What Your Agency Needs To Know About Opportunities In The Metaverse

by Mark Duval – The Duval Partnership Most people still have only a vague idea of what the metaverse is — and this shallow understanding only seems to feed the sense of urgency and fear of missing out on opportunities in the metaverse. “…in just a few months, the metaverse has gone from a term … Read more

The Changing Face of Media Consumption [REPORT]

In the modern digital world, on average US adults spend 8 hours a day with digital media – more than they do sleeping. Increasingly, marketers need to understand a new, omnichannel consumer and reach people in the many places they engage — including booming channels like streaming TV, ecommerce and more. Challenges linked to targeting … Read more

2022 Digital media trends: Toward the metaverse [REPORT]

This year’s Digital media trends survey revealed that media companies in the United States are now feeling more turbulence from the deeper currents shaping consumer behavior. After 15 years of growth, streaming video on-demand (SVOD) services have successfully unbundled video, lowered costs to consumers, and ignited fierce competition among providers. Top SVOD services are consolidating … Read more

Why Are Some Marketers Still Lost In Translation?

By Isaac Mizrahi – Co-President of ALMA One of the aspects of my career I like the most is the opportunity to mentor young professionals, and a few days ago, I received a request from someone asking for my advice. She has been asked to help her employer, an ad agency, translate a creative idea … Read more

Management-Model Innovation: How Marketing Can Save the World

Marketing can save the world. I believe this is true. But how? By pushing organizations, from the inside, to innovate with management models that aim to build social equity and improve the environment, while still measuring and achieving profitability. I have come to believe that efforts in these three dimensions – social, environmental, and economic … Read more

What is an effective frequency for advertising?

By Nigel Hollis Let’s be clear up front, the answer to the question posed in the title is it depends. The frequently used rules of thumb will be frequently wrong because the specifics of advertising objective, media channel, and product category make them so. But there are guidelines to be observed and there are myths … Read more

Inflation? Brands need empathy and consumer understanding

Inflation worries consumers because their income won’t buy as much. It worries businesses because it squeezes their margins. The first thing to recognize is that brands cannot promote their way out of trouble. Starting a price war erodes margins faster, re-educates consumers about where the price point should be in a category, and immediately destroys … Read more

FACE, HIGHEST CUBAN-AMERICAN RECOGNITION, GOES TO ADVERTISING INDUSTRY LEADER DAISY EXPÓSITO-ULLA.

FACE (Facts About Cuban Exiles) handed its 2022 Awards in Miami, at the Coral Gables Country Club this morning, where the highly respected organization honored advertising industry leader Daisy Expósito-Ulla; nationally recognized financial consulting, accounting and litigation business figure Antonio “Tony” Argiz; and publisher-philanthropist, attorney Alberto Ibargüen. Expósito-Ulla, Chair/CEO of d expósito & Partners and … Read more

Women Are More Likely to Consider Buying from Brands with Good Track Records on DEI

Brands today are keenly focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives both internally—with strategies to ensure a more equitable and diverse workforce—and externally, with consumer-facing initiatives to create products and advertising that are more inclusive of a diverse America. And a big part of America’s diversity is female. Women’s History Month serves as a reminder … Read more

The U.S Ad Industry Stages a Remarkable Comeback from Covid-19

Lockdowns during the height of the pandemic were devastating to the U.S. ad industry, as they were for the economy and society as a whole. But advertising has made a remarkable recovery with growth now nearly in line with spend projections from before the emergence of Covid-19. Standard Media Index (SMI) estimates that the first … Read more

The CMO Survey: The latest results [REPORT]

The 28th edition of The CMO Survey examines the issues top of mind for marketers including the latest focus for marketing activities, spending, jobs, and performance. The latest edition of The CMO Survey features responses from 320 senior marketing executives on the issues top of mind for marketing leaders and stakeholders. From marketing spending and … Read more

Today’s Hottest Films Prove to Be Culturally Relevant with Multicultural Audiences, Yet Still Fail to Be Recognized by the Academy Awards

ANA’s AIMM (Alliance for Inclusive and Multicultural Marketing) released their first ever Oscar’s Inclusion & Relevancy Report analyzing how the nominated films resonated with traditionally underrepresented audiences. The research draws upon Oppside’s analysis of accurate cultural portrayals in the movies gathered by its Cultural Insights Impact Measure (CIIM™). Learnings indicate that while the film industry … Read more

Annual Retail Sales to Grow Between 6 % and 8 %

The National Retail Federation issued its annual forecast, anticipating that retail sales will grow between 6 percent and 8 percent to more than $4.86 trillion in 2022. The announcement was made during NRF’s annual State of Retail & the Consumer virtual event where retail industry leaders discussed the strength of the consumer economy and the … Read more

How to make marketing change management more successful

by Anton Buchner This post is by Anton Buchner, a senior consultant with TrinityP3. Anton is one of Australia’s leaders in data-driven marketing. Helping navigate through the bells, whistles and hype to identify genuine marketing value when it comes to technology, digital activity, and the resulting data footprint. There has been an incredible amount of … Read more

Modern marketing dilemmas: Where does performance marketing meet brand building?

By Mary Kyriakidi This series seeks to answer some of the most pertinent questions (or dilemmas) of the modern marketer. Questions that can’t be answered with a simplistic yes or no, but require investigative research, critical thinking and insatiable curiosity. Because “the answer is never the answer” as countercultural novelist Ken Kesey used to say. … Read more

5 Steps to Restructure Your Marketing Organization [REPORT]

Many marketing leaders are still feeling the long-lasting impacts from the pandemic, which has forced their organizations to be more agile and creative, even with restricted budgets. For some, restructuring can cause pain and unexpected challenges, but you can ensure your team is informed and empowered at every stage of re-org by following our 5 … Read more

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