broken up says Sorrell

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Sir Martin Sorrell may own 1.4 per cent of WPP (the biggest individual shareholder as he reminds us below) but he thinks the marcoms giant is no longer “fit for purpose” and the best way to get his money back is by breaking up the company (we’re paraphrasing here.) WPP’s GroupM gaggle of media agencies.

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10 Best Marketing Podcasts to Help You Grow Your Business

Single Grain

As a business owner, particularly of a startup, you are very busy growing your business. You probably have barely enough time to finish each day’s tasks, so taking the time to learn new growth tactics or improving your marketing skills can seem completely impossible.

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Mobile Path to Purchase Marketing: Moving Customers from Online to Offline

InMobi

Why have legacy brands been hesitant to invest in any advertising and marketing on mobile devices? Largely, it was because they didn’t have a way to really measure and quantify the impact of mobile on the path to purchase. How could they be sure that someone who walked into a physical store was in fact influenced by seeing an ad on their mobile?

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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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DOOH Advertising Reinforced by Programmatic: What’s the Power?  

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Increasing volumes and popularity of DOOH (Digital Out Of Home) is a steady trend of the recent years, especially in the US and Europe. Advertisers allocate bigger and bigger budgets for this media channel. The latest research indicates a significant growth of the DOOH market across the globe, according to the DAN report. Surveys by […]. The post DOOH Advertising Reinforced by Programmatic: What’s the Power?

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Disney’s $1bn media review looks a PR disaster in the making – but that won’t change much

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Much speculation about Disney’s $1bn media review – set to be concluded imminently – particular the somewhat onerous terms and conditions said to be attached to it. Most controversially – and Disney hasn’t confirmed any of this – is the reported requirement for the winning media agency to spend more of its other clients’ money.

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How Marketers Should Be Using Mobile Apps

InMobi

Mobile Apps are Critical for Understanding, Identifying, Engaging and Acquiring Today’s Consumers As I’ve already mentioned, today’s consumers are mobile first and mobile centric — and they use apps very differently (and much more frequently) than they use mobile web browsers. But what does this mean for marketers? How can today’s marketers use this knowledge to further their goals?

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Most Viewed Video Ads: Guy Fieri and LeBron James Are Here!

illumin

We love this week's chart because it features 4 brand new videos!! Most importantly, there are robots. and has anyone not seen that Boston Dynamics video yet because if you haven't, prepare to be blown away! Our other favorite is the Luis Vuitton content series launch, since they obviously got the point with a 60-second video spot that is dominating this week's chart and we bet it'll be there for at least a few more weeks.

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Spark44 goes retro for Tetley tea

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Spark44 is the agency 50 per cent owned by Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) which handles most of JLR’s work (you won’t be surprised to hear.) Some of it good, some somewhat last year, or decade, like the star-studded ads for Jag saloons. It has some other clients too though, including Tetley tea, once famous for.

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Dick’s Sporting Goods Destroyed Its Inventory of AR-15s

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Assault weapons are for soldiers. This is not another decision being handed down by a hapless and corrupt government. And it’s not a debate. It’s action being taken by conscious CEOs like Ed Stack of Dick’s Sporting Goods. According to the local CBS station in Pittsburgh, it was just after the Sandy Hook attack that […]. The post Dick’s Sporting Goods Destroyed Its Inventory of AR-15s appeared first on Adpulp.

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

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FTC’s COPPA Rule Workshop: A Summary of Priorities from Advocates and Industry, and the FTC’s Poker Face

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The Federal Trade Commission held a workshop yesterday in Washington, D.C., to discuss possible updates to the COPPA Rule, which implements the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). COPPA was originally enacted in 1998 and regulates the way entities collect data and personal information online from children under the age of 13.

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Accessing Culture Beyond Ethnicity: Affinity

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Welcome back to our “Accessing Culture Beyond Ethnicity” blog series as we break down how we decipher culture through technology. For our last post on this series, we tackle the final element that we use to decode a consumer’s culture: Affinity. The post Accessing Culture Beyond Ethnicity: Affinity appeared first on AcuityAds Inc.

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Boursorama and agency Buzzman reduce star celeb Brad Pitt to silence

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Brad Pitt’s career is going through an upswing (it’s never been down that far) so it’s clever of French online bank Boursorama and agency Buzzman to sign him up. Not that he says very much, nothing at all actually but maybe A-listers have to be careful in case what they’re promoting goes pear-shaped. Hardly likely.

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Houston Rockets GM Tweets His Support for Student Protestors in Hong Kong (BIG MISTAKE)

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According to Foreign Policy, “an American business with a global footprint, one that prides itself on supporting freedom of speech in America, recently became an arm of Chinese censorship.” Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, tweeted his way into a shitstorm—by supporting democracy. Morey has since deleted the Tweet proclaiming to “stand […].

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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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We Got The Beet: Trademark Claims and Puns

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Lettuce Turnip the Beet : When puns are “functional” In LTTB LLC v. Redbubble, Inc. , plaintiff LTTB, an online apparel company, contended its success was “largely due to public fascination with its Lettuce Turnip the Beet trademark,” and alleged that defendant Redbubble’s sale of products featuring the phrase “Lettuce Turnip the Beet” infringed its mark, 18-cv-00509-RS.

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10 Best Marketing Podcasts to Help You Grow Your Business

Single Grain

As a business owner, particularly of a startup, you are very busy growing your business. You probably have barely enough time to finish each day's tasks, so taking the time to learn new growth tactics or improving your marketing skills can seem completely impossible. That is why podcasts are such an awesome way of learning: You can listen to a podcast when you are commuting, exercising or even at your desk while doing mundane tasks, all while absorbing a wealth of information to help you run and

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LNER picks M&C Saatchi and Merkle to pep up East Coast train route

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LNER, Britain’s troubled East Coast rail service up from London to points north and currently run by the Government, has appointed M&C Saatchi and Merkle to handle its ad campaigns/marketing services in a Creative Brief review. LNER commercial director Suzanne Donnelly says: “LNER is one of the newest brands in the industry and we have.

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In the Hospitality Business, The Personal Is Increasingly Political

AdPulp

A chain of high-end boutique hotels with locations in Portland, Seattle, Palm Springs, New Orleans, Boston, and other American cities is facing increased consumer scrutiny for one reason and one reason only. “Anyone who cares about America should not do any business or stay at any of Gordon Sondland’s hotels,” U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer said. […].

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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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IPG tries to get it money’s worth from Acxiom with shiny new data op Kinesso

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There’s a new kid on the data-driven block, Interpublic’s Kinesso, a “precision targeting and optimisation” outfit driven by IPG’s Acxion, the data business it bought last year for $2.2bn. This will include Cadreon IPG’s addressable media business. Kinesso’s CEO is Arun Kumar who’s also IPG’s chief data and technology officer.

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Sorrell’s S4Capital takes big leap forward with Silicon Valley digital specialist Firewood

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Sir Martin Sorrell isn’t just a critic (see yesterday) but a doer too. Now his new S4Capital has “merged” Firewood, claimed to be Silicon Valley’s largest digital agency with MediaMonks, the foundation of the S4 empire. Firewood, reported to have cost $150m, ticks lots of boxes. Founded by Juan and Zanya Zambrano (below) in 2010.

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George Parker: why the creative exodus to clients could spell doom for ad agencies

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As some of you may know, I have been in the ad biz since before Genghis Khan invented the USP. So, I’ve seen a lot of changes, some good, many not so good. Back in my Mad Man days we created ads using typewriters, carbon paper, layout pads and Magic Markers. But mostly it came.

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Engine and VCCP win top honours in Ocean’s tenth annual digital creative competition

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Engine and VCCP were awarded the top prizes in digital pioneer Ocean Outdoor’s tenth annual digital creative competition, with campaigns for the Royal Navy and Amnesty International UK. Engine won the top brand prize with Sniper, an interactive recruitment campaign for the Royal Navy which uses Ocean’s LookOut interactive technology to challenge players to pinpoint.

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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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Sandra Oh shows her other side for Air Canada

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Sandra Oh of Killing Eve fame (she’s the hunted who becomes the hunter) is a Canadian so here she is “travelling like a Canadian” for Air Canada, which seems to mean being polite, helpful and eager to embrace other people’s culture. Not air travel as you’re likely to know it. They’ve become a genre on.

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Does latest Ted Royer kerfuffle show an industry comprised of vengeful snowflakes?

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Something called the London International Awards seems to have landed itself in hot water at an event for young creatives in Las Vegas (no, me neither but it’s warmer than London) by inviting defenestrated Droga5 CCO Ted Royer to speak. Royer (below) was fired on what seem to be MeToo grounds following a supposedly independent.

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Adam&eveDDB set for more awards as Marmite tries to hypnotise the nation

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We all know you either love or hate Marmite but now the venerable brand is trying to turn haters into lovers via hypnosis – is this legal? You have to sign up for the “full experience” it says here. And there’s a consumer film too. Marmite marketing manager Rachel Chambers says: “The taste of Marmite.

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Honda relives past glories in new Japanese Grand Prix film

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It’s the Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka this weekend and Japan’s own Honda, whose engines have enjoyed a modest degree of success this year with Red Bull, is celebrating its long association with the sport with a new ad from Digitas. Plus a new strapline: ‘The finish line is never the end,’ which is quite.

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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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Jung von Matt sweats out a home run for BMW’s ‘Small Escape’

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Bet you didn’t know BMW used to make what were known (I think) as “bubble cars,” but they did. And these uncharacteristic vehicles (compared to BMWs these days) were pressed into service to bring people across the Berlin Wall, it seems, back in 1964. A singularly sweaty business. A car ad with an idea, which.

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Crisis looms for CEO Sadoun and Publicis Groupe as organic growth goes backwards – even as profits edge up

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Publicis Groupe’s third quarter 2019 results are a stinker – by the way these things are usually measured. Organic growth fell by 2.7 per cent in Q3, way below expectations and Publicis is forecasting -2.5 per cent for the year. Which might cheer WPP’s Mark Read up a bit. Analysts of the sector concentrate on.

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Above+Beyond takes punchy Subway campaign to Naples – brave them

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Agency Above+Beyond made a punchy debut for Subway with an ad around a somewhat implausible ram raid, which we didn’t like very much. But it’s coming out punching again, taking on Napoli, the home of the pizza, with an offer featuring BBQ chicken among other delights. The natives don’t like it, of course. Well they.

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If Zuckerberg and co. play ball with new OECD tax rules then their image problem might be solved

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Facebook is running a nice ‘Privacy is Personal’ campaign by Possible, good because it’s clear, understated and human. Privacy issues continue to dog Facebook – and rivals like Twitter and Google – and will no doubt continue to do so despite any goodwill engendered by such advertising, but that’s life in social media/tech.

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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.