By Webb Wright Also, Adobe launches an app for creators to protect them from deepfakes and scraping from AI bots. AI researchers win Nobel prizes Pioneering AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton and Princeton physicist John Hopfield were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their early work on neural networks, the technology that laid the foundation for large language models. Hinton is also a former Google researcher who has since left his post earlier this year to raise alarms about the dangers of AI. Read more here Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreBy Richard Draycott Scottish Labour’s shadow cabinet secretary for business, economy and fair work told the Advertising Association’s Lead Scotland 2024 conference in Glasgow that Scotland needs to prioritize its creative sector in its economic strategy. In the opening keynote at the Advertising Association’s Lead Scotland 2024 conference in Glasgow, Scottish Labour MSP and shadow cabinet secretary for business, economy and fair work, Daniel Johnson, emphasized that Scotland’s creative industries are not just cultural assets; they are vital for economic development, with marketing and advertising playing a key role. He expressed concern that the creative sector has been underutilized for far too long, with Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreBy Maria Greaves Communicating a clear purpose, and building trust by offering real, personalized value are the secret ingredients that drive brand loyalty these days, say leading marketers from Adobe, British Red Cross and Moonpig. There’s a whispered fear among marketing circles these days. A fear that customer loyalty might be, dare we say it, dead, in an era of rising costs, and changing consumer behavior. But that’s a myth, says Jamie Brighton, EMEA director of product marketing at Adobe, speaking at The Drum Live: “Loyalty isn’t dead – it’s just been reframed. Convenience helps build trust, and trust leads to Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreBy Webb Wright While some anxiety about the technology’s rapid spread throughout the ad industry still remains, many practitioners are focusing on the upside. Legions of marketers flooded Midtown Manhattan over the past four days for the twentieth annual Advertising Week New York conference. Each year, the event’s lineup of panels and talks serves as a kind of bellwether for the ad industry, highlighting the most salient and impactful subjects of the hour. (The metaverse, for example, was a here Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreBy The Drum Over four dynamic days, the show revealed the cutting-edge trends redefining marketing’s future, from the unstoppable rise of AI and retail media to the creative strategies driving success in an evolving, social-first landscape. As Advertising Week New York 2024 comes to a close, one thing is clear: the advertising industry is undergoing a profound transformation. From the rise of retail media to the growing impact of AI and the challenges posed by data signal loss on the web, the event offered a glimpse into the future of marketing. Despite the surge of excitement around AI, emerging tech, new media investments and Read full story › Source: The Drum...
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