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Marketers
Mars United CEO Rob Rivenburgh On Selling To Publicis, And Where Retail Media Goes Next
In prior holiday seasons, Mars United execs offered AdExchanger end-of-year commerce perspectives as a rare bird in the agency world: a large indie player in a pool full of holding companies. This year, Mars is back on the docket. Except now it’s to talk about the company’s acquisition by Publicis, the largest of the agency […]
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Global Ad Revenue Cracks The $1 Trillion Dollar Mark In 2024
If “Austin Powers” supervillain Dr. Evil wanted to hold the world ransom for $100 billion, the global advertising industry might actually be able to afford it – at least, according to GroupM’s end-of-year forecast.
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Brands on Fire
Brands on Fire: Violife Chief Growth Officer Talks Latest Campaign, Innovation and Market Expansion
We spoke with Violife’s Global President & Chief Growth Officer about the brand’s latest dairy-free cream cheese campaign, product innovations and leveraging humor to break through.
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Marketers
Experian Buys Audigent (Guess Ad Tech M&A Really Is Back)
Cyber Monday may be done, but the ad tech deal-making just won’t quit. On Wednesday, Experian joined the ad tech consolidation parade with its acquisition of Audigent, a startup DMP and curation vendor. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. It’s been a busy few months in the ad tech sector. The Audigent deal follows […]
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Financial Services Advertisers In The UK Just Got Over A Frightful Meta Bug
Call it a Glitchmas miracle. Maybe. At long last, Meta appears to have resolved a glitch in its ad platform that prevented new financial services advertisers from running campaigns, according to three UK-based agencies, one affiliate network and two financial brand advertisers, all of whom spoke with AdExchanger on condition of anonymity. But how big […]
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Marketers
The POV On Data Privacy As The Clock Ticks Down To A Second Trump Presidency
As a partner at law firm Reed Smith with a focus on ad tech and emerging technology, Nikki Bhargava fields a lot of questions from clients that start with the word “how.” How do you roll out AI-driven products while still maintaining privacy and security? How do you harmonize compliance with different privacy requirements across […]
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Branding/Marketing
Marketing Has a Marketing Problem—and It’s Hurting Long-term Business Health
Marketers’ deep understanding of customers and what motivates their behaviors allows them to “see around corners” on behalf of an organization and position their business more competitively. But too often they are turned to as storytellers rather than drivers of corporate strategy and revenue. That needs to change, writes our columnists.
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Marketers
Firestone Walker Brewing’s CMO On Billboards, Non-Alcoholic Beers And Digital Shelves
Last week, I was eager to do a call with Dustin Hinz, CMO of Firestone Walker Brewing, a Los Angeles-based beer maker that just launched its first non-alcoholic beer line, “8ZERO5.” I was curious about the beer-brand perspective on non-alcoholic drinks. There are many natural brand collaborations: Jack Daniels and Coca-Cola, Absolut Vodka and Ocean […]
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Marketers
How CTV Marketers Can Learn To Stop Worrying And Love The Full Funnel
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, […]
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Meta Might Be Right About AI Ad Spend
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 […]
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