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Branding/Marketing
Top Tips: Sustainability Communications
In this round of Top Tips, we asked the experts for best practices regarding sustainability communications—what’s working, what’s not and how brands can avoid greenwashing while staying true to their values.
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Marketers
How Ecommerce Brands Are Finding Customers During A Tempest Of Headwinds
Americans are dealing with tumultuous change at the moment. I know it. But consider the situation for a Slovenian ecommerce ad agency, navigating the same tariff craziness, as well as the flood of Temu advertisements that are being pulled from the US market. And that’s not to mention the platform AI solutions all looking to […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
Unpacking Google Breakup Proposals: New Rules, New Risks For Marketers
A long-simmering antitrust battle concerning Google’s ad tech business has reached a decisive turning point. On April 17, 2025, US District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that Google violated sections one and two of the Sherman Act. She found that Google monopolized the open-web display publisher ad server market (via DFP) and the ad exchange market […]
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B-to-C Events
The Brief: Cheese Raves and Cannabis Countdowns
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover Cheese Raves, Fast Food Financing and 4/20 countdowns.
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Cynsiders
AI and Ad Insertion: How Machine Learning Is Changing Product Placement and Brand Integration
By Moe Nagle Competition for eyeballs is fierce. Just ask Deloitte, noting in its 2025 Digital Media Trends report, studios and streaming providers are facing off while social video platforms are proving contenders. Streaming and on-demand viewing are shifting traditional ad models. The surge in recent years in streaming on-demand video has resulted in fragmented […]
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Branding/Marketing
How To Create High-Quality Videos On A Budget (Yes, it is Possible)
With the right strategy and a few smart tools, professional-looking videos can be created without breaking the bank.
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B-to-C Events
Scream Machines
Whether in response to joy, fear or frustration, screaming is a part of human nature that marketers are tapping into to foster richer memory-making. Activations that center around screaming booths and audio-triggered vending machines are popping up to provide consumers with a participatory activity that inherently elicits heightened emotions (and, usually, a good laugh). Depending […]
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The Big Story
Ta-Ta To US Temu Ads
Temu pulled back on its US ad spend this week, as tariffs loom. Plus, in France, the ATT prompt was deemed anticompetitive and, as a result, will likely need to be changed.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Blue Origin Promo Criticism, Omnicom Falls Short, Sponsoring a Team That ‘Sucks’
This week’s PR Roundup features a look at the conversation surrounding the Blue Origin celebrity flight—positive AND negative, what Omnicom coming up short on first quarter revenue means for the PR industry, and a new lollipop brand’s campaign to encourage people to “suck at something.”
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B-to-C Events
The Brief: Flavor Factories and Bar Tenders
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover Flavor Factories, Bar Tenders and Uber’s Lost and Found.
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