Pockets of Growth: Latin America [REPORT]

Despite the economic challenges, the middle class is growing and there are more people with high disposable incomes. Additionally, younger generations are growing and consumers are looking to be more health conscious and maintain their current lifestyles.

Creative Professionals Trapped in an Echo Chamber

According to new research, the echo chamber created when like-minded people self-segregate and embrace information and ideas that support their opinions and beliefs is not only solidifying polarized views in society, but also impeding creativity.

Why advertising needs to make a lasting impression

As you may know by now Kantar Millward Brown has published a new report titled, ‘Make a Lasting Impression’. Implicit in the report title is that idea that making a lasting impression is a good thing, something that advertisers should be aiming to do. But why is making a lasting impression a good thing?  by Nigel Hollis

10 Best Tools for Building a Shopper Marketing Program

Establishing a shopper marketing program can be incredibly difficult for organizations both big and small. But with these ANA tools and templates, available exclusively to ANA members, marketers can make their shopper marketing programs faster, easier, and more efficient for everyone involved.  By Arielle Feger, associate manager, marketing knowledge center

BARU launches ATTUNE Insights

BARU Marketing + Media, an integrated marketing and media agency, has launched a new consulting division, ATTUNE Insights.

HipLatina releases Luxury Marketing to Bicultural Latinas [REPORT]

HLC Media announces the release of insights from a survey of nearly 400 women from HipLatina’s acculturated audience of upscale Latinas.  The subjects include attitudes about how they see themselves, preferred language for communication and content consumption, top social media channels and frequency, types of shareable content, and relationships with premium brands.

Has Anything Changed Since ANA’s Report On Media Transparency? Why, Yes!

While I  agree that marketers probably could do more, I take issue with the tone of this and other industry reactions to the one-year anniversary that not much has changed. From working directly with some of the largest advertisers in the world, I can tell you that a LOT has changed.  by Maarten Albarda

Underlying growth in global adspend strengthens in 2017 [REPORT]

Global adspend will grow 4.2% to US$559bn in 2017, according to Zenith’s new Advertising Expenditure Forecasts. That’s down from 4.8% growth in 2016. However, 2016 was a ‘quadrennial year’, and benefited from extra adspend stimulated by the US elections, Summer Olympics in Rio and the football championships in Europe, making the annual comparisons tougher for 2017.

Pseudoscience and post truth. Part 2

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

  • What is science?
  • In the marketing/advertising/public relations biz we know very well how science can be manipulated and packaged to forward one-sided arguments.

Inspiring Great Creative

You can be the kind of client who inspires agencies to greater creative heights. Though it may be hard to believe, with work, you can become a client so good that agency folks will compete to be assigned to your account. It isn’t easy, but it is possible. To get there, you must first master these five important skills.  By Jane Maas, ANA Faculty

Have marketers forgotten how advertising works?

The misapprehension is that closing the gap between advertising exposure and purchase occasion is a good thing. The whole ‘marketing in the moment’ trend is based on the idea that if you can reach someone during the shopping process then your advertising will stand more chance of influencing the sale. There are a couple of reasons why this idea is flawed.  by Nigel Hollis

Why recommendations from experts carry more weight [REPORT]

For some time, marketers have suspected that certain opinions matter more than others when it comes to swaying consumer’s buying habits. Influence is far from a level playing field, but it isn’t necessarily for the reasons you might expect—fame, fortune and celebrity status.

How Brands Can Survive in the Future

There is a revolution occurring and it’s not of the political sort. Brand loyalty is a thing of the past, retail doors are closing at an alarming rate, and power and influence have shifted into the hands of consumers, who now have the ability to take down a brand or a retailer in 140 characters or less.

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