Marketers
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Brands on Fire
Brands on Fire: Hyundai Motor America CMO Talks Data, Experiential, AI and Ecommerce
Hyundai Motor America CMO Sean Gilpin discusses the brand’s FIFA partnership, data-driven marketing strategies, brand versus performance, AI efficiencies in media and more.
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Marketers
Hard Truths For Retail Media At The IAB Connected Commerce Summit
The IAB’s 2026 Connected Commerce Summit in New York City felt to me like the retail media industry’s first sit-down explanation to a child who is now a “big kid” and must act accordingly. Not the birds-and-bees-type conversation by any means (we’ll save that for the consolidation phase in the future). But an important reality check. […]
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Events
PNC Bank CMO on Leveraging Experiential to Rally Hockey Fans in a Growth Market
When PNC Bank popped up an orange-bricked barbershop outside the Dallas Stars’ home arena, it turned heads. For one, hockey fans were drawn to the giant, perfectly coifed mullet atop of it.
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Marketers
Dairy-Free Creamer Brand Nutpods Is Cracking Fragmentation With AI-Powered Insights
A new marketing intelligence platform helps brands like nutpods address fragmentation by unifying data and inventory across the digital ecosystem.
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AI
The Agentic Marketplace Is Here. Where Does That Leave DSPs and SSPs?
Swivel and Olyzon’s new partnership brings buy-side and sell-side agents together as early examples of an agentic marketplace.
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Marketers
MLS CMO on Growing U.S. Soccer Fandom Ahead of World Cup
With the 2026 FIFA World Cup set to kick off in June, Major League Soccer is presented with a unique opportunity to showcase U.S. soccer fandom and introduce new audiences to the league’s culture. The global tentpole event will be jointly hosted by the U.S., Canada and Mexico this summer from June 11 to July […]
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Marketers
The Sports World Is Getting The Retail Media Bug
The retail media revolution of data-driven, digital marketing monetization is coming to the sports industry. On the innocuous end of the sports marketing spectrum, this week, Pacers Sports & Entertainment (PS&E) debuted what it calls the Fieldhouse Media Network in partnership with Deloitte and Yieldmo. PS&E owns the Indiana pro basketball teams – the NBA’s […]
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Marketers
AI Helps Manscaped Trim Social Chatter Down To The Bare Essentials
Even for the terminally online, it’s hard to keep pace with social media trends. But that only applies to terminally online humans. Marketers now have AI tools that can read and analyze posts at the speed of viral trends and surface data and popular creators to inform ad campaigns. Consiglieri, a boutique consultancy founded by […]
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Campaigns
Education Platform Pearson Uses AI To Rewrite Its Past
Pearson is trying to outrun its past. For many people, the education brand reminds them of a logo on the back of a high school chemistry textbook. But the company sees itself as a lifelong learning partner spanning schools, universities, vocational training and the workplace. And Pearson wants to shift the audience’s perception. Pearson’s first […]
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Shopper/Retail
‘Treat’ Culture, COVID and Lack of 5-Year Plan Colors Gen Z Spending
NRF digs into Gen Z consumer spending patterns, plus forecasts 4.4% retail growth in 2026, in annual State of Retail & the Consumer event.
