Marketing

Sport is marketing’s greatest opportunity — and its greatest activation challenge

Nikolaus Beier, svp of media and marketing services, Sportradar In today’s attention economy, few channels or forms of entertainment capture the imagination quite like live sport.  As evidenced at this year’s World Cup, sport’s ability to attract billions of eyeballs is unrivaled. So too is its unique transcendence of geography, demographics and internet virality, making […]

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Perplexity challenges Time’s AI agent advertising push

Perplexity has blocked advertising placed in AI-readable versions of Time’s webpages from influencing its search index, affecting an experiment that lets brands serve sponsored material directly to AI crawlers. The AI search company confirmed the move after Time began placing ads inside markdown versions of its webpages that are intended for AI systems rather than

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Creators build GEO strategies to get discovered by brands and agencies in AI search

Creators have spent years optimizing for social media algorithms. Now, they’re facing another digital hurdle in discoverability: AI chatbots. It’s not just shoppers turning to LLMs for product recommendations and shopping — even though nearly one in five consumers have already replaced traditional research with AI, according to a recent SponsorCX survey. Brands and their agency

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Brand marketers are adopting fan-first social media strategies

For soft-drink brand Poppi, fans come before consumers. The Pepsico-owned brand has bottled up an innovative approach to social media that’s beginning to be picked up by the marketers behind the industry’s largest brands, but it carries risks, too. “We’re community first. I like to say it’s pop culture,” said Sophia Sesto, who leads the

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New court filings detail how WPP’s turnaround stalled — from the inside

WPP’s fall from holdco supremacy has been apparent for a while. But newly revealed accounts from insiders lay out, in granular detail, exactly how it happened.  Before diving into those accounts it’s worth framing them properly. They come from exhibits filed as part of the amended complaint in the wrongful termination lawsuit brought by former

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