Campaigns, channels, and the business of marketing.
Organic growth came in ahead of consensus, net new business topped $2 billion, and Publicis walked away from the PepsiCo media review with the account. The quarter is another data point for a simple claim the holding company keeps making louder: clients are paying up for AI, not just asking about it.
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As automated tools take over more of the work inside campaigns, the marketing teams struggling most are not the ones using AI badly, they are the ones who never built a clear system for who owns a decision, a gap that AI is now making impossible to ignore.
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Weeks before Matthew Kalish stepped down as DraftKings president after 14 years, the company signed off on a marketing contract worth up to 30 million dollars with HardScope, a media platform Kalish owns outright, an arrangement that only surfaced publicly this month and is now drawing questions from corporate governance experts.
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Creative agencies across Singapore say demand for generative AI advertising has surged over the past six months as clients chase a cutting edge image, but marketing academics and the industry watchdog warn that careless or misleading AI work can cost brands the trust it was meant to build.
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The creator economy is barreling toward a valuation of nearly half a trillion dollars by next year, yet many brands are still struggling to translate that spending into meaningful results, according…
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Toy brand Sticki Rolls is working to convert a wave of YouTube-driven attention into a lasting collectible franchise aimed at Gen Alpha consumers, according to Digiday. The company's strategy centers…
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The Gulf's children's aisle has become one of the most competitive shelves in retail, and a new set of Russian fashion and candy brands is betting that quality, halal friendly ingredients, and a Made in Russia stamp can win over demanding parents.
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The old model was simple. Make something beautiful, collect the likes, and assume the sales followed. That chain has quietly broken, and the brands winning now are rebuilding the whole journey from discovery to checkout as a single connected system.
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New research puts a number on the prize, tens of billions in untapped marketing returns, and a warning beside it. The value goes to teams that redesign around always on AI, and almost no one has actually done it yet.
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The loudest fear in marketing right now is that a clever assistant will make the CRM obsolete. It has the relationship backwards. The assistant is only as smart as the house it is allowed to walk into, and the house is your data.
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Most teams are bolting AI onto a stack built for scheduled campaigns and calling it transformation. The harder truth is that the campaign era itself is ending, and the plumbing underneath needs to change before the tactics can.
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With Agent Hub in public beta, HubSpot is making a bet that the hard part of AI is no longer building a smart assistant. It is getting a whole crew of them to work from the same customer data without tripping over each other.
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On World PR Day, Lagos hosted the fifth edition of the PR Power List Soiree and Awards, and the message from the stage was clear. Public relations in Nigeria is no longer the department that cleans up after decisions. It is increasingly the voice in the room when they are made.
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The price of running AI has collapsed, and most marketing teams read that as a chance to trim the budget. The teams pulling ahead are doing the opposite, and a two hundred year old idea from economics explains why.
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Across a dozen very different markets the tournament behaved less like a broadcast and more like a shared living room. For brands the lesson is that visibility was never the same thing as belonging to the conversation.
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Ask a chatbot how to market a mobile game in China and it will answer with confidence. It will also be wrong in ways that can cost a studio months and a fortune. A marketing lead at Nativex ran the test across eight tools and found the same pattern every time. Here is what the machines miss, and what actually works.
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Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has pulled its scattered gas sales operations into a single commercial engine. The new platform stitches together Adnoc Gas, XRG, and Adnoc Trading so that one team owns the marketing and the trading of liquefied natural gas. The goal is a market presence big enough to move 47 million tonnes a year by 2035, and the marketing story behind it is as deliberate as the numbers.
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Starbucks Korea promoted tumblers with the wording Tank Day and the date 5/18, unwittingly evoking the 1980 Gwangju massacre. The fallout cost the chief executive his job and closed more than two thousand stores, a sharp lesson in cultural risk for global marketers.
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From Heinz Penalty Packets to Coca-Cola’s collectible cans, brands are treating product packaging as the foundation of their World Cup campaigns rather than an afterthought. With the tournament drawing an estimated ten billion dollars in marketing spend, the package has become the stage.
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Virgin Australia has created a senior role built to sit between its marketing team and its technology stack, backed by fresh loyalty and media hires and a consolidated customer data platform. The move treats martech as a strategic asset and signals where airline marketing is heading.
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The iGaming sector is crowded with generalist marketing shops, but few understand what it takes to build a reputation for a licensed casino or crypto sportsbook. iGaming Marketing Lab runs its whole operation like an editorial newsroom, and that model is why operators keep placing it at the top of their shortlists.
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The press release has long been slow, costly, and controlled by a gatekeeper. Media on Demand by Arcana Mace flips that model. It is a pay as you go publishing platform that lets you write your story, choose where it runs, and see it live within minutes, with total control and no approvals. Here is why it is the standout way to publish in 2026.
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Every June the advertising world reads the mood on the Croisette to work out where marketing is heading. In 2026 the message was blunt. The industry has grown tired of AI as a talking point and wants proof that any of it moves the business. Here is what the festival really signalled for the year ahead.
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When a console maker ties itself to the biggest game launch of the decade, the marketing has to be flawless. Sony's plays best on PS5 push for Grand Theft Auto 6 shows both the power of that association and how fast a small slip can undercut it.
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For decades Ferrari sold the roar of an engine and the promise of scarcity. With its first electric car, a silent four door built for families, the company is running the riskiest brand experiment in its history. The early reaction shows just how high the stakes are.
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For years the smartest branding move for a Chinese company chasing Western shoppers was to hide where it came from. Now brands from fast fashion to electric cars are doing the opposite, betting that being Chinese has flipped from a liability to manage into an asset to market.
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The marketing segment has organized how brands talk to customers for a generation. MoEngage just bought AI startup Aampe in an all cash deal to bet that it is finished, replaced by a world where a dedicated AI agent makes decisions for each individual customer rather than a broad group.
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BYD is restructuring brands like Denza, Ocean, and Fang Cheng Bao to be accountable for their own profit and loss, and to own their own product, design, and channel decisions. It is an accounting change with a branding goal, ending the sameness that made its many badges blur together.
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Spanish language advertising is graduating from a multicultural line item to a core media buy, and the 2026 World Cup is the tipping point. With ad revenue near 850 million dollars and most of it new money, brands are learning that translation is not strategy and that this audience rewards the ones who show up for real.
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TelevisaUnivision has hired longtime media buyer Michael Law as EVP of brand partnerships, betting that someone who spent 25 years deciding where ad dollars go is the fastest way to grow its own ad sales and win the brands it currently has zero share with.
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Beneath glowing marquee letters and rows of wine barrels at City Winery, hundreds of marketers gathered to honor the year's best work, the morning after the Knicks ended a 50 year title drought. Inside a luncheon where grit, chemistry, and one simple question stole the show.
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AI marketing agents are everywhere, but most teams are not ready for them. Before buying autonomous tools, build the data, process, governance, and integration foundation that decides whether an agent creates value or just makes mistakes faster.
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AI is transforming brand marketing from planning to personalization, and the brands that stay ahead are the ones using it with intent. A practical way to see more clearly, move faster, and scale smarter, without losing the human judgment that makes marketing work.
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Adobe and LinkedIn have launched AI Essentials for Marketers, a free training program that gives marketing professionals the practical AI skills now in soaring demand, with role based courses in 47 languages and certificates for LinkedIn profiles.
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Before a message reaches a person, it now has to win over a machine. As algorithms become the gatekeepers of reach, the hardest part of adapting is not the technology, it is the willingness to rebuild how marketing works.
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Hyatt has created a regional marketing and loyalty leadership role for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, appointing a luxury hospitality veteran to sharpen brand positioning and accelerate membership growth as the group expands across the region.
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ClassPass spent 50 million dollars on marketing in 2025, wagering that filling studios with brand new customers expands the market instead of competing with its own partners.
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The 2026 World Cup will test whether brands can turn sponsorship spending into measurable results, as impressions lose ground to deeper proof of impact.
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