Unleashing The Mobile Shopper

As data continues to demonstrate that the path to purchase increasingly runs through smartphones and tablets, how do we optimize visuals, message and conversion mechanics within mobile video to make the environment ultra-shoppable? 

Millennial Parents: Everything Old Is New Again [INSIGHT]

Millennial parents, like everyone in their generation, are enthusiastic consumers of social media and adept multitaskers. However, when it comes to education and entertainment, there’s an even more-important friend for these families: television.

Why Big Marketing Data Does Not Help Marketing

One thing is clear: My law on big marketing data still stands as much today as when I first published it in March of 2013. It reads: “As the amount of marketing data increases, the marketer’s understanding of all available data decreases at an equal rate.”

Film Diversity Stays Stable [REPORT]

The Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative at USC Annenberg released a study demonstrating that diversity on screen falls far below that of the U.S. population. The study found that individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups comprise just over a quarter (26%) of all speaking characters.

What’s In Store for Stores? [REPORT]

Even though most of retailers’ current growth is coming from digital channels, shoppers continue to visit stores – and will for many years to come.  Their demand for a more relevant store shopping experience, however, has retailers asking “How can we rejuvenate the in-store experience?” in order to return stores to their rightful place in the retail ecosystem.

How Consumers Search for Products on Desktop, Tablet and on Smartphones

Local Corporation is a local advertising technology company that connects consumers and businesses through products and services such as Local.com and Krillion, a local shopping platform aggregating data from 120,000 stores. Chairman and CEO Fred Thiel spoke with eMarketer’s Yory Wurmser about mobile search and the evolution of retailing.

Strong Demand for NextRadio

Smartphone owners are highly interested in NextRadio, the new app that allows consumers to listen to local radio stations using the FM chips already installed in their phones, according to a new national study releasedby media research firm Coleman Insights and its knowDigital division.

By 2030 U.S. Standard of Living Could Decline to 2000 Level

According to Accenture, the U.S. standard of living is in danger of declining by 9 percent by 20301 – back to the level it was in 2000 – due to three major economic threats: an aging population, lower workforce participation and a flat or declining labor productivity growth rate.

Millennials have interesting Regional Differences [INFOGRAPHIC]

Many marketers covet Millennials, conducting extensive research on what makes these consumers tick and to better understand their personas. CivicScience recently took a different approach in researching this demographic group, to drum up some fresh insights about our beloved 18-34 year olds. We wanted to see if there are any regional differences that are noteworthy, so we mined our InsightStore for anything that bubbled up.

The Modern Man Is The Modest Man

What defines luxury to a man 2015? Is it a Rolex and a private jet, or the ability to travel the world and gain life experiences?

Blue Moon Brewing Company introduces Cinnamon Horchata Ale

Blue Moon’s Cinnamon Horchata Ale was created by Keith Villa, founder and head brewmaster at Blue Moon Brewing Company. Villa sought inspiration from his Mexican heritage to create the unfiltered ale that delivers a clean cinnamon flavor.

Opportunities For Global Expansion of Programmatic Expertise [REPORT]

Virtually all large American publishers (98%) are now pursuing programmatic marketing strategies at home, but fewer—72 percent—have moved to deploy the same in support of their audience development efforts abroad. Despite this current discrepancy, international publishers active in this burgeoning market trend intend to neutralize the deployment gap over the next two years, according to a recent survey and whitepaper from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and Winterberry Group released, “Going Global: Programmatic Audience Development Around the World.”

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