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The CMO Disappearance Doesn’t Mean What Everybody Thinks It Does

Big brands ax the CMO role. LinkedIn talks about fast-growing jobs. Are they just wrapping the same old jobs in fancier, buzzword-heavy titles? Learn what it all means for marketing and what you should do to grow in the profession.
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Solo Stove Burns Marketing Team Over Snoop Campaign

Solo Brand ousted its CEO for a “disappointing” Snoop Dogg smokeless campaign. But the real disappointment stems from two blunders — one by setting the wrong goals and one by failing to build an audience.
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Beyond Resolutions: What’s Your Word for 2024?

Selecting a word for 2024 can work better than making resolutions. The word becomes a theme or intention rather than a set of rules you will likely break. Here’s an option for marketers in 2024.
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Marketing in 2024: AI, Brand, and the End of Social Media?

Take five minutes to dig into the 525,600 minutes that made up 2023 for marketers and what should happen with that time next year.
This Rose-Colored Glasses column explains the marketing mandate for 2024: Audience relationships

The Marketing Mandate for 2024: Build Stronger Bonds With Your Audience

If you want to develop and keep your customer and audience relationships in 2024, you will need to strengthen those bonds. Here’s why that’s marketing’s new mandate – and how to make it happen.
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The Rise of Retail Media Networks in 2024: Why Marketers Should Care

To some surprise, digital advertising spending will jump in 2024. But the unexpected news for most is the rise in spending on retail media networks. Learn why B2C – and B2B – marketers should pay attention to them.
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Key Trends in Content Marketing 2024: 67 Predictions

What’s ahead in content and marketing for 2024? AI gets a lot of attention in these predictions, but in surprising ways. Plus, these experts forecast the impact of social media and world turmoil and give a healthy dose of hope.
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OpenAI’s Drama Should Teach Marketers These 2 Lessons

Should you care about the C-suite drama at OpenAI? Only if you plan to integrate any brand’s generative AI tools into your marketing strategy for 2024 and beyond.
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Is OpenAI’s Custom GPT the Next Frontier?

You can make your own GPT. But what can a custom version of ChatGPT do for your brand? And what non-GPT thing do you need to make it really work?
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Does CEO-CMO Alignment Go Far Enough for Business Growth? Probably Not

New McKinsey research says business growth is more likely to occur if CEOs and CMOs agree on marketing’s role. That makes sense, but that conclusion stops short of identifying what marketing really needs to do.
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Marketers Say They Know the Missing Ingredient for Success – Are They Wrong?

New research finds marketing is not aligned operationally. No surprises there. But the study’s takeaways miss what you need to do to fix that. We have a thought.
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Adobe’s New Icon Brings Authentication of Visual Content in the Era of AI

Adobe unveiled a new icon that allows marketers to adopt a better transparency strategy in this era of generative AI. Here’s what the new Content Credentials feature means for you.