In the realm of B2B marketing, a subtle but pervasive problem looms–ironically, one of the industry’s own creation. Clarity and meaning have become casualties in an ongoing war of words that often serve little purpose beyond filling content quotas or satisfying superficial engagement metrics. As marketing professionals, we pride ourselves on our ability to craft…
The first day in a new job can be daunting, and that is no less true for the new urban and regional electric trucks being introduced by commercial vehicle company Scania, according to its new ad. With a series of films that follow one of the trucks through its induction into the company, from its…
LISBON, Portugal — Juan Pablo Ortega, co-founder of global payment management company Yuno, joined Adweek on Web Summit’s Startup University stage to talk about how he turned Rappi, the food delivery company he founded, into a so-called unicorn startup that’s captured a larger market in Mexico than Uber Eats. Ortega plans to replicate the success…
To break through in business-to-business marketing, a message has to look beyond improving the performance of a business to impressing and exciting the people behind it. Customer data platform Hubspot, for example, just acquired third-party B2B data provider Clearbit in early November. While HubSpot’s offered Clearbit to its App Marketplace customers since 2019, it can…
Once valued at a mighty $47 billion, WeWork has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New Jersey. Despite sinking billions into the business, majority investor SoftBank has cut its losses after a tough four years, exasperated by both post-pandemic working trends and the impact of rising interest rates on the commercial property market. In the…
A company doesn’t have to tell a buyer every detail and benefit of its product to prove its value. It just needs to show it in action. B2B marketers, with the help of their creative partners, increasingly see the merit in sparing the detail and sending potential clients a succinct, meaningful message. Convincing their CFO…
The old saying “think before you speak” is probably best applied to anyone in a leadership position during circumstances of great magnitude. With the latest war in the Middle East and the unimaginable scenes of violence and suffering being played out across most media channels, understandably tensions are high. Yet, those steering companies are looked…
Amidst the flurry of generative AI developments, Adweek’s weekly AI roundup captures the latest news, regulatory proceedings, and business developments revolving around generative AI. Here’s this week’s update: On the policy and legal front: Arranged by the trade organization News Media Alliance, representing over 2,000 publishers and the interests of the news media industry, numerous…
Oracle is instantly recognizable by its bold red logo. Salesforce has Astro Nomical, its “warm and welcoming” mascot. Intel has that catchy chime. These are all examples of “brand assets,” and they’re increasingly important to B2B marketing success. At LinkedIn’s B2B Institute, we commissioned one of the biggest studies ever on B2B branding. We partnered…
Among its early benefits, generative AI has proven to save time in the campaign creation process and speed up ad optimization for marketers. This utilization comes to LinkedIn–which was acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion in 2016–with its latest AI offering to marketers: Accelerate. In a bid to assist B2B marketers in achieving more precise…
In the not-so-distant past, a business-focused technology company could slap its logo onto a stadium, vehicle or athlete in a tech-savvy sport and connect its brand and products to the action. Since the introduction of Generative AI within the last year, however, firms like Bangalore-based Infosys increasingly have to use those partnerships as B2B demos…
From unconventional full-funnel strategies to novel uses of artificial intelligence to provocative creative campaigns, B2B marketers are increasingly shaking off the notion that their style of marketing is staid and risk-averse. What we’ve found is they are wildly inventive, innovating at scale, transforming their industry and setting the tone for their B2C counterparts. Against this…
Although October 2022 was just a year ago, it feels like an entirely different era for Adobe. Heather Freeland joined Adobe that month as the company’s chief brand officer, just as Google, Microsoft and smaller, more nimble tech firms began making their very public push into generative AI. During her second week on the job,…
A young woman is hunched over her textbook like a gull on the water’s edge, so immersed in thermodynamic theory that she seems not to notice that she’s alone in the darkened room. Suddenly, the library’s green desk lamps flicker, light streaks through the large bay windows, and pages of ancient books turn by themselves….
The typical chief marketing officer spends just 39 months, or about 3.3 years, in the role before hanging up their boots and exiting through the revolving door. According to leadership advisory firm Spencer Stuart’s annual CMO Tenure Study, the number hit its lowest in a decade in 2023 across the top 100 brands in the…
“People That Know, Know BDO.” Thanks to the rhyme, it’s an easy line to say and recall. That doesn’t mean it’s a good line. A good line would tell us more about the “people that know,” and we’d know what BDO is and does, as well. Because acronyms are practically unknowable, a business that uses […]
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I like to see business-to-business advertising that appeals to the person who will make the purchasing decision in decidedly human ways. Humor, for instance, is an underused approach in B2B. Circle K is helping to change the score with this campaign from Taylor, Nick Spooner director and Brooklyn-based production company. “My main marching orders were […]
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A company known for its alternative fuels and commitment to sustainability has built a cabin in Finland to showcase its innovation. The Nolla (= zero) cabin, designed by Finnish designer Robin Falck, is located just outside Helsinki city center, on the Vallisaari island. The cabin has been built from sustainable materials and is designed for […]
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Daniel Goleman’s seminal book Emotional Intelligence was a breakthrough in workplace dynamics. For the first time, we had to consider that intelligence alone is a poor metric for measuring or predicting career success. The thesis of the book is that an individual’s emotional intelligence quotient — their skill in innately human attributes like empathy and […]
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