The Future of Agencies: Blurred Lines and Reimagined Relationships [REPORT]
Advertising, PR, creative, digital, and full-service agencies have played a crucial role in the marketer’s toolkit for decades. But the landscape is changing. More than ever, overlap exists between agencies and consultancies, in-house and external agencies, and the roles of humans and automation. ANA Marketing Futures gathered perspectives from marketers and subject matter experts to understand how marketers view the future of agency and how its trajectory impacts marketing decision making.
The American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s), appointed Michelle Headley / EVP operations and production at Alma to its national board of directors, 
Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Transformative Mega Trends in the United States through 2030, examines the complex intersections of social, education, work, political, economic, and urbanization trends set to converge in the next decade.
When it comes to spending on traditional “linear” TV, many advertisers have set their strategy to autopilot, letting their agencies make decisions and collect the data. In a recent survey of CMOs, optimizing their broadcast-TV spend didn’t even make their top-10 list of priorities.
Ever since early man emerged from his cave, invented fire and wondered aloud how he was going to spread the word of his wondrous invention to others, those responsible for doing the word-spreading have considered themselves hard done-by. By Brian Jacobs / The Cog Blog
The New York Latino Film Festival (NYLFF), the premier Urban Latino film event in the country, sets its return as the only event of its kind in the New York area this year. With a dynamic line up of films and industry-leading conversations planned for Hispanic Heritage Month 2021, the festival team has selected Miami-based seasoned sponsorship and talent management consultancy, Talento Unlimited, to lead and manage corporate partnerships and branded activations.
As an agency laser focused on the domestic Latino audience, and working exclusively with large companies, we are often asked our opinion on the many terminologies which describe this demographic. Social values and standards of decorum continually shift, so it’s important for organizations to stay at the forefront of respectful language and commonly-held practices. So I’ll give it a shot to provide a concise overview of the terms, as well as our point of view on how companies should proceed. By Mike Valdes-Fauli / Pinta Agency
As part of the launch of The Visibility Project, P&G and GLAAD also announced findings from the “LGBTQ Inclusion in Advertising and Media, Advertiser and Agency Perspectives” study.
NBCUniversal, MAGNA, and Identity revealed Deconstructing Diversity Today, a new research study that explores the full spectrum of diversity, and the role that brands play in acknowledging and amplifying cultural identification.
Six-in-ten Americans say they are very familiar with their origins. Black and Hispanic adults feel more connected to roots than White adults
Media KPIs have been identified by the ANA Media Leadership Growth Council as one of its areas of initial interest due to the direct connection between KPIs and business results.
In our 4th Update on then theme “When Black is LOUDER than Brown, we find that certain mainstream multinational agencies and buying services have created special PROJECTS to direct dollars towards Black Owned media companies. The count is Dentsu, IPG and now GroupM. Black activist have either done a good job shaming these companies and their clients to at least concede some effort or just to put forth Shut UP efforts. By Gene Bryan / HispanicAd.
WINNERS annonuced
“Nobody knows anything,” summed up William Goldman, the most successful Hollywood scriptwriter ever (he wrote 33 produced screenplays), in a memoir written at the peak of his success. “Nobody knows anything. Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what’s going to work. Every time out it’s a guess and, if you’re lucky, an educated one.” The same should be said about marketing, particularly for integrated marketing. By Michael Farmer
According to researcher Jason Dorsey, Gen Z is “the most photographed generation in the world’s history.” Gen Z members 17 and under are also the first multicultural majority generation in America as of 2020, with Hispanics being the largest multicultural segment at roughly half. Our country’s changeover to a multicultural majority continues with all persons under 35 by 2028 and all persons under 50 by 2033. By: Nancy Tellet, Research Chair, Hispanic Marketing Council (HMC)
Upland BlueVenn commissioned OnePoll to determine how and where consumers interact with brands, and if marketers are meeting their customers’ expectations. The research examines the way in which consumer-marketer interactions differ from sector to sector, and explores the top channels consumers and marketers use for various industries(and whether these align).
