top of page
All Marketing knowledge
Marketing Minute


Carrefour Opens Its Shopper Data to The Trade Desk in a Retail-Media Milestone
Unlimitail and The Trade Desk are letting advertisers activate 80+ Carrefour purchase-based segments self-service on the open web — no bespoke build required — starting in France.
Sep 113 min read


Caesars Sportsbook 'Has Had Some Work Done' for Football Season
Caesars Sportsbook gives Clay Matthews an over-the-top 'looksmaxxing' makeover — real prosthetics, no AI — to dramatise its app upgrades for NFL season, via agency Fellow Kids.
Sep 112 min read


The UPS Store Debuts Its First Brand Character, 'Blu,' to Sell Beyond Shipping
The UPS Store has launched 'Blu,' its first brand character, to unify messaging around printing, shredding and mailboxes — and remind small businesses it's more than a shipping counter.
Sep 112 min read


Athletic Brewing Names Dan Kleinman as CMO to Power an 'Adult Non-Alc' Land Grab
Athletic Brewing has hired Deutsch Family and Diageo veteran Dan Kleinman as CMO, as the non-alcoholic beer leader ramps national media 120% and lands a MetLife Stadium deal.
Sep 112 min read


Johnsonville Puts Sausage on the 2026 Ballot to Cut Through Political Ads
Johnsonville's 'Sausage for Dinner 2026' parodies political attack ads to cut through midterm noise — complete with lawn signs, a gen-AI TV spot and a food-insecurity tie-in.
Sep 113 min read


DeepIntent Launches 'Cora,' a Fully Agentic Ad Platform for Healthcare
DeepIntent has launched Cora, billed as the first fully agentic marketing platform for healthcare — letting marketers direct AI agents in plain language across strategy and activation.
Sep 113 min read


Tubi Goes Global With 'Find Any Feeling for Free'
Tubi's biggest-ever campaign, 'Find Any Feeling for Free' by Mischief @ No Fixed Address, leans on Y2K nostalgia to sell its free library as the cure for anyone chasing a feeling.
Sep 113 min read


Primark Finally Goes Online — and Says It's 'Redefining Value'
Primark confirmed it will launch UK home delivery, backed by a £90m warehouse deal, as CEO George Weston insists the retailer is 'redefining value' beyond price. Here's what it means.
Sep 113 min read


Welsh Government Revives Its 'Abandoned' £88m Media and Creative Pitch
The Welsh Government is relaunching an £88m media and creative review it previously abandoned, with the process due to begin in October — one of the UK public sector's biggest live accounts.
Sep 112 min read


LVMH Hands Its APAC Media Account to Publicis — Without a Pitch
LVMH is moving its Asia-Pacific media account from WPP to Publicis from January 2027 — with no competitive pitch — extending one of the luxury giant's deepest agency relationships.
Sep 113 min read


John Lewis Losses Widen to £89m as It Doubles Down on Loyalty and Brand
The John Lewis Partnership's half-year loss widened to £89m even as sales grew 2% to £6.3bn — and it is raising brand investment 29% and building a pan-partnership loyalty scheme.
Sep 113 min read


bonprix Bets on AI Across the Journey — but Demands a Fast Payback
Otto Group fashion retailer bonprix is embedding AI through the whole customer journey, with new CMO Nicolai Johannsen insisting each use case must show ROI quickly.
Sep 103 min read


Scalable Capital Mocks the Tax Man to Sell Germany's New State Pension Depot
Neobroker Scalable Capital is running a cheeky 'Bist du besteuert?' campaign to position itself early for the Altersvorsorgedepot, the state-backed successor to the Riester pension.
Sep 103 min read


A Hamburg Agency Turns Its Best Client Projects Into a SaaS Rental Model
Digital agency Curious Company is repackaging past bespoke builds as subscription software modules — a bid to swap one-off project fees for recurring revenue.
Sep 103 min read


bigFM Owner Sues German Regulator Over Frozen FM Frequencies in the North
Audiotainment Südwest is taking the Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein media authority to court for refusing to re-tender FM spectrum freed when a rival station went dark.
Sep 103 min read


Europe's Top Court Tells Brands Free Speech Is No Blanket Shield in Trademark Cases
The ECJ sided with Ikea against a Belgian far-right party that copied its look, ruling that political speech does not give free rein to exploit a famous brand's reputation.
Sep 103 min read


About You Fires the Starting Gun on Christmas — in Early September
Zalando-owned About You has launched what it calls the year's first Christmas spot, fronted by Lena Gercke, a full three months before the holidays.
Sep 103 min read


German Ad Market Keeps Growing to 2030 — but Linear TV Is the Structural Loser
Forecaster Madison & Wall has raised its German ad-market outlook to 2030, but the growth is almost entirely digital while linear TV keeps shrinking.
Sep 103 min read


Renault Hands Global Marketing and Brand Strategy to Jean-Pierre Diernaz
Renault has appointed Jean-Pierre Diernaz VP of Renault Brand Global Marketing and Chief Branding Officer across all brands, opening a new phase in its marketing transformation.
Sep 103 min read


The 'Céline Dion Economy': French Brands Race to Cash In on Her Paris Run
From Maje to Pierre Hermé and the hypermarkets, French brands are flooding the market with Dion-themed products around her Paris residency — testing the limits of scarcity marketing.
Sep 103 min read
bottom of page
