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The best jokes from this year’s upfronts
Ah, the upfronts. The best week of the year to miss your family’s Mother’s Day celebrations, have a cocktail or thirty, and hear some of the most iconic comedians on television pretend to understand what you do for a living.As is tradition during upfronts week, media companies like NBCUniversal and Disney invited late-night hosts and comedians like Seth Meyers, Jimmy…
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With a new CEO at the helm, Disney maintains its splashy upfront strategy
Upfronts week can be something of a slog. On Tuesday evening at the Javits Center, the Walt Disney Company did its best to get advertisers singing instead of slumping in their seats.Sports was a hyper-present…
OpenAI is looking to grow its international marketing exec lineup
OpenAI has plans to beef up its roster of marketing execs.The company is looking to hire creative and partnerships leaders in Latin America and Europe and is expanding marketing hires in Asia, according to listings…
At upfronts, NBCUniversal’s legacy is the message
At NBCUniversal, age isn’t just a number.The media giant, which is celebrating 100 years this year, kicked off upfronts week at Radio City Music Hall Monday morning by emphasizing that getting older is its biggest…
How jewelry brand Gorjana found its place in sports
It’s a big weekend for jewelry brand Gorjana. Mothers and daughters are a major part of its audience, and with Mother’s Day coming up Sunday, the company is in the midst of a marketing push.The…
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All things creator marketing with Mae Karwowski
Mae Karwowski is founder and CEO of influencer marketing agency Obviously. She’s set to speak at Marketing Brew’s upcoming event,…
Google rolls out new tools to automate even more marketing
Google’s annual product event, Google Marketing Live, is less than a month away, and ahead of the event, it’s debuting…
How Dallas’ WNBA team is spreading its sponsorship wings this season
In many pro sports leagues, missing out on the postseason comes with at least one perk: a high draft pick…
A’ja Wilson and Jalen Brunson star in Lowe’s debut basketball campaign
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Inside Expedia’s partnership with IShowSpeed
Travel marketing is full of aspirational content. A beautiful destination. A happy family. A picture-perfect sunset somewhere in the background. It looks so serene, so relaxing. How could you not want to go there?That’s not the kind of marketing that Expedia is doing with creator IShowSpeed.On Wednesday, the company kicked…
Why so many creators are joining the C-suite
Call it the C(reator) suite.This year alone, T-Mobile made Druski its chief switching officer. Candy company Katjes named Jake Shane as its chief creative officer. And the NFL dubbed Dhar Mann its chief kindness officer for the Super Bowl.As influencers take on founder roles at their own companies and business…
How Adobe is building AI and agentic tools for brands
Ready or not, the age of AI-assisted online shopping is here.Traffic to US retail websites coming from AI spiked 393% year over year in the first three months of 2026, according to recent data from Adobe.That’s not all: “What’s also caught the attention of brands is the conversion of that…
All things creator marketing with Kay Hsu
Kay Hsu is global head of Spotify’s creative lab. She’s set to speak at Marketing Brew’s upcoming event, The Next Phase of Social & Creator Marketing, on May 12.Ahead of the event, we caught up with her to hear what she believes are the biggest growth drivers of creator marketing.This…
Polymarket and Kalshi are turning TV programming into one big casino
When entertainment enthusiasts tune into TV and movie awards shows, there’s no way to tell who might take home the biggest prizes of the night. But during this year’s Golden Globes red-carpet preshow, hosted by Variety, Timothée Chalamet’s best actor award was essentially spoiled hours before the official Timmy win…
How Grant & Ash are rewriting the rules of creator brand safety
If you don’t know Grant & Ash, they have a song for you.Since 2022, creators Grant Gibbs and Ashley Gill, also known as A Twink and a Redhead, have amassed more than 900,000 followers across TikTok and Instagram, where they post comedy skits and music videos. They’re currently on a…
How marketers are making experiences worth clipping
You might not watch an entire 72-hour live stream. But you might watch clips of it.That’s something TBWAChiatDay Chicago’s Skittles team understood when planning a content strategy around a recent effort involving the “Skittles Gaming Flute,” a branded flute video game controller. The candy brand sent the controller to gamers…
Ad spend on YouTube, Google Search, Amazon Sponsored Products is growing: report
Meta’s push into vertical video continues to seem like it’s paying off. Reels now account for a third of all Instagram ad impressions, although the push has driven down pricing growth on the platform, according to a new report from the marketing agency Tinuiti.Across Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Google Search, and…
Advertisers are optimistic about Netflix’s dynamic ad options
World Cup season hasn’t started yet, but Netflix is already looking ahead to 2027. The streamer is offering advertisers the option to buy dynamically inserted ads during its broadcast of the Women’s World Cup next summer, the company confirmed to Marketing Brew.Since debuting an ad tier in 2022, Netflix has…
‘Marketing Brew Weekly’ won a Webby!
Last year, my colleagues Jennimai Nguyen, Katie Hicks, and I embarked on a major challenge: hosting a weekly marketing podcast that captured the same ethos and sensibility of our long-running Marketing Brew newsletter.There are plenty of podcasts for listeners to choose from, including in the marketing and media space. But…
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