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Pinterest brings performance ads to visual search at 80B-search scale
Pinterest is turning its visual search behavior into a more explicit performance advertising surface. The company introduced Visual Search Ads on September 17, giving advertisers a way to bid for prominent placements in Pinterest Search Results and Pin closeups while people are still comparing products and ideas. The format matters because it pushes search advertising…
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Visa extends its Mobile Legends play across 3 more world championships
Watching an esports final is easy. Getting into the arena, meeting a favorite player or seeing what happens behind the stage is much harder. That gap between watching and getting closer is becoming part of what sponsors can actually sell to fans. Visa and MOONTON Games are extending their Mobile Legends: Bang Bang relationship across…
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Kendall Jenner turns Venice into an Armani Beauty campaign moment
Kendall Jenner is spending barely a day in Venice, but Armani Beauty is making that short window do more than deliver another red-carpet photo. At the 2026 Venice Film Festival, Jenner arrived as the face of Emporio Armani’s Power of You fragrance, wore a gold archival Armani gown, and talked about scent as part of…
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ONE Campaign puts Phoenix Ricks over PR, digital and partnerships
The ONE Campaign has named Phoenix Ricks chief communications officer, giving her a remit that runs well beyond conventional media relations. The organization announced the appointment on September 18, with Ricks taking the role on September 21 and overseeing media and public relations, digital communications, creative, strategic partnerships and events. That breadth is the more…
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Your message can be perfect and still fail. Here’s what to fix instead.
A message can be technically correct and still completely miss. That’s the problem most communication training doesn’t actually solve. Teams write a clear script, rehearse the delivery, and walk into the room assuming clarity is the whole job. Then the room doesn’t respond the way the rundown predicted, and there’s no plan for what happens…
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Press release SEO: what actually helps search and AI visibility
Press release SEO is useful when it makes real company news easier to find, understand, and cite. It becomes risky when the release is treated as a shortcut for manufacturing backlinks or stuffing keywords across syndicated copies. For PR teams, the distinction matters. A release can create a searchable source of truth, help journalists verify…
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The best reason to integrate your marketing data is not reporting
A martech vendor promises to put your campaign data, audience signals, media buying, and measurement in one place. The immediate benefit is easy to see: fewer exports, fewer reconciliations, and fewer meetings about why two dashboards disagree. That is usually where the business case for integration stops. It should not. The more valuable question is…
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“Existential threat”: what AI executives said privately about publishers
Two phrases pulled from newly unsealed court filings have become shorthand for the conflict between AI companies and publishers. Nick Turley, OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT, described publishers as facing an “existential threat” from AI products that were becoming more substitutive. Brent Hecht, a Microsoft director of applied science, wrote that many people would regard AI…
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VidCon is leaving Anaheim and becoming a marketing festival
VidCon began as a place where internet creators met the fans who watched them. In 2027, its flagship U.S. event will return in a different form: VidCon x LIONS Creators, staged inside a broader marketing festival in Nashville. That shift puts one of the creator economy’s best-known fan conventions inside the same corporate portfolio as…
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Google Ads puts AI dubbing for 33 languages inside Asset Studio
Google Ads is reportedly giving select advertisers an AI tool that can translate and dub existing video creative across 33 languages and locales inside Asset Studio. The feature moves another production task into the same interface where campaigns are prepared and bought. For marketers, the immediate appeal is speed. A team could take one approved…