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AI Is Killing Marketing As We Know It — So What Comes Next?

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DEI Fades From the Spotlight in Cannes as Marketers Grow Cautious

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US FTC may bar post-merger Omnicom, Interpublic from boycotting political ads, source says

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How Brands Can Continue To Capitalize On YouTube

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Outgoing WPP CEO Mark Read recently said 'AI will upend the advertising workforce'

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Boring is expensive

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X threatened lawsuits to pressure advertisers into returning, report says

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The ‘death of creativity’? AI job fears stalk advertising industry

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EXCLUSIVE: Marketers Move Millions in Ad Spend from The Trade Desk to Amazon’s Ad Platform

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How Google, Meta, and Microsoft Ads are earning – and losing – trust in 2025

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David Droga is stepping down as CEO of Accenture Song

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Sam Altman said AI would replace 95% of ad agency work. 3 top creative directors say AI has won them lucrative business.

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How AudioGO Is Making Podcast Advertising Accessible to Small Businesses

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Facebook and Instagram owner Meta to enable AI ad creation by end of next year

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AI Isn’t the Strategy—It’s Just the Tool

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Industry News

WTF is non-endemic commerce media?

This WTF guide, sponsored by Fluent, explores what exactly non-endemic commerce media is and what these ad placements look like; why non-endemic commerce media is beneficial for advertisers as well as retailers, merchants and publishers; the role of first-party data in non-endemic commerce media — and its impact on revenue;

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Victor Edeh on finding slowness and presence through the lens

The series started out with a fairly simple photographic exploration: “I wanted to capture the energy of Benin through its light, landscape, and people”, Victor shares. But during the photographers time there, wide open landscapes and streetside shots turned into intimate portraits of the people he met along the way.

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Take 5 Oil Change Puts Doug Zarkin in the Driver’s Seat

Take 5 Oil Change has named Doug Zarkin as its first chief marketing officer (CMO). The exec joins from wellness and fitness services company Modern Performance and Recovery Brands, where he was chief brand officer since 2023. Before that, he was CMO of Pearle Vision and held marketing leadership roles

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What’s new and what’s next in GA4

Google Analytics 4 (GA4) made a lot of headlines when it replaced Universal Analytics two years ago. Marketers, upset about losing a familiar tool, moaned loudly about GA4’s “problems.” Since then, however, the criticism has died down. Users now understand Google’s move to an events-based system and, more importantly, how

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“There will be no golden shortcut”

Let’s get straight to it. You can definitely rebuild foundational knowledge later in a career. No doubt. Perhaps you have even more chance of doing so due to your head start in understanding the subject before you begin, so don’t lose hope. Saying that, I don’t believe mastery or expertise

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The marketplace is being slowed by increasing complexity

For most of the last 50 years since the upfront was an integral part of marketers’ plans to advertise on TV, the buying bonanza usually wrapped up business between TV sellers and buyers before the July Fourth break. That is definitely not the case this year, for a few reasons. 

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