Marketing

AI, advertising and authenticity: The battle over social media bots

Meta rang in the new year with controversy. After the company’s generative AI plans for 2025 were made public, keen-eyed users dug out old bot personas that have existed on the platform since 2023, highlighting errors in chats with real users, hallucinations, and issues with cultural appropriation.  Although Meta has since deleted all bot personas…

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Tillamook’s Takeaways From Becoming A National Grocery Brand

There are a great many things to be learned when making the jump from regional favorite to national brand. Just ask Dawn Brodehl, Tillamook’s manager of omni-shopper marketing. She joined the dairy company almost five years ago and has seen it outgrow its roots in the Pacific northwest while becoming a nationwide grocery brand. “There

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As SXSW kicks off, marketers embrace it as an ‘accessible’ conference for content, connection

When Greg Swan first attended South by Southwest (SXSW) 17 years ago, it “cracked open” his world.  “It’s a culture of people who start with ‘yes’ versus start from a ‘no’ or ‘we can’t’,” said Swan, senior partner and Midwest digital lead at Finn partners. Being surrounded by attendees with that mindset makes it a

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Marketers rethink cheap programmatic as ad waste mounts

The latest ad fiasco might suggest otherwise, but some marketers are finally shedding one of their deepest programmatic misconceptions. Turns out, fixating on low-fee supply chains, or prioritizing ad tech intermediaries with the cheapest fees, was never the magic fix they hoped for. If anything, it’s looking more like a game of chasing rebates than

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Whalar bets on 24,000 square-foot creator campus to broker brand deals, recruit talent under one roof

Creator company Whalar Group opened its doors to a newly-built co-working and production space in Los Angeles for creators in February. Named The Lighthouse, it’s not exactly a school, but not exactly an office either. For Whalar, the intention is to gather creators in one place and see what comes of it, whether that’s business

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Brands hire Gen X and boomer influencers as the ‘power of the silver influencer’ rises

When you think of influencer marketing, you typically picture brands working with a younger creator to target Gen Z (ages 13-28) or Gen Alpha (up to 12 years old). That’s not always the case. As the influencer marketing space and creator economy continues to grow, so-called silver influencers, or creators from Gen X (45-60 years

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