A bevy of alternative identifiers has flooded the market in recent years, promising to usher the advertising industry into a new paradigm once Google Chrome deprecates third-party cookies at the end of 2024. But the immediate favorite solution among marketers is a data signal that’s very old and decisively not symbolic of a new privacy-conscious…
After venturing into sticky territory with Jennifer Coolidge for its first Super Bowl ad last year, e.l.f. Cosmetics will return to the Big Game to spotlight one of its most viral products. For its second Super Bowl outing on Feb. 11, the beauty brand’s 30-second spot will air nationally and promote an item that first…
Last September, a study by RSW/US, an outsourced business development firm that works solely with ad agencies and PR firms, found that small agencies were finding it difficult to land new business. Just a few months later, the outlook is a bit sunnier, as RSW has released its 2024 RSW/US New Year Outlook Report with…
The live-stream platform Twitch quietly ended a series of multi-year partnerships in 2023 that it brokered with publishers including Rolling Stone, Complex and Vice, according to three people familiar with the agreements. Twitch invited the publishers to establish channels on its platform–Complex in 2020, Rolling Stone in 2021 and Vice in 2022–as part of a…
U.K. marketers have shifted from caution to quiet optimism as they map out their 2024 spending. According to the quarterly Bellwether ad forecast from trade body the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA), the final quarter of 2023 saw marketing budgets increase to their highest level in almost a decade. The survey, which gleans responses…
In the past 18 months, the use of artificial intelligence has become increasingly commonplace, with businesses across all industries beginning to integrate it into their processes. While we have already seen some potential revolutions come about, there are endless options for what it could unlock. AI really is the new internet. In today’s episode of…