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Advertising Now Surrounds Every World Cup Match From Airport to Stadium

A single World Cup match sells attention from the airport to the merch stand. The hardest part is proving any of it worked.

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LiveRamp Courts Executives on Netflix as Publicis Deal Tests Its Neutrality

LiveRamp is spending five months on Netflix selling marketers on trust. The timing, weeks after a $2.2 billion Publicis deal, is doing a lot of work.

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Retail Media Grew Up Faster Than Anyone Could Measure It

Retail media has matured into a $150 billion global business. Its accountability infrastructure has not, and the gap between what networks promise and what brands can verify is the channel's defining problem.

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Brands Are Funding the AI Misinformation Being Spread About Them

The automated systems that make digital advertising efficient are creating a new category of brand risk that is almost impossible to manage manually.

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The Best World Cup Ads Nobody Saw Coming Were the Local Ones

The best World Cup ad of 2026 featured Susan Boyle, reaches 5 million people, and cannot be bought outside Scotland. The lesson is enormous.

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Amazon Just Hit $70 Billion in Advertising, and It Is Only Getting Started

Amazon's advertising revenue crossed $70 billion in Q1 2026. The architecture being built to sustain it is the more striking number.

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ADVERTISING CREATIVITY

The Week Advertising Remembered How to Be Funny

The best campaigns of the week shared a quality the industry too often forgets — a genuine sense of humor paired with a sharp creative idea.

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Nike vs. Adidas: Who is Winning the World Cup Ad War ?

Nike and Adidas both made big bets on long-form film for the 2026 World Cup. One has dominated every metric the internet can measure.The other may still win the commercial battle that matters more.

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Nike Said It Wasn’t Making a Hero Film — Then It Made the Biggest One in Years

"Rip The Script" is six minutes, 30-plus stars, and the most deliberately engineered piece of sports advertising since Nike's own 1998 Airport film.

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Nobody Has More World Cup 2026 Collaborations Than Nike

The X2 capsule collection pairs seven of the world's most influential creative forces with seven national football federations.

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Nike, McDonald’s, and Devin Booker Turned a Shoe Launch Into a Desert Scavenger Hunt

The Nike Book 2 McDonald’s campaign already had a story before anyone made a shoe — and that difference is everything.

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How Messi Became the World Cup’s Most Crowded Brand

The world’s most decorated soccer player is also the most commercially dominant face of the 2026 tournament.

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