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Bitcoin Payments to Be Accepted at Steak ‘n Shake US Locations Starting May 16

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Steak n Shakes 393 U.S locations will accept this form of crypto payment.

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MSNBC Live To Co-Host and Stream Final DNC Leadership Forum [Exclusive]

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Live from Washington, D.C., it's the latest edition of MSNBC Live. TVNewser can exclusively reveal that the cable network's in-person event division is co-hosting the fourth and final Democratic National Committee leadership forum alongside Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service. Scheduled to take place on the Georgetown campus on Jan. 30, this is.

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Google, Amazon, Others Respond to Senators’ Inquiry About Funding CSAM Via Ads

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Under pressure from bipartisan lawmakers, Google, Amazon, and other major ad industry players have shared the actions they're taking after they inadvertently helped facilitate advertising on a site known to host child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Amazon has issued refunds to advertising customers whose ads appeared on the website. Google has blocked advertising on the.

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Uber Will Sell In-Car Ads in New York City, Reversing a Longstanding Ban

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New Yorkers groan at backseat ads, but Uber is betting on its data and design to flip perception.

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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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EXCLUSIVE: Layoffs Hit WPP Media Agencies Days After Reports of GroupM Rebrand

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Staff at WPPs media agencies say they were blindsided by sudden layoffs, locked out of email, and told to leavejust days after the companys high-profile rebrand.

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10 Indie Agencies to Watch, Launched by Top Adland Talent

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A new wave of indie agencies, founded by seasoned industry veterans, is reshaping the advertising landscape with fresh approaches to creativity, speed, and brand strategy.

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Duolingo ‘Experimenting With Silence’ Amid Social Media Blackout

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Duolingo scrubbed its Instagram and TikTok accounts and left a cryptic message on X.

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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Killed a Cookieless Ad Product After Google’s U-Turn

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Emails show Amazon urged publishers to join its program integrating with Google Privacy Sandbox APIs, before quietly changing course.

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EXCLUSIVE: DoubleVerify Sues Adalytics, Alleging Defamation

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Ad verification firm DoubleVerify is suing Adalytics, alleging that the research and analytics firm defamed the adtech company in its recent report about fraudulent traffic in digital advertising.

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Madwell Cofounder David Eisenman Launches AI-Centric Ad Agency

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Madwell cofounder David Eisenman, whose dramatic falling-out with business partner Chris Sojka preceded the indie shops recent closure, has launched a new ad agency.

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

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15 Campaigns Creatives Predict Will Win at Cannes Lions 2025

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ADWEEK asked creative leaders to choose the work worthy of trophies at advertising's most prestigious festival.

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X Rolls Out AI-Generated Ads in Push to Win Advertisers Back

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X is debuting AI-powered advertising tools designed to automate ad creation and performance analysis, the company announced Friday. Two new features, rolling out in phases to advertisers, rely on X's proprietary AI assistant Grok to generate ad copy, imagery, and campaign insights with minimal human input. "Prefill with Grok" is a new creation tool for.

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Google Brings Ads to AI Mode

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Google is rolling out ads in AI Mode, the AI-powered search function that was launched in March.

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TelevisaUnivision Unveils YA Fest and ViX Música Streaming Platform at Upfront

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TelevisaUnivision announced that it is building on its short-form content with the debut of microdramas at upfront.

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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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Marketers Will Need to Double Down Against Divisiveness

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The success of advertising rests on clear, concise, and culturally considerate communication. Yet only 22 days into 2025, legal mandates and corporate maneuvers would suggest that facts are not important to consider when crafting what we say, how we say it, or how we show it. Everyone was left a little shaken following Mark Zuckerberg's.

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Publicis Buys Captiv8 to Bolster Its Influencer Capabilities

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Publicis is expected to begin integrating Captiv8 into its Connected Media offering immediately, building on its influencer strategy following last years $500 million acquisition of Influential.

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EXCLUSIVE: Nespresso Moves Global Creative Duties From McCann to Leo

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The Publicis agency's appointment marks the end of the coffee brand's almost two-decade relationship with McCann.

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Friday, May 16 Evening Cable News Ratings: The 5 p.m. Hour Grabs the Most Eyeballs Across All 3 Networks

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Each network saw its biggest total viewer and demo audience at 5 p.m.

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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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Google Will Explore Ads in AI Mode, Taking Cues From Ads in AI Overviews

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Google will "explore bringing ads into" its new AI Mode, the company told ADWEEK. AI Mode, rolled out in beta Wednesday, can conduct multiple searches at once to serve up in-depth, multi-step responses to complex user queries. While ads aren't yet available in AI Mode, Google said it will "leverage learnings" from ads products built.

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Bumble Goes Up Against Dating App Rivals With Amelia Dimoldenberg Partnership

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Bumble, the women-focused dating and social networking app, is taking a new marketing direction as it unveils a partnership with celebrity interviewer and Chicken Shop Date creator Amelia Dimoldenberg. Dimoldenberg is the first star in Bumble's year-long series of celebrity profiles and editorial content in collaboration with Mel Ottenberg, creative director and editor-in-chief of Interview.

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MNTN Is Selling Ryan Reynolds’ Agency Maximum Effort, SEC Filing Shows

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BlackRock-backed CTV advertising platform MNTN is divesting production shop Maximum Effort "to an affiliate of its original owner," according to an IPO securities filing made Friday. Maximum Effort was founded by actor Ryan Reynolds and producer George Dewey in 2018. In the filing, MNTN said that on Feb. 28 "the Company entered into an agreement.

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Food52 Cofounder Amanda Hesser Steps Down

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Hesser co-founded Food52 16 years ago alongside Merrill Stubbs, reinventing food media for the digital age.

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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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WhatsApp’s Bold Privacy Claim Says Your Everyday, ‘Chaotic’ Messages are Off Limits

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WhatsApp wants to assuage users concerns about privacy in its largest marketing campaign to date.

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The DunKings Will Return to Super Bowl 59

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Move over, Taylor Swift. The DunKings are back for Super Bowl 59. Dunkin' announced its return to the Big Game during the Grammy Awards on Sunday evening, with an ad that reveals the next chapter of The DunKings--a fictional boy band, fronted by actor Ben Affleck.

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Microsoft Lures Brands to Advertise in Chatbot Copilot with New Formats and AI Agents

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Microsoft is blurring the line between search and shopping with new AI-powered ads in its generative AI chatbot, Copilot. It unveiled several AI ad formats and tools today at its Advertising Accelerate event in the Dominican Republic, including Showroom Ads, an interactive split-screen experience that mimics in-store guidance, and branded AI agents that let brands.

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Advertisers Are Losing Trust In TAG and MRC After Damning CSAM Report

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Advertisers are losing their faith in the Media Rating Council (MRC) and the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG), industry accreditation organizations who are responsible for upholding rigorous brand safety standards. An Adalytics report last week found MRC- and TAG-certified vendors, including DoubleVerify and IAS, were monitoring ads on image-hosting site imgbb.com, that had been flagged by.

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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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WPP Makes Next Big AI Bet With Investment in Stability AI

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WPP is deepening its artificial intelligence toolset and making a strategic move into generative AI with a stake in Stability AI. The holding company's investment in Stability AI is meant to deepen access its advanced AI models for creating images, videos, 3D designs, and audio. In return, Stability AI will benefit from WPP's marketing expertise.

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Google Has Pulled Nearly 200 Apps Due to Extensive Android Ad Fraud Scheme

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Google has wiped over 180 apps from the Play Store in response to findings from ad verification vendor Integral Ad Science (IAS) that uncovered a massive ad fraud operation that used shell Android apps to generate millions of dollars in ad revenue. After noticing a handful of "anomalies in app behavior and traffic patterns" in.

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The Top Rising and Declining Job Titles in Marketing

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Although the number of U.S. jobs in advertising, public relations, and other related services remained flat throughout 2024, the jobs themselves are changing. Exclusive data from LinkedIn shows how. When comparing the quantity of marketing-related job titles on LinkedIn user profiles in 2024 versus 2022, no position experienced more growth than "Sales Marketing Supervisor," which.

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Meta Launches Thread Video Ads and Revives Facebook Live Ads

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Meta launches Thread video ads and shares Reels insight at NewFronts.

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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.