Marketing

Media giant Essence launches a marketplace for Black women-led brands

The story was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail When LaToya Stirrup’s brand Kazmaleje first landed on Target’s shelves in 2022, it felt like a dream come true. The Miami-based founder had spent years building her hair-tool brand — which she launched in 2019 — and securing placement at a national big-box retailer gave her […]

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Starbucks hires first-of-its-kind marketing role heading up fashion and beauty collabs

This story was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail Starbucks has poached a senior manager from E.l.f. Cosmetics as part of its ongoing quest to re-energize the Starbucks brand through cultural collaborations. Neiv Toledano has joined Starbucks as its senior marketing manager of fashion and beauty. While Starbucks has always had employees who have worked

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What publishers are wishing for this holiday season: End AI scraping and determine AI-powered audience value

If publishers had one Christmas wish, it’d be for the chaos to end.  That means an end to the unscrupulous AI scraping that’s made even the notorious Wild West of ad tech in the mid to late 2010s look like small fry.   Naturally, the toothpaste is out of the tube when it comes to AI

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In Graphic Detail: The state of AI referral traffic in 2025

One thing became clear this year: AI platforms are changing where, how and how much referral traffic gets sent to publishers’ sites.  It’s a topic we covered often this year. ChatGPT referral traffic nearly doubled, but is still a very small percentage of publishers’ overall traffic. Google’s AI Overviews, its AI-generated summaries on the search

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