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December 4, 2025

12/9 LinkedIn Live: Beyond the Hype: A Conversation on AI with Technologist Peter Dooher

Join Adora CEO Marco Matos and Peter Dooher, SVP Digital at Servco Pacific, for a discussion on how leaders should be approaching digital transformation in 2026 from an enterprise technologist’s lens.

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December 4, 2025

12/9 LinkedIn Live: Beyond the Hype: A Conversation on AI with Technologist Peter Dooher

Join Adora CEO Marco Matos and Peter Dooher, SVP Digital at Servco Pacific, for a discussion on how leaders should be approaching digital transformation in 2026 from an enterprise technologist’s lens.

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Articles
December 1, 2025

Coca-Cola's "Soulless" AI Holiday Ads Are Actually Brilliant Marketing

Were Coca-Cola’s controversial AI holiday ads executed perfectly? That’s subjective. But did they drive conversation? Reinforce brand presence? Own a cultural moment? In short, do exactly what a holiday ad] campaign is designed to do? Absolutely.

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November 24, 2025

Separating AI Fact from Fiction: Why 95% of AI Marketing Pilots Fail and What the Other 5% Are Doing Differently

MIT research shows 95% of AI marketing pilots fail. Emily Cohen, who's led marketing and innovation for billion-dollar brands, shares what the remaining 5% are doing differently.

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November 14, 2025

The Economics of Advertising Are Broken. 5 Insights on What Enterprise Brands Can Do About It.

CPA, ROAS, CPM. Over the past 5 years, efficiency has declined 50%. 5 insights for marketing leaders trying to reverse the crisis brought about by the trillion dollar advertising industry.

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Articles
November 13, 2025

Marketing Transformation in an AI Era: How Wyndham’s Head of Loyalty and Engagement Applies a Banker’s Discipline to Martech Decisions

Discover how Mike Shiwdin uses his Wall Street background to evaluate enterprise marketing AI capable of delivering value for Wyndham’s 120+ million loyalty program members.

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Articles
November 12, 2025

Leading Transformation at the Speed of Culture: CMOs on What Actually Works

Advertising Week New York Session Recap: Brooks, Alaska Airlines, goop & GM marketing executives share their frameworks for moving fast when stakes are high and resources are limited.

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November 5, 2025

Separating AI Fact from Fiction: The Marketing Leader's Playbook for 2026

A candid conversation between Adora CEO Marco Matos and Emily Cohen, Head of Global Innovation at Pernod Ricard about moving from testing AI to achieving real impact by keeping humans front-and-center.

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October 20, 2025

The AI-Native Performance Marketing Engine That Puts Brands Back in Control | Advertising Week New York Session

Twenty years inside Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Pinterest revealed a fundamental truth: performance marketing is broken for brands. With advantages flowing to walled gardens, advertisers are left with fragmented tools and limited control. Join Adora founder Marco Matos as he shares his insider pers

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October 20, 2025

Data-Driven Loyalty and Engagement in an AI Era: A Conversation with Wyndham | Advertising Week New York Session

Marketing leaders face mounting pressure to deliver personalized experiences at scale while navigating an overwhelming landscape of AI-powered solutions. How do you cut through the hype to achieve real transformation? A conversation with Michael Shiwdin, Wyndham's Group VP of Guest Engag

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October 20, 2025

Leading Transformation at the Speed of Culture: CMOs on What Actually Works | Advertising Week New York Session

Modern consumer expectations don't wait for enterprise transformation timelines. While traditional change management moves in years and quarters, cultural shifts happen in weeks and hours, creating an unprecedented challenge for today's most iconic brands. A conversation with marketing executives fr

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Podcasts
October 9, 2025

AW360 Live - Marco Matos, CEO

AW360 features thought-leadership interviews and conversations with the best and brightest in the industry.

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Articles
October 8, 2025

Fortune 500 Brands Double Return on Ad Spend

With seed funding from Village Global, a firm backed by luminaries including Reid Hoffman, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, the AI-native startup's founding customers—Alaska Airlines, Brooks Running, Servco, and others—collectively achieved 2x returns and 10x faster launches.

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Press
October 7, 2025

Seattle tech vets Marco Matos and Kabir Shahani rethink marketing for big brands with new AI startup

Adora, a new Seattle-based marketing technology startup co-founded by former Pinterest executive Marco Matos and serial entrepreneur Kabir Shahani, emerged from stealth with a platform designed to help enterprise brands create and measure marketing content faster and more intelligently using AI.

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October 3, 2025

Adora Launch Video

Adora is the AI-native performance marketing engine that gives enterprise brands direct control over the inputs that drive their results.

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