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Tinder turns Pitbull’s bald-cap fandom into a dating campaign
Tinder Canada is using one of Pitbull fandom’s most recognizable visual jokes to make a point about dating preferences: the person outside your usual “type” might be worth a second look. The dating app’s “Tinder Baldies” campaign, created with Toronto agency Academy, arrived around Pitbull’s September 5 Toronto show. Instead of putting the artist in…
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Burson innovation chief Chad Latz exits after 17 years
Burson is losing the executive who has led its global innovation agenda through the agency’s first two years under its current name. On September 11, global chief innovation officer Chad Latz said on LinkedIn that he is leaving after 17 years across WPP, Burson and its predecessor agencies. The move is notable because Latz’s remit…
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Dmitry Rudenko: 165 million views taught him to stop trusting his own taste
Dmitry Rudenko made an AI-generated Reel about a chef in Sicily. He thought it was charming. Almost nobody watched it. The day after, he made a Reel of a couple sitting on a couch, borrowed loosely from another creator’s idea. He didn’t think much of it going in. It became the video that changed how…
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Your content distribution strategy needs a dependency map, not a channel list
Most content distribution strategies are still organized as channel lists. Search. LinkedIn. Email. Paid social. Creator partners. Syndication. The list looks diversified because the logos are different. But the logos can hide the same underlying risk. A search program may depend on Google rankings, AI Overview citations, crawling rules, and paid-search economics at the same…
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Fractl tests what makes AI recommend a brand
Fractl has published two connected studies that challenge a comfortable assumption about AI visibility: getting into an answer is not the same as being trusted by the model producing it. Its controlled experiment shows how strongly recommendation systems follow retrieved sources, while its real-world analysis maps the much broader field of brands and publishers that…
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Cadbury turns a chocolate clutch into a New York Fashion Week moment
Fashion Week is usually where brands fight for attention through clothes, celebrity sightings and spectacle. Cadbury is entering that environment with something much smaller and stranger: a crystal-covered clutch designed to carry chocolate. The limited-edition Cadbury Clutch is part of the chocolate brand’s new “There’s Magic in More” platform, its largest U.S. campaign to date.…
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Liverpool FC leads Europe’s clubs on cultural relevance at 31%
Football fandom rarely stays inside 90 minutes. For Liverpool FC, songs, city identity, supporter rituals, content and community all travel with the badge, giving the club a presence that can keep showing up even when no match is being played. That wider footprint is now being quantified. In an official club update, Liverpool said independent…
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Firmable finds sales data is not ready for AI agents
Firmable has found a sharp divide between how widely B2B sellers use AI and how few believe their revenue systems are ready for agents to act independently. Its agent-ready revenue team survey shifts the conversation from access to AI toward the quality of the data, workflows, and accountability underneath it. That distinction matters for marketers…
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Standard Chartered puts AI into regional wealth campaign decisions
Standard Chartered is putting artificial intelligence into the operating layer of its regional wealth marketing, using live audience signals to shape creative delivery, bidding and budget allocation across markets. The third phase of its “Now’s your time for wealth” campaign, developed with dentsu Singapore, combines AI-driven performance insights with real-time triggers and local digital platforms.…
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What is Higgsfield? A marketer’s guide to the multi-model AI video platform
Higgsfield is part of a newer category of AI creative platforms that tries to solve a practical problem for marketers: the best video model can change from one job to the next. Instead of asking a team to maintain separate subscriptions and workflows for every model, Higgsfield puts multiple generation engines inside one production environment…