Marketing

Digiday+ Research: A look at brands’ 2024 holiday marketing plans

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. The holiday shopping season can be hard to predict, but that doesn’t stop brands and retailers from doing their best to plan accordingly for the most important shopping time of the year. This year, brands and retailers expect their

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Marketing execs believe deeper relationships, understanding influencers can avoid potential backlash in politics

Ahead of the upcoming presidential election, brands have pushed for influencers to be apolitical as well as planned “dark periods” where they’ll pause influencer marketing campaigns. That will likely be the new norm even after Election Day, but influencer marketing and agency execs believe it’ll usher in a new era of marketers getting to know

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Inside the strategy that grew Cristiano Ronaldo’s YouTube account to 1M subscribers in 90 minutes

Cristiano Ronaldo’s YouTube channel, UR Cristiano, has added to the Portuguese soccer star’s already considerable commercial clout. The channel gained 1 million subscribers in the first 90 minutes after its July debut, and has grown to 65.9 million subscribers at the time of writing, per YouTube. But while its audience is organic, the machine behind

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‘We can’t cry about the milk that’s spilled’: As DE&I fallout continues, multicultural agencies grapple with changes

Brands like Ford Motors, John Deere and Molson Coors, among others, have reversed course on their diversity, equity and inclusion commitments. The shift is leaving multicultural and diverse-owned agencies grappling with the fallout. With a polarizing presidential election coming to a head tomorrow, hot-button issues like reproductive rights and affirmative action are now front and

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