Marketing

How Kraft Heinz’s new CMO Todd Kaplan is defending creativity in the age of data

Todd Kaplan’s resume at-a-glance Joined Kraft Heinz as CMO (July 2024) PepsiCo CMO (Feb. 2022 to June 2024) PepsiCo vp, marketing (August 2018 to Feb. 2022) Todd Kaplan could be considered a betting man. In a world where marketers are often pressured to prioritize metrics, algorithms and immediate ROI, the PepsiCo marketing veteran seems to […]

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Omnicom Media Group helps to push for ad-auction clarity and standards with broad industry cooperation

With Advertising Week upon the marketing and media industries, Omnicom Media Group is working behind the scenes to establish standards across a few vital areas that currently lack transparency, Digiday has learned. First off is an effort by Omnicom Media Group to help establish clarity and perhaps even standards in the ad auction process of

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Microsoft looks set to shutter its retail media business

Five years after acquiring the retail advertising platform PromoteIQ, Microsoft now seems to be quietly shutting it down and pushing clients to use Criteo. Multiple sources say Microsoft began letting retail media publishers know that it was sunsetting the service over the summer, at the same time it announced a “strategic collaboration” with the ad

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Media Buying Briefing: Code and Theory Network does tech unlike other holdco operations

Fresh off a win of several chunks of Adobe’s marketing and tech needs — which it shared with Dentsu’s creative arm — agency holding company Stagwell can thank, in some ways, its digital transformation arm, made up in part by the Code and Theory Network. (For the purposes of this briefing, let’s refer to the

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AI Briefing: Pinterest, Microsoft and Google bring new generative ad features for social and search

This week has brought another flurry of AI-related ad news as major players like Microsoft and Google, and even social platform Pinterest roll out more ways for advertisers to create and buy ads across social, search and chatbots. On Tuesday, Pinterest debuted new ways for advertisers to use generative AI to generate ad creative and

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