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Direct-to-Consumer [INFOGRAPHIC]

Brands old and new are participating in the direct-to-consumer model, and this graphic depicts essential stats as well as tips for getting started in this space.

Five steps to prepare your future leaders for the future of work

I was honored to participate with experts from Edelman, Catalyst and Social Global Leaders in a panel discussion at Enactus about the future of work. Our collective perspective was clear: As a result of radical technology-driven disruption, organizations and their leaders must acknowledge their profound influence on redefining how work gets done.  By Fiona Grandi

Hispanics feel Underrepresented in Beauty/Personal Grooming Advertising [REPORT]

Latinos aged 50 and older spend an average of $46 per month on beauty and personal grooming products, nearly double the $25 spent per month by the general 50-plus population. Despite spending nearly $7 billion in annual U.S. sales, 69 percent of Hispanics report feeling that the beauty and personal grooming industry treats people their age as an afterthought, a new AARP survey has found.

90% of Gen Z tired of How Negative And Divided Our Country Is Around Important Issues

Nearly nine-in-10 (87%) of Gen Zers are worried for the environment and the planet, according to the 2019 Porter Novelli/Cone Gen Z Purpose Study. The study, surveying Americans ages 14-22, examines this emerging generation’s expectations of and attitudes toward company involvement in social and environmental issues – and the actions they are willing to take to positively impact topics they care about.

Internet Advertising Revenue Report 2019 Half Year Results

Internet advertising revenues in the United States totaled $57.9 billion for the half year (“HY”) of 2019, with Q2 2019 accounting for approximately $29.9 billion and Q1 2019 accounting for approximately $28.0 billion. Revenues for HY 2019 increased 16.9% over HY 2018 over HY 2018 with revenues of $49.5 billion.

How CMOs Can Own the Customer Experience

Traditionally, organizations haven’t viewed the customer experience as a singular thing owned by one particular person or department. That’s changed, as brands have worked to put customers at the forefront—and it’s given modern CMOs new importance as owners of that experience.

Too many Marketers have Coin-Operated view of Customer [REPORT]

While marketers admit their future growth and success will rely on leveraging deeper relationships with customers, 43 percent surveyed by the CMO Council admit that their organizations identify “transactional” as being the top attribute and descriptor of their customers.

What is this brand thing anyway?

I realise that the idea of a ‘brand’ is one of those ill-defined concepts that causes endless confusion. We all use the same word and yet can assign it very different meanings. Given that a blog post is meant to stimulate discussion, I am going to propose a definition and we can see where things go from there.  by Nigel Hollis

Are Undifferentiated Media Brands Useless? The Law Says “Yes”

In Norbert Weiner’s landmark 1950 book, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society, he shares a model for the future of communications and media that is, in fact, applicable today. “Entropy,” he theorizes, “is the original sin.” It’s a tendency in the universe toward the loss of differentiation, and a failure to differentiate among multiple choices leads to chaos. To Weiner, chaos means complete stasis, where everything is so balanced that there is no differentiation of energy and effort, resulting in complete “uselessness, thus creating stasis and chaos.” Entropy is the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Understanding Connected TV

The reach of connected TV (CTV) now extends to more than half of all American homes, providing a unique set of opportunities for marketers to reach television audiences with advertising experiences that are as dynamic, interactive, and measurable as those employed in digital environments. Increasingly, marketers are looking for ways to take advantage of this expanding new medium to drive results, grow their bottom line, and deliver important KPIs in ways that traditional linear television cannot.

How CEOs Can Solve the CMO Dilemma

Like professional athletes at the mercy of team owners always looking for the next superstar, chief marketing officers appear to have the shortest tenure of any member of the C-suite. The median life span in the role was 28 months in 2018, dropping from the 31-month median tenure a year earlier, according to Spencer Stuart. While some departing CMOs are tapped for internal roles beyond marketing, such as general manager, more often than not they are shown the door and move on to their next gig.

Ad Exec Karina Dobarro On Working With Pitbull And Reaching Multicultural Audiences

Call her Ms. 305 Worldwide.  Karina Dobarro has been named Chief Strategist and the highest-ranking woman at a venture launched by Cuban-American rapper Pitbull (Armando Pérez) and Horizon Media founder and CEO Bill Koenigsberg. Named 305 Worldwide, a play on two of the musician’s nicknames (“Mr. 305” and “Mr. Worldwide”), the new marketing agency concentrates on quality storytelling for multicultural audiences.  By Court Stroud

Revenue growth management: The next horizon

Over the past decade, many consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) companies have mastered the fundamentals of pricing, promotions, assortment, and trade investment—revenue growth management’s four main elements. While that development has allowed CPGs to reliably capture value, the landscape has shifted, and the bar is rising.

Nielsen Snapshot: Hispanics and October Viewing Trends

Although Hispanic Heritage Month is officially over, TV viewing is a year-round sport and Hispanics are some of the biggest sports watchers, especially in October which, debatably, is the best month to be a sports fan.

Mimetic Theory & the suspension of disbelief

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

Last week I ranted about the so-called Mimetic Theory.*

  • Conceived by the late René Girard, an anthropologist and Stanford university professor, its premise is quite simple: it is impossible for us humans to make fully informed decisions and, therefore, we proceed to imitate other people’s behavior.
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