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Turning Brands into Friends: Community Building in Marketing
Overstimulated consumers and oversaturated channels: Community building in marketing can be the answer. The industry is abandoning B2C and increasingly positioning brands as friends. But how does this work in practice? Find out in our story.
Customer Experience Trends: Creating More Meaningful UX Moments
In this age of AI revolution, customer experience trends are a vital indicator of how effectively brands are using technology. That’s why the increasing focus on meaningful CX moments is so exciting.
2026 Marketing Trends: These 4 Topics Will Dominate the Industry
What are the key marketing trends for 2026? Our survey of experts shows that four topic clusters will shape the industry this year. To find out what they are, get our guide.
Insight Out: Premium Branding at Rituals Cosmetics
Rituals is one of the leading cosmetics brands on the market. Anna Pütz, as Head of Marketing DACH, is a key force behind this success. She explains the values and beliefs that shape marketing at Rituals and the brand’s strong focus on premium branding.
Empathetic Marketing: Why We Need People to Control AI
With the rise of AI, businesses are moving forward at an unprecedented speed. But companies still need human marketers to define what “forward” means. This is where empathetic marketing comes in.
Make Your Brand a Trusted Source to Secure AI Search Visibility
The key to AI search visibility is having your content appear as a citation in AI answers. Providing clear structures, genuine expertise and clean data will make your website the preferred source when AI decides which brand to trust.
The vast majority of AI initiatives will fail
Tough but true: many AI projects fail due to hype, speed, false expectations, consumer skepticism, and tech reality. This is precisely where the greatest learning opportunity for 2026 lies, comments Verena Gründel.
DMEXCO Column: Employee Advocacy: Visibility Booster With High ROI
A DMEXCO column by Evgeny Popov on the opportunities and advantages of employee advocacy on LinkedIn.
The big earned-paid gap—and why the system is threatening to collapse
LLMs are pushing zero clicks, traffic is collapsing, budgets are shifting. At the same time, earned media determines visibility in AI overviews. Without a new balance between paid and earned, the media system will collapse, comments Verena Gründel.
AI Agents take over – and the open web may die
AI Agents take action, platforms cash in: Content without value sends the wrong signal, comments Verena Gründel.