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Over the past two years, Qualcomm has restructured its marketing organization to position it as a business driver more directly tied to results. Here’s how.

DTC brands are struggling to get by without the Facebook ad engine. Legacy brands are flummoxed by ecommerce. One company that’s hoping to split the difference is RoC Skincare, which spun out of Johnson & Johnson and was acquired by the private equity firm Gryphon in 2018.

You know you’ve won the lottery as a brand when you go viral on TikTok (for a good reason). Last year, it was Ocean Spray, and this year it’s Gap, whose vintage logo sweatshirts – the brown one, in particular – made a comeback on TikTok as an unexpected fashion trend of 2021. Gap capitalized on […]

​​”Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Sharon Harris, Global Chief Marketing Officer of Jellyfish. Data privacy is front and center in every digital technology conversation today. CMOs are now the stewards of the brand-consumer relationship and […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Boom Or Bust?  New forecasts from Dentsu, WARC and others indicate the ad business is in for a boom year in 2021. GroupM projects the US ad market to grow by 15%, and global growth forecasts range from 6.4% (Magna) up to 10.4% (Dentsu). […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Snap Story Snap introduced a standalone video editing app called Story Studio at the company’s annual Partner Summit on Thursday. That new app comes on the heels of Snap’s launch of a TikTok clone called Spotlight. Story Studio was among a slew of announcements […]

What’s a gym CMO to do when gyms – which normally promote health – get banned for health reasons? That’s exactly the situation Blink Fitness CMO Michelle Horowitz found herself in during the pandemic. The fitness chain operates 110 gyms across 10 states, all of which had different rules about gym openings. Blink Fitness hustled […]

Industry Preview is a special, limited-run audio series, featuring interviews with key leaders in marketing, media and technology who share their predictions and key priorities for 2021. This podcast is sponsored by Engine Media Exchange. You know you’re a good marketer when you can convince a four-year-old that broccoli is a treat. Although Rupen Desai […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Tom Triscari, programmatic economist at Lemonade Projects. To: ACME Media Team and AOR From: CMO, ACME Corp. Date: Today Re: Our continued reliance on cookies is less than advantageous Priority: […]

Online sales only accounts for 1% of all used car transactions, but this final frontier of ecommerce got an unexpected boost from the pandemic. And Vroom, an ecommerce platform for used cars, is revving up to catch the attention of consumers who want to buy a car – just not in person. “This crisis has […]