Marketing

From Burger King to Bumble, These Brands are Currently Without a CMO

There is always activity in the chief marketing executive (CMO) role, and some big moves have been made over the last 12 months. Where OpenAI hired its first marketing chief, other brands such as Starbucks, Adobe, and McDonald’s said goodbye to execs and either promoted or welcomed new ones in their place. There have also…

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What The Trade Desk Means When It Talks About Premium

The Trade Desk’s (TTD) embrace of the “Premium Internet” has the ad industry wondering just what the heck the largest independent ad-buying platform means by “premium.” TTD’s FWD25 event, which took place in New York City on Thursday and was subtitled “The Rise of the Premium Internet,” provided some answers, particularly if you read between

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Why creators see Twitch’s monetization and moderation updates as the latest salvo in the livestreaming wars

Twitch is expanding its monetization and moderation tools, and creators see the move as an attempt to regain ground lost to competitors such as Kick and YouTube. In an open letter penned by Twitch CEO Dan Clancy on Feb. 27, the company revealed a slew of updates for 2025, including the opening up of monetization features

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News podcast listeners over-index on video podcast consumption

News podcast listeners are more likely to use YouTube to watch videos and consume and find podcasts, compared to non-news podcast listeners, according to a report by NPR, NPM and Sounds Profitable. “The News Podcast Consumer,” which came out last week, looked at news podcast listeners to analyze their demographics, media behaviors and consumption habits.

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How to grow a creator-based newsletter business, with Puck’s Sarah Personette

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify Puck’s famed journalist-centric publishing model is changing. Sort of. The news outlet debuted in 2021 with its journalists as the company’s audience-facing focal point, not the publication. People would subscribe less so to Puck than to Matthew Belloni’s or Julia Ioffe’s newsletters via Puck. And Puck’s journalists were, in part,

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Amazon launches Alexa+, and marketers want ads

Amazon just raised the walls of its walled garden. Last week, the company finally pulled back the curtain on its long-awaited Alexa overhaul, a chattier, more personalized and supposedly more useful version of its voice assistant. Generative AI powers this new version, called Alexa+, which is available beyond just Echo devices, spreading across car infotainment

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Journalists are using generative AI tools without company oversight, study finds

Nearly half of journalists surveyed in a new report said they are using generative AI tools not approved or bought by their organization. That’s according to a survey by Trint, an AI transcription software platform, which asked producers, editors and correspondents from 29 global newsrooms how they plan to use AI for work this year.

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