Building a Community is About Earning an Ongoing Relationship

People may follow a hospitality brand because of a beautiful beach or an attractive offer, but they remain connected because of how the brand makes them feel, says Nina Mohamed, Cluster Director of Marketing & Communications at Mövenpick and Pullman Resort Al Marjan Island.

Synthetic data promises speed and scale, but "digital twins" and statistical personas are not the same thing — and confusing them can be costly.

Analysis of $130 million in ad spend across 65,000 Meta Partnership Ads uncovers lessons for how brands can build a creative system that beats fatigue and never runs out of winning ads.

Retail media is pushing marketers beyond attribution and platform metrics, as InMarket’s Michael Della Penna and Basis’ Amy Rumpler explain why incrementality and business outcomes are becoming the new standard for measuring advertising impact.

Real-time sports data, transactions and friend activity all feed one profile. Here's how CRM systems turn that into smarter, better-timed engagement.

Right now, AI defaults to a textbook approach that isn't always pragmatic or takes into account interesting context or human taste, says Martina Lauchengco, Author of LOVED, where she talks about how to rethink the marketing of tech products. “The winners will have systems that do a better job on that.”

Customers move between physical stores, mobile apps, social media, messaging platforms and websites organically. For the consumer, this is one experience. Can brands go past silos to offer a consistent yet complementary narrative?

The report finds US consumers have tighter budgets, growing AI influence and high customer experience expectations heading into the holiday season

According to Roxana Nicolescu, VP, Brand Marketing & Social Media (Global), Wego.com, attention is not necessarily disappearing; it is becoming more fragmented, selective and rapidly reallocated between feeds, creators, searches, messages and cultural moments.

What starts as a quick regional fix or a departmental workaround rarely stays small — and by the time leaders notice, it's already a liability hiding in plain sight.