The next competitive advantage won’t come from making packaging greener. It will come from making sustainability invisible to the consumer experience.
Read MoreAI agents, creator partnerships and commerce dominated the week’s conversations, while attention, trust and human experience kept complicating the technology story. For marketers, the question was how to turn new capabilities into work that earns its budget.
Four days, hundreds of speakers and far too many competing ideas. Here is where modern marketers should actually spend their time.
Consider this our slightly more productive version of an out-of-office message.
AI assistants, private conversations, podcasts, communities, creators and word-of-mouth are creating a marketing environment where influence is expanding precisely where measurement struggles to follow.
B2B marketers face longer sales cycles, larger buying committees, invisible decision-makers and customers increasingly researching through AI before ever speaking to a salesperson.
Now that machines can reproduce the language, imagery and imperfections brands once used to signal “real,” marketers need to confront a harder question: what does authenticity actually mean when anyone can manufacture its appearance?
McDonald’s wants to turn its restaurants, screens, app and customer relationships into a billion-dollar advertising business. The bigger story for marketers is that retail media is rapidly becoming something much larger than retail.
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