Email is the only owned and earned channel to see an increase in 2025, Gartner reports.
Influencer marketing platform Captiv8 has announced a partnership with AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI to help brands save time while vetting creators, planning campaigns, asking data-driven
questions and more.
Reference points line up everything. It is impossible to assess our situations in the world in the absolute. We need reference points: something against which we can compare our situations to see if
they're good or bad, worse or better, proper or improper.
Most executives today rely on dashboards and rarely question the data they are sent, according to a study conducted by Sapio Research, from journey management platform TheyDo.
Brands remain determined to increase influencer marketing spend, according to a survey from the World Federation of Advertisers. The influencer marketing industry has grown over $22 billion since
2016 -- rising from $1.7 billion to $24 billion in 2024, based on reports by Sprout Social.
The passing of the Great Resignation has given employers the upper hand, but shifting demographics will lead to talent shortages.
It characterized a first-half marketing mix modeling effort as a "major new initiative" exploring how such models are being transformed "in the age of AI and big data and the implications for TV,
video and premium content."
Winterberry Group estimates investments in connected commerce and technology stacks will drive U.S. ad, marketing, and data expenditures to $585 billion.
New research shows spending patterns had little to do with making brands "winners" or "losers." Ninety percent of "winning" companies were at least somewhat integrated to connecting brand and demand.
The broader view shows 77% using some digital media access throughout the day - from many activities during particular moments of the day, increasingly including wagering sites.
Broad brand awareness and personalized outreach not only capture attention but also build trust.
Selling a candidate is no different than selling socks, soap, or soda. Whether Democrats move right or left makes no difference if they can't market themselves in a way that attracts voters'
attention, arouses their emotions, and makes them care.
"LGBTQ+ consumers feel misrepresented in advertising because the community is not a single, homogeneous identity," says Revry CMO Paul Kontonis.
According to a report from the ARF with Kroger Precision Marketing, there is little to no correlation between attention metrics and sales lift.
A study finds 45% of Americans have expressed a willingness to purchase a car through social-media platforms, highlighting a potential shift toward these channels as critical touchpoints in the
automotive buying journey.
Maybe they're not garbage in/garbage out, but to coin yet another new industry acronym, maybe they are MIIMIO: misaligned incentives in/misaligned incentives out.
Many small businesses find they can gain traction by treating Reddit as a search engine, with one in four small business owners now using Reddit in their marketing strategy,
AI marketing assistant is the fastest-growing job in marketing, with a projected job growth rate of 21%. People rarely search for this job, which pays on average between $46,100 and $68,500 annually.
Email copy is the second-most used function of generative AI, Skyword reports.
A new financial "risk" has begun showing up in the SEC filings of some of the world's biggest advertisers and it's giving some analysts pause. Not surprisingly, it's AI.
Issa Rae has been awarded the organization's second annual Cultural Force Award, which recognizes people who have influenced industry efforts to advertise, market or reach new audiences.
The comprehensive ethics framework and resource guide for marketers incorporates and expands existing ANA and AIMM guidelines and research and includes the ANA's first guidelines around the ethical
uses of AI in marketing as well as best practices that address privacy, diversity and inclusion and advertising to children.
Nearly half of Gen Z and Millennial marketers polled expect a significant revenue increase this year, compared to 27% of Gen X and 5% of Boomers.
Florence-2 - a type of AI called a vision language model - can create content for marketing, advertising, and storytelling by really understanding text prompts to generate images.
NBA teams have seen growth in marketing and sponsorship revenue, largely driven by new sponsorship efforts around in-season opportunities including a new In-Season Tournament that started up last
fall.
OpenAI has been said to be working on a search engine, but now we have further evidence that the rumor might be true.
Almost 100% of consumers say their favorite brands make it easy to shop, Intuit Mailchimp reports.
Despite only being deployed in an estimated 7% of marketing activities, marketers say it has already boosted sales and customer satisfaction, while reducing overhead costs.
Some say generative AI will never replace traditional search engines, but the change could come sooner than expected - especially if consumers show a willingness to take the leap.
"We've reached a tipping point where AI has shifted from a nice-to-have to a must-have for marketers," says long-time ad exec and consultant David Berkowitz. "As these technologies continue to advance
and more marketers build AI capabilities, we expect to see AI become deeply embedded in marketing processes and increasingly shape strategy and decision-making."