Marketing

CMO Strategies: The highs and lows of the dominant social media platforms — from Instagram to YouTube

This is the first half of Digiday’s CMO Strategies report on social media. The CMO Strategies series analyzes key marketer strategies and challenges across leading marketing channels, including ad-supported streaming, retail media and display advertising. 01 Introduction Among all marketing channels considered in Digiday+ Research’s CMO Strategies series, social media had the highest usage rate […]

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Marketing Briefing: How marketers are trying to balance performance and storytelling to build the modern ‘evergreen’ brand

Marketers want to know how to build a modern brand.  That may seem like a strange statement. Aren’t marketers supposed to be stewards of their brands at all times? Shouldn’t they already know how to do just that? (Well, yeah.) But over the past few years, there’s been tension between the focus on the short-term

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The DOJ Wins Its Search Antitrust Case Against Google. Next Up Is Ad Tech

“Google is a monopolist.” No need to say “allegedly” anymore, because that’s a direct quote from Judge Amit Mehta’s ruling against Google and in favor of the Department of Justice. The decision, which came down on Monday afternoon, is the culmination of the DOJ’s case arguing that Google maintains an illegal monopoly over the search

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We’re Entering a New Era of Sustainability Marketing

Everything that fell under corporate social responsibility was every company’s darling following the murder of George Floyd and the onset of the pandemic in 2020. But fast forward to now, and brands are increasingly defending, scaling back or even canceling their ESG programs and platforms. Why? For one, too many made unrealistic promises–but it’s also…

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Why Warner Bros. and Fandango are selling movie tickets inside Roblox

As of today, August 5, Roblox users are able to purchase movie tickets directly inside the platform. Roblox’s latest real-life commerce test is a partnership between Warner Bros., which is using the experience to promote the Sept. 6 release of the film “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice,” and Fandango, which is operating the experience’s virtual box office, through

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InMarket Acquires MMM Startup ChannelMix (And Says That Its Tech Is Up To Code After Settling With The FTC)

MTA is dead, long live MMM. And also vice versa. Because there’s value in both approaches. They’re better when used together, said Todd Morris, CEO of location data and measurement company InMarket. And Morris is willing to bet on that. On Monday, InMarket acquired ChannelMix, a marketing analytics startup primarily focused on media mix modeling.

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