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Fandom has become a participation economy, not a media adjacency. That distinction matters because many brands are still treating sports, gaming, entertainment IP, and creator communities as places to place campaigns, when the commercial value increasingly comes from earning a useful role inside fan behavior. The old model was simple: buy the rights, secure the…

WPP Enterprise Solutions has signed a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help enterprise brands move generative and agentic AI from pilots into large-scale deployment. The company outlined the collaboration in an official announcement. The focus is operational: using AWS generative and agentic AI capabilities to build production-ready systems across commerce,…

AB InBev is betting that the real FIFA World Cup 2026 experience will not just happen inside stadiums. It will happen in neighborhood bars, pubs, and local gathering spots around the world. The brewer has launched its global “Cheers to Bars” platform, positioning bars as the social heart of the tournament and rolling out large-scale…

WPP Media is projecting Australia’s advertising market will grow 7.4% in 2026, with momentum concentrating in retail media, search, and social as AI-driven formats begin to influence how performance budgets are allocated. The outlook also signals more structural pressure on parts of legacy media as spend continues to shift toward measurable, platform-led channels. The company…

Netflix hit KPop Demon Hunters is expanding beyond entertainment and into beauty. Korean skincare brand Anua has officially launched its first limited-edition skincare collection inspired by the franchise, marking the beginning of a year-long global partnership built around HUNTR/X, the film’s demon-slaying K-pop trio. The move follows Anua’s broader global expansion efforts, including its appointment…

B2B budgets for influencer marketing keep climbing, and so does the list of campaigns that quietly underdeliver. The pattern is rarely a bad creator or a weak product. It is the same handful of operational mistakes, repeated across industries, that turn a promising program into a reporting headache. None of them are exotic. All of…

A new study from crypto payments platform Oobit suggests that younger consumers are becoming increasingly skeptical of traditional banking institutions while showing growing interest in stablecoins, self-custody, and crypto payments. The findings point to a broader shift in financial attitudes that marketers, fintech brands, and financial services companies should pay close attention to. The study…

Movable Ink has launched Programmatic CRM, positioning AI agents and real-time decisioning as a more automated way to build and run personalized experiences across email, mobile, and web. The release expands Movable Ink Studio and Da Vinci, with new capabilities aimed at reducing manual production work while keeping personalization consistent across channels marketers already manage…

Gradial raised a $65 million Series C to scale its AI-agent platform designed to execute enterprise marketing work across authoring, QA, compliance, tagging, and publishing. The company frames the opportunity as an operating model change: enterprise marketing stacks were built for slower cycles, while AI-driven discovery and faster content iteration are pushing teams toward more…

Databricks is expanding deeper into marketing software with CustomerLake, an “agentic” customer data platform designed to manage customer data and run AI-driven marketing campaigns inside the same environment. The company outlined the product and its positioning in an official newsroom announcement, framing CustomerLake as a shift from one-off campaigns to continuous, agent-driven decision loops. The…