Facebook looks Beyond the Social Media part of its Business

Facebook is no longer positioning itself as just a social media solution. Carolyn Everson, Facebook’s vice president of global marketing solutions, spoke with eMarketer’s Rimma Kats about the key role social advertising and real-time marketing play for the company’s clients, as well as how mobile is constantly opening up opportunities.

Digital adoption in Mexico reaches Wider Audience

For several years, young users with disposable income who were typically males were the dominant demographic using the internet in Mexico, and evidence points to that same group as the typical early adopters of new technologies and activities such as instant messaging, social media and ecommerce.

Building Relationships with Content Marketing

My last post introduced the concept of Responsive Relationship Marketing: the practice of listening first and communicating subsequently, allowing segmentation and tailoring to emerge dynamically.

Not All Attempts To Do Good Do Well

It’s that time of the year when all the marketing world is awash in its usual sea of pink, it seems like a good time to ask why so much cause-related branding has so little emotional clout. No matter how well planned, breast-cancer pink (not to mention save-the-environment green or prostate-protecting blue) has often become invisible to cause-bombarded consumers.

impreMedia adds to Team

impreMedia confirmed the appointment of Hernando Ruiz-Jiménez, Executive Vice President and General Manager, East Division and Damián Mazzotta, General Manager, West Division.  Juan Varela also has been tapped as the new Content Director.  All three join impreMedia’s Executive Committee and report directly to Francisco Seghezzo, COO.

Grasping The Mindset Of The Next Generation

The Labor Department released its delayed Jobs Report on Monday, announcing that American employers added 148,000 jobs in September, well below the forecast of 180,000.  For the youth of America, transitioning into adulthood has become more delayed and harder to reach – a reality that will result in a lasting impact on the country’s society and economy, and play into the “lost generation” that many economists have identified for millennials.

Customer Experience: “Satisfied is Not Enough”

Talk about connectivity! Nowadays, consumers are able to touch brands in all manners of ways. Whether it’s through a Website, smart phone, tablet, call center or retail location, the times, places and manners in which brands can make an impression – satisfactory, neutral or unsatisfactory – are infinitesimal and ever-evolving.

Focus Groups: In Search of Cultural Meaning [INSIGHT]

A focus group is not a question and answer session.  For that you can simply interview people individually in person or on the phone.  The focus group is a focused discussion to understand how people think and feel about ideas.  By Felipe Korzenny, Ph.D.

State of the Economy is Impacting Holiday Shopping Plans

Two thirds (66%) of consumers report that the state of the economy will have some impact on their holiday shopping this year, including four in ten (41%) who say that it will motivate them to seek out bargains and coupons this holiday season, according to a new poll of over 1,000 adults conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs on behalf of Offers.com.

When The Future Arrives, Will You Be Ready?

We talk all the time about what the future will look like, and this past week I heard some fascinating conjecture about the future of smart devices and the “Internet of things” during a jaunt across the pond to London for an IAB UK event.  That kind of discussion is what fuels most of us in this business because we feed on the promise and excitement of what’s coming. But the question remains whether or not each of us will be ready for it when it arrives. To embrace the future requires a change in behavior, and that’s not always easy. 

The Measurement Problem

It is a paradox that measurement, a discipline so predicated on objectivity, can  sometimes be so subjective.

Millennials and Hispanics Fuel Private Label Growth [INSIGHT]

In our July 25th e-newsletter, we talked about how the lingering effects of the Great Recession have opened a new era in U.S. society we call Societal Reset, as consumers adjust their behaviors to meet more realistic economic expectations. One marker in many food categories is the growing appeal of Private Label brands (i.e., store brands) across several demographic segments.

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