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Reframing Influence: Introducing the B2B Creators Influence Framework

Reframing Influence: Introducing the B2B Creators Influence Framework

Not all B2B influencers are created equal, and it’s more complex than B2C. Over the years, I have become a B2B influencer marketing apologist. It sounds silly, I know. But I...

How Do You Know If Your CBD Is Legit?

How Do You Know If Your CBD Is Legit?

These days, you can find cannabidiol, a substance commonly referred to as CBD, everywhere: In gummies, oils and lotions, supplements and functional beverages. A natural...

The End of Cheap Scale?

The End of Cheap Scale?

Before we get to today's main topic, some miscellaneous goodies… Vote!I know that everybody always says that every election is super consequential, but this one really is....

Rebuilding A Broken Brand Through Smart Marketing & Advertising

Rebuilding A Broken Brand Through Smart Marketing & Advertising

We talk a lot about the power of marketing and advertising to drive growth for brands. It is the table stakes talk at ad conferences, and frequently goes something like this:...

Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network

Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network

Today’s edition is a bit late as I wrangled some late-breaking news. Sorry about that! Twitter’s decline is paving the way for other platforms to build next-generation...

The Christmas ads of 2022: Bringing joy and nostalgia but treading carefully in the midst of economic gloom

The Christmas ads of 2022: Bringing joy and nostalgia but treading carefully in the midst of economic gloom

November might feel too early to think about Christmas, but for big brands like John Lewis and Aldi, it's one of the most important months in the retail calendar. Every year,...

Meta Ads Automation: An Advertiser's Guide

Meta Ads Automation: An Advertiser's Guide

Automation: It’s all the rage for established digital advertising platforms these days. Take Google’s recent introduction and expansion of Performance Max, which simplifies...

An advertising recession may be here - and the TV industry is making brands' lives harder

An advertising recession may be here - and the TV industry is making brands' lives harder

Here’s a question I asked onTwitter Spaces yesterday-What is going on in the ad industry right now? Are we in an Apple recession, or a real one? The ad tech crowd is convinced...

How Programmatic DOOH and Google Topics Will Power the Next Phase of Advertising - Advertising Week

How Programmatic DOOH and Google Topics Will Power the Next Phase of Advertising - Advertising Week

Google’s announcement of its Topics API earlier this year reaffirmed to marketers worldwide that the tech giant is still preparing for a world without third-party cookies. While...

Agency-client communication sucks. Here’s how to change it

Agency-client communication sucks. Here’s how to change it

The most pressing communication problem in advertising isn’t the distracted, fragmented audiences we’re chasing. It’s the increasingly fractured, even adversarial, communication...

6 Social Advertising Tips For Finance Brands

6 Social Advertising Tips For Finance Brands

More than 50% of offline investors first collect information online before making an investment decision. And according to research from RRD, more than half of consumers have...

What happens when a creative goes undercover as a businessperson

What happens when a creative goes undercover as a businessperson

One year ago, I took on the role of North America president and chief creative officer at Ogilvy Advertising.  I wanted to see if the person most connected to the product could...