Marketing

Gale’s Audience-First Approach Wins ADWEEK’s US Media Agency of the Year

According to global CEO Andrew Noel, Gale is setting the standard for modern marketing by blending “the strategic prowess of consultancies with the creative excellence of agencies.” Since its founding in 2014, the agency has grown from seven employees to more than 750, offering full-service capabilities across creative, digital, public relations, data, and technology. It…

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Women’s Sports Score Huge 56% Increase in Ad Effectiveness

Women’s sports continue scoring big. Today, a new report from TV outcomes and data company EDO revealed that women’s sports spiked to a 56% increase in ad effectiveness year over year, fueled by a 131% increase in viewership in 2024. Women’s sports ads also brought 40% more ad effectiveness/impact than the average primetime ad last…

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Scale by Zambezi Defies the Odds to Win ADWEEK’s Breakthrough Media Agency of the Year

The odds seemed stacked against Scale by Zambezi, the media agency under creative shop Zambezi, at the start of 2024. After a few projects had ended and certain clients reduced budgets, Scale faced a 26% drop in revenue compared to 2023. But business turned around, and over the course of the year, Scale was able…

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Marketers and agencies grapple with divisions over who controls retail media spend

Executive dysfunction behind the scenes at brand advertisers is making it harder for them to track and direct retail media investments. The segment is one of the fastest growing areas of investment (accounting for over $140 billion of global ad spend, per eMarketer) and has provided a new stream of revenue for major retailers in

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Shopping app LTK beefs up consumer app with focus on videos as social algorithms keep changing

With so many creators making their livelihoods across social platforms, players like shopping app LTK and creators virtually have no control over how those algorithms shift and prioritize content. More importantly, this leaves creators vulnerable if their affiliate businesses are built on social media, like TikTok and Instagram. LTK hopes to give back control to

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How Pinterest went from selling views to selling clicks and conversions, with CRO Bill Watkins

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify Pinterest has spent the last few years quietly battling for ad dollars, courting advertisers with AI-powered products, like its Performance+ tool which launched last fall, and beefing up its performance capabilities to capture a bigger portion of ad budgets.  Based on the platform’s latest earnings, in which Pinterest reported $3.65

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Why big brands are turning agency reviews into quiet affairs

These days, everything is getting quieter. Employees check out in silence — quiet quitting. Companies nudge them out just as discreetly — quiet firing. And now, even the high-stakes theater of ad agency reviews has been muted. Advertisers are ditching the bloated pageantry of requests for proposals in favor of something more understated: no press,

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