Marketing

McDonald’s is a Top 10 global brand & its app may explain why

McDonald’s is a brand that hundreds of millions, if not billions of people across the world recognise. The fast food giant excels in the marketing space, largely down to its brand being instantly recognisable. Not only that, its advertising campaigns reflect familiar everyday experiences and both its digital and physical customer journey have remained consistent

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Ads are entering AI assistants: What digital marketers need to know now

AI is changing the marketing landscape, becoming key to how marketers build campaigns. Generative AI is now being used across the board to boost creative development and help teams track performance signals better.  AI advertising continues to evolve from sponsored answers into systems that can use product catalogues, recommendations, and agent-led transactions. Industry publications, such

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AI agents are entering enterprise workflows faster than governance can keep up

As enterprises continue to increase their adoption of autonomous AI, many are facing a new challenge where governance frameworks struggle to keep pace with systems that can take independent action rather than simply create content. So far, much of the focus on generative AI has been on accuracy, hallucinations and productivity. As AI systems gain

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How DTC startups are using AI to scale more efficiently

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. During a panel discussion at eTail Boston last week, several founders and executives shared how they are navigating evolving retail challenges, omnichannel partnerships and emerging AI tools to drive growth. From reimagining their relationships with big-box and wholesale partners to using AI operationally and for

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Ad Tech Briefing: TV measurement’s competitive reset gathers pace (with more job cuts)

The TV measurement market has compressed several months’ worth of developments into little more than a week, prompting fresh debate over whether the sector is entering its next competitive chapter. Related Insights Strategizing for the Future By the numbers: Wall Street’s tough assessment of ad tech Read More The sequence began on August 6, when

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Marketers embrace AI across workflows, but questions over guardrails and job impacts remain

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify Marketers are handing over more of the marketing process to AI tools. Rather than operating within specific rules and guardrails, marketers have adopted a loose framework that’s constantly shifting. Marketing execs are pushing for company-wide AI adoption, expecting everyone to use AI tools to expedite brainstorming, scale creative ideas and

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How Unilever detergent brand Persil measures sports sponsorship impact

Brand spending on sports sponsorship is rising, but tracking the impact of those sponsorships is an increasingly heavy burden for the marketers tasked with getting the most out of their dollars. When a brand is active in multiple sports with different fan cultures, media footprints and cultural gravity wells, tracking their impact becomes even harder.

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