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Marketing & Sales

Ideas for understanding customers, building markets, and communicating value. This topic examines consumer behavior, brand strategy, sales effectiveness, pricing, segmentation, and digital channels, helping leaders connect insight to action and create relationships that support growth across changing audiences and competitive environments.

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UVA Today spoke with University of Virginia Darden School of Business professor Luca Cian to understand what caused the change and how brands get away with copying one another.

How can marketing leaders manage brand visibility when customers increasingly receive answers from AI rather than lists of links from a traditional search platform? A new technical note from Professor Kimberly A. Whitler introduces a practical framework for marketing in the age of AI.

A new technical note by Professor Kim Whitler explores how technology company Publicis Sapient moved beyond deploying AI tools and instead redesigned marketing work itself—unlocking growth without increasing headcount. Its five-step framework offers lessons for any organization struggling to incorporate new technologies at a time of rapid change.

Chances are you have heard about this summer’s two surprise hits: “Backrooms” and “Obsession,” low-budget films by Gen Z directors who first built audiences on YouTube. Anthony Palomba shares insights on how to understand what is driving these films’ success — and what Hollywood should learn from it.