Consumer View Winter 2020 [REPORT]

Consumers’ choices in terms of where, how and why they buy are redefining retail and creating a new playbook for the industry. NRF’s Consumer View is a recurring look at the consumer forces that are shaping retail.

The Digital World in 2020 [PODCAST]

eMarketer senior analyst Jasmine Enberg and principal analysts Jillian Ryan and Yory Wurmser discuss what the digital world will look like in 2020. They then talk about Instagram’s user growth deceleration and what shoppers want from in-store associates.

2020 IAB Data-Centric Organization Report [REPORT]

This third installation of The Data-Centric Organization explores how U.S. companies are evolving their business practices and functional priorities so as to better leverage data across their advertising, marketing and other audience engagement efforts.

Opportunity for Marketers to Align ROI Perception with Reality [REPORT]

Nielsen released its Annual Marketing Report: The Age of Dissonance. The report sheds new light on how marketers perceive the effectiveness of digital and traditional channels, if their perception is driven by measurement data they can trust, and what ultimately influences budget decisions.

NGL Collective to sell Sports Partnerships for Fox Deportes

NGL Collective announced an exclusive strategic partnership with Fox Deportes to offer U.S. Latinx advertisers digital content and connection built around FOX Deportes signature sports properties and original network program properties. NGL Collective will leverage its leading Latinx digital video platform to build additional reach around FOX Deportes’ top sport properties including NFL, MLB, Liga MX, Crixus MMA, PBC Boxing, Golf and Nascar. 

Why successful brand marketers are like a great conductor

In today’s fragmented world, the successful marketer needs to align all their resources to achieve a specific objective. This requires coordination within and without the company to ensure all activities work together in harmony. But the comparison with the role of the conductor goes far beyond the need for harmony.  by Nigel Hollis

40% of Older Americans Rely Solely on Social Security for Retirement Income [REPORT]

Only a small percentage of older Americans, seven percent, receive income from Social Security, a defined benefit pension, and a defined contribution account. Retirement income from these three sources is widely considered to be the ideal situation to ensure retirement security, particularly for the middle class. Retirees with these three sources of income are far less likely to face poverty and economic hardship.

ViacomCBS Networks International reorganizes Core Leadership Team

ViacomCBS Inc. has unveiled a management restructure of its international networks division, which is intended to leverage the company’s expanded operations post-merger to drive new growth opportunities across brands in key international markets. The reorganization will simplify ViacomCBS Networks International into two brand groups and three pan-regional management hubs, reporting to David Lynn, President & CEO of ViacomCBS Networks International (VCNI).

Trujillo joins VIX to Lead U.S. Brand Partnerships

VIX, a publisher for U.S. Hispanic audiences, named Sebastian Trujillo EVP of U.S. Brand Partnerships. Trujillo brings more than twenty-five years of experience in video, revenue growth and business development, establishing strategic partnerships within the U.S. Hispanic market and Latin America. Trujillo will also provide strategic insights to support VIX’s expansion of OTT and CTV products that meet the needs of the company’s clients.

Hispanic to Latinx: The Video [VIDEO]

Today, Hispanics represent one in four 18 to 34 year olds in the US. They have origins in a variety of countries – each with their own unique culture – and are united by a common language. What else unites them?

When women lead, workplaces should listen

For years, female executives have come away from women-only leadership programs empowered to do—and ask for—more, valuing the opportunity to examine their strengths and shortcomings in the psychological safety of their peers and to use the experience as a springboard for personal development.

Augmented Retail: The New Consumer Reality

Consumers today are increasingly craving immersive, real-life experiences. But they want these experiences without foregoing time or effort. The solution? Augmented and virtual reality (A/VR) technology, coming to a “store” near you.

Your Larry Flynt moment is coming.

By Gonzalo López Martí – Creative director, etc    /    lmmiami.com

  • The social media lynching squads are coming for you.
  • Sooner or later, you or the brand/s you’re in charge of will do or say something that will trigger their wrath.
  • It is not if but when.

How do you know marketing will generate future sales?

It is easy to measure sales being made now, but if a brand is to grow must also influence people who are not yet ready to buy. It must influence people who do not yet know they want to buy the category, never mind a specific brand. So how do you know whether your marketing is likely to generate future sales?  by Nigel Hollis

Marketers Embark on the Post-Optimization Era

It’s a yawning chasm throughout the marketing terrain: 85 percent of CMOs believe that big, creative ideas that build brand and emotional connections are critical for future success — but just 54 percent say they can currently deliver on those capabilities. That’s one of the key findings from the “Make Change Real 2019 CMO Survey,” released last year by the Dentsu Aegis Network.

Dear Men: So you think you want a ‘strong, independent woman’

This blog is written for men, talking directly to men. Men who have an interest in women (whether heterosexual or bisexual).

Even more specifically, the men who say that they want a strong, independent woman. The men who find powerful, determined women sexy.

The men who write on forums that they are looking for women who pay their own way, won’t ‘rinse them’ and have their own careers and minds.

The men who say they love an intelligent, educated woman because they are ‘feisty’. Ew.

Sound like you? Sound like a man you know?

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