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Agency Life
March: Event Industry People, Deals, and Moves
Welcome to this month’s event marketing industry news digest, featuring updates on new hires, promotions, acquisitions, and launches. Submit your news here. Acquisitions OBE Worldwide (parent of On Board Experiential) has acquired a majority stake in London-based agency Playmaker Experiential, led by managing partners Ian Hayne and James Hogben. With the deal, OBE expands the […]
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Behind the News
A Pubmatic Server Anomaly, $1 Billion CPMs, and a Complicated Programmatic Ecosystem
A group of publishers logged onto their ad account, seemingly attaining millions of ad dollars in minutes. After some ad experts investigated the programmatic ad auction, they found that some advertisers were bidding at rates as high as $1 billion. The error was a brief server anomaly at Pubmatic.
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Branding/Marketing
Downsized Delights: How Shrinkflation Can Chip Away at Brand Equity
Shrinkflation, the practice of corporations downsizing their products to maintain price levels, is dominating consumer conversations. As such, corporate communicators need to preempt and get out in front of any adverse public response taken against their brand following plans to reduce product size. Our author offers an approach that helps to mitigate the loss of consumer trust.
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AI
Generative AI Pushes Deeper into the Consumer’s Online Experience
Our industry believes the fact that generative AI algorithms can analyze vast amounts of data and generate ad content personalized to individual users is a good thing. But how do consumers feel about all of these AI-powered experiences?
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cookies
Aditude Amplifies Publisher Monetization with CPMStar Acquisition
In the high-stakes world of ad tech, strategic mergers and acquisitions can redefine the ecosystem. One such transformative move is Aditude’s recent acquisition of CPMStar, a key player in the gaming advertising space.
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B-to-C Events
The Brief: Cash Showers and ‘F*d Up’ Sponsorships
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover cash showers, glitter-filled toilets and “f*d up” marathon sponsorships.
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Online Advertising
For Verizon Business, Reaching The Customer Means Empowering The Marketer
Iris Meijer is familiar with the chief marketing gig at large mobile telecoms. She held senior and CMO roles at Nokia and Vodafone before joining Verizon Business, Verizon’s B2B services unit, in late 2021. But this year, Verizon Business added a new letter to her title, promoting Meijer to chief product and marketing officer. The […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
Stop Data Hoarding: Interoperability Is Key To A Strong Data Culture
In our ever-changing industry, staying quick on your feet is paramount to overcoming obstacles. But even by typical standards, this past year was particularly tumultuous. One of the most significant concerns has been the official onset of cookie deprecation, a long-anticipated development that has sent publishers scrambling. Between the alphabet soup of alternative IDs, addressability […]
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B-to-B Events
The Full SXSW 2024 Recap: 11 Experiential Marketing Trends Spotted in Austin
As Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ’Em” blasted over the airwaves of various events and activations at SXSW 2024, we were on the ground to see which brands played their cards right. And along our quest to discover the most compelling brand experiences during the 38th annual conference and festivals, which ran March 8-16, some clear experiential […]
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B-to-B Events
From Best Buy to Salesforce, Top 17 Booth Builds from the HIMSS24 Show Floor
Centered on the theme of “Creating tomorrow’s health,” HIMSS24 delivered on bringing together an expansive showcase of the latest digital health innovations and technologies. More than 1,000 exhibitors presented their devices and services at Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center, March 11-15. HIMSS24 brought health IT solutions to life through a vibrant, multifaceted exhibition environment. We rounded up 17 booths that pulled us in.
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