Be in The Know
🌊 How Florida ad agencies kept business going during Hurricane Milton.
🤦 Bath & Body Works has removed a candle with KKK-like artwork from shelves.
🤫 Meta will now let brands shut off Facebook and Instagram ad comments.
⭐ As celebrity beauty brands grow, some are deemphasizing their star power.
🏹 Investment platform Robinhood gets a more mature visual identity.
💸 Prime Big Deal Days kicks off holidays with a slow start due to natural disasters.
🎯 Reddit Ads introduces keyword targeting.
🚨 Three words: Crocs for dogs.
Top Marketing Conferences to Attend in 2025
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✈️ We’re already thinking about this 2025 lineup. Where are you headed next year?
- Consumer Electronics Show (January 7-10), Las Vegas: A trade-only event for professionals affiliated with the consumer technology industry.
- SXSW (March 7-15), Austin: Conference sessions, film and TV festival screenings, music festival showcases, exhibitions, competitions, awards and more.
- Possible (April 28-30), Miami Beach: Networking opportunities, masterclasses, workshops, an exposition, VIP programming and entertainment curated for the greater marketing ecosystem.
- ANA Brand Masters (May 7-9), Los Angeles: A two-day event that aims to provide marketers with actionable ideas to drive the growth of their brands.
- IAB NewFronts (Spring), TBD: A digital content marketplace bringing together media buyers, agencies, brands, publishers, streaming platforms and more to discuss the latest innovations coming down the pike.
- Cannes Lions (June 16-20), Cannes, France: A celebration of advertising work with 12,000 attendees from 90 countries, representing 550 agencies and 350 brands.
- Advertising Week (Fall), NYC: A massive four-day event to deliver practical insights to marketers.
- DMEXCO (TBD), Cologne, Germany: Europe’s leading digital marketing and tech event.
- ANA Masters of Marketing (Oct. 21-24), Orlando: Speakers, workshops, and strategic discussions around marketing’s challenges and opportunities.
- Programmatic I/O (TBD), Las Vegas and NYC: An exploration of the latest trends around commerce media, connected TV, privacy, and more in effort to help drive programmatic strategies.
Check out Marketing Dive for more.
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Watch
KFC Takes Aim
According to KFC, the Chicken Sandwich Wars may be over, but the Chicken Tender Battle has just begun.
The chain has announced its original-recipe tenders with a battle cry from the Middle Ages. KFC’s key opponents clad in familiar colors are strewn about the battlefield in defeat—one is even stabbed with a spork—while a valiant warrior rallies the troops for the challenge ahead.
And yes, chicken drumsticks are indeed thumped upon KFC war drums.
The Colonel even throws a few more stones in the YouTube caption: “Will it be the bland one that comes with all the sauces [to win]? The other bland with the childish mascots?”
