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It's a proud moment when a B2B marketer presents a robust ICP to executives and cross-functional colleagues. You've done the work not as an academic exercise but to fulfill a promise to deliver a crucial driver of efficiency, revenue acceleration and sustainable differentiation for your marketing, sales and product teams. You've committed to making the ICP a foundational force in your go-to-market strategy, ready to move the team from a generalized spray-and-pray approach to a highly targeted, profitable model.

Amazon is positioning Twitch as a defining asset in its CTV ambitions, folding the platform's hard-to-reach audience and live-video inventory into the same pitch it uses to sell Prime Video and Fire TV. That marks a clear break from not all that long ago. At Amazon's 2024 upfront, executives walked advertisers through an expanding video portfolio, but Twitch - despite having been in the fold for a decade - barely registered.

These launch shows deliver a massive aggregated audience, comprising more than 45 million monthly plays across their combined audio feeds and YouTube channels.

As each holding company and agency rushes to assemble its own version of an AI-driven platform, Horizon Media is pitching its version, Blu, as kind of the anti-black box consultancy that helps clients not only build campaigns but find pools of customers they may otherwise have missed. Overseen by Bob Lord, Horizon Media's president, and run by Domenic Venuto, Horizon's chief product and data officer, Blu is essentially a content marketing platform that uses a variety of LLMs to help the independent agency's clients determine broader business goals through the prism of media (creative inputs will come later - and more on that later), only on steroids.

ABM is a proven marketing approach that has been a viable option for targeting B2B brands (and their purchasing committees) for decades. CTV is one of the newer marketing channels around and adoption, especially for B2B brands, has been modest enough to stave off the rapidly inflating engagement costs of channels like Google, Meta and LinkedIn. The intersection of the two is relatively unexplored, but I've seen it work beautifully

Butler/Till is moving past this approach by pushing curation upstream, deciding what inventory should even be allowed into the auction rather than relying on DSP-side filters to clean things up downstream. That shift runs through SWYM.AI 's SelfCurate platform, which gives the agency's traders direct, self-serve control over supply before it reaches the DSP. Instead of bundling fixed lists they can dynamically score, filter and assemble inventory from a defined set of SSPs as campaigns run - producing a smaller, more intentional bidstream not because DSPs are being asked to "do better" but because fewer, higher-quality impressions are permitted into the marketplace to begin with.

Despite the rise of AI-generated summaries, ranking for key search terms remains essential, and authentic video content will become even more valuable for SEO and GEO visibility. SEO won't be going anywhere, GEO will still use top ranking results as one of the parameters when looking for references, so it's still important to rank on important keywords that are relevant to business.

Marketers used to wait for obvious signals, like a product page view, a cart add or a keyword search, before triggering campaigns. But in today's fractured landscape, those signals can arrive too late. Shoppers drift between screens, compare across retailers and move in and out of consideration silently, long before any intent becomes trackable. By the time a signal appears, the decision may already have been made.

Let's make a deal The news marks Cadent's third acquisition and fourth M&A deal in as many as three years. In 2023, the company bought EMX's SSP technology in a bankruptcy auction, just a few months before getting itself acquired by private equity firm Novacap for $600 million. Last year, Cadent also spent $324 million acquiring AdTheorent, a performance-based DSP that represented a further push on Cadent's part to become a more omnichannel marketing company.

London's business landscape has always moved in step with global markets. Capital flows in from every direction, startups scale outward as fast as they form, and established enterprises treat the city as a gateway between continents. But this constant movement depends on the factor of ability to communicate across markets with clarity, cultural accuracy, and speed. Artificial intelligence has rewritten the rules of global communication. Nowhere is this more evident than in the translation and localization sector,

It's increasingly important for publishers to understand when, how and why their content is being used as a source inside AI tools and platforms (often without attribution or traffic). The search landscape has changed exponentially this year, as more people turn to AI tools and platforms like ChatGPT to get information. And though referral traffic from AI platforms is still minuscule, many publishers are starting to track where they are cited in AI-generated responses to users' queries.

The 2025 edition of Spotify Wrapped goes beyond just summarizing what you listened to with charts and infographics. This year, Spotify is also assigning each user a "Listening Age," which is based on the release years of their favorite tracks compared to others in the same age group. The feature quickly went rival, as users recoiled at their seemingly geriatric (or juvenile) musical tastes.