We just ended Q1 of 2016, and now we’re into the “Day” promotional spike season centered on Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Graduation Day, etc. What we saw over the holiday and in Q1 was a concerted shift in use, practice and engagement across the board — but many of these shifts have upstream and downstream impacts on how we think of marketing today.
Dust and stains remain unavoidable adversaries for consumers worldwide.
Humor is one of the riskiest bets in advertising.
Programmatic advertising continues to become more sophisticated, and spending via the media buying technique is growing, albeit at a decreasing pace. In our latest US programmatic forecast, eMarketer predicts that this year, more than two-thirds of all digital display advertising will be purchased programmatically.
More than half of smartphone users surveyed for the 2016 Accenture Screenager Report are dissatisfied with their mobile experience and are ready to switch mobile providers, according to the new report by Accenture.
Sometimes in marketing and advertising you have to put out a question and admit that you’re not the best-placed person to answer it, but it’s worth asking all the same. As Samsung is crowned the most advertised brand on British television for March with 2486 ad minutes across 3,535 spots, is it only me wondering, is that a good thing? Or put it another way, the question I routinely drive my family mad with — what on earth has happened to frequency capping?
República announced the appointment of Anthony Bianco as executive vice president and general manager, a newly created position to manage the agency.
The insight behind the campaign is very similar to the brand’s promise, “Authentic Mexican Flavors. The daring campaign makes reference to the brand’s Mexican origns with a risky tone that breaks through the clutter.
The campaign, created by Y&R Miami and produced by Paraná Films, Vaporpost and Mokoh Music, features a long-form online film showing the reactions from patrons at a bar bathroom who are faced with the reflections of Kris Caudilla, a convicted drunk driver currently serving 15 years for vehicular manslaughter in a Florida prison.
Anomaly announced that Omar Quiñones has joined the agency as Group Strategy Director
Similar to the way online advertisers measure and optimize their ads on-the-fly, CPG marketers can now measure and improve their retail and product performance with an unprecedented level of accuracy.
Tribes were best explained in author Seth Godin’s 2008 book of the same name, when he described them plainly as “any group of people, large or small, who are connected to one another, a leader, or an idea.” By this definition, everyone you know is a participant in countless tribes.
And one of the challenges of change is to filter what is happening now from what is important. This is a challenge we face in our everyday lives (I want to check “Clash of Clans” now, but getting my weekly MediaPost contribution written is important!). It is a challenge we — people in the marketing ecosystem — face all the time.
The 2016 season fror Major League Baseball’s Spanish-language campaign “AQUÍ” (literally, “HERE”) showcases how Latino players have put their mark on the game both on and off the field.
A large majority of Americans seek extra knowledge for personal and work-related reasons. Digital technology plays a notable role in these knowledge pursuits, but place-based learning remains vital to many and differences in education and income are a hallmark of people’s learning activities
By Gonzalo López Martí – Creative director, etc. / LMMIAMI.COM
NBCUniversal Hispanic Group announced, “Movimiento” a social-first movement based on CultureFirst™– a first-of-its-kind report on U.S. Latinos from NBCUniversal’s consumer insights practice, The Curve Report, in collaboration with Telemundo – research findings exposing the next generation of multicultural storytellers, artists, filmmakers, social media stars and more.
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.
Fast-moving digital technology has driven almost continuous change in attitudes, behavior and habits, and this has been hugely disruptive for marketing. However the technologies that set the parameters for connected consumer behavior are no longer new.
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.
