Trends
Hyundai Is In Hot Pursuit Of Incremental Reach
Hyundai’s latest campaign, titled “The Road,” debuted during the NFL AFC and NFC championship game on January 26, the weekend before the Super Bowl.
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Trendwatch
Ecommerce ads drive ad revenue growth for Meta
Meta said it will continue to invest billions of dollars on AI infrastructure, which will help propel its advertising revenue. Meta, parent company of social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, reported a 22% increase in revenue for 2024, generating $164.50 billion. For Q4, revenue increased 21% year over year to $48.36 billion. Advertising generated roughly […]
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Acquisition
Siggi’s Taps Peloton Instructor Emma Lovewell as Brand Ambassador in Customer Acquisition Push
Siggi’s partners with Lovewell to increase its brand awareness among her health-and-wellness-focused audience. The yogurt brand aims to double its share of the yogurt market in the next few years.
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CES 2025
Multimodal AI, Gamified Ads, Co-Creation: CES Marketing Takeaways From Deloitte’s Chief Innovation Officer
Deborah Golden, Chief Innovation Officer at Deloitte, provides the most important takeaways from CES 2025 for marketing executives.
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Agency Life
Exhibit Industry People Moves, News and Deals
Welcome to the latest event marketing industry news digest, featuring updates on new hires, promotions, acquisitions, and launches. Submit your news here. Trends American Express Global Business Travel, a software and services company for travel and expense, has launched integrated emissions-based carbon pricing. Customers can pick a carbon calculation methodology to apply a carbon fee to […]
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Coach goes after young shoppers with splashy marketing, experiential stores
Coach shares how its experiential stores, coffee shops, metaverse products and hot air balloons drive a younger shopper to its brand at NRF. Giovanni Zaccariello is the vice president of global visual experience at Coach. But most days he feels like a politician, Zaccariello said at the NRF ’25 conference in January. Zaccariello […]
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H.I.G. Capital to acquire Kantar Media for $1 billion
Investment firm H.I.G. Capital announced today it plans to acquire media measurement and analytics firm Kantar Media for $1 billion. The deal is expected to close later this year. Kantar Media operates in 60 markets and provides services, such as audience measurement insights, competitor ad spend, data analytics, media planning and validation. The acquisition will bring […]
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Trendwatch
The top 3 things on Lululemon CEO Calvin McDonald’s to-do list
At the NRF ’25 conference, Lululemon CEO Calvin McDonald discusses how the brand manufacturer has doubled its sales twice in the past six years and how it plans to do it again. Lululemon is ahead of schedule for its target revenue goal of $12.5 billion in annual sales by 2026. And it plans to […]
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Trendwatch
Online holiday sales surge 8.4% to $241.4 billion for 2024
Adobe released its 2024 online holiday shopping trends: Paid search drives the most retail sales this holiday season at nearly 30% of revenue. But influencers increase their share of holiday sales the most and convert shoppers nine-times higher than social media overall. U.S. online holiday sales increased 8.4% year over year, reaching a record of […]
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Trendwatch
Super Saturday brings in big bucks for mass merchants, off-price retailers and Ulta
The last Saturday before Christmas, Dec. 21, drove many shoppers to the store, with foot traffic surging compared to a typical Saturday in the holiday season. Beauty stores surpassed their pre-pandemic foot traffic levels, while department store foot traffic decreased 25% compared with Super Saturday 2019. The Saturday before Christmas Day, Dec. 21, dubbed […]
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Trendwatch
How AS Beauty can acquire customers profitability even during the holidays
AS Beauty, owner of cosmetic brands Bliss, Laura Geller Beauty and more, discusses the challenges of having an accurate picture of customer acquisition costs across all channels, in this interview with Multichannel Marketer’s sister publication AdExchanger. As long as AS Beauty is efficiently hitting the CAC targets it sets for its brands, it’s willing to […]