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In the days immediately following the Super Bowl, ad industry chatter is all about which ads people loved—or hated—the most. But as time goes on, marketers start to get a sense of whether or not their $8-million-plus campaigns are actually driving business impact.Just over a week after the Big Game, data from marketing analytics company Big Chalk indicates which advertisers

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Cyclical events to boost 2026 ad spend, but recession, tariff concerns remain: IAB

The economy isn’t exactly humming along, but marketers in the US are set to keep spending.US marketers are expected to spend 9.5% more in 2026 than in 2025, according to projections from the Interactive Advertising

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Meta Goes to Trial in a New Mexico Child Safety Case. Here’s What’s at Stake

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Inside Vita Coco’s ‘super fluid,’ organic-first social strategy

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Salesforce Workers Circulate Open Letter Urging CEO Marc Benioff to Denounce ICE

Employees at Salesforce are circulating an internal letter to chief executive Marc Benioff calling on him to denounce recent actions by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, prohibit the use of Salesforce software by immigration agents,

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Budweiser won the Super Bowl

Budweiser made like the Seattle Seahawks on Super Bowl Sunday and decisively declared victory over its rivals.The AB InBev beer

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Double duty: How a filmmaking company made a Super Bowl ad while shooting a feature film

Film producer Andrew Panay is currently shooting Somedays, a feature film about an unusual friendship between a delivery driver and a teenage girl starring Billy Bob Thornton, Pamela Anderson, and Ariana Greenblatt. At the same time—and sometimes on the same set—he also hammered out the details for a Super Bowl

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Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley

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This Super Bowl, the ads are in the toilet. Literally

During the Super Bowl, advertisers aim to leave a lasting impression with viewers. This year, some hope to do it by grossing them out.During the commercial breaks of this year’s game between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks, potty humor will abound. Liquid I.V. is slated to run a

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Why the Cadillac F1 team is unveiling its race-car livery in a Super Bowl ad

Crossover Formula 1 and NFL fans, fasten your seatbelts.The Cadillac F1 team, which is set to make its debut on the grid when the 2026 F1 season gets up and running in Australia in March, is releasing its car livery this weekend on marketing’s biggest stage: the Super Bowl.Standing up

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Epstein Files Reveal Peter Thiel’s Elaborate Dietary Restrictions

Peter Thiel—the billionaire venture capitalist, PayPal, and Palantir cofounder, and outspoken commentator on all matters relating to the “Antichrist”—appears at least 2,200 times in the latest batch of files released by the Department of Justice related to convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.The tranche of records demonstrate how

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How Deloitte went from behind the scenes to front and center with McLaren

McLaren has been on a hot streak in Formula 1, winning back-to-back Constructor’ Championships and a Drivers’ Championship this year. Through it all, brand partner Deloitte has had a seat in the car.The consultancy’s yearslong relationship with McLaren dates back to 2017, when McLaren was a Deloitte client and the

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The Tech Elites in the Epstein Files

“I had very little correspondence with Epstein and declined repeated invitations to go to his island or fly on his ‘Lolita Express,’ but was well aware that some email correspondence with him could be misinterpreted and used by detractors to smear my name,” Musk said in a post on X

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‘He Gets Us’ wants to be more than ‘the Super Bowl ad about Jesus’

Every Super Bowl there are a few advertiser wild cards—the ads or brands that make you go, “Huh, why’d they do that?” And then there are the Super Bowl staples—often the beer, beverage, and snack brands that show up every year without fail.Sometimes, though, an advertiser makes the jump from

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Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company

Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company SpaceX is acquiring his AI startup xAI, the centibillionaire announced on Monday. In a blog post, Musk said the acquisition was warranted because global electricity demand for AI cannot be met with “terrestrial solutions,” and Silicon Valley will soon need to build data centers

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How longtime Olympic sponsor Samsung keeps its campaigns fresh

How do you keep a relationship exciting after almost four decades? Just ask Samsung Electronics and the Olympic Games.Samsung has been involved with the Games since 1988, when it served as a local partner the year the event was hosted in Seoul, South Korea. A decade later, the tech giant

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