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  • Deepfakes and Trust: Inside Accenture’s Experience at CES 2025

    At CES 2025, Accenture invited clients and guests to explore the AI-powered future, showcasing the power of new technologies, reinvention—and trust—through experiences that broke through even at the largest tech show of the year. Just off the show floor at The Venetian Expo, the company’s branded lounge was about what’s next and how it translates […]

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  • The top 3 things on Lululemon CEO Calvin McDonald’s to-do list 

    At the NRF ’25 conference, Lululemon CEO Calvin McDonald discusses how the brand manufacturer has doubled its sales twice in the past six years and how it plans to do it again.   Lululemon is ahead of schedule for its target revenue goal of $12.5 billion in annual sales by 2026. And it plans to […]

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  • Ad Tech Is Acquiring: On T-Mobile-Vistar And Trade Desk-Sincera

    M&A started off with a bang in 2025. T-Mobile bought Vistar Media, and The Trade Desk bought Sincera. With a special guest from LUMA Partners, Conor McKenna, we explore the rationale for these ad tech acquisitions.

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  • What Happens If Time Runs Out For TikTok?

    TikTok has gotten a reprieve from President Trump, but the threat of a ban still looms. Don’t push the panic button, advises Natalie Andrews, Manager of Social Operations at Adtaxi. How would a TikTok ban impact advertisers? For marketers, the prospect of a TikTok ban represents a major disruption, as it forces an immediate pivot. […]

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  • How Dating Apps Are Going Offline to Combat the Loneliness Epidemic

    It’s a brand-new year, and singles are taking the time to reflect, reset and restart their dating journeys with open hearts. The first Sunday in January is annually recognized as Dating Sunday, the busiest day for dating apps, and Tinder revealed the internal data to back this up: Swipe activity is nearly 20-percent higher than […]

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  • CES 2025: Five Things to Know About HERE Technologies’ Sustainability Strategy

    Designed at a precise 17-degree angle to meet the gaze of CES 2025 attendees as they entered the Las Vegas Convention Center’s West Hall, HERE Technologies’ 3,500-square-foot booth proclaimed in a banner overhead, “There’s more in HERE.” And from a design strategy perspective, there certainly was. For nearly a decade at CES, the location technology […]

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  • Cyberattacks: Must-haves for a Crisis Communication Plan

    When a cyberattack unfolds and users’ personal data is at risk to be compromised, companies cannot afford to waste time deliberating their next communication steps.

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  • GenAI: Changing the Marketing Game

    Gen AI is disrupting the ad testing market, enabling marketers to test the effectiveness of their content at a scale never seen before. Peter Daboll, Head of US at AI platform DAIVID, talks about the transformation – and the Super Bowl.   How is GenAI disrupting the ad testing market? GenAI, or AI more generally, […]

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  • The Brief: Toy-Sized Showrooms and Fantasy ‘Foodball’

    This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover toy-sized pop-ups, a Fantasy Foodball Pool, and live from New York, it’s The SNL50 Experience.

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  • LG Ad Solutions’ CTO Dave Rudnick On How AI Will Influence CTV Experiences

    Today, AI is being used in CTV for a variety of machine learning applications. But in the future, AI will drive an unprecedented level of personalization. In this interview at CES 2025, LG Ad Solutions CTO Dave Rudnick talks about the division’s new “moonshot” unit, Innovation Labs, and more ways technology is transforming the streaming […]

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