How Advertising Works Today
The Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) announced the findings from its How Advertising Works research, based on over 5000 campaigns, 12 years of data, and $375B in advertising spend in 41 countries across over 100 categories.

Now that more marketers are taking technology into their own hands, it’s crucial that they stay up to date on the ever-expanding space. eMarketer’s Bryan Yeager spoke with Scott Brinker, co-founder and chief technology officer at interactive content software provider ion interactive and editor of the Chief Marketing Technologist blog, to get his latest take on what’s new and what’s changing in marketing technology.
As consumer preferences and habits for smartphone usage continue to shift, Millennials are driving the increased usage of video calling as a preferred application among smartphone users.
Telemundo announced the appointment of Mara Arakelian to Senior Vice President of Talent Management. In her role, she will lead a unified talent strategy across all divisions of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, including the Telemundo Network, Telemundo Studios, NBC UNIVERSO and the Digital platforms.
beIN SPORTS Americas has selected Y&R Miami to lead their advertising, marketing and communications efforts in the USA and Canada, effective immediately.
The Council for Research Excellence (CRE) today unveiled findings from a pair of research studies designed to help answer the question of what it means to watch TV in today’s multi-screen world. The two studies, one on concurrent platform usage and the other a longitudinal ethnography, were discussed in detail at an event in New York attended by senior media research professionals from networks, local stations, syndicators, advertisers and agencies.
The king of horoscopes, Walter Mercado, thinks you should try your luck by playing the new Money Monopoly Game at McDonald’s.
“The Local Vote 2016” is a 12-week effort designed to capture Americans’ most current political viewpoints and voting preferences within 10 individual states, two weeks prior to key primary elections – delivering unprecedented insights and value to political advertisers’ radio campaigns during a crucial decision-making time for voters.
In the late 1960s, the Fritos® brand was represented by an extremely popular cartoon named Frito Bandito, a Mexican character who spoke broken English and robbed people of their Fritos® corn chips. Although the character was a popular marketing device, critics claimed that it was offensive as it referenced the “Mexican bandit” stereotype in western movies. Under pressure from activists and Congressional hearings about ethnic stereotypes on TV, Frito Lay abandoned the cartoon around 1969.
CPG products and brand-consumer relationships are fundamentally different than any other category. CPG products are used intimately, actually going on and being ingested into customers’ bodies, arguably building and requiring a much closer connection with customers.























