The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence has enabled the industry to focus on collecting the right data—and make it actionable. Marketers are prioritizing metrics that inform strategic decision-making. They’re using new, and much improved, technology and taking cues from neuroscience. As a result, they’re gathering meaningful intel from, and about, their audiences, then reimagining their […]

If they manage the next year well, publishers could emerge with more control over their business, stronger relationships with readers, and better deals with advertisers. Success lies in their ability to create hedged gardens, not the logged-in, ubiquitous worlds of Amazon, Google, or Meta, but differentiated by unique content, audiences, and products.

This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover COLAsseums, Date Week adventures and Barbie’s StreamHouse.

Is the marketing funnel as we know it officially dead? Variations of that eternal question were posed over and over again to panelists at Paramount Advertising’s Performance Now summit in New York City on Tuesday. But despite some speakers joking that “funnel” has become “the new F-word,” no one really took the bait. In fact, […]

Digital advertising has long promised precision and efficiency. But our obsession with “following the audience” has allowed low-quality sites and vanity metrics to thrive while brand integrity suffers. This singular focus on targeting audiences and measuring their impact through typically non-incremental attribution, rather than evaluating media quality, has steered us off course. The digital landscape […]

Industry experts assembled at PRNEWS’ inaugural “PR Thought Leadership Strategies on LinkedIn” event Tuesday  afternoon to share best practices and tips for writing posts, becoming a LinkedIn thought leader, mastering the platform’s algorithm, media training clients and optimizing newsletter engagement. Following are insights from event.

The editors of Event Marketer have unveiled the winners of the 2024 Experience Design Awards, an annual recognition of outstanding event design, innovative builds, interactive tech, and environmental creativity across a wide variety of consumer-targeted and business-to-business event formats.

Data clean rooms (DCRs) are hyped as a privacy-safe alternative to audience targeting, but the FTC isn’t buying it. In a blog post, the FTC says that DCRs “are not rooms, do not clean data, and have complicated implications for user privacy, despite their squeaky-clean name.” 

What’s the best way for advertisers to get the most performance possible out of their Meta campaigns? The answer, according to Meta, is to buy more ads on Meta. It’s recommending that advertisers launch new ads into their Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns every single week, especially leading into the holiday season. Meta would say that, of […]

As artificial intelligence reshapes the ad-marketing landscape, it revolutionizes data-driven decision-making, enhances creative processes, and paves the way for predictive analytics. In this article, Christena Garduno, CEO of Media Culture explores how AI’s integration drives efficiency and personalization while keeping the human touch at the forefront of meaningful customer interactions.