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Behind Unilever’s creator and social strategy for next year’s World Cup

Next year’s FIFA World Cup stands to be the largest spectator event in history. And Unilever, one of the planet’s largest advertisers with a total marketing budget of $10.1 billion in 2024, is determined to capitalize on the billions watching. “Next year is the biggest sporting event that’s ever going to happen..It’s taking place in

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Why AI and synthetic social aren’t driving up creator value — yet

In the age of synthetic social, it’s getting harder to tell the difference between AI and human-generated content. Despite the AI hype, the influx of synthetic social (and mounting backlash to so-called AI slop) isn’t resulting in more, lucrative brand deals for creators according to the five influencer agency execs Digiday spoke with for this

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Ad Tech Briefing: AppLovin’s AI-fueled surge and The Trade Desk’s stumble show where investors are placing their bets

AppLovin and The Trade Desk emerged as the clear attention-grabbers in this ad tech earnings window — but for very different reasons, and with very different signals about how investors are reading the sector’s future. AppLovin stock, FTW  This is a member-exclusive article from Digiday. Continue reading it on digiday.com and subscribe to continue reading

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Job cuts hit 22-year October high as retail layoffs from Amazon to Target mount ahead of holidays

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. U.S. firms announced the most job cuts for any October in more than 20 years, fueled in part by mass layoffs at major retail companies. Employers slashed 153,074 jobs last month, up 175% from a year earlier, according to a Thursday report from global outplacement

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Publishers swap traffic angst for strategy in Q3 earnings

The tone has flipped: instead of lamenting lost clicks, publishers are outlining where and how they’re building sustainable growth. That’s been a key throughline in third-quarter publisher earnings calls: People Inc. saw search traffic declines that hurt its overall digital ad revenue, but was confident its strategy to focus on AI licensing and off-platform reach

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