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In the last five years, the brand has sought to remix the jingle so it can both preserve its widely recognized brand asset and connect with a new generation of consumers.

How Meow Mix future-proofed its jingle for another generation

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With AI looming as a threat to news sites, publishers push back

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The electronics giant saw a major improvement in online to offline sales attribution after implementing a custom solution leveraging Unified ID 2.0 (UID2).

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