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Stop Defending Your Marketing Budget—Prove Its Value Instead

Marketers, we need to talk.

Every year, every quarter, maybe even every month, you’re asked to justify your marketing budget. You’re put on the defensive—explaining why you need those dollars, proving your team’s worth, and making the case that, yes, marketing is essential.

But here’s the hard truth: defending your budget is a losing game.

If you constantly have to defend your marketing spend, you’ve already lost the battle. Instead, you should be proving that marketing is not a cost center but a profit driver.

Let’s look into why defending your budget is the wrong approach and how you can shift the conversation to proving the undeniable value of your marketing efforts.

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Top 5 Programmatic Advertising Trends to Watch in 2025

If you’re looking to stay ahead in the digital advertising world, don’t sleep on the power of programmatic advertising, also known as “targeted display advertising”. In 2025, we’re seeing more precise targeting, expansion into new channels, and a heightened emphasis on both privacy and fraud prevention.

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Brand Marketing From A Gen-Z Marketer

Recently, Marketing Director Kevin Berrier sat down with Mya Shell, a Gen-Z Marketer who has a unique insight into brand marketing; sharing tips and tricks that she’s learned throughout her career so far, demonstrating her expertise in shaping the future of brand marketing. During the Five Dubs: Marketing Pros podcast episode, Mya tells her story of being a small-town girl with big town marketing dreams, how to assess your brand and make it stand out in a cluttered space, and her thoughts on the future of brand marketing.

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Inside Zuckerberg’s Mind — Unpacking the Move to Community Notes

During a recent appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, Mark Zuckerberg described a pivotal change he’s implementing for Meta: moving away from third-party fact-checkers and embracing a Community Notes system that echoes what X (formerly Twitter) has tried. Throughout the podcast, he stressed that traditional fact-checking—although well-intentioned—can inadvertently create distrust among users who feel their voices are overshadowed by “official” gatekeepers. In his view, collective user input might be the next logical step for more organic and transparent moderation on platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

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