Marketing

How whiskey brand Four Walls ‘hired its community’ to run a UGC ad campaign

Instead of hiring an agency to manage its latest ad campaign, the whiskey brand Four Walls took an alternative approach: hiring its community. Four Walls is launching a promotional merchandise line today emblazoned with rose imagery inspired by one of the brand’s fans, Emberlin Leja, who wrote to the company to share the story of

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Breaking Up Google Could Hurt Small Businesses

I’ve taught digital advertising at a leading American university since 2013. Before becoming a professor, I spent 25 years helping businesses develop effective digital marketing and advertising strategies. I’ve closely followed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) current case targeting Google’s digital display-ads business and calling for the company’s breakup – and I’m worried by the

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Why Nike’s CFO says ‘it’s incredibly important for Nike to win with runners’ to right the brand’s ship

As Nike charts its comeback, the activewear apparel behemoth is looking to its offerings for runners — and the group’s reception of said offerings — as a bellwether for success. “We are especially encouraged by the momentum building in our running offense,” Matthew Friend, evp and chief financial officer of Nike, said during the company’s

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Plus Company agencies combine forces on a new influencer marketing model

Two of agency network Plus Company’s agencies are joining to expand their influencer marketing offerings this month, Digiday has learned. Plus Company’s global communications agency Citizen Relations and full-service ad agency Mekanism are launching Performfluence, an influencer marketing solution that combines brand building with performance marketing. Performfluence is offered by both firms through its digital

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Omnicom Media Group strikes partnership with Snap for creator collaboration

Having cut creator and influencer partnerships with most of the major platforms over the last year, Omnicom Media Group has aligned with Snap — while generating research that shows Snap creators have a strong likability factor that could resonate well with clients.  Omnicom Media Group’s no-longer-so-new-but-new-in-name influencer marketing agency Creo is partnering with ​Snapchat’s​ Snap

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Media Briefing: How Dow Jones is developing an AI model to help its planning team respond to advertisers’ RFPs

This week’s Media Briefing looks at how Dow Jones is incorporating generative AI tools into its ad ops workflows. AI-assisted ad ops Microsoft pays publishers, publishers put up paywalls and more AI-assisted ad ops Preparing a media plan in response to an advertiser’s proposal request takes time, takes thought and — given the stakes involved

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