Tue.Jun 10, 2025

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Build Lead Nurturing Sequences with Email Marketing Automation

Aspiration Marketing

Are your marketing efforts yielding a trickle when they should be a torrent? Picture a sales funnel brimming with potential, yet leads are vanishing before conversion. It's a common frustration: valuable prospects slipping through the cracks due to inadequate nurturing. But what if you could transform this leakage into a steady stream of qualified, eager buyers?

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3 Different Versions of Marketing Ops Team Scope & Remit

The Marketing Operations Leader

In this edition: 3 Different Versions of Marketing Ops Team Scope & Remit Hot Take on Marketing Ops Versus Revops Versus Gtm Ops POLL: Where Should the Martech Team Sit in an Organization? Exclusive For Paid Subscribers : How to Launch New Features and Processes in Enterprise Marketing Operations June is the gut check. Is your plan still aligned to the business?

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Grab and go

Seth's Blog

Every retailer knows that the items that sell the best are at eye level or at the cash register. Some people are hungry, rushed, distracted and lazy. If you want to reach them (us), you need to make it convenient. The lesson is simple: We can market to ourselves the same way others market to us. Put the good habits in a place where they’re easy to find and engage with.

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The trust premium: backing quality media isn’t a virtue, it’s a business imperative

The Drum

As Channel 4 shifts the focus from chasing reach to championing relevance, we explore why this evolution presents a valuable opportunity for advertisers to invest in highly regulated, brand-safe environments that deliver premium content which audiences actively choose and trust. Trust has become one of the most valuable currencies in media today. But in the scramble for reach, brands are at risk of funding environments that are unregulated, unverified and increasingly unsafe.

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How to Master Media Relations: Targeting, Tailoring, Timing

Speaker: Karen Swim, APR

Relevance is the currency of modern media relations—and personalization is how you earn it. In this new webinar with industry leader Karen Swim, APR, we'll explore proven strategies for precision targeting and crafting personalized pitches that resonate with journalists and build stronger relationships over time. You’ll also learn how to ensure your media lists are accurate and up to date, craft outreach that gets responses, and streamline your workflow without sacrificing quality.

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Google Ads AI Max Coming To All In Q3 2025

Search Engine Roundtable

Google's new AI Max in Google Ads for Search campaigns is coming to all advertisers in Q3 of 2025. As a reminder, Google says AI Max for Search campaigns is a "new, one-click feature suite" that brings you a "suite of targeting and creative enhancements" of "the best of Google AI to your Search campaigns.

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Google Shows Why Rankings Collapsed After Domain Migration via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Search Engine Journal

Google's John Mueller showed how to diagnose a search visibility issue that was apparently triggered by a domain migration. The post Google Shows Why Rankings Collapsed After Domain Migration appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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The state of inclusive marketing in 2025 [new data + expert insight]

Hubspot Marketing

Welcome to Breaking the Blueprint — a blog series that dives into the unique business challenges and opportunities of underrepresented business owners and entrepreneurs. Learn how they’ve grown or scaled their businesses, explored entrepreneurial ventures within their companies, or created side hustles, and how their stories can inspire and inform your own success.

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AI’s mass-produced magic: is your brand losing its soul?

The Drum

In the age of AI, speed is a given. But trust and differentiation are earned – especially when it comes to creating global content. This is where human craft defines the winners. The GenAI gold rush is on. With the flick of a switch, brands now have the power to generate a tsunami of content – first drafts, ad copy, product descriptions and SEO metadata – all in seconds.

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3 Examples Of Product-Led SEO via @sejournal, @Kevin_Indig

Search Engine Journal

Not all SEO scales the same. This piece breaks down when product-led strategies work – and when they don’t. The post 3 Examples Of Product-Led SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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AI In The Aisles: The Executives Guide To Better In-Store Experiences

Speaker: Steve Worthy, MBA

The rapid rise of AI-powered displays, touchless technology, and sensory marketing is reshaping the future of in-store engagement. Yet for many retail executives, the real challenge is not identifying new tools - it is knowing which signals to trust, which inputs to prioritize, and how to architect decisions that elevate in-store leadership rather than dilute it.

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Loyalty’s next evolution: 5 things we learned at Incentivize 2025

The Drum

Talon.One’s Incentivize 2025 has wrapped in Berlin, bringing together the top thinkers in loyalty and promotions. Here, The Drum’s top lessons of the show. For the second year running, leading incentives software company Talon.One has hosted the world’s top loyalty and promotions thinkers for a summit in Berlin. On a sunny day at the Festsaal Kreuzberg (a concert venue for its day job), the conference hosted the likes of Joe & The Juice, Deloitte Digital and Beauty Pie to chart the cutting e

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Google Launches Loyalty Program Structured Data Support via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Search Engine Journal

Google rolls out support for loyalty program structured data, which allows businesses to display member benefits in search results. The post Google Launches Loyalty Program Structured Data Support appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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From refugee to B2B rethinker: how Kyall Mai is retooling marketing with AI, empathy and a bit of nerve

The Drum

Kyall Mai didn’t set out to become a poster boy for B2B marketing’s future. But as chief innovation officer at Esquire Bank, and now ANA’s 2025 B2 Marketer of the Year, that’s exactly where he’s landed. His approach? Less about shiny tech for the sake of it, and more about building marketing around empathy, AI and actual usefulness. All in a category - banking for law firms - hardly known for emotional resonance or creativity.

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Why high-consideration industries need AI optimization

Martech

Every jump forward in technology changes the consumer journey — sometimes in subtle ways, other times more dramatically. Online searches and interactions are changing fast, and ignoring this shift could hurt your brand. Whether it’s Google’s AI Overviews or AI Mode, Perplexity, models like ChatGPT o3 and o4-mini or one of a dozen other options, AI’s popularity significantly impacts how consumers seek solutions.

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Engage Better, Gift Smarter, Win Big: Events That Deliver ROI

Speaker: Hanan Polinovski, Events Manager and David Brown, Sr. Marketing & Events Lead

Are your events living up to expectations? Are you getting quality leads from your sponsorships? Have you ever wondered if that branded notebook actually makes an impact? Get ready to transform your event strategy! Join event marketing pros Hanan Polinovski from Printfection and David Brown from Bonusly for a fast-paced webinar about turning your event efforts into serious ROI.

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FactSet’s 'Not just the facts' proves B2B doesn’t have to mean boring

The Drum

Kim Mickenberg and the team behind FactSet’s Best in Show-winning campaign explain how embracing humor and humanity transformed a financial data giant’s brand identity. When you work in B2B finance, “memorable” usually isn’t the brief. But that’s exactly what FactSet set out to achieve with its “Not just the facts” campaign, and judging by its Best in Show win at The Drum Awards for EMEA , it delivered.

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Experiential Marketing: Examples, Strategies, and Best Practices

Neil Patel

You’re exposed to around a hundred ads daily. How many of them do you remember? Experiential marketing, on the other hand, is built to stay in people’s minds for a while. Instead of pushing messages through screens or billboards, it invites people to engage directly. And particularly for Millennials and Gen Z — the biggest spenders today — that kind of hands-on connection is exactly what they’re after.

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4 reasons retail media is the new creative playground

The Drum

Walmart Connect’s Khurrum Malik shares why he thinks the burgeoning sector of retail media affords brands a more creative sandbox than they may first think. For years, retail media has been seen as the final stop on the customer journey – a place to close the sale, not spark imagination. Today, CMOs and their agency partners are increasingly recognizing retail media’s potential to win carts and minds across the funnel, such as Kellanova’s experimentation.

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How to Leverage Paid Media Advertising for E-commerce Growth

Marketing Insider Group

You’ve built the site. You’ve stocked the products. Maybe you’ve even posted a few times on social media. But your e-commerce shop isn’t getting any traction. Sound familiar? Running an online store without paid media is like opening a new pizza joint in the middle of the desert. People can’t buy what they don’t know exists. That’s where paid media for e-commerce enters the chat.

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B2B SEO vs. LMO: Whats the Difference and Why It Matters

Speaker: Speakers:

Brace yourself, B2B marketers. Your beloved SEO is getting a makeover, and its name is Language Model Optimization (LMO). What does that mean for your digital strategy? Join Jesse McFarland of SpearPoint Marketing on the next B2B Growth Show as we unravel the mystery and get you prepped for the next evolution in search. Here’s what you’ll walk away with: A clear breakdown of SEO vs.

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Brand v performance? Why Carwow’s Ben Carter says marketers must master both

The Drum

Ben Carter reflects on his journey from marketing trade journalist to Carwow’s chief customer marketing officer, sharing lessons learned across Betfair, Just Eat and more along the way. You’ve been a journalist, a strategist and a marketer at brands like Betfair, Just Eat, Purple Bricks, and now Carwow. Can you walk us through your career journey so far?

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YouTube Begins Showing Posts In The Shorts Feed via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Search Engine Journal

YouTube is now showing Posts in the Shorts feed, giving creators a new way to expand their reach. The post YouTube Begins Showing Posts In The Shorts Feed appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Commerce media has arrived, but marketers are struggling to capitalize on it

The Drum

Commerce media is well and truly established. But, as Rachel Kerr of M+C Saatchi explains, a recent survey reveals how marketers still face hurdles in implementing strategies for the channel. Commerce media has gone from niche to mainstream in the blink of an eye. Only a few years ago, this rapidly evolving channel was seen as a place for ‘test and learn’ budgets.

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Google Ads Tests URL Inclusions & Exclusions For Search Campaigns

Search Engine Roundtable

Google Ads seems to be testing URL inclusions and exclusions for Search campaigns. This will allow you to control which URLs your ads can show for, or not come up for your search campaigns.

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A Data Revolution: Why Your AMS/CRM Needs a Native Data Warehouse

Unlock the Power of Historical Data A Data Revolution: Why Your AMS/CRM Needs a Native Data Warehouse Today’s association leaders need more than real-time snapshots—they need the full story. MemberSuite: A Data Revolution reveals how a native data warehouse transforms your AMS into a strategic decision-making engine. In this free eBook, you’ll discover: The difference between a database and a data warehouse—and why it matters How to gain historical visibility into membership, engagement, events,

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Hype barometer: Are retail media hopes an ‘unattainable mirage’ or shopping’s savior?

The Drum

For our Retail Media for Drummies guide , we ask top marketers whether the retail media revolution is really able to carry the weight of adland’s expectations. Two-thirds of top marketers say that retail media will play a bigger role in their strategy this year than last year. That’s a powerful vote of confidence – in a tough market that’s seen marketers decrease budgets ( or at best flatline them ), retail media is one of only very few channels that can still expect substantial growth, soon.

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Rhonda Hughes on Enterprise Content That Creates Value, Not Noise

Animalz blog

“I have this mantra around creating value, not noise.” That’s how Rhonda Hughes approaches content leadership. In this episode, she shares how she turned a scattered content operation into an award-winning, enterprise-scale engine. Her story proves that with the right systems, even the largest teams can create content that truly matters. Rhonda Hughes challenges the old idea that enterprise content teams are just order-takers.

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WPP loses share of Mars account to rivals Publicis and IPG

The Drum

The Drum has learned that WPP has lost the American conglomerate’s multi-billion dollar account, with Publicis to lead its media, production, paid social and influencer and connected commerce capabilities, while IPG’s Weber Shandwick oversees a supercharged approach to brand PR. In another significant account loss for WPP, The Drum has learned that rival holding company Publicis has successfully pitched to obtain the Mars business.

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AI can boost conversions from your web page — HubSpot’s CMO shows you how [tutorial]

Hubspot Marketing

Look, we‘ve all been there — you know your website could be converting better, but figuring out exactly what to fix feels like solving a Rubik’s cube blindfolded. You‘re running A/B tests, analyzing heat maps, and guessing at what’s actually going to move the needle. Well, AI just unlocked the process and can become your team’s new superpower. LLMs with browsing capabilities, like OpenAI’s Operator , can analyze your website performance and give you actionable insights to optimize your online pr

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Aligning Sales & Marketing to Drive Demand & Build Pipeline

Speaker: Speakers:

Marketing and sales might be two halves of the same coin, but how often do they feel like they’re tossed in completely different directions? It’s time to bridge the gap, align your teams, and start building a pipeline instead of frustration. Join us for this insightful webinar to transform your siloed teams into a powerhouse partnership. What you’ll learn: A clear understanding of why sales and marketing alignment is crucial for business growth.

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How to get Pride right

The Drum

It’s Pride month, and the politics of the event are once again heightened. Laurence Plevin of Propellernet explains how to position your brand meaningfully in relation to the movement. Pride month always makes me pause. It’s a moment to reflect on how far we’ve come, and how far there still is to go. I’ve felt both proud and disconnected at times when I see how queerness is represented in our industry.

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Google Offers Voluntary Buyouts To Core U.S. Teams Amid AI Push via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Search Engine Journal

Google voluntary buyouts target U.S. Search and Ads staff amid AI restructuring. What does this mean for future layoffs and team priorities? The post Google Offers Voluntary Buyouts To Core U.S. Teams Amid AI Push appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Brand Innovators: Powering Engagement Through Strategic Brand Collaborations

illumin

Powering Engagement Through Strategic Brand Collaborations At the Marketing Innovation Summit during Miami Race Week , hosted by Aston Martin , industry leaders explored what it takes to create meaningful brand engagement. Meghan Shookman , VP of Brand Marketing at Olipop , joined us to share how strategic partnerships are driving real growth and loyalty.