Kenny Mitchell’s Playbook for Digital Innovation

Kenny Mitchell likes to keep Gatorade’s marketing at the top of its game. As head of consumer engagement, he oversees Gatorade’s integrated marketing efforts, including advertising, branded content, digital, social media, and public relations.  By Molly Knol, senior manager, committees and conferences at ANA

Activate Sponsorships, Don’t Settle

You did it! You decided to sponsor a team, arena or player in a sport that supports your company’s goals, indexes highly in your target market or is simply your CEO’s favorite past time. Now what?

Understanding How Macro And Micro Forces Influence Marketing

B2C and B2B marketers must look at both the macro and micro forces that are shaping the behavior of their audiences along with the increasingly rapid pace of technological change to understand how to drive interesting and exciting discoveries and innovations in almost every personal, business, and public policy arena.  By KaonFab / Kaon Interactive

The Future of Advertising or Whatever We’re Going to Call It [WHITEPAPER]

In this opinion piece, the author speculates on the future of advertising. Arguing that the challenge of predicting the future lies mainly in the lack of an acceptable definition of the field, the author solves that problem by developing a set of postulates to create boundaries for the theory and practice of the discipline.  By Don Schultz – Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

Los Angeles Rams on KWKW 1330 AM/ESPN Deportes

The Los Angeles Rams have reached an exclusive rights agreement selecting KWKW 1330 AM/ESPN Deportes as their official Spanish language flagship radio station. The agreement includes the broadcasts of all preseason, regular season, and postseason games.

Guidelines For Achieving Media Transparency [REPORT]

Marketers should require media agencies to be fully transparent to elevate trust and restore confidence in the client/agency partnership, according to a wide-ranging set of recommendations released \ by the ANA (Association of National Advertisers) and Ebiquity/FirmDecisions.  A key recommendation was that clients require their agencies to disclose all potential conflicts of interest and allow thorough audits of the agency, its parent company, affiliates, and subsidiaries to ensure full transparency and contract compliance.

TV Outperforms Digital Platforms in Viewer Ad Attention & Recall

The study, conducted by Hub Entertainment Research, was designed to compare viewing of TV shows and advertising across screens to determine whether engagement and recall differ among platforms, and to identify the drivers that have the greatest impact on the viewing experience.

Three Mistakes of the Marketing Fire Swamp

Like in the movie, the marketing Fire Swamp also has three terrors which must be avoided in order to succeed in your marketing quest.  By Mark McNeilly, ANA Faculty

Ad Agencies: A Few Hispanics Just Won’t Do

Hispanic marketing is challenging. Believe me, we have been doing it for 15 years. Effective Hispanic marketing requires an integrated team that not only possesses the skills to execute standard marketing principles, but also a deep understanding of the complex and dynamic Hispanic consumer.  By Lee Vann / Capture Group

How to Write Creative Briefs That Actually Inspire Creativity [INSIGHT]

Among all the difficult tasks that face modern marketers, writing an effective creative brief has to be near the top of the list. Creative briefs need to synthesize complex ideas into clear direction that focuses the creative team on the job to be done.  By Jane Maas, ANA Faculty

“Experience economy” is the future of retail

A new report from GfK examines the co-evolution of innovative fashion and lifestyle stores alongside the increasingly significant “experience economy”. It identifies four key trends which can mitigate against the currently sinking retail share in private consumption that is prevalent in mature Western retail markets.

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