Content stole the spotlight at the Cannes Lions this week. Several award-winning campaigns focused on emotional storytelling rather than traditional advertising. Is this shakeup a genuine shift of content’s role?

What’s going on with content and marketing celebrating Pride Month? Some brands have cut back in publicizing their support of the LGBTQ+ communities; others have cut back on their celebration of Pride. What’s a marketer to think and do?

Has Google been lying for years about how to optimize for search? The explosive release of internal documents contains interesting revelations. But what should marketers do about it?

Coca-Cola didn’t design its new content platform for beverage consumers. It launched Coca-Cola Lens for the restaurants and retailers who sell the products. Find out why this new initiative deserves attention from all B2B marketers.

OpenAI and Google’s AI ecosystems made headlines this week. They’re going all in on analyzing images, video, and speech features. But it’s what they didn’t say or do this week that marketers should pay attention to.

Are you spending too much on technology? A new study reveals marketing budgets are shrinking, yet spending on marketing tech is rising. But a big chunk of that tech goes unused. Solving that problem could boost your budget and ROI. Here’s how.

The same week Google smashed its earnings report, it also announced the delayed demise of third-party cookies until 2025. Do you believe them? Does it even matter? Probably not — because you should be doing this anyway.

Tesla dismissed its marketing team this month. The layoffs come only a year after a mandate to “try advertising” that Elon Musk later said was “too generic.” But is marketing really to blame? Is there a takeaway for other companies?

To use AI or not — it's the question on every marketer's mind. But there's a more practical follow-up: Whether to share the answer. Dove and Brandtech Group tried that approach. Was it the right choice?

Google may buy HubSpot. But how likely is it the deal will get done? Why would Google want HubSpot? What would it mean for HubSpot customers? Understand the possibilities and take away the one reality for every marketer.

You’ve read the headlines, clicked the research, and gone down the generative AI rabbit hole. Yes, it’s got great hype people. But they all miss the first lesson of generative AI and marketing.

New IAB research reveals that marketers know about Google’s ending of third-party cookies, yet they’re plagued by inaction and misunderstanding regarding first-party data. Remedying that now will bring long-term success.