Marketing
Advertising Ethics in the Age of AI
A deluge of personal and societal threats — from economic inflation to misinformation online to climate change — have left consumers feeling vulnerable. And when consumers feel vulnerable, trusting the brands they engage with becomes even more important.
Differentiating skills in the AI era
AI is taking centre stage and change is in the air. The challenge for marketers is to understand what needs to change and what should stay the same.
ANA Ethics Code of Marketing Best Practices
The ANA Ethic Code of Best Marketing Practices is a framework of high-level principles, guidelines, resources and examples of ethical marketing and advertising best practices applicable to all entities engaged in marketing, advertising, and fundraising. The Code has been shaped by your peers on the ANA Ethics Code Steering Committee and is designed to be a resource to guide the industry towards ethical business practices with the overarching goal of rebuilding and maintaining consumer trust.
Latinas Leading Survey [WE need your participation]
We need less than 5 minutes of your time to answer this survey. Let’s get an XR and understand the leading roles of female professionals in the US Hispanic advertising, marketing, media, public relations and research industries.
Building a Thriving In-House Agency Environment
Often, corporate purpose and values define what a company prioritizes, but the company's culture stems from its employees' attitudes, behaviors, and interactions. When it comes to culture, it's not about talking the talk but walking the walk.
Latinas Leading Survey [WE need your participation]
We need less than 5 minutes of your time to answer this survey. Let’s get an XR and understand the leading roles of female professionals in the US Hispanic advertising, marketing, media, public relations and research industries.
Measure Up: Incremental Versus Ad-Attributed Sales
Consider a consumer searching for sunscreen in May. She may begin with a general search for products to protect against the sun. She may see an ad for a product on TikTok or Instagram, before researching, and ultimately purchasing the product, when it goes on sale from Amazon. What part of the customer journey can be ultimately attributed for her purchase?
Convenience retail media amplifies awareness and boosts further incremental sales
A new study released from Co-op has unveiled how convenience retail media not only boosts sales in Co-op, but also in surrounding grocery stores of up to fourfold the original sales conversion.
As Marketers Experiment with Gen AI, New Applications Emerge
The emergence of generative AI is the defining feature of 2023 and 2024, in both a broad cultural context as well as within the world of data-driven marketing. Initially, like many other trends, marketers gravitated towards gen AI's most apparent initial applications — copywriting, research, and image generation. But as this year unfolded, a shift occurred. Marketers began to recognize and harness less obvious applications of gen AI, marking a significant evolution that we can expect to carry forward.
What CMOs Need to Know About Agencies [VIDEO]
Razorfish’s Chief Strategy Officer Nic Chidiac spoke with Steve Olenski for The CMO Whisperer podcast to discuss the ins and outs of an agency relationship, how to effectively use AI, and what the changing role of a CMO means.
Total Wireless launches New Look
Total Wireless has unveiled a new brand look and feel, including a proprietary shade of teal developed specifically for Total, a rich blue, and bright yellow, combined with red to signify its parent company, Verizon. The distinctive color palette is designed to enhance the brand’s identity, stand out from the competition, and reflect the energy and vibrancy of the communities it serves. This new brand identity will roll out in a 360 campaign, inclusive of out-of-home, digital, and retail.
AI Is Great, But What Does It Mean I Have to Actually Do as a CMO?
You would need to have been on Mars to avoid the onslaught of news stories and startup launches in the AI space, but there remains a paucity of good perspective on the implications for marketing. Technology has become an extension of humans for many years starting with the personal computer evolving to the www and then the smartphone. AI is no different but arguably represents a more fundamental and tectonic shift as it is not purely behavioral, it is a new form of intelligence, meaning limitless applications.
2024 List of Top 100 Retailers [REPORTS]
The National Retail Federation released its annual list of the Top 100 Retailers, compiled by Kantar, a global marketing data, insight and consultancy company. The 2024 Top 100 Retailers ranks the industry’s largest companies according to domestic sales.
Agencies Should Always Act in the Clients’ Best Interest
Client/agency relationships were once predicated on the concept of a principal-agent relationship, where the agency had a fiduciary duty to act in their clients' best interest. When this concept was the accepted practice, most client/ agency agreements reinforced this expectation.
The Olympics: A Real-Time Celebration of Unity and Excellence
In a world that seems more divided than ever, there is one event that stands as a beacon of unity and excitement — the Olympics. For brands, it represents the most compelling branding opportunity a brand can want. No other television spectacle can quite compare to the Olympics. Even the Super Bowl, which dominates U.S. viewership annually, doesn't encapsulate the global camaraderie, athletic variety and purity the Olympics offers. It is a bounty of culturally diverse and awe-inspiring stories told over weeks, not just hours. And this time, those hours fall during prime watching hours.
Louis Maldonado of d expósito & Partners on Data-Driven Decisions
What will it take to have your work make it to the winners' circle? ANA's Judges' Journals features a series of Q&A sessions with leading industry executives participating on 2024 ANA Award juries. Gain insight from the judges on what they will be looking for and what makes the difference between a good versus award worthy submission. In this segment, Denise McDevitt, SVP of award programs at ANA connects with Louis Maldonado, partner and managing director at d expósito & Partners' regarding his role on the 2024 ANA Multicultural Excellence Awards Jury.
4 issues plaguing the CFO-CMO Relationship — and how to solve them
As the marketing resource paradox continues to grow ever more severe, the disconnect between the roles of the CMO and the CFO also continues to widen.
Comcast’s Central Division taps Javier Garcia as New Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Comcast has announced the appointment of Javier Garcia to its Central Division senior leadership team as the Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. In this role, Garcia will lead the Division’s sales and marketing functions, overseeing brand and product marketing, sales, and customer retention strategies for Comcast’s largest operating Division, spanning 12 states.
2023 Hispanic Content, Data & Social Report – Available for download FREE
HispanicAd offers its annual report on key Content usage strategies, along with the importance of using Data strategies to engage the US Hispanic Consumer. Social Marketing strategies are reviewed for their performance value.
2023 Hispanic Market Thought Leaders – Available for DOWNLOAD for FREE
HispanicAd offers its annual report on key industry trends and honors the Top Marketing Executives with US Hispanic & Multicultural area. This report offers an depth analysis of the executives and their companies setting the standard of excellence for the US Hispanic Marketing industry. Additionally, we are celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Association of National Advertiser's - ANA Multicultural Conference.
