In recent years, marketing technology--or simply "mar tech," in industry parlance--has gone from fledgling to flourishing, growing from a niche that once included a few hundred players to a vast universe of 5,000-plus companies. Their offerings include software for social media, email, search engine optimization, e-retail targeting, video, consumer rewards, campaign measurement and creative workflow,...
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Morning Digest
May 22, 2017
What marketers need to know today
Introducing Adweek’s Mar Tech Superstars
By Christopher Heine
In recent years, marketing technology--or simply "mar tech," in industry parlance--has gone from fledgling to flourishing, growing from a niche that once included a few hundred players to a vast universe of 5,000-plus companies. Their offerings include software for social media, email, search engine optimization, e-retail targeting, video, consumer rewards, campaign measurement and creative workflow,...
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Behind-the-scenes storytelling trumps taking the leading role
By Molly DeWolf Swenson
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Why saying hello to Alexa and Google is changing the shopper journey
Her 2-year tenure will be remembered for American Airlines win
By Katie Richards
Revivals, military shows and knocking digital advertising
By Jason Lynch
Kids, teens have grown up in an entirely digital world
By Emma Bazilian
Move over, millennials--there's a hot new demo in town. Generation Z, the kids and teens born between roughly 1996 and 2010, is gaining power as a consumer segment. And unlike millennials, most of whom witnessed the start of the internet revolution, Gen Z has grown up in an entirely digital world, giving them a totally...
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'Field Trip to Mars' and 'Gravity Cat' also win big
By Tim Nudd
Clemenger BBDO Melbourne has won Best of Show at New York Festivals for "Meet Graham," the PSA campaign for Australia's Transport Accident Commission (TAC) that involved the model creation of a human designed to withstand car-crash forces. Automobiles have evolved much faster than humans. Graham was created by artist Patricia Piccinini, with help from a...
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Readers are eager to keep up with the latest Trump scandal
By Sami Main
Earlier this week, in the middle of an already speedy news cycle, both the New York Times and the Washington Post broke their respective site traffic records. On Monday, the New York Times published a piece about a memo from former FBI Director James Comey that claimed President Trump asked Comey to shut down an...
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The drama’s creator says no one will ever be truly dead on the series
By Jason Lynch
One of the most-buzzed about moves during the broadcast upfronts this week was NBC's decision to move This Is Us to Thursdays at 9 p.m., where it will help bring Must-See TV back to the network. But in reality, buyers and audiences haven't stopped talking about the show since last year's presentation, when its upfront...
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Kelly Munson had a very productive sabBATical
By Patrick Coffee
You can blame Bruce Wayne. Or Dracula. Or even the Weekly World News's favorite mascot, Bat Boy. Whoever's responsible, one thing is for sure: when asked to name a "brand" in sore need of a refresh, very few would choose myotis septentrionalis, the North American long-eared bat. Yet Kelly Munson of Minneapolis creative agency mono...
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New office grows the agency's footprint
By Patrick Coffee
The West Coast ad agency scene just got a little more crowded. Bailey Lauerman, an independent agency based in Omaha, Nebraska, has opened its first expansion office in Los Angeles. Chantal Sagnes, who most recently served as director of business development at New York's co:collective, will lead the office as managing partner and group account...
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