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ADVERTISING STRATEGY

Nike’s World Cup Strategy Reveals How Sports Marketing Is Changing

How the world's biggest sportswear brand abandoned its own advertising legacy — and what it reveals about the future of sports marketing.

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BUSINESS

Marketing’s New Power Center Is Hiding in the Middle

As brands pour more tools, data, and AI into their marketing operations, the companies that stand apart will be those that can transform complexity into clear, responsive customer decisions.

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STRATEGY

Why Marketers Must Look for New Opportunities in ‘Cultural Time Zones’

In an era of agentic platforms and algorithmic feeds, the main challenge for brands is to stop only chasing scattered attention and instead consistently show up where culture naturally gathers and collective attention is strongest.

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ADVERTISING TECH

What Disney, YouTube and Netflix Are Really Saying About Agentic TV Buying

As streaming platforms and legacy networks race to build agentic buying systems, the future of TV advertising may be defined less by who sells the best inventory and more by who controls the intelligence behind the buy.

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STRATEGY

Resale Has Matured From a Category Story Into a Brand Story

The resale boom has created a new marketing problem: secondhand is mainstream now, and every platform needs a stronger reason to exist.

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BUSINESS

Cartier Is Becoming the Watch Gen Z Actually Wants

Rolex remains the giant of Swiss watches, but Cartier is rewriting what status looks like for a younger generation of luxury consumers.

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STRATEGY

Zara’s Bad Bunny Drop Is Selling More Than Clothes

With its Bad Bunny collaboration, Zara is testing whether fast fashion can become more desirable by selling culture, identity, and belonging, not just clothes.

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CREATIVITY

The Ordinary Put a $175 Banana on Sale to Make Beauty Look Expensive

The Ordinary’s Markup Marché turns everyday groceries into absurdly priced “luxury” products to expose how beauty marketing can inflate perceived value.

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ADVERTISING BUSINESS

Netflix Tells Advertisers It Can Compete With Anyone

With ad dollars surging, Netflix argues that premium attention—not just reach—is the future of advertising.

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ADVERTISING TECH

TikTok Wants to Become the Operating System for AI Advertising

TikTok allowing autonomous AI agents into its ad system could soon shift marketers from running campaigns to managing the machines behind them.

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BUSINESS STRATEGY

Coca-Cola Keeps Winning While Marketing Looks Somewhere Else

What if the most effective marketing strategy in the world is also the one the industry finds too boring to celebrate?

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ADVERTISING SOCIAL MEDIA

YouTube’s Brandcast Puts Creator Trust at the Center of Advertising

With audiences growing tired of creators and social media splitting their focus, YouTube says that lasting trust in creators, not just quick viral hits, will shape the future of advertising.

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