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Coors Banquet, Wrangler up bid to Gen Z country fans with beer-infused jeans
Jeans featuring musical chords printed with beer-infused ink promote the release of “Connie Lou,” a song that mentions both brands.
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Sociable: YouTube introduces more prominent AI labels
The platform moved its disclosure placement to a more visible position and improved its detection features.
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Unilever’s creator marketing strategy takes center stage at World Cup
The CPG’s largest sports partnership activation to date will see over 35 of its brands collaborate with creators and influencers around the globe.
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Chili’s remakes iconic Baby Back Ribs jingle — again — with Lizzo
The cultural play comes several years after the chain tapped Boyz II Men to remix the tune in an effort to double down on ‘90s nostalgia.
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Oreo teams with K-pop supergroup BTS for global campaign
Spanning over 80 countries, the effort incorporates key parts of K-pop fan culture.
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Essentia takes rule-defying campaign national for summer season
After an initial launch in New York last year, “Change the Equation” is expanding through a 90-second brand film and partnership with a soccer star.
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Liquid I.V. updates ad playbook with Amazon’s Brand Innovation Lab
A new campaign features actors from “Off Campus,” marking the first time lead talent from a Prime Video show has appeared in a co-branded spot.
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French’s mustard goes green as part of ‘Minions & Monsters’ tie-in
A custom animated spot and a limited-time condiment inspired by Goomi, the film’s antagonist, anchor the multichannel campaign.
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Q&APapa Johns’ CMO on driving cultural relevance with a ‘Toy Story’ tie-up
The chain revealed a TV spot produced by Pixar and shared details about Pizza Planet experiences in Los Angeles, London, Seoul and Madrid.
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ColumnCampaign Trail: Skittles stays surreal for ‘uncomfortably soft’ gummies
TBWA\Chiat\Day updates the uneasy “magic” of the brand’s long-running “Taste the Rainbow” creative, choosing to shoot without CGI or AI.
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Manischewitz celebrates Jewish matchmaking with reality dating series
The kosher foods brand is tapping into trends around episodic content with “Manischewitz Matchmakers,” which will air on social media in July.
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Q&AZevia’s CMO on how the ‘radically real’ soda is stepping up marketing
The better-for-you beverage brand recently teamed with Cardi B and has doubled marketing spend as a percentage of revenue over the last two years.
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Q&AHow Litter-Robot’s first CMO uses marketing to drive cat ownership
Hew Loyd discusses how parent company Whisker is positioning itself as a player in the connected home device category.
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Athletic Brewing opens marketing tap to stand out in crowded summer
The nonalcoholic beer brand expects to hike its national media spend 120% over the year-ago period to capitalize on events like America250 celebrations.
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Google upgrades AI search ads: What marketers need to know
A range of new tools announced at Marketing Live follow the platform enacting a significant overhaul of the search experience to prioritize AI chats.
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E.l.f. blends into ‘Survivor 50’ finale with challenge-themed spots
A trio of vignettes drop content creator Delaney Rowe into the cutthroat world of the show, where she gets a leg up by applying E.l.f. products.
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Centenario Tequila celebrates Mexican pride in campaign ahead of World Cup
“Todo o Nada” was led by an all-Mexican creative team and will run in the U.S. across linear TV, digital video and both paid and organic social channels.
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Ally courts millennial, Gen Z customers with new brand platform
Developed with Anomaly LA, the “Life Today” campaign sees the digital bank throw playful shade on competitors’ brick-and-mortar model.
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Sociable: Snapchat offers unified optimization approach to app marketers
The platform is integrating a wider range of response signals into a single view, which is designed to show more insights across multiple measures.
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Oscar Mayer’s Wienermobile race returns with bolder media blitz
After boosting hot dog sales last year, the event is jumping from streaming to broadcast as the Kraft Heinz brand looks to win Memorial Day weekend.
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Deep DiveAmid upfronts sports overload, pitches around data, AI come into focus
Legacy firms NBCU and Disney, tech titans Netflix and Amazon and publishers shaped by M&A showed off evolving offerings during last week’s shows.
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Dr Pepper gets into microdramas for return of dirty soda-inspired flavor
The social-native series, designed to promote the return of its Creamy Coconut LTO, comes as Keurig Dr Pepper looks to increase marketing investment.
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How brands are taking the marketing pitch for the World Cup
Major marketers across alcohol, beverage, snacks and retail are rolling out campaigns that look to engage soccer fans during the tournament.
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Publicis buys LiveRamp for $2.2B to improve AI agent sophistication
Publicis CEO Arthur Sadoun says LiveRamp’s co-created data sets will provide a leg up over rivals that rely on stagnant, generic signals.
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DoorDash taps ex-Amazon exec as CMO
Tim Castree will replace Kofi Amoo-Gottfried, who announced plans to depart the delivery platform in March.
