Marketers

Digital-native brands need to figure out how to win in retail shelves. They’re finding it difficult, to say the least.

Angela Zepeda is the former CMO of Hyundai Motor America – but not because she’s leaving the brand. She’s Hyundai’s newly-minted chief creative officer. Hyundai recently restructured its marketing department to split the CMO role into two jobs: creative and performance.

Not only will hashing data not anonymize it, but regulators, including the Federal Trade Commission, consider hashed identifiers to be personal information.

Chris Epple, JBL’s VP of marketing, on why TikTok is the brand’s new favorite jam – including to generate sales – and how JBL measures what he calls “quality social engagement.”

The decision by WFA leadership to succumb to Elon Musk’s pressure is disappointing and dangerous – but it presents an opportunity to rethink our industry’s broken approach to brand safety, writes Arielle Garcia.

The SSP revised its full year outlook down by $10 million, due to a DSP partner adopting first-price auctions and weakness in key ad verticals. But it highlighted mobile in-app as a new key revenue stream.

Woe is linear. Paramount is writing down its cable TV business by $6 billion and laying off 15% of its US workforce in advance of the Skydance merger.

Many of Publicis’ fastest-growing and most strategic business units – including CitrusAd, Profitero, Epsilon and Conversant – earn a large chunk of their revenue from other agencies. Is that a problem?

In the crosshairs this time: media sellers with masses of user-generated content, including movie and video review forums with unmoderated comment and discussion sections.

With an approved list of sites and contextually segmented content, publishers don’t risk getting caught up in automated keyword blocklists, which consistently demonetize the news.