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Highlights from today’s newsletter:
🤝 NFL, Adobe team up for AI-powered league and fan-generated content
📊 Changes in 2025 B2B marketing budget priorities
💡 Creative clarity at its best—KFC’s beekeeper ad

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#INFLUENCER MARKETING

Precision Over Popularity Defines Influencer Success at Coachella 2025

Brands chasing mass exposure at Coachella 2025 found themselves outperformed by those who focused on precision. Rhode, Sol de Janeiro, Method, and Kosas proved that verified engagement, earned media value, and real-world action deliver stronger returns than follower counts.

Content quality, not reach, drove results. Activations that solved real attendee needs or embedded influencers into the experience generated higher conversions and longer post-event impact. Performance marketing teams, not PR, are now leading influencer strategy—where KPIs tie back to revenue, not just impressions.

At Coachella, popularity without purpose was invisible.

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WHAT WE ARE READING

2025 U.S. Marketing Budgets: AI Transformation and Shifting Priorities for B2B Marketers

AI and automation are prompting B2B marketers to reallocate budgets toward measurable, ROI-driven activities while reducing emphasis on broad brand awareness.

Modest budget increases for 2025 reflect caution, with investments favoring sales enablement, regional events, and predictive tools. This approach highlights a shift toward targeted initiatives and accountability.

NFL Partners with Adobe for AI-Driven Personalized and Fan-Created Content

The NFL’s expanded partnership with Adobe introduces AI-powered, personalized content creation tools for both league and fan use, aiming to drive digital engagement through apps like NFL OnePass and platforms such as Adobe Express.

This initiative targets younger, tech-savvy audiences and supports the league’s response to declining TV viewership. The collaboration highlights a broader industry trend of leveraging AI in digital marketing to address evolving consumer demands and audience retention.

How Immersive Experiences Are Reshaping Marketing

Immersive marketing, now a $6.90 billion global sector, leverages AR, VR, and AI to engage consumers through multisensory, interactive campaigns, demonstrably resulting in higher ROI and conversion rates.

Marketers must define business objectives and employ new success metrics beyond traditional KPIs to maximize efficacy. With increased consumer demand and demonstrated business impact, brands face regulatory expectations to ensure accurate measurement, privacy, and accessibility in these emerging digital experiences.

TOP VOICE

💭INSIGHTS FROM SARAH LEVINGER

🚨BRANDS…PLEASE stop doing this.

Too many marketers stop describing their solution 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 once they understand it. 🤣 (Which, I totally get. Once you’ve mastered the solution you no longer act, speak, or teach like a newbie anymore…)

But that’s exactly where the trouble starts.

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗔𝗞 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗮 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

💭INSIGHTS FROM TOM WANEK

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🎙 THE CHANGEOVER

Andy Crestodina on AI, Analytics, and Strategy

Industrial marketers now face complex measurement challenges as AI-driven non-human website visitors evade traditional analytics, compounding data opacity. To address this, robust site clarity, machine-readable data, and detailed analytics exploration become mandatory. Continued adaptation is critical as new privacy and attribution realities reshape content, eCommerce, and stakeholder engagement.

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