Marketing

Unilever partners with Google Cloud to expand AI use in marketing and commerce

Global consumer brands are reworking how they track customers, measure campaigns, and connect online shopping with marketing data as AI reshapes digital commerce. Unilever’s new five-year agreement with Google Cloud shows how large firms are starting to build those changes around artificial intelligence. The partnership focuses on AI-driven marketing intelligence, shared data systems, and what…

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Future of Marketing Briefing: The mental gymnastics of principal media

There’s a very specific facial expression CMOs make when “principal media” enters the conversation — composure holding, skepticism setting in. They understand the mechanics: an agency buys inventory, resells it and keeps the margin. What’s changed is the expectation that they take a side. Related Insights WTF Series WTF is principal media? Read More For some,

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WTF is a creator capital market?

Most creators still rely on brand deals and platform payouts. But a small — and growing — group is experimenting with raising capital by selling a slice of their future earnings. The activity is early and fragmented, with adopters spread out across traditional financial institutions, the crypto world, and investment firms, but it’s given rise

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In Graphic Detail: The state of the marketing agency sector

Media and creative agencies face a range of threats in 2026, from generative AI to media fragmentation and the continued dominance of Meta and Google’s platforms. In response, few businesses in this sector have stood still. They’ve chosen to merge, acquire — or in the case of Dentsu, cast loose — to keep moving forward. The likely destination?

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