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Ads for top-shelf liquor usually lean heavily and stereotypically into the 1% lifestyle, with beautiful people hanging out in exotic settings where the common folk aspire to tread. The new campaign for Belvedere 10, a $150-per-bottle line extension of the flagship vodka, goes for a slightly different kind of chic, while adding a dose of ..read more
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When it comes to video ad sales, marketers don't need a linear path to success. According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau's newly released 2024 Digital Video Ad Spend & Strategy Report, it's going to be a big year for digital video. The report, which comes ahead of next week's NewFronts events, noted that digital video ..read more
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Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy and digital publisher CNET are teaming up to create a new retail media model, the companies said Thursday. The electronics retailer and the publisher are combining their ad inventory, allowing advertisers to buy across Best Buy Ads' retail media network and alongside CNET's tech-review-focused editorial content and measure whether ads ..read more
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One of the most-discussed topics of 2024 will be the deprecation of third-party cookies, making other sources of data even more important to businesses. The most valuable of these other data sources is zero-party data, which is proactively provided by customers--typically because that customer actually wants to hear from the brand, and often because there ..read more
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French news publisher Le Monde launched its English-language product, Le Monde in English, two years ago, with the goal of generating 30,000 subscribers by the end of 2023. It has since fallen short of that goal, according to business development officer Arnaud Aubron, though the publisher declined to provide an update on its exact subscriber ..read more
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Artificial intelligence continues to drive Meta's yearlong recovery. Revenue from its Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns (ACS) more than doubled since last year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during the company's first-quarter-2024 earnings call. Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram, reported a 27% increase in revenue, reaching $36.5 billion, compared with $28.6 billion in the first quarter ..read more
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Meta Platforms saw advertising revenue grow to $35.6 billion during the first quarter of 2024. That's up 27% compared to the same three-month period last year. Following chief executive Mark Zuckerberg's cost-cutting "year of efficiency," which involved mass layoffs, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp now has 69,329 employees, down 10% compared with ..read more
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Prolific actor Owen Wilson has a new gig, and at first glance, it may seem like he's playing tech entrepreneur Steve Jobs, complete with the trademark black turtleneck and PowerPoint presentation in front of a cheering crowd. "Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything," Wilson tells a rapt audience ..read more
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Last year, global ecommerce sales totaled nearly $6 trillion and are expected to grow 10% this year. People expect nothing but the best shopping experience every time, and expectations increase every time they experience something better. This represents a sharp departure from how commerce has traditionally been approached--as a mere transaction after all the creative ..read more
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Brands proactively testing alternative ways to find audiences, without using third-party cookies, are also wasting a chunk of that budget on sending too many ads to a narrow slice of publisher inventory, new data from the demand-side platform (DSP) Adform reveals. When buyers test alternative identifiers, like ID5, UID2, RampID, or a whole host of ..read more