Marketing

The word “innovation” gets thrown around in every press release and new product announcement, but what does it actually mean? Carol Reed, Ogilvy’s new chief innovation officer, says one of the key elements of innovation is knowing what sort of companies to partner with – the “usual suspects,” like media, social and tech platforms, but […]

Top-shelf whisky — and whiskey — brands are reaching for a familiar combination of ingredients as they seek to recruit younger consumers into category customers. Premium blended Scotch brand Chivas Regal, a sponsor of Ferrari’s Formula 1 team since 2024, recently launched a new ad built around driver Charles Leclerc. Running across TV, paid social

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify In a not so distant future, LLMs may become the first stop in the online shopping journey. For Tim Peterson, Digiday executive editor, video and audio, that trend has already started.  “I’m very close to actually having AI do my grocery shopping,” Peterson said on a recent episode of the

X is making the same pitch every other platform is making: scale plus AI equals performance.  As ever, the proof will be in the ad spend (or lack of it) given this isn’t the first time the platform has tried to reinvent itself with advertisers. Since Elon Musk’s controversial acquisition of the platform in 2022,

You may not know the name for it, but you’ve probably experienced it: you click on a link to a webpage, hit the “back” button on your browser, but end up on a page you never intentionally visited. That’s called “back button hijacking,” and Google is cracking down on the practice. Execs warned website owners

“It’s a Pepper Fling” tells the story of a fleeting love affair and comes as parent Keurig Dr Pepper looks to increase marketing investment.

Hundreds of exasperated and unexpected ad industry phone calls were made on Sunday, as agencies and ad tech vendors discussed the fallout of Publicis Groupe’s $2.2 billion acquisition of LiveRamp over the weekend. Publicis has roughly doubled its market cap over the past four years, as other agency holdcos and ad tech businesses have struggled.