Marketing
Marketing Budgets Have Dropped to 7.7% of Overall Company Revenue in 2024
The annual Gartner 2024 CMO Spend Survey was conducted in February through March 2024. Survey respondents were CMOs and marketing leaders in North America and Northern and Western Europe across 10 different industries, company sizes and revenue, with the vast majority of respondents reporting median annual revenue of over $5.3 billion.
Defending Your Brand: Expert Strategies for Handling Negative Press
The dating app Bumble recently launched what it thought would be an engaging new ad campaign promoting a brand redesign. One of the campaign's key messages argued, "You know full well a vow of celibacy is not the answer." The ads turned out to be very engaging, but in a way, Bumble did not seemingly anticipate nor initially welcome the response they received. The ads triggered a flood of negative press that suggested the company had "sneered at celibacy as an alternative to dating." Media outlets also reported that brand sentiment for Bumble had plummeted "following outrage over anti-celibacy ads."
Boosting In-Housing ROI: Harnessing the Power of Creative Storytelling
As brands increasingly bring creative functions in-house, they gain greater control over their storytelling, boost efficiencies, costs, and accelerate their time-to-market. This approach provides a cohesive platform for developing creative concepts that can scale across channels, whether it's brand marketing, social media, or e-commerce.
The Acceleration of Principal Media [REPORT]
A “The Acceleration of Principal Media,” reveals a substantial knowledge gap among marketers regarding the use of principal media. The purpose of ANA’s report is to increase awareness and to help educate marketers on principal media, including its background, benefits, and challenges. Principal-based media buying occurs when agencies buy inventory from media owners at bulk rates and then resell it to clients at a markup. Agencies become the owners or vendors of the media, rather than acting as independent agents for clients.
Heightened Consumer Demand for Gender Equality in Advertising Resulting in Up to 10X Increase in Sales [REPORT]
Accurate gender representation in advertising is driving measurable business outcomes for brands—such as heightened consumer trust, loyalty and, most importantly, improved sales performance—according to SeeHer’s latest Gender Equality Measure (GEM) Lift research. SeeHer is a global movement, within the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), to accurately portray women and girls in marketing, advertising, media and entertainment. SeeHer spearheaded GEM, the global gold standard of measuring gender bias in advertising and content.
Mastering Marketing’s New Era with CPG [PODCAST]
ANA's Marketing Futures Podcast returns with another episode recorded on the ground at the 2024 ANA Brand Masters Conference in Carlsbad, California. Host Mike Berberich's guest is none other than the host of this year's Brand Masters Conference, CPG Marketing Expert Fernando Herrera. Berberich and Herrera discussed the evolution of omnichannel marketing over the years, and the challenge marketers face syncing the digital and physical worlds. They also shared their thoughts on AI's role in the marketing function and talked about how to leverage the new hybrid/remote workforce to your advantage.
Intersectionality in Marketing
From "diversity" to "inclusivity," no other term has been arguably misappropriated, misused, and co-opted in the business world than the concept of intersectionality, coined by renowned Black feminist legal scholar Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989. Whenever I have worked alongside clients and marketing colleagues as a consultant, it was common to hear the term "intersectional" used to describe an array of things: Brands, marketers, research participants, or approaches to strategy.
CMO Checklist for Better Agency Results
Great strategy is only great if it is executed well. PowerPoint, Word documents and board room discussions don’t build awareness or connect your product and services with the target audience across their buying journey or close any sales. Great strategy is only great if it is executed with distinction. The work is what works.
Revealed: The Critical Role of Brand Strategy in Business Success [PODCAST]
In this episode of The New Mainstream podcast, Darren Horwitz, Founder of TenTen Group, delves into branding basics and the role brand strategy plays in achieving business success.
THE END OF AN ERA : Eduardo Caballero passes – se te extraña
Eduardo Caballero The Godfather of Hispanic Marketing & Radio in our Industry passed in 2023. For those that work with Eduardo Caballero and those that knew Eduardo will be eternally impacted by the man, the professional, the pioneer and the Industry Advocate.
Is there a solution to the advertising disconnect?
Advertisers are desperate to get their audience's attention. Most of that audience would prefer not to see advertising and do their best to avoid it. This is the digital advertising disconnect. So far, few brands have figured out an effective solution to the problem. So, what is a brand to do? By Nigel Hollis
Recommendations for U. S. Multicultural Marketing: A data-informed approach
As time progresses, we can see the impact that multicultural groups have on marketing and business operations. Specifically in the U.S., we can see the strides that marketers have made to ensure the U.S. maintains its status as a leader in multicultural marketing. Just as the U.S. has shifted its demographics away from being solely a nation of individuals with white skin and of European descent, this rise in multi-ethnic and multicultural communities has shaped the ways we operate and engage with people. By Derrick Raphael Pacheco - Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, Florida State University
Agency Compensation Models: It’s About Time
The advertising industry has long wrestled with the challenge of determining the optimal manner and level of compensation between advertisers and their agency partners.
What is Multi-Culti+ ?
At DangerTV, Multi-Culti+ is both a vision and a mission to provide the very best in adventure and adrenaline content that both reflects and spurs the growing diversity of our country to explore (regardless of ethnicity)....everything!. At DangerTV, Multi-Culti + recognizes that adventure and adrenaline have invited you to get the best out of life, regardless of where you are from. Our content is your invitation. With shows from around the globe featuring diverse people rising to occasion after occasion, you start to realize that the brand is actually a metaphor for what sooner or later we all face: overcoming adversity. By Javier Saralegui, Founder and CEO, Danger TV, LLC
Text Marketing: Highly Regulated and Needs Permission
Self-regulation and ethical marketing are at the core of building consumer trust and loyalty. This ethics update series focuses on key consumer marketing issues to highlight the ethical standards of applicability and to assure best practices are communicated and followed. This is not intended to replace legal advice and counsel. Please consult with your counsel on compliance to ensure you are following the laws specific to your organization.
2024 Annual Marketing Report – Maximizing ROI in a fragmented world [REPORT]
Nielsen released its sixth global Annual Marketing Report, revealing marketers’ priorities and plans to improve ROI in 2024 and beyond.
Profit Ability 2 – The new business case for advertising
A vast new study of advertising effectiveness has proven that advertising is a profitable driver of business growth and that all forms of advertising pay back, especially when their sustained effects are measured.
Navigating the Complexity of Marketing Capability Measurement
A marketer attends a training session, they learn new skills and apply them in their day-to-day role. As a result, their own and their teams’ behaviors change and the company sees improved effectiveness and ultimately achieves its financial aims and goals. Brilliant! Now the only job left to do is to prove the link between the learnings and business results… *Sigh*
The business case for ad budgets – in language the business understands
Head of International Effectiveness, Mike Campbell, reflects on the impact of the work that we do in partnership with both national and transnational advertising industry bodies. By helping to up the marketing effectiveness game of the CMO – and by ensuring the CMO speaks the language of the CFO – Ebiquity’s research-led thought leadership content, based on industry good practice, can raise all ships and drive ROI.
Peaks and valleys: Ad spending trends around the world
Where should I advertise and when? This is probably one of the most frustrating questions in the marketing book.
