Digital influence redefines the customer experience [REPORT]

Digital interactions influence 56 cents of every dollar spent in retail stores, totaling $2.1 trillion by the end of the year–up from 14 cents of every dollar spent in 2013, according to Deloitte’s latest study, “The new digital divide: The future of digital influence in retail.”

Digital Readiness Gaps [REPORT]

For many years concerns about “digital divides” centered primarily on whether people had access to digital technologies. Now, those worried about these issues also focus on the degree to which people succeed or struggle when they use technology to try to navigate their environments, solve problems, and make decisions.

Turning the Page from Viewability: What’s Coming Next

Two-plus years on from the launch of the Viewability Guidelines for desktop display and video ads, there continues to be a great deal of discussion around viewability across the industry.  We understand the focus on this, given its importance and the difficulties that are always inherent to a shift in an industry’s currency measurements, but we also believe the debate is overly focused on analyzing the limitations of viewable impressions rather than understanding their intent.

2016 Audio Ethnic Report [REPORT]

Nielsen’s latest State of The Media: Audio Today report profiles radio’s significant national audience while also considering Black and Hispanic audiences. Combined, those two groups represent more than 73 million weekly listeners, and spend more time with radio each week than any other.

The Devaluation Of Sports Sponsorship Rights

Have you heard of Rule 40? It is a rule instituted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that regulates the rights of official sponsors and partners, and severely limits what non-sponsors can do. The official sponsors and partners are allowed to use trademarked Olympic terms, phrases, and images in their advertising. For companies that are not official Olympic sponsors or partners, certain phrases are banned, such as “Olympic,” “Rio,” “Gold,” and even “Games.”

Consumer Preferences for Incentives and Rewards

Virtual Incentives has released the first round of data from a new research study on consumer perceptions and preferences surrounding incentives. The study, formally called “Incentive Research Paper” also explored how the incentive itself impacts brand perceptions, while studying influencers like gender, age, income levels and political affiliation.

It’s Tough to Make High-Quality Native Content

Many marketers are hopeful that native content creation will seamlessly integrate their messaging with what consumers are already reading and watching on social channels. But there are growing pains.

The end of tokenism? Part 3

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

  • Silicon Valley has nurtured a generation of people who are willing to spend $300 on a trashy tattoo yet won’t shell out a dime to read The New York Times.
  • We’ve been tamed to believe search, social, news, long distance calls, music, movies, file storage, you name it, are supposed to be free of charge.
  • Some sort of human right.
  • Who knows what we’re relinquishing in exchange.
  • Time will tell.

The Latino-Infused CPG [INSIGHT]

A few decades ago, Frito-Lay was onto something. The year was 1994 and they realized that there were a lot of Latinos in Los Angeles. They also realized that Latinos had different taste palates and over-indexed in the salty snacks category. So they decided to launch “Sabrositas,” a series of Latino-infused (Limón, Chile, etc.) line extensions for the Frito-Lay brand.  By Roberto Siewczynski – SVP, Group Director – Epsilon

Nielsen to Deliver All-Electronic Measurement to Local TV Markets in 2017 and Retire Paper TV Diaries

Nielsen announced that by mid-2017, it will provide all electronic measurement in its local television ratings across all 210 designated market areas (DMAs). Nielsen will incorporate Return Path Data from set-top boxes and other electronic measurement into local services, including the 140 TV markets currently measured by paper TV diaries. The integration of Return Path Data will pave the way for the retirement of paper TV diaries in early 2018.

PROBLEMS UNSOLVED AND A NATION DIVIDED – The State of U.S. Competitiveness 2016 [REPORT]

This report provides an overview of our findings on the evolution of the U.S. economy, the state of U.S. competitiveness in 2016, and priorities for the next President and Congress, drawing on our research and the May–June 2016 surveys of alumni and the general public.  While a slow recovery is underway, fundamentally weak U.S. economic performance continues and is leaving many Americans behind. The federal government has made no meaningful progress on the critical policy steps to restore U.S. competitiveness in the last decade or more.  By Michael E. Porter, Jan W. Rivkin, Mihir A. Desai, With Manjari Raman

The Road to the ANA Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Conference

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 committees and conferences at ANA

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