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  • Draft King using Perion's Stay Live CTV ad format
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    DraftKings, Dr Pepper stay live with new sports-focused CTV ad format

    Perion’s Stay Live uses AI to place ads by analyzing broadcast streams for moments of high engagement but low interruption.

    By Nov. 7, 2024
  • A janitor wearing a blue jumpsuit stands in the spotlight on a theater stage in Amazon's 2024 holiday marketing campaign
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    Amazon’s holiday campaign spotlights classic song, acts of kindness

    “What the World Needs Now Is Love” features heavily in the effort that extends Amazon's focus on music around the holidays.

    By Nov. 5, 2024
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    Retail Marketing

    Top stories that underscore the leading influences on retail marketing, including the creator economy, '90s nostalgia and Gen Z. 

    By Marketing Dive staff
  • A man is holding a remote control of a smart TV in his hand. In the background you can see the television screen with streaming entertainment apps for video on demand
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    Nielsen gets shot in the arm from MRC’s livestream accreditation

    Advertisers increasingly rely on multiple sources for insight into viewing habits, but Nielsen remains the leading TV currency despite recent setbacks.

    By Aaron Baar • Nov. 4, 2024
  • David Beckham stars in SharkNinja's 2024 holiday campaign.
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    SharkNinja and David Beckham help consumers ‘Ninja the Holidays’

    The global holiday campaign positions Ninja’s kitchen appliances as the means to help consumers complete their seasonal meals in record time.

    By Nov. 4, 2024
  • Waldo, wearing a striped shirt, hugs a gift-giverin Etsy's holiday marketing campaign.
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    Etsy focuses on gifts with a personal touch in sprawling holiday campaign

    Waldo, of “Where’s Waldo?” fame, travels the world but only feels seen upon returning home and receiving a thoughtful gift in the platform’s campaign.

    By Nov. 1, 2024
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    Amazon trumpets new AI-powered tools for marketers as costs soar

    Image, audio and video generators for making ads are part of an AI strategy that drove capital expenditures up 81% year over year in Q3. 

    By Nov. 1, 2024
  • Rita Ferro on stage at Disney Tech & Data Showcase
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    Inside Disney’s increasingly global approach to selling holiday ads

    The media giant is helping brands take advantage of an audience that consumed more than 10 billion hours of content during the 2023 holidays.

    By Oct. 31, 2024
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    Google ads performance robust despite existential threats

    The company’s search segment saw healthy revenue growth during a Q3 period where the business was also ruled to be part of an illegal monopoly.

    By Oct. 30, 2024
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    Netflix taps new VP of advertising as ad biz prepares for crucial 2025

    Nicolle Pangis, formerly CEO of Ampersand, will bring a data-driven approach to the streamer as it continues to scale its advertising business.

    By Oct. 29, 2024
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    Walmart parodies TV hits in Black Friday ‘advertainment’ series

    “Deals of Desire” will run on TV, TikTok, YouTube and out-of-home and follows similar efforts from the retailer that bridge content and commerce.

    By Oct. 28, 2024
  • Follow along with the animated adventures of the Chick-fil-A Cows, Carrots, Sarge & Daisy
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    Chick-fil-A targets families with entertainment-focused mobile app

    The free app will launch Nov. 18 and include podcasts, games, interactive stories and original animated shows like “Legends of Evergreen Hills.” 

    By Aaron Baar • Oct. 24, 2024
  • A still from Urban Outfitters' 2024 holiday campaign.
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    Urban Outfitters says ‘Happy LOLidays’ with social-focused holiday campaign

    The retailer’s latest effort centers on affordable, easy gifting and includes its first-ever holiday jingle made with TikTok personality Lubalin.

    By Oct. 24, 2024
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    How — and why — this brand created an ad campaign entirely with AI

    IT management platform Atera used generative AI tools including Sora and Midjourney to save up to $1 million on video ad production.

    By Oct. 24, 2024
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    Milk-Bone revels in rom-com tropes with movie trailer parody campaign

    Ads for faux film “Howl You Know” will run before actual trailers in cinemas while the brand is sharing additional Hollywood-like content on social. 

    By Oct. 23, 2024
  • Campaign imagery for Selena Gomez-owned Rare Beauty's first-ever brand campaign, "Every Side of You."
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    Rare Beauty celebrates ‘Every Side of You’ for first global campaign

    The Selena Gomez-founded cosmetics brand is putting individuality at the center of its marketing as it continues to hold favor among Gen Z.

    By Oct. 21, 2024
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    Inside Walmart’s pop culture-heavy 2024 holiday campaign

    Nods to iconic film and TV like “Gilmore Girls” and “Christmas Vacation” aim to cut through the crowded retail marketing ecosystem this season.

    By Oct. 21, 2024
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    Top takeaways from Advertising Week 2024 marketers need to know

    Leading marketers like PepsiCo Foods, Home Depot and Diageo tackled topics ranging from artificial intelligence to media networks at the annual confab.

    By Oct. 18, 2024
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    Amazon unboxes advertiser capabilities spanning AI, DSP and insights

    The retail media giant refreshed its demand-side platform and rolled out new generative artificial intelligence tools to help marketers utilize its ad services.

    By Oct. 15, 2024
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    Kraft Heinz’s Delimex amplifies loud chewing in quesadilla campaign

    The brand is leaning into “sound-driven” marketing for the first time with Snapchat AR filters, TikTok content and a Unity mobile game.

    By Oct. 15, 2024
  • KFC's ad campaign for its new chicken tenders is a "battle cry" to fast-food competitors.
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    KFC is battle-ready in satirical campaign for chicken tenders debut

    Highdive’s first work for the fried-chicken chain playfully nods to competitors like Popeyes in a campaign depicting a chicken tenders war.

    By Oct. 15, 2024
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    Disney, Hershey execs share how holiday marketing campaigns are evolving

    Executives spoke during Advertising Week about how the companies are working to engage audiences around cultural moments beyond just ads.

    By Oct. 14, 2024
  • Colin Farrell in HBO's The Penguin
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    Why Jefferson’s Bourbon became partners in crime with HBO’s ‘The Penguin’

    At Advertising Week, the Pernod Ricard brand explained how it teamed with Warner Bros. Discovery to break through the “sea of sameness” in its category.

    By Oct. 11, 2024
  • The Snapchat logo is displayed on a cell phone screen.
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    Snapchat bows new ad solutions with Disney, McDonald’s and Taco Bell

    Sponsored Snaps allows advertisers to send videos directly to the app’s users, while Promoted Places highlights businesses on the Snap Map.

    By Aaron Baar • Oct. 10, 2024
  • Motorbike rider in Honda ad
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    Honda nods to F1 icon Ayrton Senna in emotional ‘Unstoppable Dreams’ ad

    The automaker’s latest spot, narrated by John Cena, leverages a reverse poem format to tell a tale of triumph as U.S. viewership for the motor sport grows.

    By Aaron Baar • Oct. 4, 2024
  • Consumers dine at a McDonnell's experience at Chain
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    McDonald’s debuts Chicken Big Mac with dupe restaurant, livestream push

    The burger chain has revealed two spots featuring the limited-time offering starring “Fresh Off The Boat” castmates Randall Park and Hudson Yang.

    By Updated Oct. 15, 2024