The good news: more marketers have updated their media agency contracts; the bad news: not as many...
The good news: more marketers have updated their media agency contracts; the bad news: not as many...
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Thursday, June 4, 2026
 
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Digiday
Overheard: Revisiting the K2 Report on media agency practices like rebates and principal media
The good news: more marketers have updated their media agency contracts; the bad news: not as many have updated the principal media verbiage and remain vulnerable to its use unwittingly.
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Harvard Business Review
The U.S. Research Talent Pipeline Is in Trouble
Researchers training in the United States are thinking about working elsewhere. Here’s how American companies should respond.
 
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Marketing Dive
How McDonald’s is serving up culture as part of its new strategic plan
Activations around a Nike sneaker release and box office smash “Backrooms” demonstrate how the fast-food giant uses social media marketing.
 
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Digiday
Why DSW and other brands are pivoting back to ‘old’ marketing tactics
Amid AI and digital saturation, DSW is shifting ad spend to real-life activations and traditional media to deepen customer connections.
 
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Marketing Dive
Indeed addresses job market disconnect with ads that put people first
The “Jobs Need People” campaign depicts moments of peer-to-peer connection that make work fulfilling amid a rise in trends like employer ghosting.
 
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ON-DEMAND TRAINING
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American Marketing Association
Data Visualization & Storytelling

Leave this workshop thinking differently about how to communicate with data and armed with some tangible techniques to do so immediately.

 
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American Marketing Association
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Marketing Professionals

This course covers the phases of AI, such as rule-based AI, machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI, to provide a solid foundation of AI principles. 

 
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Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console AI Performance Report & AI Blocking Controls (Limited)
Google has announced the new Search Console Search Generative AI performance reports and a toggle to block your site from showing in AI responses. This is available currently only for a small subset of UK site owners, but it will expand globally at some point.
 
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Search Engine Roundtable
Google Hotel Ads Drops Several Bid Adjustments - A Bug?
Google Hotel Ads may have dropped several bid adjustments, or maybe it is a bug. Bid adjustments such as day of the week check-in, advanced purchase, check-in date, length of stay and maybe some others are no longer showing up in the Google Ads interface.
 
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Marketing Tech
Macy’s personalising AI bot drives basket values inside a few weeks
The US department store brand and household name, Macy’s, has rolled out a AI-powered chatbot in the form of a shopping assistant for its online customers. The company had been working on a bespoke AI agent for nearly six months, according to PAYMNTS
 
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Adweek
OpenAI Needs Two CMOs Because It Has a Problem Marketing Can’t Solve
OpenAI’s brand is in trouble right now. The company is simultaneously preparing for an IPO while projecting losses of $14 billion by the end of 2026. That is not a stable platform from which to build an enterprise brand.
 
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The Ahrefs Blog
What Is a Good Domain Rating? (With Real Data)
Domain Rating (DR) is Ahrefs’ measure of how strong a website’s backlink profile is, on a scale from 0 to 100. It’s relative by design: your score reflects how your backlink profile stacks up against every other website in our…Read more ›
 
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Chief Marketer
Not All Reach Is Equal: Why Creator TV Is the New Holy Grail for Engagement-Driven Brands
By Aaron DeBevoise, CEO of Spotter Reach is abundant.
 
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