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Scooter’s Coffee Growth and the Future of Franchise Marketing
As multi-location brands push deeper into expansion mode, one of the biggest operational challenges is no longer simply opening new locations. It is maintaining consistent customer engagement, local visibility, and brand standards across hundreds of markets simultaneously. Scooter’s Coffee is increasingly confronting that reality firsthand. The rapidly growing drive-thru coffee chain, Scooter’s Coffee, has expanded […]
Why Programmatic Audio Is Winning New Attention From Advertisers
As marketers search for incremental reach across an increasingly fragmented media landscape, audio advertising is emerging as a powerful complement to CTV, social, and digital video. A new partnership between Basis and DAX highlights how programmatic audio, audience targeting, and omnichannel campaign management are reshaping media planning. While connected TV, retail media, digital video, and […]
SOCi Hits 300,000 AI Agents as Automation Goes Mainstream
AI agents are quickly moving beyond experimentation and becoming part of the operating infrastructure behind enterprise marketing. That trend was on display this week as SOCi announced that it has surpassed 300,000 deployed Genius Agents™, a milestone the company says establishes the largest deployed agentic workforce in marketing. The announcement underscores how rapidly enterprise brands […]
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AI Won’t Fix Advertising – It May Scale Its Chaotic Nature
Once again, the advertising industry is in the midst of a technological gold rush. The current hype around AI reflects a familiar pattern: sweeping claims, breathless predictions and a rush to declare that it will finally “fix” everything. It won’t. While AI has transformative potential, it isn’t a cure-all to some of advertising’s biggest problems. […]
Meta Is Automating Ads, But Brands Still Face a Bigger Problem
Meta is automating ad execution, but the bigger problem for brands remains unresolved: deciding where to invest across channels to actually drive growth. The era of needing specialist teams to manage campaign execution is ending. Platforms are taking over more of that work, handling campaign construction, delivery optimization, and in-flight management within their own environments. […]
Why Restaurant PR Matters for Local Growth
A great PR campaign can make or break the future of a restaurant location. But in the case of multi-location restaurant brands, this requires strong collaboration between local or franchise leadership and the overall brand to ensure a consistent, coordinated effort. The unique challenges of restaurant PR Running a PR campaign for a restaurant is […]
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Flamel.ai Launches Luna to Fix Franchise Marketing Execution
For years, franchise and multi-location brands have faced a persistent breakdown between strategy and execution. Corporate teams build campaigns designed to scale nationally, but at the local level, those franchise marketing campaigns often fragment—deployed inconsistently, delayed, or not executed at all. This week, Flamel.ai introduced a platform designed to close that gap. The company announced […]
Weather Is Reshaping Marketing – How Brands Are Turning Storms Into Sales
When weather shifts, consumer intent spikes and brands that adapt messaging in real time are capturing the most valuable moments to drive action. Spring is trying to spring in the Northeast but so far, the vibes have been reluctant. But that doesn’t hinder weather-reactive marketing; it presents new opportunities for warm-weather retail activities and products. […]
AI Is Rewriting Media Planning – Basis’ Compass Turns Briefs Into Campaigns in Minutes
Media planning is entering its fastest transformation in decades. What once took days (or weeks) of assembling briefs, analyzing data, and building presentations is now being compressed into minutes as agentic AI in advertising automates the core of AI media planning. That shift is now operational. With Compass, Basis has introduced an AI advertising platform that […]
Meta Is Automating Ads, But Brands Still Face a Bigger Problem
Meta is automating ad execution, but the bigger problem for brands remains unresolved: deciding where to invest across channels to actually drive growth. The era of needing specialist teams to manage campaign execution is ending. Platforms are taking over more of that work, handling campaign construction, delivery optimization, and in-flight management within their own environments. […]
Why Restaurant PR Matters for Local Growth
A great PR campaign can make or break the future of a restaurant location. But in the case of multi-location restaurant brands, this requires strong collaboration between local or franchise leadership and the overall brand to ensure a consistent, coordinated effort. The unique challenges of restaurant PR Running a PR campaign for a restaurant is […]
Your Locations Show Up in AI – But Are They Recommended?
A consumer asks an AI assistant for a local business recommendation near one of your locations. Your brand location appears in the response. By most current measures, that’s a win — and it is. But for MULO marketers managing local search performance for dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of locations, presence in AI-generated responses is […]
Klaviyo’s New AI Agent Builds Full Campaigns From a Single Prompt
AI is rapidly changing how marketing gets done and Klaviyo is pushing that shift further by introducing tools that can generate and execute entire campaigns from a single prompt. With its new Composer feature and expanded AI agents, the company is moving toward a model where marketers define outcomes and software handles the execution. Klaviyo’s […]
Innovid Helps Marketers Navigate Reddit
Making sense of Reddit and the sub-reddits of its 100,000+ communities has always been a challenge for advertisers in a space that is traditionally ad-unfriendly. But independent software platform Innovid, which helps with the creation, delivery, measurement, and optimization of advertising, says the expansion of its Social Ads Manager can bring some order to what often seems […]
As AI Adoption Grows, Nearly Half of Advertisers Plan to Bring Media Planning In-House
As AI reshapes how campaigns are planned, executed, and optimized, a growing number of advertisers are reconsidering one of the industry’s foundational structures: the role of external agencies in media planning. New research suggests that nearly half of brands are preparing to bring more of that function in-house, signaling a broader shift toward control, data […]
Programmatic DOOH Spend Set to Surge 49% as U.S. Marketers Shift Budgets
Programmatic digital out-of-home is entering a new phase of maturity in the U.S., shifting from an emerging test channel into a core component of digital media strategy. New research from VIOOH suggests that marketers are not only increasing investment sharply, but also rethinking how DOOH fits within broader programmatic and performance-driven planning. The headline number […]
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