Familiarity with generative AI is not breeding contempt among marketing executives—far from it. Among the CMOs surveyed by Boston Consulting Group in April and May 2025, 79% are confident that the technology will improve their outcomes, up from 71% two years ago. And while 23% are somewhat worried or anxious about AI, that’s half of […]
Editor’s Note: Spanish airline Iberia wanted more control over its campaign planning and creative optimization. To accomplish that goal, it tapped AI personalization platform Clinch to allow advertisers to manage their campaigns—including KPI tracking and updating creative in real time—using a self-serve model. According to reporting in Chief Marketer Network publication AdExchanger, the move to […]
Familiarity with generative AI is not breeding contempt among marketing executives—far from it. Among the CMOs surveyed by Boston Consulting Group in April and May 2025, 79% are confident that the technology will improve their outcomes, up from 71% two years ago. And while 23% are somewhat worried or anxious about AI, that’s half of […]
As one of the top running brands in the U.S. since the 1970s, Brooks knows its way around a performance running shoe. But some 50 years later, running shoes have literally left the track. They pervade streetwear culture and the fashion world, even crossing generational lines. (Chunky yet comfy “dad shoes,” we’re looking at you.) […]
Editor’s Note: In the past five years, chocolate brand Tony’s Chocolonely has grown its North America sales from single-digit millions of dollars to more than $70 million per year. And a large part of its recent success comes from adding paid media to the marketing mix as a supplement to shopper marketing, live events and […]
Marketers are wooing Gen Z as assiduously as they did millennials, Gen X and baby boomers before them. But not all the methods of courting previous generations of consumers work with Gen Z. This was the topic of “Gen Z Broke the Marketing Funnel,” a panel discussion at the April 2025 POSSIBLE conference in Miami. […]
Influencer marketing is on the rise, with 59% of all marketers—and 69% of U.S. marketers—planning to partner with more influencers this year, according to a new report from Sprout Social. The data is based on a January 2025 survey of 650 marketers across the U.S., UK and Australia. Altogether, 37% of marketers plan to partner […]
The Grindr brand hasn’t been taken care of, according to Tristan Pineiro, Senior Vice President of Brand Marketing and Communications. The LGBTQ dating app has 90% brand awareness within the queer community and has grown to 14.5 million monthly active users worldwide without significant marketing investments. But while the app is a huge success in […]
At first glance, the main takeaway from Gartner’s 2025 CMO Spend Survey seems discouraging: Marketing budgets average 7.7% of companies’ total revenue, flat compared to last year and down from 9.5% just three years prior. What’s more, half of the 402 marketing leaders surveyed this year are working with budgets that are 6% or less […]
Editor’s Note: Google launched “AI Mode,” a chatbot-style interface embedded into its apps, at its annual developers conference this week. The new feature stands to alter the search landscape even further, requiring brands to shift from optimizing for search to optimizing for audiences. Chief Marketer Network publication PRNEWS has the story; an excerpt is below. […]