It’s official: AI is coming for marketing jobs. CMOs’ ad budgets are flat this year compared to last year, according to Gartner’s annual CMO Spend Survey. Fifty-nine percent of CMOs said they don’t have enough budget to execute their strategy this year. Overall, brand marketing budgets will average 7.7% of company revenue in 2025, the […]

Economic concerns may be in the headlines, but networks still pulled out all the stops for the splashy spectacle of the network upfronts Monday. They also announced some real news.

Instead of simply watching ads on the big screen, consumers are now being encouraged to interact with those ads – a shift in marketing that was particularly apparent at the 2025 NewFronts presentations in New York City this week.

Warren Buffett, long considered the “Oracle of Omaha,” mastered not just capital allocation, but the art of strategic storytelling.

The Formula 1 Crypto.com Miami Grand Prix took the city by storm last weekend, as fans braved heavy rain to watch their favorite drivers race around the Miami International Autodrome circuit at the Hard Rock Stadium complex, May 2-4. A sell-out crowd of close to 275,500 fans attended the three-day event that included practice and qualifying […]

If you felt a strange gust around 5 pm ET on Thursday, it was probably the cumulative sighs of relief across Wall Street as The Trade Desk shook off its Q4 blues with a better-than-expected first quarter earnings report. In February, when TTD reported a bad miss on Q4 revenue, its shares plummeted by one-third, […]

This week’s PR Roundup looks at the annual Cision State of the Media Report, what we learned about higher education and crisis at the Meltwater Summit and new digital data from GIPHY on the papal internet frenzy.

Following two pop-filled weekends of Coachella, it was country music’s time to shine at Stagecoach 2025, held April 25-27 in Indio, CA. Western culture permeated The Empire Polo Club, as festivalgoers showed up in fashionable cowboy hats and boots, colorful bandanas, and shiny belt buckles to catch their favorite artists perform at stages spread across […]

Does a connected TV DSP need lower take rates? Inside the battle among DSP’s to take on The Trade Desk’s dominant market position. Plus: an on-the-ground report from the TV Newfronts.

 By Rachel Hazelwood, VP, CX & Digital Transformation, Night Market This blog was co-written with AI. That’s the point. Because how we use AI is the story and the strategy. At Night Market, AI doesn’t replace our strategic thinking. It enhances it. It’s embedded in how we explore ideas, build experience strategy, and communicate with […]