Marketing 101
Essential tools, playbooks, and insights to help marketers at every level — from rising talent to seasoned CMOs — build stronger brands and navigate an ever-changing marketing landscape with confidence.
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How to Turn a Viral Music Moment into a Cultural Sensation
Conference Session Videos June 19, 2025In this video, learn how Kraft Heinz and marketing agency Cashmere showcased their DJ Mustard collaboration to demonstrate how brands and creators can come together to deliver marketing that truly resonates and drives culture forward.
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How Social Good Policies Affect Consumer Behavior
Knowledge Partners June 16, 2025Grow Progress shares insights from a recent study analyzing DEI policies influencers consumers purchasing decisions.
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Top AI Imagery Platforms, Pros and Cons
Money Slides June 16, 2025Mount Sinai Health System draws on its experience with tech-assisted content creation to illuminate the strengths and weaknesses of three of the top AI-enabled imagery platforms: DALL-E, Adobe Firefly, and Midjourney.
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Mastering Multi-Channel Marketing in 2025: How AI and Automation Help Brands Stay Ahead
Leading Edge June 11, 2025As marketers’ media mix expands, technology offers invaluable ways for maintaining the consistency and synergy of their work across channels.
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Ditch the Scare Tactics and Brand Your Company with Optimism, Instead
Event Recaps June 10, 2025During a session at the ANA’s 2025 Masters of B2B Marketing Conference, Palo Alto Networks’ Navneet Singh urged marketers to appeal to consumers with optimism rather than scare tactics.
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The Right of Publicity and Social Media
Event Recaps June 10, 2025During a session at a May 2025 meeting of the ANA’s Legal Affairs Committee, lawyers from the firm Moses & Singer gave a primer on the right of publicity and its applications to marketers’ work on social media.
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Rip Up Your Marketing Calendar: Leveraging AI to Deliver a Customer Led Email Experience
Event Recaps June 5, 2025Ballard Designs revolutionized its email marketing strategy by abandoning rigid content calendars in favor of AI-powered, customer-led personalization that resulted in significant improvements in click rates, conversion rates, and revenue per send.
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Optimizing Demand by Dialing Up Brand
Event Recaps June 3, 2025SAS revitalized its marketing strategy by integrating brand advertising with demand efforts, resulting in increased awareness, accelerated pipeline velocity, and measurable business outcomes across global markets.
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Super Bowl Stunt Goes Viral
Event Recaps June 3, 2025Philadelphia-based agency Aloysius Butler & Clark turned Super Bowl rivalry into marketing gold with a simple culture-jacking stunt that generated over 331,000 phone calls and 19.6 million media impressions for just $2,600.
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The Hidden Costs Eroding Your Programmatic Media's Productivity, 2025
Money Slides June 3, 2025The results of an ANA study itemize and quantify the hidden costs of programmatic media.
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Brand Equity's Impact on Conversions, by the Numbers
Money Slides June 2, 2025WARC calculates the influence that various measures of brand equity exercise on a company’s probability of conversion.
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How to Vet an AI Licensing Agreement
Event Recaps June 2, 2025During a May 2025 meeting of the ANA’s Legal Affairs Committee, Davis+Gilbert shared three steps that organizations should follow when vetting a licensing agreement for a new AI tool.
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Neo City — Immersive Gaming Meets Reality Show
REGGIE Awards June 2, 2025State Farm created "Gamerhood: Neo City" — the world's first all-things gaming tournament that combined reality show elements with both digital and physical gameplay.
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Your Emails Are a Mess (And You Might Not Even Know It)
Event Recaps May 31, 2025Evan Diaz from RPE Origin revealed the widespread problems plaguing email marketing today — poorly coded, non-compliant emails that break across platforms and potentially expose companies to legal risks. He demonstrated how seemingly polished emails often deliver broken experiences to customers and provided actionable solutions for creating emails that work for everyone.
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Direct Mail in the Digital Age: The Value of Tangible Media with Evergreen ROI
Event Recaps May 28, 2025Trish Witkowski, direct mail consultant at Sappi North America, provided a comprehensive rundown of why physical mail is still providing value for marketers, especially when combined with digital elements of a campaign. She also reviewed tactics for making brand mailers more effective.
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How Hershey Slam-Dunked a National Product Launch
REGGIE Awards May 21, 2025Responding to disruption in the candy category as gummies outpaced chocolate growth, The Hershey Company created SHAQ-A-LICIOUS XL Gummies—a celebrity-backed brand with basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal. Following an exclusive launch at Walmart, the national rollout employed a phased approach with extensive earned media, experiential events, and retail activations.
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How Hershey Turned a Category Disruptor into a Growth Driver at Walmart
REGGIE Awards May 21, 2025Facing disruption in the candy category as gummies outpaced chocolate growth, The Hershey Company created SHAQ-A-LICIOUS XL Gummies — a celebrity-backed brand with basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal — and launched exclusively at Walmart.
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Three Key Takeaways from the ANA’s Client-Agency Tenure Report
POVs May 20, 2025The ANA recently examined the current state of client-agency tenures, conducting a form of this research for the first time in a decade. Find out all the key takeaways from the Client-Agency Tenure Report with this quick video.
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Turning Super Bowl Parties into Brand Growth Opportunities
REGGIE Awards May 19, 2025Snickers leveraged its NFL partnership to address household penetration declines by positioning the candy bar as an essential part of Super Bowl celebrations.
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How John Elway Raised Awareness for a Non-Surgical Treatment
REGGIE Awards May 14, 2025Endo, Inc. partnered with NFL legend John Elway to raise awareness for Dupuytren's contracture (DC) and XIAFLEX, the only FDA-approved non-surgical treatment for the condition.
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