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How The Trade Desk is aiming to remain ‘king of the open web’
It’s been more than 10 years since The Trade Desk was named to Forbes’s list of America’s Most Promising Companies. This year, despite industry-wide challenges and a belief among some in the industry of a widespread contraction of the open web, the largest independent demand-side platform in the world is looking to keep that promise alive.Amid a crowded DSP landscape…
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Coworking with Fintan Gillespie
Each week, we spotlight Marketing Brew readers in our Coworking series. If you’d like to be featured, introduce yourself here.Fintan Gillespie is global director, ad partnerships at Snap Inc. He previously worked at Google.Favorite project…
How InStyle is reaching the next gen with its original social series
This story is the latest in a series exploring how brands craft standout social media strategies. If you’d like to chat about how your brand is approaching social, Katie Hicks wants to hear about it.…
Where should retail media networks make their pitch for ad dollars?
Retail media is in a liminal space.WPP’s 2025 forecast has retail media accounting for almost a fifth of total ad revenue by 2030, and the channel has outgrown retail, with financial and travel businesses getting…
Hockey-stick growth: The year of the PWHL
Women’s hockey found massive success on the international stage this year, with record-breaking viewership of the overtime Olympic gold-medal game between Team USA and Team Canada.But until last weekend, the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL)…
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Is creator TV the next era of television?
TV has transformed before our eyes: A medium that was first dominated by networks and then cable companies has fast…
Want your brand to stand out? Consider breaking a world record
It’s generally frowned upon to create ad campaigns or fudge campaign numbers with the primary purpose of winning industry awards.…
‘The tide has turned’: Why the era of the Madison Avenue holding company is on its way out
Is it time to ring the death knell for the holding company model?It’d be easy to think so. Last month,…
Why Hyundai locked up a jersey sponsorship with Boston Legacy FC early
Boston sports fandom is legendary, but it’s been almost a decade since women’s soccer fans in the city had a…
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NWSL kicks off 14th season with new marketing strategy
The NWSL season kicked off on Friday with two new teams and a new approach to marketing.The league’s fourth annual marketing campaign, “Imagine Missing This,” will be targeted more narrowly than campaigns from previous years, though it’s still geared toward top-of-funnel goals like awareness and brand building as the NWSL…
Creators were all over SXSW. What does that mean for the industry?
The line between creators and traditional Hollywood is so blurry these days that even those with perfect vision are squinting.At SXSW this year, creator chat wasn’t hard to come by. Whether it was at the Creator Academy activation hosted by Sam’s Club (a major sponsor of the festival), on a…
Coworking with Shane Norris
Each week, we spotlight Marketing Brew readers in our Coworking series. If you’d like to be featured, introduce yourself here.Shane Norris is head of sales at Fyllo, a contextual targeting platform. He has also worked at M3, Roku, and Funny or Die.How would you describe your job to someone who…
Why Coca-Cola made March Madness a moment for BodyArmor
Powerade has been a sponsor of the NCAA for nearly every year since 2010. This year, though, that sponsorship, including the designation as the official sports drink of March Madness, is going to a sister brand instead.It’s a unique year in the world of sports, with both the Olympics and…
How Togethxr helped change women’s sports in its first five years
Everyone knows the “Everyone Watches Women’s Sports” T-shirt.The original was introduced by media and e-commerce company Togethxr in December 2023, just in time for a revolutionary women’s March Madness. In 2024, “Everyone Watches Women’s Sports” merch brought in more than $6 million in revenue for Togethxr, and as of this…
An AI avatar of Andy Cohen will start name-dropping brands on Peacock this summer
If your TikTok feed isn’t inundated with videos of Rob Rausch from the Traitors finale last month, there will soon be another place to see America’s favorite snake-catching overalls-wearer.Beginning this summer, Peacock is rolling out “Your Bravoverse,” a vertical video product featuring an AI avatar of Andy Cohen, host of…
In a tougher market, the auto industry may need to change EV marketing messages
Actors Timothée Chalamet and Larsen Thompson are stranded on the side of a highway with a broken-down motorcycle in EV startup Lucid’s 2025 “Driven” ad campaign.They sneak into a nearby warehouse and abscond with Lucid’s Gravity SUV in the action movie-style commercial that highlights the vehicle’s performance, technology, and range.“Holy…
Inside Major League Soccer’s World Cup year marketing playbook
This year, Major League Soccer has a rare marketing opportunity. When the FIFA World Cup comes to North America over the summer, soccer fandom, which has been growing in the US for years, has the potential to hit peak levels.The league, which kicked off its 31st season last month, is…
ESPN never had one official brand identity—until now
Everyone knows the ESPN logo: Bright red color, slightly angled uppercase letters, and a horizontal line cutting through the middle.But the legacy sports media company has never actually had official brand identity guidelines down on paper—until now.After several months of work, the ESPN Creative Studio team officially introduced its identity…
Coworking with Andrea Bendzick
Each week, we spotlight Marketing Brew readers in our Coworking series. If you’d like to be featured, introduce yourself here.Andrea Bendzick is the CEO of the digital marketing agency Wpromote, which acquired Giant Spoon in December. She has also held senior roles at Astreya and NTT Data Americas, both IT…
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Can humans and robots coexist in harmony? TD Bank thinks so
Sometimes 2026 feels like a dystopian nightmare. When tech leaders make remarks comparing the energy…
NPR’s new brand campaign wants you to ask questions
Everyone has questions. Few get to spend their days seeking answers.That’s where National Public Radio…
How the NHL plans keep Olympic fans hooked through the Stanley Cup
It’s been one heck of a year for hockey fandom. Whether it’s longtime NHL fans,…
Is ‘Bridgerton’ set to become the next ‘Stranger Things’?
This social season’s most swoon-worthy pairing? My dear reader, it simply must be Bridgerton and…
Why a pet food company went all-in on the Olympics and Paralympics
Athletes are known for being meticulous about their health, whether that’s counting calories, tracking macros,…