Marketing

Social media use trends and insights for marketing professionals

New data in Pew Research Center’s 2025 survey reveals how Americans use online platforms, how these patterns are shifting, and what this means for brands aiming to strengthen digital engagement. Use behaviours varying sharply by age, gender, race and ethnicity, education, and political affiliation, so marketing decision makers should adapt their strategies to match the…

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AI Without Context Won’t Drive Commerce Outcomes

Performance marketers are turning to AI to navigate rising costs, data loss and increasingly complex shopper journeys – and it’s working. Creative is more personalized, targeting is sharper and optimization happens in real time. AI has proven remarkably effective at identifying patterns, predicting outcomes and driving gains across key metrics. Yet many marketers are still

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Meta’s Ad Platform Is Going Haywire In Time For The Holidays (Again)

Merry Glitchmas! To all who observe. For the uninitiated, “Glitchmas” is our name for what’s become an annual tradition when, from between roughly late October through November, Meta’s ad platform just seems to go bonkers. Among ecommerce brand marketers and social media ad agency buyers and consultants, the 2017 and 2018 holiday seasons are spoken

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Self-Driving Advertising Is A Myth: Why Automation Can’t Replace Creative Judgment

Generative AI is the new ad land obsession: a shiny promise of a fully autonomous world of self-driving advertising.  But behind the hype lies the costly delusion that automation can replace judgment and more content somehow means better marketing. We’ve entered the age of machine-made abundance, where content can be generated faster than it can

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