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Epsilon

The Identity Gap: How Marketers Perceive Success and Where Performance Breaks Down

Are you seeing the full customer journey? New research shows how leading marketers improve measurement, personalization, and performance through connected customer data.

Social Media Today

X algorithm insights highlight key posting strategies

A report from Business Insider outlined what the app’s recent source disclosures mean and how to work within the system.

Search Engine Roundtable

Google Performance Reports Drop In Impressions/Clicks ~August 12

There are a number of reports that the performance reports, both for Google Search and the Generative AI features reports, are showing a decline in impressions and clicks (AI report does not show clicks) starting around August 12th and 13th.

For Momentum

Making the Grade: How Corporate & Nonprofit Partnerships Support Youth This Back-to-School Season

By: Allison Basco As familiar commercials for pencils, binders, and fresh clothes roll across screens, it is a clear reminder

Marketing Dive

ANA cautions marketers against overreliance on retail media data

The trade body follows the IAB in trying to establish shared metrics and vocabulary for a high-growth channel that remains opaque and fragmented.

Digiday

Sport is marketing’s greatest opportunity — and its greatest activation challenge

In today’s attention economy, few channels or forms of entertainment capture the imagination quite like live sport. Partner insights from Sportradar.

Search Engine Roundtable

Google Search Will Eventually Support HTTP QUERY Method

Gary Illyes from Google said Google Search will eventually support the new HTTP QUERY method. He said as the "ecosystem catches up" Google will then support the HTTP QUERY method.

Marketing Tech

McDonald’s is a Top 10 global brand & its app may explain why

McDonald’s is a brand that hundreds of millions, if not billions of people across the world recognise. The fast food giant excels in the marketing space, largely down to its brand being instantly recognisable.

Adweek

Travis Kelce Plays NIL Matchmaker Between Brands and Athletes in New Partnership

Kelce is teaming up with Publicis Sports and 3 Arts Sports to help brands land ‘authentic’ NIL deals

Fast Company

Are you invisible to AI? Here’s how to check

Nearly half of consumers turn to AI for business recommendations—but one in four companies won’t show up in AI results, says a new report.Since the onset of the internet, brands have been fighting to optimize their spot in search engines, getting...

Distilled

What Should AI Actually Own in Your Media Team?

AI is already making more of the day-to-day decisions behind media execution, from monitoring performance to optimizing spend.

Chief Marketer

The Brief: Flavor Interventions and Death Predictions

FIVE THINGS TO KNOW THIS WEEK This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover flavor interventions, coffee portraits and death predictions.

EVENTS & LIVE TRAINING

Selected by American Marketing Association

UX Foundations for Marketers

Your digital campaigns are only as effective as the experiences behind them. This two-part series bridges the gap between marketing strategy and user experience design, giving digital marketers the knowledge, frameworks, and practical skills to directly influence the digital experiences that drive engagement, conversions, and ROI.

Across both sessions, you will move from understanding the fundamentals of UX and how they connect to marketing performance, to applying design thinking and accessibility standards to the real digital challenges you face every day. Whether you are collaborating with a design team, briefing an agency, or evaluating your own digital properties, this series will sharpen how you think about and advocate for the end user at every stage.