Many executives have come to feel that rapidly evolving brand and agency roles and responsibilities are having a negative impact on business results, creating a series of challenges.
As Nielsen pushes its “total audience” measurement system as the new currency for a hybrid TV and video advertising marketplace, some fundamental issues remain — especially the fact that Nielsen will effectively be adding many more sources of video viewing to the measured universe, and consequently, will fragment the TV/video advertising marketplace beyond anything Madison Avenue has experienced to date.
Hispanic growth in income and population across all ages will drive increases in consumer spending that will exceed the shopping totals of the millennial demographic by 2020, Morgan Stanley analysts said Monday. By Tonya Garcia / MarketWatch
Online survey among US adults ages 18 and over who work full-time in the marketing/ advertising industry. To qualify for the survey, respondents had to be decision makers/ representatives for a specific brand, or work for an agency that is responsible for making decisions on behalf of brands.
A company’s relationship with its customers is about much more than improving product ratings or decreasing wait times. Understanding the customer journey is about learning what customers experience from the moment they begin considering a purchase, and then working to make the journey toward buying a product or service as simple, clear, and efficient as possible.
Attention is the allocation of mental resources, visual or cognitive, to visible or conceptual objects. Before consumers can be affected by advertising messages, they first need to be paying attention. As Thales S. Teixeira writes in this paper, the quality of consumer attention has been falling for decades. Consumers have lost interest in the information content of ads because they can access more and better information on‐demand on the Web.
Over the past decade, U.S. Multicultural consumers drove over 100% of total economic expenditure growth, and now comprise ~50% of the Millennial and youth populations. If these are priority segments, you will find our new eBook very useful. It helps marketers evolve their strategies to succeed in an increasingly Multicultural marketplace.
Forget Mad Men. Today’s marketers are more likely to be math men and women. They plumb the depths of Big Data with advanced analytical tools. They buy and use dazzling new software—some spend more on technology in a given year than their companies’ IT departments. They are hot on the trail of marketing’s holy grail, the ability to measure return on investment (ROI) on every campaign.
HispanicAd announced the winners of the 2016 Hispanic Media Planning ‘Excelencia” Awards at the AHAA conference held in Miami, FL
Spending on brand activation marketing in the U.S. rose 5.5 percent in 2015 to more than $560 billion, accounting for almost 60 percent of advertisers’ budgets, according to a new study by the ANA (Association of National Advertisers) in partnership with PQ Media. This year, brand activation is expected to grow 6 percent, to nearly $600 billion.
The Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) announced the findings from its How Advertising Works research, based on over 5000 campaigns, 12 years of data, and $375B in advertising spend in 41 countries across over 100 categories.
Fast-moving digital technology has driven almost continuous change in attitudes, behavior and habits, and this has been hugely disruptive for marketing. However the technologies that set the parameters for connected consumer behavior are no longer new.
The report provides a retrospective view of the major shifts in cross-platform consumer behavior occurring in sectors such as TV, digital media, mobile, social media, advertising, search and e-commerce, with an eye toward what these trends mean for the year ahead.
Marketers invested $5.7 billion in Hispanic media in 2015, down 6.6% from 2014 according to the new Jack Myers TomorrowToday Hispanic Media 2016 Data and Long-Term Forecast. The MyersBizNet Hispanic media report projects marketers will increase spending 7.9% in 2016, with average annual growth of 1.3% through 2020.
The outlook for advertising revenue among Spanish-language television networks this year looks quite solid. MyersBizNet predicts a 3.7 percent increase from 2015, crossing the $2.5 billion annual revenue threshold for the first time.
Over the past year, the Advertising Research Foundation and its industry partners have conducted an investigation of how advertising works today, combining meta-analysis and projects designed to investigate specific aspects of the topic. Today we got to hear the results of analysis focused on the effectiveness of multi-channel campaigns.
New research from the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) highlights the need for a step change in the relationship between marketers and their internal insights teams.
The “2016 Planning Report – Evolving Strategic and Financial Plans for the Always-On Consumer” illustrates a surprising drop in accountability for marketing budgets. When marketers were asked to what degree their budgets must produce measurable ROI, only one in ten said 75 percent or more of their budget is accountable.
The report discusses the challenge of using traditional reach and frequency measures in advertising campaigns, and how the application of validated impressions can provide a richer, more accurate view of these measures to drive advertising effectiveness.
CMOs traditionally have focused on the big picture. They understand powerful consumer insights and seek to harness their agency partners to turn them into effective communications. There’s expectation and trust in this process. They sign off on the purchase of a box of 20 pralines but all too often what they get are three coffee creams.
