Marketing

Rising demand for principal media buying underpins WPP’s turnaround plan

Demand for principal based media buying expertise is rising among the industry’s top clients despite long-held transparency concerns, according to WPP’s top execs. Speaking as the once market leading agency group published a turnaround plan on Thursday (Feb. 26) to return the company to commercial growth in 2027, WPP Media boss Brian Lesser and chief

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Nestlé’s AI push brings new marketing tools into daily workflows

Nestlé is embedding AI into its marketing and sales operations, reshaping how teams plan campaigns and manage workflows. The company is rebuilding the infrastructure beneath its marketing systems to support artificial intelligence. Over the past year, Nestlé has taken steps to prepare its global teams to use AI in routine, revenue-related tasks and creative production.

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Urban Outfitters shifts its influencer strategy from reach to participation

Urban Outfitters is launching a creator program centered around the hyper-personalized engagement that comes with passionate micro-creators and their communities. The move marks a structural shift in the retail brand’s creator strategy, and sees it join a growing group of brands that are gamifying their creator programs — moving away from curated, one-off partnerships toward broad,

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Brands at eTail Palm Springs share lessons on the ‘messy middle’ of building AI tools

This story was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail When Owen Spencer first started conversations about how artificial intelligence could be used for coding at sporting goods manufacturer Revelyst over a year ago, the first response was apprehension. This was when ChatGPT was first taking off, and Spencer, Revelyst’s former senior director of DTC applications

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