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After a reenergizing week at the Cannes Lions festival, here are six observations on how our industry is changing to meet its new challenges.

Sabrina Sierant joined Mondelez more than 12 years ago, which seems like a prior age in shopping terms. In December 2019, she took on marketing for the US Chips Ahoy business, as Mondelez orchestrated a major rebrand and reinvestment in its cookie brand.

While advertisers’ interest in gaming may be growing, their spending commitments seem stuck on pause, judging by Tuesday’s IAB PlayFronts event.

Does AI kill authenticity? Or is it just another evolution of content creation? And does it even matter? After all, consumers say they care about authenticity, but their actions don’t always match their words.

Meta introduces new ad placements, promo opportunities and AI prompts; an influencer campaign prompts right-wing influencers to oppose RFK Jr.’s soda crackdown; and transcription platform Otter launches an AI assistant.

A class-action lawsuit takes Office Depot to task for deceptive pricing and ads; YouTube is taking over TV, but brands may be missing out; and advertisers weigh in on which marketing trends are worth the hype.

Success with Gen Z isn’t about the stories brands want to tell – it’s about tapping into their stories and aligning with how they live and express themselves. That’s where the PPCCs framework comes in.

Google holds court with bloggers bumped from its search algorithm; a backlash is brewing as the online recommendation engine goes into overdrive; and X pushes conservative politics to accounts with nonpartisan interests.

With the growing number of social media users paying for a premium and often ad-free service, how can marketers engage these audiences?

Ally’s newest Fortnite game, “Tee Time Speedrun,” launched last week to promote its sponsorship of the USGA and LGPA. The game ties into Ally’s goal of reaching gender parity in its sports sponsorships.

In today’s newsletter: Meta’s growing “other” revenue; charting the depths of Reddit and Google’s new partnership; and TikTok’s ecommerce biz doubles down on influencers.

Here are four common errors that can curtail the success of any influencer campaign – and advice for getting it right.

Researchers at Insider Intelligence estimate social commerce will become a $100 billion market by 2025, up from $67 billion this year. The question is how to win in this fast-moving landscape.

Based on the growing flurry of lawsuits against creators, it’s clear that many of them are dangerously unaware of the legal risks involved in influencer marketing.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Point Of No Return Amazon set the bar with its liberal refund policy – it’s quick to credit consumers for missing or unsatisfactory items – and one- or two-day shipping. Matching Amazon’s standards is a brutally expensive challenge for retailers, who must […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The AdExchanger team is celebrating our independence with a long weekend off! The daily news roundup will return on Wednesday, July 5. Maxxed Mike Ryan, head of ecommerce insights at Smarter Ecommerce, posted a Twitter thread about the relative performance of Performance Max, […]

The 70th annual Cannes Lions moved faster than ever to match the speed of the convergence of convergences happening in the industry. Here are five themes that stood out from the event.

The pandemic aftermath spurred major changes to Evite’s business model, including a pivot away from display ads in favor of affiliate and influencer marketing.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rise (And Fall) Of The Machines CNET made waves in January when it started publishing articles that were completely generated by AI.  But the publisher is already rethinking how it’s using AI to write content after some early missteps, The Verge reports. Half […]

BuzzFeed is sticking to its conviction that journalism is old news and influencer-led video and generative AI are the future.

Health care organizations need to embrace fluidity and experimentation if they want to market to the diverse US population they rely on to survive.

This cough and cold season, Ricola ran shoppable influencer marketing campaigns across Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat to better attract and reach younger generations of customers.

Consumer expectations have changed, as have the best strategies for reaching them. Across social, search and display, many old tactics no longer fit the bill, writes Steve Wendling, VP of media at MMI.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Let The Search Begin The long-dormant search category is rousing. Microsoft recently invested $10 billion in OpenAI, maker of machine learning content creation software DALL-E (for images) and ChatGPT (for text responses), with plans to test ChatGPT’s returns for Bing searches. Meanwhile, Amazon […]

In 2023, we’ll see a Great Meta-reversal, a shift toward rich content and experiences that build enduring, engaged communities. Rather than building a separate experience for each mode of interaction, brands now have the tools to integrate the consumer relationship across many digital touch points, writes Mitch Ratcliffe, partner at Metaforce.

When online grocery subscription service Misfits Market was founded in 2018, it took a page right out of the DTC advertiser’s playbook, says Holly Eagleson, VP of marketing. But since the release of Apple’s ATT, Misfits has been embracing new channels.

While brands want to be active in video games, on influencer-driven streaming video platforms like Twitch and in metaverse-like online games like Roblox, it can be hard for marketers to measure ROI in these spaces. However, for Invisalign, like with other early-adopter brands, the opportunity in new gaming and metaverse channels has more to do with driving awareness than increasing incremental sales.

It makes sense that brands in sexy verticals like fashion and hair care turn to social media influencers. But banking brands hire influencers, too. Kasasa, a fintech company that launched in 2003 to help local credit unions and community banks open more user accounts, ran a recent video campaign with a twist on the “shop local” trend featuring YouTube creator Trey Kennedy.

Video games can support intrinsic or native in-game ads, as well as ads that are delivered alongside gameplay but exist outside the game itself, like pause-menu display ads and rewarded video. Marketers can also sponsor and advertise on channels related to gaming, such as at esports events and across online streaming platforms, particularly Twitch and YouTube. And we can’t forget about the metaverse.