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Cannes Briefing: Creativity is moving beyond the agency model
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) unveiled a new logo for the organization that is designed to transcend one language family and expresses abstract qualities like timelessness and reliability. The result is an abstract logo in the familiar blue and white colors, purposely designed to be evocative, to suggest but not concretely explain. This evocative
Read MoreMarketing directors from M&S and Cancer Research UK share why “humility” is an underrated leadership skill, and that the era of needing to have all the answers is over. Source
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The just-announced House of Golf VR is officially the world’s first mixed reality mini-golf game. But while it sounds like a quirky sports title, it’s really a powerful playground for creativity, a tool that lets you design and share 3D courses in the real world. Created by Liverpool-based Starlight Games, the project uses advanced passthrough
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Artificial intelligence is transforming how people search, discover, and act on information. For chief marketing officers and senior leaders, this is not a question of whether SEO is “dead” but of how to adapt to a new era where visibility spans AI-driven assistants, multimodal tools, and fragmented user journeys. Two forces drive this disruption: rapid
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Discord has shared the results of its first-ever ad measurement test — and brands and marketers find the numbers encouraging. In June, AppsFlyer ran its first performance measurement test of Quests — Discord’s in-platform, reward-based ad experiences — collaborating with the studio Second Dinner to promote its mobile trading card game “Marvel Snap” via two Mobile
Read MoreAfter being out of print for over a decade, the cult-classic racing game Magical Athlete is being relaunched by CMYK, the party games developer behind beloved games like Wavelength, Spots and Monikers, as well as reimagined classics like Quacks. Better yet, the reimagined edition features new product design and vibrant artwork from Angela Kirkwood, with
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As a marketing specialist who has gone through the transition from Universal Analytics to Google Analytics 4 on countless projects, I can confidently say that no platform migration has divided the marketing community quite like GA4. Five years after the initial launch of GA4 in October 2020, and more than a year since the complete
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The technology is used for back-end efficiencies, but a startup replacing hosts with AI has raised new questions about the future of the form.
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You know AI video generation is getting convincing when people start to suspect that genuine filmed footage is AI. Some of the posts on social media claiming Sora 2 to be the end of Hollywood are actually showing a Chat GPT ad campaign that was filmed on 35mm film. Sora 2 does seem to be
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Before we jump in: I hate to brag, but I will say I’m extremely proud to have placed 4th in the G50 SEO World Championships this past week. I’m speaking at NESS, the global News & Editorial SEO Summit, on October 22. Growth Memo readers get 20% off when code “kevin2025” Boost your skills with Growth
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Tariffs are cutting into digital advertising: The IAB has revised its 2025 U.S. ad spend outlook downward, trimming projected growth from 7.3% to 5.7%. The cut reflects rising concern over tariffs and broader economic headwinds, with second-half growth now forecast at just 5.0%. Marketers are reacting in real time: 91% of buyers say tariffs are
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Sasha Wizansky, a Maine-based writer and visual artist, is interested in pretty niche magazines. In 2007, she co-founded Meatpaper with journalist Amy Standen, a printed quarterly journal exploring meat culture through origins art and journalism. With a background in art books, book binding, letterpress printing, and drawing, her creative endeavours led her to another idea
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OpenAI released the largest study to date on how users really use ChatGPT. I have painstakingly synthesized the ones you and I should pay heed to, so you don’t have to wade through the plethora of useful and pointless insights. TL;DR LLMs are not replacing search. But they are shifting how people access and consume information.
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The first thing that strikes you about The Knightling is the vibrance of the action-adventure RPG’s art style. There’s just so much colour in this indie game’s charming open world. The next thing you notice is a curious twist. You play the character of an aspiring knight, but you have no sword; only a shield.
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Google’s John Mueller answered a question about an expired domain that was unable to rank for relevant search queries, including its own brand name. The answer sheds light on how expired domains are handled by Google after they are re-registered. History Of Expired Domains And SEO Buying expired domains for their link profiles was a
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Nike yesterday revealed that it expects $1.5 billion in gross incremental costs, on an annualized basis, because of tariffs. That’s a 50% increase from Nike’s last estimate, provided in June, of $1 billion. Meanwhile, Nike’s gross margin for its first fiscal quarter of 2026 decreased 320 basis points, in part due to “increased product costs,
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Save the date! After gracing the other side of the pond with a New York City Nicer Tuesdays event and the continued sold-out successes of Nicer Tuesdays in London, It’s Nice That will be launching our first ever Nicer Tuesdays talk event in Los Angeles on 4 November 2025 at The Nimoy Theater. We’ll be
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OpenAI launched the Sora iOS app, beginning an invite-based rollout in the United States and Canada. With Sora, OpenAI appears to be releasing its first non-ChatGPT consumer app and its first social product. The app runs on the newly released Sora 2 model for video and synchronized audio. What’s The Sora App? Sora is positioned
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It was looking good for The Magnum Ice Cream Company—Unilever’s soon-to-be-spun-off ice cream division. All the ingredients were in place: a portfolio of leading brands including Cornetto, Klondike, and the titular Magnum; an installed base of more than three million ice cream cabinets; and the instant advantage of being the largest player in the very
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