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TikTok Won’t Get Banned This Week
The extension on TikTok's ban expires on April 5, but it is highly unlikely that TikTok will go dark again. All signs point to a deal or another extension. Find out why.
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X-tortion: How Advertisers Are Losing Control Of Media Choice
The platform's recent actions to appeal for increased advertising investment threaten media choice and the solvency of the advertising industry.
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Amazon Makes Retail Media Networks’ Eyes Bigger Than Their Stomachs
To unlock retail media’s upside, retailers must become more like publishers. Learn some of the challenges and benefits of retail media networks in this preview of a new report.
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A TikTok Ban Is More Likely, But It Might Not Go Dark
The US Supreme Court seems to be leaning toward upholding the law to require TikTok’s divestiture or have it face a ban, but this doesn’t mean that we’re at the end of the road.
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Full-Funnel Advertising Makes Poppi Famous
America’s soda market is very difficult to disrupt. The market is massive — nine of 10 US households buy soda — and dominated by a few iconic incumbents.
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Measure Creator Marketing Partnerships With A Composite Set Of Metrics
Best-in-class creator marketing programs are multidimensional, with many different types of creators, content, and activations.
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Influencers Are This Holiday Season’s “Gift Guides”
Creator gift guides will fuel shoppers this holiday season, helping to solidify social media as a critical commerce channel for marketers.
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Predictions 2025: The Media Industry Resolves 2024’s Unruly Unknowns
Marketers will gain confidence as some lingering media and advertising questions are resolved. But they shouldn’t get too confident or comfortable. Learn what the coming year will hold.
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Our Latest Forrester Wave™ On Creative Adtech Calls For Consolidation
Advertisers today need tools spanning the entire creative lifecycle and creative teams need a source of truth that de-risks creative production as well as media planning and buying. Get a preview of our latest Wave which helps advertisers select tools that accelerate the creative process while synergizing creative with media.
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The Funnel Is Old, Unrealistic, And Still Helpful
In 1898, Elias St. Elmo Lewis developed the advertising funnel. He was the Association of National Advertisers’ first president and, along with the funnel, developed the AIDA model, an acronym that models a consumer’s journey from awareness to interest, desire, and then action. More than 125 years after its conception, brand marketers are still planning […]
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The Curtain Falls On GARM — Revealing Industrywide Brand Safety Issues
If you’ve ever seen The Wizard of Oz, you might remember the moment when Dorothy realizes the Wizard is not in fact all-powerful. He is just a man with a very loud voice. She also learns that she doesn’t need his power or magic to send her home — the power lies within herself. This […]
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Two Bipartisan (Yet Controversial) Bills To Protect Children Online Pass The US Senate
In overwhelming (and very rare) bipartisan agreement, the United States Senate passed two bills that tackle children’s online safety: the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0). This is a big deal because the Senate hasn’t passed internet protections for kids in decades. But the two bills still […]
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The Paid Media Paradox
Digital marketers like digital marketing much more than consumers do. A new report explores in greater depth how consumers’ behaviors contradict marketers’ investments.
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OK, AI, Buy Me Some Enterprise Software
If your buyers use generative AI to research your product and don’t put you on their shortlist, how would you even know? B2B buyers are rapidly adopting genAI, changing how they shop, so B2B companies need to start preparing for much smarter shoppers.
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Supreme Court Punts Flimsy Laws Limiting Social Media Content Moderation
Dismantling content moderation on social media platforms would have a host of negative consequences and change marketers' spending decisions.
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Learning From Limes And Forrester’s Creative AdTech Landscape
Last year, the world’s most-awarded creative was Skittles’ “Apologize the Rainbow” produced in collaboration with DDB Chicago. It profusely apologized for Skittles changing its green candy’s flavor from lime to apple and, to citrus lovers’ delight, announced lime’s return in a pantomime press conference live streamed on Twitch and X. The campaign relied on social […]
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Accelerating Advertising With AI Comes At A Cost
It’s mathematically obvious to apply AI to advertising, but its efficiencies can come at the expense of advertisers’ control and transparency. Learn more about how AI benefits the advertising process and why advertisers must curate AI.
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TikTok’s Influence On Young Voters Makes It A Threat To US Democracy And An Asset To Marketers
TikTok's unquestionable sway over young, voting-age US citizens could pose danger, even as it makes the platform an optimal media channel.
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CMOs Need A Measurement Strategy That Connects To Business Outcomes
Instead of a single measurement approach, CMOs must adopt a layered measurement strategy that includes complementary approaches to reveal the full business value of marketing.
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What Should Performance Marketers Actually Do?
I’m often asked about the technologies and processes entailed in planning, buying, and optimizing media. Much is written about that, including Forrester’s research on using technology to develop more compelling creative and how to improve TV advertising’s planning, buying, and measurement processes. I’m rarely asked, however, about the people that improve media’s results. The human […]
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