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In July, Sir John Hegarty offered a challenge to the ageism problem that continues to plague the ad agency business. The founding partner of Saatchi & Saatchi, co-founder of Bartle Bogle Hegarty, and first recipient of the Lion of St. Mark award, also sounded off on AI and the ever-present need for human talent. Here's his LinkedIn post, embedded here for your convenience. I love that Hegarty said, …
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Claude.AI is the AI for problem solvers. In this new anthem spot from Mother, the narrator says, "There's never been a better time to have a problem. To be stuck, to be overwhelmed, to be impatient, to be out of ideas, or out of your depth, out of breath." No need to freak out. According to Anthropic, the key is to "keep creating, keep researching, keep learning, keep coding, keep …
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When life presents challenges or opportunities, we ask questions (and hope for factual and detailed answers). How do I become a fine art painter? How do I fix up our house? How do I find companionship that leads to love? Big questions all, but there's no test and nothing to worry about—not when you can Just Ask …
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Navigating the demands of office work in The Age of AI presents new challenges for today's thought workers. If you are not careful to constantly upgrade skills, colleagues who have, may lap you in the perpetual race to impress the boss and keep your job. Vinsom Cunningham, author of a new novel and staff writer at The New Yorker, recently wrote a piece of advertising criticism that reminded me how Apple …
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Meta is an advertising-fueled juggernaut. Its fourth quarter income was $48.39 billion, up 21% from the prior year. The company is minting money, and recently, Mark Zuckerberg said his company plans to further disrupt the advertising business with AI-assisted automation. According to two articles in The Guardian, Facebook's new AI-powered tools will autogenerate an entire ad campaign, including images, video, and …
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Quantum Marketing with Raja Rajamannar is a new Bloomberg Originals series hosted by Mastercard’s Chief Marketing & Communications Officer and author of Quantum Marketing: Mastering the New Marketing Mindset for Tomorrow’s Consumers. The series contains six episodes that delve into the future of marketing in the face of rapidly emerging technologies. In the episode "How Marketers are Trying to Read Your …
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For advertising to impact buying decisions, people need to feel confident about spending money. Given the price of goods and the daily chaos emanating from The White House today, confident is not how people are feeling at this moment in time. Consumer sentiment plunged 11% this month to a preliminary reading of 50.8, the second-lowest reading on record going back to 1952. April’s reading was lower than anything …
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Mergers and acquisitions—it's one way to grow a company beholden to its shareholders. Ad industry holding companies know all about it, given that they regularly acquire and then "hold" what were once independent and innovate agencies. Earlier this month in what could become the merger of all mergers, Omnicom announced its intentions to acquire Interpublic Group in a deal worth $31 billion. In their official press …
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