Marketing

Awareness Media Is Your Brand’s Not-So-Secret Weapon

Brands are feeling some whiplash these days when it comes to consumer behavior. Where just a handful of years ago consumers were throwing around cash without a care, today they’re much more nuanced and less predictable in their post-Covid, inflation-cautious, anxiety-ridden spending. Of course, brand performance, alongside consumer behavior, is constantly evolving. But one thing…

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Tech Tussle: Perplexity Jabs at Google with Remake of a Classic Super Bowl Ad

As a follow-up to its first paid marketing campaign early this summer, tech startup Perplexity is taking a swipe at an industry behemoth with a near shot-for-shot remake of a classic Google Super Bowl ad. The generative artificial intelligence company has reimagined “Parisian Love,” which Google aired during the 2010 Big Game. The spot quickly…

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Google Won’t Kill Off Cookies, Consumers Will – And That’s How It Should Be

Google’s decision to cancel cookie deprecation may just be the move that eliminates third-party cookies for good. Exact details are still unclear, but Google said it will offer Chrome users the chance to “make an informed choice that applies across their web browsing.” The fate of cookies is now in the hands of the consumer.

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Five key signs that Reddit is getting ready to launch its own search ads business

When it comes to building out a search ads business, Reddit is staying tight-lipped. But all the recent moves the platform has made suggest that it’s a matter of when, not if, it’ll happen. Among the clues are five key signals that strongly suggest this move is just around the corner. Reddit’s recent hire from

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Georgia-Pacific’s in-house media unit is doubling down on audio streaming

When advertisers shift their media operations in-house, they usually do so with transparency and budget-slimming in mind. There’s not often much room left over for experimentation. That doesn’t have to be the case, though. U.S. paper company Georgia-Pacific, which manages its entire digital media budget in-house, is increasing its ad spending in streaming audio platforms,

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What Gartner’s 2024 digital ad hype cyle shows about marketing innovation and adoption

From technical complexities to regulatory issues, Gartner’s 2024 Digital Advertising Hype Cycle highlights many of the themes marketers continue to address. The annual report — which includes all manner of innovations ranging from marketing analytics and programmatic advertising, to the future of AI — also analyzes how marketers can tackle ongoing challenges through such means

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Teaming up to educate the market: A conversation with two in-game advertising CEOs

Although gaming is more popular than ever before, the in-game advertising market has failed to match the growth of the medium. Leaders in the space believe more cross-collaboration between in-game ad companies could help rectify the industry’s issues. Gaming — and in-game advertising — exploded in 2021 as COVID-locked consumers spent much more of their time and

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