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    Inside Walmart’s pop culture-heavy 2024 holiday campaign

    A December update to the campaign reunites cast members from movies and TV series like “Gilmore Girls” as Walmart leans further into nostalgia.

    By Updated Dec. 3, 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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    Top 5 stories from Marketing Dive

    From the continued rise of artificial intelligence to the emergence of new digital channels, here's a look at key trends driving marketing in 2026.

    By Marketing Dive staff
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    Campaign Trail: Colgate-Palmolive’s Hello makes mundane routines more magical

    Indie agency Walrus worked to find a “Goldilocks zone” between fantasy and real life in playful spots for toothpaste and deodorant.

    By Oct. 18, 2024
  • TV personality Simon Cowell, wearing a black T-shirt, sits behind a metal kitchen counter with Domino's branding
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    Domino’s promotes brand chief to CMO to sharpen global strategy

    Kate Trumbull, who helped revamp the chain’s loyalty program, is tasked with scaling its Hungry for MORE initiative to international markets.

    By Oct. 17, 2024
  • Martha Stewart poses alongside her JCPenney 2024 Holiday Collection.
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    JCPenney’s holiday playbook: Deals, in-store experiences and Martha Stewart

    The embattled department store is leaning into its already successful “Really Big Deal Reveals” campaign and bringing back a nostalgic giveaway. 

    By Oct. 17, 2024
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    Starbucks hands US creative duties to WPP amid turnaround push

    The agency network is forming a bespoke unit for the chain that is trying to reclaim its status as a premium brand and community coffeehouse.

    By Oct. 16, 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
  • A Roblox avatar of Beetlejuice in a themed area of the platform.
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    Roblox forges a marketer-friendly path with third-party partnerships

    A recent WPP tie-up is just one example of how the metaverse platform is facilitating brand interest via strategic partners.

    By Oct. 15, 2024
  • Executives from Disney and Hershey during an Advertising Week New York panel
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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
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    Nespresso’s marketing and sustainability maven on her dual role

    Jessica Padula discussed acting like a luxury brand and how to navigate growing ESG backlash at Advertising Week New York.

    By Oct. 11, 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
  • Duracell Global Chief Marketing Officer Ramon Velutini during an AWNY panel
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    Duracell CMO’s lessons for bringing low-interest brands into culture

    Global Chief Marketing Officer Ramon Velutini explained how a TikTok comment led to a successful campaign around a reality show scandal.

    By Oct. 9, 2024
  • A trio of stills show actor Stephen Tobolowsky buying Lay's chips at a grocery checkout line.
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    PepsiCo Foods creative chief on in-housing and ‘borderless’ content

    Chris Bellinger discussed the demands of an always-on content strategy and bringing back Doritos’ “Crash the Super Bowl” at Advertising Week.  

    By Oct. 9, 2024
  • Mountain Dew cans with a new logo
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    Why Mountain Dew refreshed its visual identity for a new era of marketing

    A new logo was designed by PepsiCo’s in-house team, which includes a mix of veterans and newcomers to both the brand and industry.

    By Oct. 9, 2024
  • A person interacts with a registration desk at Advertising Week
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    A marketer’s guide to Advertising Week New York 2024

    Navigating the sprawling Penn District and staying abreast of talks about AI, retail media and sports marketing will be key for the four-day gathering.

    By Oct. 7, 2024
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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
  • Jason Kelce on a bearskin run for a Campbell's Chunky Soup ad
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    Campaign Trail: Campbell’s Chunky celebrates beefy hunks like Jason Kelce

    Created with Leo Burnett, a new campaign finds humor by having football players enjoy “the soup that eats like a meal” at a gym and on a bearskin rug.

    By 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
  • Sam Richardson, Tim Robinson and three teens in a Totino's ad
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    Totino’s touts pizza roll value with ‘I Think You Should Leave’ creators

    The creative minds behind the cult Netflix comedy developed spots where suburban dads confront an alien who devoured their snacks. 

    By Oct. 3, 2024
  • Martha Stewart holds a football in a baking dish in a JCPenney ad
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    JCPenney names Marisa Thalberg consulting CMO to bolster turnaround plan

    The veteran marketer, most recently CMO of SeaWorld, describes the 122-year-old retailer as “ripe for reinvigoration.”

    By Oct. 2, 2024
  • Sydney Sweeney is a "Body Wash Genie" for Dr. Squatch
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    How Dr. Squatch turned Sydney Sweeney into the ‘Body Wash Genie’

    The digitally native men’s grooming brand enlisted one of Hollywood’s fastest-rising stars for a cheeky campaign that notes “guys only want one thing.”

    By Oct. 1, 2024
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    Shake Shack touts premium ingredients in multichannel ‘Worth It’ ads

    Commercials that leverage slow-motion footage and a voice-over about how the chain lives up to the hype arrive as competitors focus on affordability. 

    By Oct. 1, 2024
  • Beyoncé appears in a Levi's campaign
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    Levi’s gets nostalgic with Beyoncé in first chapter of new campaign

    The second chapter of the “Reiimagine” campaign reinterprets the brand’s 1991 ad “Pool Hall” and features Beyoncé and actor Timothy Olyphant.

    By Updated Feb. 24, 2025
  • A stack of snack food packages from Mondelez International, including Wheat Thins, Oreos, Ritz and Sour Patch kids.
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    Mondelēz expands generative AI marketing bets with new platform

    Publicis Groupe and Accenture support the offering focused on faster, more efficient production of personalized text, images and video.

    By Updated Sept. 27, 2024