Kimberly-Clark

Fubo had a good quarter; Kenvue is having a bad time; and the holiday season has started earlier than ever this year.

Kimberly-Clark didn’t hire a new CMO, and it doesn’t intend to. Plus, now airport bookstores are also ad networks.

Ibotta’s consumer-focused offering still makes up more than half of its business, according to CEO and founder Bryan Leach. But its performance marketing network is its future.

Rewards app Fetch is looking to fire up its first-party data strategy with the hire of long-time Facebook veteran David Sommer as its first-ever chief customer officer.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. April Showers, May Flowers Retail sales surged in May, recovering 63% of their losses from March and April. While this is a sign of recovery, Reuters reports, the United States economy isn’t out of the hole, especially since many states have rising COVID-19 infections. […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Raise The Roof Vice, Refinery29, Mashable, Mic and BuzzFeed are just a few of the VC-backed digital media companies that faced painful revenue shortfalls and setbacks over the past year. But newer news startups are starting to gain traction, typically in narrow categories – […]

The world’s largest consumer product brands are struggling to grow their US businesses. While some of the challenges are macro-economic, like increased transportation costs, the biggest factor is the growth of retail private-label brands, which can’t be acquired or stamped out like startup competitors. Large CPGs are also adjusting to new direct-to-consumer and ad-heavy startup […]

by Allison Schiff, Alison Weissbrot, Sarah Sluis, James Hercher, Kelly Liyakasa and Ryan Joe Programmatic advertising comes in many flavors. A handful of brands load up to take their buying fully in-house. Many give their agency partners carte blanche. Other brands take ownership of the tech contracts and segmentation, while letting their agencies pull the […]

Video ad platform Innovid will integrate with marketing clouds from IBM, Adobe and Oracle, the companies said Tuesday, allowing video and TV planners to use CRM data to inform video ads served by Innovid. Conversely, those marketing cloud customers can apply intent data from their mobile, desktop and OTT video campaigns to their broader marketing […]

Before taking advantage of their first-party data, brands first must figure out what the heck they’ve actually got. “People don’t really appreciate the assets they’ve accumulated over the course of years,” said Acxiom vet Josh Herman, who now leads tech development for CRM, ad tech and analytics platforms at Kimberly-Clark Corp. He spoke at AdExchanger’s […]

“Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Mayur Gupta, global head of marketing technology and innovation at Kimberly-Clark. Much of what has been written about omnichannel experiences reflects two perspectives. The first: Every consumer expects it and every brand wants to deliver it. […]

The digital marketing technologist isn’t exactly a new kid on the block in the enterprise, given Gartner’s prediction – in 2012 – that 70% of companies employed one. But the job title has definitely evolved as many of the technologies that fuel brands’ consumer interactions – from data-management platforms to CRM to commerce systems – […]

“Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Mayur Gupta, global head of marketing technology and innovation at Kimberly-Clark. These are interesting times in the growth of marketing technologies, which are consolidating and diversifying simultaneously. While the consolidation is slow, it is being triggered […]

CPG giant Kimberly-Clark is one of the more progressive companies when it comes to digital strategy, largely for the way it adapted programmatic advertising way back in 2011, eventually setting up its own internal trading desk with the help of WPP agency Mindshare. It’s in this spirit that the manufacturer of Kleenex, Kotex and Huggies established a […]

“Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Mayur Gupta, global head of marketing, technology and operations at Kimberly-Clark. In recent years an increasing number of marketing organizations have established “Digital Center of Excellence” teams. They are often called the DCOE or COE, and are […]

CPG giant Kimberly-Clark embraced programmatic buying in 2011, setting up a “trading desk” that combines in-house oversight with execution through its demand-side platform (DSP), Turn, and its media agency of record, WPP Group’s Mindshare. Mark Kaline, Kimberly-Clark’s global media, licensing and consumer services director, detailed the company’s specific approach and its learnings in a presentation this […]

“Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Mayur Gupta, global head of marketing, technology and operations at Kimberly-Clark. Brands have as much of a chance of driving frictionless omnichannel consumer experiences as a Formula One race car driver trying to win a race […]

The consumer packaged goods (CPG) market presents an opportunity for Amazon to better serve its customers, according to Lisa Utzschneider, VP of Global Advertising Sales at Amazon. Speaking at AdAge’s Digital Conference in New York City today, Utzschneider talked about her company’s approach to targeting ads and the growth of the CPG sector. In discussing […]

Like many big companies, Kimberly-Clark ramped up its investment in data-driven display media last year. The personal care giant, whose brands include Kleenex, Kotex, Cottonelle, and Huggies, started looking into a display “desk” a couple years back, and set one up last year in partnership with its media agency, WPP Group’s Mindshare. Jeff Holecko, who […]