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Multiply expertise

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How agencies are multiplying their impact and expertise with AI-powered solutions

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How YouTube builds equity into its products and policies

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The value of AI

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Top retailers use AI-powered campaigns to engage their most valuable customers. Here are 4 steps they follow

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Optimize AI

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Reimagine audiences and creative

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Why durable solutions are needed to build the future of audiences

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Customers want control over their data — and won’t hesitate to switch brands to get it

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Optimize your mobile site or app

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Global Insights Briefing: Holiday takeaways for marketers

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From solar panels to spa days, see how 2022’s top searches set the stage for 2023

A data-privacy team can support your privacy transformation. Here’s how

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Value, reevaluated

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What marketers can learn from the most powerful YouTube trends of 2022

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Revising priorities

A masculine presenting marketer with medium skin and short, dark wavy hair applies privacy-preserving fundamentals and experiments to make valuable connections with consumers.

Nestlé’s CMO shares her strategy for accelerating digital transformation at scale

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3 things brands should know about the way people shop today

A company’s cross-functional team works on its omnichannel marketing strategy across brands to meet customers where they are, whether online, on mobile, or on video.

How the company behind Dunkin’, Arby’s, and Sonic reaches people wherever they are

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How 3 brands used YouTube to extend their reach during tentpole moments

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Global Insights Briefing: Holiday takeaways for marketers

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Global Insights Briefing: Searching with intent and holiday enthusiasm

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Soothing videos: The surprising trend capturing Gen Z’s attention

12 key days of this holiday season: How to prepare early and drive profits

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Global Insights Briefing: A focus on conscious spending and saving

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Global Insights Briefing: Shifting priorities toward value

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Global Insights Briefing: Conscious and cost-aware consumers

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As people resume planning for life’s big moments, brands have a role to play

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Global Insights Briefing: Preparing for financial uncertainty

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People have changed the way they shop. Have you changed the way you sell?

A masculine-presenting, plus-size person with light skin, a beard, and glasses watches YouTube Creator videos from around the world on a mobile phone.

What marketers can learn from the most powerful YouTube trends of 2022

Shopping bags appear next to a mobile phone. A YouTube channel plays an unboxing video featuring an open package. A red ribbon of quality appears in the corner of the video screen.

3 things brands should know about the way people shop today

Two marketers stand at an easel and sketch out a gameplan for their big tentpole ad campaign to be featured on YouTube.

How 3 brands used YouTube to extend their reach during tentpole moments

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How to maximize a full-funnel media strategy with measurement

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3 leading brands doing the tried-and-new

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What 3 brands learned from their YouTube CTV experiments

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Are short-form or long-form videos better for brands? Viewers and creators say both are

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Why marketers are missing worlds of content people want — and how to change that

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Reach potential customers at every stage of the funnel with video

Best of YouTube: 4 innovative ways brands shared their stories in 2021

Chapter 2. A person with straight, shoulder-length hair looks into the eyepieces of a microscope and adjusts for focus.

Multiply expertise

A bold, black megaphone stands out against a gold background.

How agencies are multiplying their impact and expertise with AI-powered solutions

A person with dark skin, short hair, and glasses sits cross-legged while typing on a laptop.

The value of AI

A person with long, dark wavy hair sits cross-legged on a platform reading on a mobile device where they seamlessly engage with ads from AI-powered campaigns.

Top retailers use AI-powered campaigns to engage their most valuable customers. Here are 4 steps they follow

Chapter 3 of 6. A person with light skin and their long hair up in a bun, dressed in a white button-down shirt, motions toward a flowchart diagram on a whiteboard.

Optimize AI

Chapter 5. A bearded designer wearing a knit cap and glasses sits in front of a large monitor while reviewing creative executions.

Reimagine audiences and creative

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How to keep businesses growing in uncertain times

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How programmatic advertisers can fundamentally reimagine the way they build audiences

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How Bayer used machine learning to predict cold and flu trends

How 3 agencies use automation to improve client outcomes and empower talent

A masculine presenting marketer with medium skin and short, dark wavy hair applies privacy-preserving fundamentals and experiments to make valuable connections with consumers.

Nestlé’s CMO shares her strategy for accelerating digital transformation at scale

How increasing agility and driving growth now can help CPG brands prepare for the future

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Do the tried-and-new

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How the International Rescue Committee raised millions for humanitarian aid

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Why a CMO-CFO alliance is the crucial piece of the digital transformation puzzle

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2 organizational approaches that drive successful digital transformation

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How customer-centricity guided Mondelēz International’s digital transformation

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How future-ready businesses are building for tomorrow

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How media agencies can adapt to a transformed digital landscape

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3 traits digital leaders have in common

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Why durable solutions are needed to build the future of audiences

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Customers want control over their data — and won’t hesitate to switch brands to get it

A data-privacy team can support your privacy transformation. Here’s how

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Embracing first-party data: 3 success stories from HubSpot

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How Google is building the future of measurement for the industry

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In a privacy-first world, the agency-client relationship has never been more important

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How Google’s in-house marketers are adapting to a shifting privacy environment

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Driving growth in a changing privacy environment: The digital marketing playbook

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How Kia is boosting business by focusing on first-party data

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3 steps for building a privacy-safe culture

A company’s cross-functional team works on its omnichannel marketing strategy across brands to meet customers where they are, whether online, on mobile, or on video.

How the company behind Dunkin’, Arby’s, and Sonic reaches people wherever they are

How to build a successful measurement plan for 2023

Inside the Google media team’s cookieless measurement tool kit

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Why CPG brands need an end-to-end measurement strategy in today’s uncertain market

YouTube advertisers, focus on these 4 key drivers of ROI

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Fact vs. fiction: 3 measurement myths holding back your marketing

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What toothpicks have to do with marketing measurement strategies

What holistic measurement tells us about the evolution of video

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