Can Shopper and Brand Marketers Work Together?

The point of purchase is no longer just in-store as a result of the rise of digital marketing, and marketers are looking for new ways to create a win-win-win for brands, retailers, and shoppers.  By Kerry Breen, Sr Manager, Marketing Knowledge Center at ANA

Mapping The Right Programmatic KPIs To Your Goals

Programmatic plans require fluid budgets and adaptability. Control freaks may be tempted to pre-plan every tactic of their campaigns, but it’s better to start broad, have a thesis on what could work, observe performance, and optimize your campaign based on that data.

Payola done right: plan A & plan B.

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

  • Yes, I’ve been offered money many times to publish faux-news in my weekly op-ed.
  • Sometimes the offer is overt, awkward, insulting.
  • Sometimes it is subtle, oblique, vague.
  • Please don’t waste your time.
  • Or mine.
  • That’s not how it works, folks.

REVENUE Top Deliverable for CMOs in 2017

The new report released explores “The CMO Shift to Gaining Business Lift” and the evolving role of the CMO as a growth driver, change agent and customer experience advocate. Nearly 70 percent of more than 200 participants in the international study say there is a clear mandate or high level of expectation among their senior management teams and board members for marketing to be the growth driver and business value creator in their organizations.

Tapping the Full Potential of Mobile Advertising With the Personal Touch

With the rate of smartphone ownership in the U.S. continuing to climb, mobile has become a force to be reckoned within the world of digital advertising. While this boom is providing exciting opportunities for brands to reach many Americans, the mobile ad market’s rapid growth has raised questions as well, particularly around reaching the right consumers.

Information Overload [REPORT]

Since the 1970s, the term “information overload” has captured society’s anxiety about the growth in the production of information having potentially bad consequences for people as they struggle to cope with seemingly constant streams of messages and images. The advent of the internet, it was thought, would only exacerbate this, with the onset of ubiquitous connectivity turning information overload into something even more debilitating.

Programmatic TV Ad Buying Will Never Work [INSIGHT]

The beauty of this old-media definition of working was the proper alignment of incentives.  Whether you were a publisher or an advertiser, investing in better content produced deeper connections with consumers.  As a result, publishers made more money, and advertisers felt better about spending it.  When new-media publishers arrived, driven by the frenzy of venture capital dollars, these publishers agreed to deliver unrealistic ad revenue goals despite having no established record of “working.”

Differences Between Urban and Rural Populations

People who live in rural areas are more likely to own their own homes, live in their state of birth and have served in the military than their urban counterparts, according to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.

Digital Music Sector Mixes It Up

Radio-style services are amping up their streaming offerings to give users control over what they listen to; at the same time, streaming services are pushing to provide more programmed experiences for users, who don’t always want to create their own playlists.

Establish a Creative Development Process that Works [INSIGHT]

Successful marketers know that people engage with ideas that are meaningful so they try to create powerful, insights-based campaigns that resonate with their target audience. Achieving success isn’t easy, and game changing work can be thwarted by any number of pressures. But marketers who develop a consistent, disciplined approach to creative development increase their probability of generating stronger brand value and business performance–the ultimate success criteria.  By Ann Green – Managing Partner Creative Development Practice at Kantar Millward Brown
 

DOJ Probes Agency Commercial Production Practices

For years, the AICE — the trade group for independent post-production houses — has been loudly complaining about the ad industry practice of “check bids,” and other unfair practices utilized by Adland in the course of producing commercials for their clients. Now it appears that the U.S. Department of Justice is looking into the matter.

What Drives Data Usage?

Some say talk is cheap, but data overages sure aren’t. Exceeding the limit on a smartphone data plan is a monthly headache for many Americans. However, that doesn’t stop consumers from using their phones round-the-clock to stream their favorite TV shows, download music and hail cars. Data has now become a huge, often costly, obstacle for consumers to overcome.

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