Could Google’s embrace of attention metrics help the industry evolve past easily manipulated viewability measurement? Danny Zhu, director of digital and performance marketing at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) North America, thinks so. “Google DV360 adding Adelaide’s Attention Unit (AU) metric as an optimization signal is “going to be a game changer for us,” Zhu told […]

This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover Nostalgia Malls, Hound Lounges and Fizz Mobs.

Scott Dobroski, VP of Corporate Communications at Indeed, demoed a real-time example of using AI for pitching the media on ChatGPT.

With fewer consumers using paper, Swingline taps into broader markets and design-forward staplers to spur sales. Swingline’s marketing VP shares more marketing tactics in a challenged category.   Swingline wants shoppers to buy another stapler. Or just one.   For years, the 100-year-old stapler brand has faced a slow, single-digit decrease in sales, along with the […]

By Allyson Dietz, Senior Director of Product Marketing, TransUnion For years, marketers have been sold the dream that first-party data is the key to everything. Own the relationship. Build direct connections. Future-proof your business. As digital privacy concerns mounted and the demise of third-party cookies loomed, the message was clear: collect your own data, and […]

Topdrawer’s top marketer talks tariffs, physical stores and the Wirecutter.   When marketers have to choose between driving conversion and building brand awareness, Topdrawer’s Poonam Chitnis says affiliates can hit both goals.   Chitnis is vice president of operations and marketing executive at Topdrawer, a manufacturer and seller of leather goods, accessories and other “creative tools.” Akira Ito […]

We might thank Barbie for the shift from sad beige to unabashedly bold color play over the past two years. The practice has been seeping into every corner of the event landscape, most interestingly in business conference and trade show environments. This year, however, patterns and textures have joined the mix in what Pinterest and […]

You oughta be in pictures, cable. And the Syndeo Institute at the Cable Center is working to make it happen.

Amid the glitz of TV upfront presentations, advertising executives take the stage to talk about things like new audience targeting capabilities or to ballyhoo new ad measurement partnerships. How, though, are we supposed to focus on brand lift statistics when we can all hear Lady Gaga belting a vocal warmup offstage?

GroupM is restructuring, as AI looms over the business model of agency holding companies, and one-click campaign planning comes for agency jobs.