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YouTube scraps some creator ad controls, builds out livestream ad capabilities
Get marketing news you'll actually want to readThe email newsletter guaranteed to bring you the latest stories shaping the marketing and advertising world, like only the Brew can.YouTube is shuttering certain ad controls for creators in November, the company announced this week.Creators will still be able to choose if they want ads to run before and after a long-form video,…
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Stay Ahead of the Competition and Revolutionize Your Business With This Content Strategy
To drive profitable engagement, you need to understand audience needs and craft effective content strategies. This guide will empower you to create relevant, engaging content aligned with customer intentions, analyze user behavior and leverage data-driven insights to foster strong connections and drive growth throughout the buyer journey — all through…
Want to hire an AI agency? You’re in luck
Sick of interacting with all those humans at work? Meet AIntelligent Studios, an agency operated by AI.The agency is run by two self-described “AI entities,” Aiden and Aiko, that Marketing Brew wrote about earlier this year while they were “interning” at the tech marketing agency Codeword. In early June, though,…
How to Get 10,000 Instagram Followers in Less Than a Month
Nathan Chan is the CEO and publisher of Foundr, a media and education company for young, aspiring, and novice entrepreneurs. He's had the pleasure of interviewing rock-star business leaders to find out what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur.In the following excerpt from The Ultimate Guide to Instagram for…
Diverse viewers watch diverse shows—but representation still lags, study finds
Diverse casts in TV shows on both linear and streaming are more likely to attract diverse viewers, but on-screen representation in popular programming is still lacking, according to data from Samba TV.The research, which analyzed TV viewership from the beginning of 2023 through May 1 and conducted a nationwide survey,…
ChatGPT vs. Traditional SEO: Which is Better?
With the rise of AI technology, ChatGPT has emerged as a game-changer in the world of SEO. While traditional SEO techniques have their benefits, ChatGPT offers a unique approach to search engine optimization that can help businesses achieve their goals faster.In this article, we'll explore the differences between ChatGPT and…
Why Your PR Is Doomed Without a Consistent Digital Strategy
As a head of a PR agency, I'm often reached out to by brands asking me to launch a full-scale digital PR campaign. Rather unexpectedly for them, sometimes I decline or suggest they push their plans back a bit.The reason is that I firmly believe PR won't make sense if…
Ads for blue-chip brands are being served on ‘unreliable’ AI-generated sites, report says
Ads for big brands are showing up on “low-quality AI-generated sites” and are primarily served by Google Ads, according to a new report from the publisher-rating tool Newsguard.In May and June 2023, ads from 141 brands appeared on 55 AI-generated websites, NewsGuard found. According to the report, analysts examined 217…
How Spikeball’s CEO plans to build the brand without paid advertising
Chris Ruder wanted Spikeball to be known as the beach game when he founded the company in 2008—so much so that he made it the product’s tagline.It turns out that playing on the beach isn’t necessarily representative of the game’s clientele. “When sales started coming in, I realized that most…
From Baltimore to Belize: How one agency markets destinations
Behind almost every vacation is an advertising agency.Okay, maybe not. But they don’t hurt—even the world’s biggest cities and nicest beaches rely on marketing from time to time. Development Counsellors International (DCI) is an agency that almost exclusively markets *jazz hands* destinations, working with destination marketing organizations (DMOs) to get…
Google charged advertisers for ads that didn’t meet its own standards, report finds
Not a great day to be the king.Google, the world’s largest advertising platform, charged advertisers for “premium” advertising but actually placed those ads on sites that didn’t meet Google’s “standards for monetization,” according to research the Wall Street Journal first reported on.Though Google manages all the ad inventory for YouTube,…
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