What Can We Learn from MrBeast’s Brand of “Stunt Philanthropy”?

Do you know MrBeast? His real name is Jimmy Donaldson and his YouTube channel has 217M subscribers. His latest video, which I’m posting below, has 86,434,314 views since debuting five days ago. The video also has a ‘live read’ and product demonstration (at 11 minutes, 10 seconds) featuring Shopify and Kanga Coolers. It’s an old-school […]

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Only You Can Understand Or Act On A Customer’s True Wants and Needs

Now in its 13th year, the WARC’s “Marketer’s Toolkit 2024” offers insights to help turn disruptive areas into opportunities for growth. The Toolkit is also a trend-spotter. For example, the report reveals that nearly three-quarters (70%) of respondents in the survey plan to unlock the potential of artificial intelligence in their marketing. Before we get […]

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Apple Answers To Mother Nature

It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature and Apple wouldn’t dream of doing such a thing. The company mines precious metals to use in its products and creates a non-renewable waste stream from these same products, and runs massive data centers that suck electricity all day every day, nevertheless, Apple is aligned with Mother Nature. […]

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Google’s New GenAI Marketing Tools Speed Up Campaign Planning and Buying

At the annual Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, the tech giant announced a generative artificial intelligence-powered marketing solution that aims to speed up the time it takes for marketers to build and serve marketing campaigns. Google is collaborating with GenAI platform Typeface and customer data platform GrowthLoop to introduce the GenAI Marketing Solution…

Introducing Marketing Vanguard by Adweek

Not long ago, a CMO said something to me that gave me pause: “We still need to rewrite the narrative.” He wasn’t talking about a brand’s story or a social commentary or even our industry’s stance on an emerging issue. He meant the “CMO narrative.” For as much ground as our field has gained in…

“Trust Your Spirit,” Your Gut, and Your Choice of Bourbon

Some musicians spend a lot of time in bars because bars have stages and people who like to dance. Bars and their patrons help musicians make their way in the world and that’s something. It doesn’t mean that the musicians drink more than anyone else, or that they favor a particular bourbon (if they do […]

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Thriller: Ryan Gosling Escapes with A New TAG Heuer Carrera

Actors. They’re always acting. Ryan Gosling, for instance. Even when he’s lifting an expensive timepiece, he’s acting like it’s no big deal. But it is a big deal. No one—not even a Hollywood movie star—walks off with a TAG Heuer Carrera and gets away with it. The watches in this heritage collection from TAG Heuer […]

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Tailor Your Content, Media and Messaging With Intent Data

One thing is top of mind for marketers across the board in 2023: driving operational efficiency. With a recession looming on the horizon, it’s high time for businesses of all sizes to start planning and executing more precise go-to-market strategies or risk losing clients to savvier competitors. Enter account-based marketing (ABM), a strategy that go-to-market…

Marketers Are Increasing Ad Spend on Children’s Content, But Publishers Are Missing Out 

Investment in advertising for children is growing, but tight regulations mean that many demand-side platforms, including The Trade Desk and Yahoo, shy away from transacting on children’s inventory. As a result, some kids-focused publishers, such as HappyKids, are losing out on potential revenues of hundreds of millions of dollars annually. According to December data by…

Ingredients In Great Beer: Yakima Valley’s Light, Heat, and Water

Hops are the floral element in beer, and he who farms the best hops wins the hearts of passionate beer makers and drinkers—for instance, the people who work for California brewery, Firestone Walker. The brewery has made a short film that celebrates the brewer’s journey and the agricultural roots of beer. The film follows Brewmaster […]

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Modernizing the Marketing of 160-year-old Health Care Giant Bayer

The success of any good relationship, personal or professional, can come down to one thing: trust. For global pharmaceutical and biotech company Bayer, that’s where things began with Oliver Group, the BrandTech Group-owned marketing consultancy. “We just became an extension of what they were doing as brand marketers,” said Kristi VandenBosch, president of Oliver US….

WeTransfer Appoints Angelique Temple as CMO to ‘Supercharge’ Brand

As it looks to scale up its subscription offering and increase its global reach, WeTransfer has found a new chief marketing officer (CMO) in Angelique Temple. The exec has joined the business from the unrelated WeWork, where she spent four years as vice president of growth and revenue marketing. There, she was responsible for the…

The Future of Content Is Personalized 

Personalization is the future of content as consumers look for ideas and entertainment beyond “traditional” social feeds on surfaces that are both tailored to their interests and privacy. To remain competitive, brands will not only need to diversify their media mix across platforms, they’ll need to deliver more snackable, visually compelling stories that “click” with…

Data Powered Marketing: A Framework for Engagement

Beverly Jackson, global vp of brand and consumer marketing for Twitter, stopped by Adweek’s Social Media Week to share her successful formula for delivering breakthrough marketing campaigns that deliver big results, including how brands can tap into millions of social conversations to unlock valuable data and insights, how the creator community can amplify your most…

Laptops Light Up the Sky in Cinematic Ad From Asus

Focusing on the grand brand platform “Incredible Comes From Within,” a global campaign from Taiwanese technology company Asus aims to celebrate creation of great things through the release of its latest Zenbook series, centered around a film showcasing the ability to create light art in the night’s sky. Created by Looping Group, which was appointed…

Building a Successful Branded Content Playbook With Colman Domingo 

With a career spanning over three decades, a quick glance at Colman Domingo’s r?sum? reveals he’s pretty much done it all: plays, musicals, television, movies, talk shows, playwriting, and directing. In one of his more recent projects, Domingo partnered with AMC Networks to launch Bottomless Brunch at Colman’s. What started off as a branded content…

The Brands Reviving the Lost Art of Letter Writing to Drive Loyalty

In a world abuzz with Whatsapp pings and email notifications, handwritten notes are a rarity. Whether it’s a poem in a birthday card, an apology letter or silly scribble on a Post-It, the written word has the ability to evoke emotions in ways that can elude the digital form. Customer loyalty–and the drivers behind it–are…

Instagram Tweaks Ranking System to Give Original Content More Visibility

To give original content on its platform more visibility, Instagram is making some changes to the algorithm that controls its ranking system. An Instagram spokesperson said the updates to the ranking algorithm will make users’ feed less likely to recommend reposts of Reels and accounts with content filled with reposts from other users. Head of…

Oatly’s Editorial Team Aims to Break Storytelling as We Know It

Best known for its boisterous billboards and TV ads mocking dairy-loving dads, Swedish plant-based brand Oatly has never been afraid to take risks. Recent investments in a spoof true-crime podcast and a puppet-fronted YouTube series show this ethos is bleeding into its branded content too. So much so, it’s been quietly building an entire editorial…

This Connected TV Channel is Making Money From Branded Content, not Ads

Lightbeam.TV, a video publisher, is creating a TV channel funded by branded content, rather than 30 and 60-second spot commercials. The startup currently exists on social channels like Instagram and TikTok and is set to debut as a connected TV publisher in 2023, according to CEO and co-founder Stephanie Sharis. As a TV channel, it…