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2025 Planned Salary Increase and 2024 Actual Salary Increase Report

Peek into the salary increase trends across the industry.

07/11/2024

GenAI Blueprint: A Comprehensive Guide to Agency GenAI Implementation

Whether your agency is just beginning to explore generative AI or already integrating it into your workflows, this…

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02/21/2025

The Mayor

The Mayor & Brad Keselowski Reminds Americans of Their Buying Power

In the wake of the Silver Bowl, a cultural moment reminding America that 50+ consumers have massive buying power, CCI is back with their latest effort aimed at helping consumers save their hard-earned dollars.

02/21/2025

Big Com

Big Com Bolsters Leadership Team with Three VP Promotions

Big Com today announces the promotion of three longtime employees to Vice Presidents: Merry Michael Smith, Mary Jane Cleage, and Donna Cope, effective immediately.

02/13/2025

Zefr

Zefr Expands Pre-Impression Content Avoidance for Meta Feed and Reels, Now Globally Available

Today, Zefr announced the expansion of its pre-impression content avoidance controls on Meta, which allows advertisers to refine their content adjacencies while maintaining scale across their Meta activities, with full transparency into where their ads were served.

02/10/2025

Direct Digital Holdings

Direct Digital Holdings Launches AI Council to Bridge the AI Gap for Small and Medium-size Business Advertisers

The new initiative aims to ensure SMBs and mid-market brands aren’t left behind in the digital marketplace.

02/07/2025

Direct Digital Holdings | Orange 142

Orange 142 Launches Emerging Markets Council to Help SMBs Reach Audiences in Mexico and Latin America, Driving International Travel to and from the U.S.

The initiative empowers small and mid-sized businesses with the innovative tools and strategies to thrive in dynamic international markets.

02/07/2025

VML

PGA TOUR Players Can’t Resist a TruGreen Lawn

TruGreen, the nation’s leading lawncare provider, announced its latest creative campaign, developed by VML, featuring PGA TOUR players Jason Day, Ben Griffin and Patton Kizzire who are drawn to TruGreen-treated lawns so beautiful, they rival professional courses.

02/07/2025

MediaPost

ANA/4A’s AD-ID To Help Track Super Bowl Ad Effectiveness

Super Bowl LIX ads running on Fox this year will have AD-ID tags embedded in the ads to help advertisers connect with consumers, measure campaign effectiveness, deliver relevant creative ads, and attempt to avoid wasting ad dollars.

02/04/2025

VML

VML “Future 100” Outlook Paradox: Consumers Hope for Humanity and Creativity While Embracing Technology and Longevity

VML’s 11th annual trends study examines gen Z optimism, how technology drives digital disconnection, and the dawn of the trillionaire colliding with cost-cutting.

02/03/2025

Hogwash Studios

The Creative Career Path Is Fracturing Amid Industry Upheaval

As the traditional agency job market faces volatility, new avenues are opening for creatives. Tori Nygren, founder and creative director of independent creative agency Hogwash Studios, hasn’t followed a straight career path through the advertising industry.

02/03/2025

Nielsen

Engaging Black audiences

Black America continues to grow, and the outsized impact of their cultural and economic influence cannot be ignored or taken for granted.


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