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Take your marketing further with Google. Think with Google.

How 3 often overlooked best practices can supercharge your creative

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

2. Bölüm. Düz, omuz hizasında saçlı bir kişi mikroskobun okülerlerinden bakar ve odağı ayarlar.

Multiply expertise

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The value of AI

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How YouTube builds equity into its products and policies

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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

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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Rethink budget and bidding

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Surface insights

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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

Part 1: Value, reevaluated. Small-business owner Jamie Boatright, dressed in a red short-sleeved shirt, peruses ingredients on a shelf at a warehouse-style grocery store.

Value, reevaluated

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

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

Part 3: Revising priorities. Wellness expert Lety Soto, dressed in athletic clothing and a head wrap, is pictured walking on a hiking trail. She’s accompanied by another hiker, who wears a backpack over an unbuttoned plaid shirt.

Revising priorities

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

2. Bölüm. Düz, omuz hizasında saçlı bir kişi mikroskobun okülerlerinden bakar ve odağı ayarlar.

Multiply expertise

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

Chapter 4 of 6. A chess piece sits atop a stack of coins standing next to two smaller coin stacks and other game pieces.

Rethink budget and bidding

Chapter 6. A tablet screen displays bar charts, a line graph, and a pie chart. A hand holding a stylus pen gestures toward the screen.

Surface insights

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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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Global Insights Briefing: Holiday takeaways for marketers

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

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Global Insights Briefing: Early holiday deal seeking

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

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Global Insights Briefing: Conscious and cost-aware consumers

How 3 often overlooked best practices can supercharge your creative

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

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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

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

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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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3 steps for building a privacy-safe culture

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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Ready Together: 3 ways agencies can help clients drive digital transformation

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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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Understanding the ABCDs of effective creative on YouTube

How 2 brands and an agency proved the power of custom creative

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Close the deal with the ABCDs for Action

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What Google is doing to help brands build resilience and drive results

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One agency’s path to outstanding video creative

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5 tested creative strategies to improve your auto video ads

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Get your brand noticed with the ABCDs for Awareness

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