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CTV ad spend jumps 16% as digital video becomes dominant force in TV/video market

Martech

These advancements have made investing their ad dollars significantly easier for brands of all sizes. Retail, auto and restaurant brands are focusing on real-time, location-based messaging and integrating shoppable ad formats. Notably, CTV is shown to drive high ad engagement rates for pharmaceutical ads. Processing.

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Keeping up is exhausting, here’s how one social media creator helps brands beat trend fatigue

Hubspot Marketing

Here’s what’s at risk for brands with trend fatigue: Burnout. Brand erosion. When brands jump on every trend that comes along without considering whether it’s a good brand fit, they risk diluting their voice and weakening their message and trust. Trend fatigue isn’t just affecting brands and marketers.

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Reddit statistics in 2025 and tactics to grow your brand

Sprout Social

But unlike other social platforms, where engagement might be more straightforward, Reddit’s community-first culture requires brands to earn users’ trust by providing real value. million daily userseach day, with 42 million app downloads in 2024 2 million websites linking to Reddit pages as of March 2025 So how should brands post?

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How WeightWatchers tipped the scales with a GLP-1 pivot

The Drum

BBD Perfect Storm Health’s Nick Dutnall believes the brand has seized relevance through its latest push into pharmaceuticals. When WeightWatchers rebranded to WW in 2018, the brand adopted a new slogan: ‘Wellness That Works’. When it rebranded as WW, it looked like the writing was on the wall for WeightWatchers.

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A 2025 Check-Up on the Health + Wellness Industry

Set Up

As Kelly Deen , Chief Commercial Officer at kencko, shared in an interview, customers now expect brands to clearly explain what’s in their products, where ingredients come from, and how things are made. If a brand can’t confidently answer those questions, they risk losing trust. One-size-fits-all solutions are fading.

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March Madness advertising: why brands are scoring big this season

illumin

Brands and businesses worldwide have been investing more and more in ad spend, specifically during March Madness. This isnt unheard of for brands to put money into sports advertising. In fact, one of the biggest advertising opportunities for brands each year is during the Super Bowl season.

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Move From Branded Content To A Content Brand

Marketing Insider Group

Our most recent Future of Marketing interview explained Nick Kellet’s suggestion that we focus more on our Customer’s Brand than on our own. Finally, brands are creating content designed to actually drive revenue, instead of thinking of content as a marketing expense itself. Content Brands instead of Branded Content.

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