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Zillow Gone Wild is the gift that keeps on giving for the brand
Zillow Gone Wild is, indeed, going wild.The cross-platform social media account, which highlights some of the weirdest and most extravagant home listings on the real-estate platform Zillow (like this castle in Southlake, Texas, or this AI-looking house in Victoria, British Columbia), has accumulated an audience of nearly 5 million across social media and its newsletter. Now, it’s also a TV…
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10 college football players for marketers to watch
American football has among the largest rosters in sports, and with hundreds of college football teams across the country, the number of athletes for brands to sponsor is big enough to make anyone’s head spin.In the NIL era, marketers have an opportunity to predict the next sports star before they…
The art of the celebrity ad deal
It was a summer of celebrity brand deals in the spotlight: KATSEYE x Gap, Gavin Casalegno x Dunkin’, and of course, Sydney Sweeney x American Eagle.They were buzzy, costly, and omnipresent. Though a celebrity-fronted campaign might be common, Keith Gelman, founder of entertainment marketing agency Talent Partnership Advisors, said that…
How the National Park Service became a social media behemoth
Partnerships that pay off. Say goodbye to your spreadsheets. impact.com helps you automate your affiliate, influencer, and referral programs with insights + tools. Turn connections into cash.This story is the fourth in a series exploring how brands craft standout social media strategies. If you’d like to chat about how your…
Inside the marketing behind consumers’ favorite food fad
Protein was once something that only athletes and gym aficionados paid much attention to. But in 2025, tracking protein intake feels like something just about everyone is doing, and in many cases actively looking to increase—to the extent that it’s driving a cottage-cheese resurgence.As interest in protein consumption, especially among…
Tightening budgets have some marketers opting for AI imagery
A brand puts out a new campaign with imagery that looks like it could be AI-generated, eagle-eyed observers point out that said campaign is likely AI-generated, backlash ensues, the brand (sometimes) makes a vague statement of acknowledgement, and everyone moves on. Rinse and repeat.That cycle has come for big-name brands…
When your fans love other sports, join along, Topgolf says
Football players love golf, but do golfers love football?At Topgolf, the high-tech indoor golf chain, it seems they do. The brand surveyed its customers and found that more than 80% of them are football fans, according to VP of Brand Marketing Katie Van.That’s why Topgolf’s latest campaign is about football,…
Google ad-tech antitrust trial remedy phase, day 4: The nitty-gritty
A puzzling question came on day four of the remedy phase of United States vs. Google LLC, in a federal courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia, when the Google team questioned Jon Weissman, a computer science professor at the University of Minnesota.Google’s lawyers asked him if he knew whether AdX, Google’s ad…
Disney says its committed to linear TV amid declines in ad revenue at A+E
Disney and Hearst are reportedly exploring a sale of A+E Global Media, a joint venture between the two companies that operates cable networks A&E, History, and Lifetime, according to a July report from Deadline. But whoever might be interested in buying up the joint venture is likely to find a…
At this year’s Ryder Cup, golf looks cooler than ever
For many people, golf used to be that thing your dad would do way too early on a weekend morning with his shirt tucked into a very unfashionable pair of khakis. But Dad might just run into Justin Timberlake and Travis Kelce or LeBron and Bronny James the next time…
Trump orders sale of TikTok to US investors
A US TikTok, it seems, is actually coming.The sale of TikTok’s US operations was made nearly official Thursday via an executive order from President Trump, executing the terms of the divest-or-ban law that required TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to cede control of the app’s domestic operations to US-based owners…
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