On Tuesday, during halftime of the second leg semifinal UEFA Champions League match between Barcelona and Inter Milan, I was served an ad that brought me down from my soccer-induced euphoria.

Brand execs are always blind-sided when ad campaigns blow up in their faces, but the pain is usually self-inflicted. What’s a Chief Marketing Officer to do? As if Nike didn’t have enough ...

In other words, the way that Google tied parts of its ad tech together was deemed unlawful. Online ads end up in front of consumers after passing through a chain of systems linking publishers to ...

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Marketing research centre WARC estimates that ad spend with newsbrands will be $32.3bn this year, down 33.1% compared to 2019. Magazine brands have it even harder: ad spend with them is forecast ...

Every single commercial is catered to Black people…It’s not race war stuff, but Wingstop’s taking up a bunch of ad space….It’s like every chicken place. You’re watching it going ...

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The image of the ad spread on Reddit, Facebook and X. It read: "SPIKED TOOTHPASTE — SCOTCH OR BOURBON FLAVORED…Put some 'spirit' in your brushing! Real, honest to goodness whiskey in toothpaste." ...