Marketing

YouTube’s deliberate pace on scalable creator ads raises eyebrows among marketers

As brands increase their spending on scalable creator ads, three marketers say YouTube is lagging behind rival platforms in its implementation of the paid ad format — but YouTube execs insist its slower rollout is designed to protect the platform’s creator community. Over the past year, social platforms have released more tools to help advertisers scale

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With S4 approach, London’s MSQ Partners emerges as dark horse in the agency race

MSQ Partners has emerged as a potential suitor for Sir Martin Sorrell’s besieged S4 Capital.  The London-based agency group has begun negotiating to merge with the Monks owner, per a statement issued to the stock market by Sorrell on Monday following a Sky News report published over the weekend. It’s a significant turn in S4’s

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Ad Tech Briefing: Can The Trade Desk turn walled gardens’ retreat into open web gains?

If you’re reading this, you’ll likely have seen at least some of the latest financial results posted by the ad tech sector’s coterie of publicly listed companies, with AppLovin and The Trade Desk leading the pack in earnings (see below). Both companies, talismans of independent ad tech, saw their stock prices dip in early hours

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CMO Strategies: How marketers are spending and measuring across social media in 2025 — from Meta to TikTok

This is the fifth installment in Digiday’s 2025 CMO Strategies series that analyzes key marketer strategies and challenges across leading marketing channels, such as retail media, display advertising, social media and ad-supported streaming. 01 Introduction Among all channels considered in Digiday’s 2025 CMO Strategies series, social media had the highest usage rate for the third

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Why Reddit is pivoting from social platform to ‘go-to search engine,’ with COO Jennifer Wong

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify The through lines between search and social are more blurred than ever, and perhaps no platform is more aware of that than Reddit, which has been pushing to become a “go-to search engine” as CEO Steve Huffman put it on the company’s latest earnings call. Back in April, the social

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Moving Forward Small Business and Semrush announce “Mastering AI Search for Your Brand” – a free 6-part virtual workshop series to empower businesses in the AI era

Moving Forward Small Business (MFSB) has announced a strategic partnership with Semrush, a leading AI-powered marketing platform, to produce “Mastering AI Search for Your Brand,” a free, in-depth 6-part virtual workshop series, kicking off on August 6, 2025, and running through September 10, 2025. This collaboration is designed to equip businesses of all sizes –…

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The Guardrails Are Down: It’s Time For Advertisers To Rethink Social Targeting

Most of us don’t realize how much control we’ve already given up. With industry red flag reports now published regularly, we’re forced to confront the hard truth that control and transparency are further away than we thought. At the same time, social platforms have shifted their content moderation approaches, with most of them embracing a

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