Digital + Social
System1-TikTok Study: Branding Elements and Creator-led Content Improve Short-form Video Ads
Short-form video ads must be creative and entertaining to capture attention, but prioritizing creator-led content and leading with brand assets—like jingles, mascots and logos—is most effective for brand building and conversion, according to new research from System1 and TikTok.
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Branding/Marketing
Survey: Marketers Addressing Tariff Flux with Value Messaging, Pricing Transparency
In response to the continuing changes and uncertainty regarding tariffs, marketers are amending their strategies and tactics, focusing more on highlighting value and cutting spend on non-digital channels.
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CTV Roundup
How Visit Savannah Finds Its Target “Luxury” Traveler On CTV Channels
Like so many of us in this industry, I like to think that knowing how the proverbial sausage gets made leaves me less susceptible to advertising’s influence. Even still, there’s something about travel commercials – especially ones produced by tourism boards – that always make me want to pack up and go to whatever fun […]
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CTV Roundup
IAB Tech Lab Says Advertisers Are Excited About Pause Ads – But Are Users?
Advertisers love new ad formats, especially on connected TV. Just look at how many platforms announced their own during the IAB NewFronts and TV upfronts last month. But it’s possible to have too much of a good thing.
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Influencer Marketing
Sprout Social Report: 60% of Brands Doubling Down on Influencer Marketing in 2025
Influencer marketing is on the rise, with 59% of all marketers—and 69% of U.S. marketers—planning to partner with more influencers this year, according to a new report from Sprout Social.
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Influencer Marketing
Gen Z and the Marketing Funnel: Try Nonlinear and RTBs [Reasons to Believe]
Marketers are wooing Gen Z as assiduously as they did millennials, Gen X and baby boomers before them. But not all the methods of courting previous generations of consumers work with Gen Z.
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CTV Roundup
A Not-So-Modest Proposal For A Sports-Specific CTV Viewing Guide
You’d think the United States Congress would have bigger things to worry about right now than figuring out where and when football games are airing… and yet.
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CTV Roundup
Why CTV Won’t Fall Into The Same Commoditization Trap As The Open Internet Did
At AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO event in Las Vegas this week, our executive editor, Sarah Sluis, asked a panel of experts from NBCUniversal, Roku and Tubi if programmatic buying will inevitably lead to a repeat on CTV of what happened with digital media publishers.
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Sponsorships
12 Brand Experiences at the 2025 Miami Grand Prix
A photo gallery roundup of 12 brand experiences at this year’s Miami Grand Prix.
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Branding/Marketing
Unilever CMO on Creating Demand Through a ‘Culture to Cart’ Approach
The marketing funnel is dead, said Esi Eggleston Bracey, Unilever’s Chief Growth and Marketing Officer at the POSSIBLE conference in Miami in April. Here’s a look at her “culture-to-cart” approach.
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CTV Roundup
Hey, TV Upfronts: You Don’t Have To Apologize For Using Ad Tech Jargon
Amid the glitz of TV upfront presentations, advertising executives take the stage to talk about things like new audience targeting capabilities or to ballyhoo new ad measurement partnerships. How, though, are we supposed to focus on brand lift statistics when we can all hear Lady Gaga belting a vocal warmup offstage?