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

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Optimize your mobile site or app

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

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What 2022 holiday shopping trends and insights mean for marketers in 2023

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3 things brands should know about the way people shop today

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How to keep businesses growing in uncertain times

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

Inside the Google media team’s cookieless measurement tool kit

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3 leading brands doing the tried-and-new

10 years of Think with Google: Kirk McDonald, North America CEO at GroupM; Yonca Dervişoğlu, VP of marketing at Google EMEA; Marie Gulin-Merle, global VP of ads marketing at Google

Industry leaders predict what marketing will look like in 2032

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Global Insights Briefing: Early holiday deal seeking

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

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Marketers who prioritize apps are winning today — and tomorrow

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How to maximize a full-funnel media strategy with measurement

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Now is the time to embrace creativity

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4 industry leaders on what’s next for creativity

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It’s time to electrify auto marketing

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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

A femme-presenting person with long wavy light hair and light skin walks out of a mobile phone that looks like a brick and mortar store while pushing a shopping cart. The shopping cart is full of wrapped gifts.

What 2022 holiday shopping trends and insights mean for marketers in 2023

A femme-presenting person with light skin and a straight black bob with bangs sits on a larger-than-life search bar looking through comically large binoculars at a piggy bank and a festive meal on a platter under a cloche.

Global Insights Briefing: Early holiday deal seeking

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Global Insights Briefing: Searching with intent and holiday enthusiasm

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

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

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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

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

A femme-presenting person with dark skin and curly black hair adjusts their marketing strategy using first-party data, search insights, and automation tools, putting their plans into a flow chart.

3 leading brands doing the tried-and-new

A large red funnel hovers over two websites, one showing coins for its media budget and one showing a graph for its marketing mix model.

How to maximize a full-funnel media strategy with measurement

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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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Reach potential customers at every stage of the funnel with video

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

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

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 future-ready businesses are building for tomorrow

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How customer-centricity guided Mondelēz International’s digital transformation

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3 traits digital leaders have in common

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How media agencies can adapt to a transformed digital landscape

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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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Protect privacy and drive performance with a new measurement solution

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The digital marketing playbook for driving growth in a changing privacy environment

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

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What Google is doing to make web and app experiences safer and more accessible

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3 steps for building a privacy-safe culture

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Preparing display ads for a privacy transformation

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Agility often starts with breaking down silos. Here are 3 things to get right

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Resilience experts share the best ways to maximize creativity in times of stress and transition

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How to build a winning analytics team

A woman with dark skin and dark curly hair adds the next-generation leadership pieces to the digital transformation puzzle.

3 ways next-gen leaders embrace uncertainty and drive digital transformation

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Why supporting nontraditional learning and career paths is simply smart business

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How Wyndham’s people-first approach prepared it for digital transformation

Melonie Parker, Google’s Chief Diversity Officer

3 ways companies can build an inclusive hybrid workplace

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How to build collaboration equity in your hybrid workplace

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Your 2022 guide to drive retail sales and reach new customers with Google

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2022 Retail Marketing Guide: Drive foot traffic and in-store sales

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2022 Retail Marketing Guide: Be ready for the holidays and seasonal shopping moments

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2022 Retail Marketing Guide: Customers turn to Google every day to browse, research, and buy

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2022 Retail Marketing Guide: Build your brand and acquire new customers

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2022 Retail Marketing Guide: Grow your online and in-app sales

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2022 Retail Marketing Guide: Use insights to inform your strategy and boost performance

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How brands like Aveda and Kraft Heinz are unlocking the value of full-funnel marketing

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