Global ad market strengthens

Global advertising expenditure will grow 4.4% this year to reach US$539bn, ahead of the 4.1% previously forecast in June, according to Zenith’s new Advertising Expenditure Forecasts. Advertising expenditure will then expand by 4.5% in 2017 and 4.6% in 2018 – up from the previous growth forecasts for both years, which were 4.3% and 4.4% respectively. By 2018 global advertising expenditure will total US$589bn, US$4bn more than forecast in Ju

2016 U.S. Mobile App Report

Digital media time in the U.S. continues to increase – growing more than 50 percent in the past three years, with nearly 90 percent of that growth directly attributable to the mobile app.

2016 Pinterest Media Consumption Study [REPORT]

Ahalogy has released its third annual Pinterest Media Consumption Study, a follow-up to its first-of-its-kind research from 2014—which has been downloaded by thousands of marketing industry professionals and influencers.

The Road to the ANA Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Conference

There are only a few weeks left before the ANA Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Conference, presented by Time Inc. kicks off Oct. 9-11 in Los Angeles, Calif. Jennifer Lashua, a featured speaker at the conference, will present about Intel’s Diversity in Technology Initiative. Read on to learn more about what she’ll be sharing during her presentation, why multicultural marketing is so important in today’s marketplace, and what she sees as the future of multicultural marketing.  By Crystal Albanese, senior manager of committees and conferences at ANA

The New Normal In Agency-Client Relationships [INSIGHT]

For reasons you will understand, I can’t go into the details of the landmark solution that was engineered for McDonald’s with Omnicom. It also won’t surprise you that some of the peanut gallery commentary and assumptions were incorrect.  But what I can talk about is what I think the industry can learn from the recent “big” pitches. Let’s call that the new normal.

Marketers Turn to Algorithms to Improve Attribution

The growing field of marketing attribution is getting some much-needed help from the world of software. Algorithmic attribution, a more software-driven approach to marketing attribution, is leaving behind traditional “last-touch” and “first-touch” attribution models in favor of sophisticated computer-generated statistical models that help companies better optimize media spending and consumer targeting.

The end of tokenism? Part 2

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

  • My columns have been known to follow a certain literary brand of free-associative stream of consciousness.
  • An idiosyncratic yet enthralling litany of loosely connected lofty thoughts, eye-opening factoids, saucy snark, playful mischief, whimsical one-liners, devil-may-care invective, off-of-left-field bon mots and non sequiturs.
  • The good news?
  • No libel lawsuits so far.
  • This particular op-ed you’re kindly consuming today sorta takes the free-wheeling genre to an extreme.
  • Please read on at your own risk.

Digital Ad Spend to dominate growth in 2017 [REPORT]

Carat published its updated forecasts for worldwide advertising expenditure, showing a positive outlook for the global advertising market in 2016, set to continue in 2017 powered by the ongoing growth of Digital*.

If Your Category is Too Crowded, Expand It with Demand-Driven Innovation [INSIGHT]

To state the obvious, brand managers spend their days looking for ways to grow their brands—and today they have more tools at their disposal than ever before. The challenge of media fragmentation matched with the opportunity provided by big data have come together to give brand managers the ability to target specific “micro” audiences with more tailored messaging, resulting in more efficient growth.  By Martin Moore, VP, Nielsen Innovation Practice

Putting Your Money Where Your Heart Is

For Eric Reynolds and his team at Clorox, diversity has been a cornerstone of their efforts to create teams that help keep the company and its brands vibrant. “We set ambitious goals for attracting, retaining, and developing diverse talent,” says Reynolds, CMO at the Clorox Co. “We believe that diverse, robust teams create better strategies and ideas, and certainly more exciting creative.”  By Crystal Albanese, senior manager of conferences and committees at ANA

Why Targeting Hispanics Online Is Worth The Money

Last month, CPG giant and the world’s largest advertiser Procter & Gamble declared that they would buy highly targeted Facebook ads less often. P&G will continue to invest heavily in Facebook advertising, but found that “targeting to super-specific audiences was expensive but didn’t result in a big difference to its business.”  By Lee Vann / Capture Group

Will the Ad Revolution Be Televised? [REPORT]

Television advertising faces a critical moment of transition. Digital media and, in particular, digital video channels are becoming first options for consumers—and for marketers that increasingly expect television to deliver targeting and measurement capabilities similar to digital.  By Charlie Kim and Danny Hong

MillerCoors introduces Zumbida

MillerCoors is releasing Zumbida, a beverage inspired by traditional Mexican aguas frescas with a kick, or toque de piquet

Nearly 1 in 10 Businesses With Employees Are New

Among the 5.4 million U.S. firms with paid employees, 481,981, or 8.9 percent, had been in business for less than two years in 2014, according to findings from the U.S. Census Bureau’s inaugural Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs.

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