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The biggest agentic AI announcements from CES and NRF
January always starts off with a bang for marketers and brand execs getting back into office after the holidays, with both CES and the National Retail Federation (NRF) annual show held in the first two weeks of the month.During this year’s conferences, innovations around AI were inescapable, and agentic AI in particular, which could have big implications for the ways…
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A Madison Avenue makeover capped off 2025, with Omnicom becoming the largest holding company in the world after acquiring IPG. At the first big ad industry event of the year, the company leaned on its…
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Why Oakley is betting on girls’ flag football
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Behind the scenes of Bush’s college football bowl…of beans
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The next big thing in fitness sponsorships: Hyrox
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The explosion in work-from-home culture in 2020 pushed a lot of businesses to the brink.Not Zoom. Instead, the video conferencing tool saw exponentially increased usage and invaluable brand recognition as many industries shifted to remote work. Now, with the future of work morphing once again in the age of AI,…
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