The Creative Intelligence Signal: Your Earliest Insight Into Competitive Trends & Market Shifts
The Creative Intelligence Signal webinar, hosted by MediaRadar's Karisa Schroeder and team, provides data-driven insights into 2025 advertising trends across major verticals, demonstrating how brands use creative intelligence to detect early competitive signals and market shifts, with additional resources including a downloadable PDF and an upcoming webinar on CTV advertising strategies.
The Creative Intelligence Signal: Your Earliest Insight Into Competitive Trends & Market Shifts
The Creative Intelligence Signal: Your Earliest Insight Into Competitive Trends & Market Shifts explores the latest creative trends across major verticals and identifies how brands are signaling strategic shifts through their advertising. Learn how creative intelligence can help you spot market changes earlier and respond with greater speed and confidence.
Hosted By
Karisa Schroeder
Director, Product Marketing
Karisa is the Director of Product Marketing at MediaRadar, where she leads go-to-market strategies to launch and scale new products and solutions. With expertise in marketing intelligence, data marketplaces, DaaS, and AI-powered insights, she helps brands and agencies deliver connected customer experiences, focusing on creative, competitive, and sports advertising intelligence to drive measurable growth.
Presented By
- Ed Burciu — Principal Product Manager
- Alyssa Olsson — CSM | QSR, CPG, Finance
- Lauren Metzger — Client Partner, Brands | Auto, Telecom
- Andrew Ahiakpor — Sales Director | QSR, Travel/Hospitality
The 2025 Advertising Rewind
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From breakout creative to category-defining spend, this data-backed rewind uncovers the patterns, pivots, and competitive signals that advertising in 2025.
The Creative Intelligence Signal: Your Earliest Insight Into Competitive Trends & Market Shifts
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Coming March 19th
State of the Industry: Video Everywhere—Winning in the New Era of CTV
CTV is rapidly converging with linear, digital video, and social, and this webinar will break down the latest ad spend, category momentum, and go-to-market shifts.
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- Media Agency
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