Marketing
Understanding systemic risk in the consumer goods industry
Consumer goods companies are facing a challenging environment, with high inflation, supply chain disruption, labor shortages and other economic trends driving higher risk.
Winners announced for inaugural WARC Awards for Effectiveness North America – ALMA delivers
A total of 22 awards have been given at the inaugural WARC Awards for Effectiveness, North America Edition in association with LIONS, shining a light on the most inspiring and effective work delivering marketing success.
Winning With a Template
In any new business opportunity, putting your agency’s best foot forward is a balancing act of time and resources. Devoting the time and effort it takes to win can be a challenge, particularly for smaller agencies that don’t have a dedicated person in the new business role. We are often asked by agencies how they can best prepare a customized written response without building everything from the ground up each and every time. Below I’ll highlight three tips to help optimize your new business approach so you’re not reinventing the wheel for every race.
Seven Reasons Why The Hispanic Segment Can Beat The Recession
As a new year starts, we return to our work routine, facing the prospect of a recession. Some believe it will be a mild one, while others are more pessimistic. Nonetheless, most experts believe the country will face an economic slowdown, and consequently, brands may reassess their marketing investments as they will act more cautiously on where to invest their resources in 2023. By Isaac Mizrah - CEO of Alma Agency
Brand Building versus Sales Activation: A False Dichotomy?
But why split brand and activation at all? Why not do both at once? By Les Binet- Group Head of Effectiveness / adam&eveDDB
2023 Media and Entertainment Industry outlook [REPORT]
Streaming video, social media, and gaming are helping to enable new business models and reshaping media and entertainment. But the real story for 2023 is that these three sectors are increasingly becoming more interdependent as part of a broader and richer media and entertainment ecosystem. Successful companies will likely develop strong visions that span these sectors and pull their entire industries forward.
The missing conversation
Agencies are a vital part of any effective marketing organization but all too often the right questions aren’t always asked in these partnerships.
Lopez Negrete Communications and Hyundai Motor America create First Branding Campaign Aimed at Both Hispanic and General Markets
Lopez Negrete Communications and Hyundai Motor America announce first-of-its-kind anthemic brand work aimed at showing that no matter how far apart we might be, how different we may be, where we go or where we came from, it is the miles we spend together that are worth treasuring. The Las Millas que Nos Unen or The Miles that Unite Us campaign was originally created for the Hispanic market, but Hyundai observed its emotional relevance resonating across all audiences and selected it for the general market as well.
FTC Proposes Rule to Ban Noncompete Clauses, Which Hurt Workers and Harm Competition
The Federal Trade Commission proposed a new rule that would ban employers from imposing noncompetes on their workers, a widespread and often exploitative practice that suppresses wages, hampers innovation, and blocks entrepreneurs from starting new businesses. By stopping this practice, the agency estimates that the new proposed rule could increase wages by nearly $300 billion per year and expand career opportunities for about 30 million Americans.
The AXIS Agency launches Brand + Diversity Consulting
The Axis Agency announced it has launched Brand + Diversity Consulting (BDC), a strategic consulting practice dedicated to helping brands solve the biggest equity gaps that continue to affect multicultural populations. BDC will specialize in the healthcare, finance, and education sectors, where the need is greatest.
How long does it take for CPG ad spend to pay back?
At a time when there’s pressure to cut marketing budgets for short term gain, Jon Webb, Managing Partner at Gain Theory explains why this can sacrifice revenue and profit both immediately and in the future.
How should marketers use media channels for brand building?
The rise of social media platforms means a growing cornucopia of media channels available to consumers and marketers. While more traditional media channels such as print, television, and point-of-sale continue to serve brands well, in today’s landscape it’s vital for brands to stay up to date with new and emerging media channels as well as optimise the use of traditional channels. Achieving this can be both difficult and time-consuming.
KISSED: four fundamentals for effective brand advertising
The whole point of marketing is to influence purchase decisions, so marketers need to understand how people make choices and work with people's inclinations not against them. Based on academic research and my experience of working on thousands of brand campaigns, I have identified four fundamentals of effective brand advertising. By Nigel Hollis
Advertisers believe they are still getting great value from their agencies post pandemic
According to Global Agency Remuneration Trends, perceptions of value provided from relationships are up five percentage points since the last such study in 2018, to 17% among those agreeing “most strongly” with the statement “I feel that I am getting value for money from my agencies”. Compared to the WFA’s first such study in 2011, value perceptions – “agree somewhat” and “agree strongly” – are up 19 points.
Thrive and survive through the power of marketing and advertising
Marketing in a Recession shares important information, research, and tools to help marketers prepare for, and successfully navigate, the anticipated 2023 economic downturn.
2 out of 3 Marketers Lack Confidence in Media Marketing & Advertising Strategy [REPORT]
The media marketing and advertising landscape has become much more fragmented, unpredictable and vast with the rise of digital channels. The amount of consumer choices, heightened expectations for personalization, and the need to optimize based on real-time data insights make managing campaigns and achieving desired outcomes challenging today.
Environmental ROI drivers: Unlocking insights to lift performance [INSIGHTS]
During times of economic slowdown, optimizing ad spend without sacrificing revenue should be every marketer’s goal. To do that, an understanding of what drives ROI for your target region is needed, but if you’re only focusing on campaign execution, you’re missing half the picture.
How marketers can grow confidence in measuring ROI across the entire range of marketing objectives
Many technology solutions exist to measure and optimize platform-specific and channel-specific marketing ROI and according to Nielsen’s fifth Annual Marketing Report, Era of Alignment, 64% of global marketers feel confident in their ability to do so. Most marketers reported they were extremely or very confident in measuring specific ROI of social media (64%), online video and mobile (59%) and search (58%).
2023 Customer Loyalty Engagement Index
Shifts in the order of product/service category loyalty drivers in nearly all (91%) of the 110 categories with 987 brands tracked have fundamentally changed the face of brand loyalty, radically widening gap between customer desire and brand delivery, according to the 26th annual Customer Loyalty Engagement Index (CLEI), conducted by Brand Keys (brandkeys.com), the New York-based brand loyalty and customer engagement research consultancy.
DEI and Executive Buy-In: Why Hiring and Multicultural Marketing Are At Risk [PODCAST]
Diversity, equity, and inclusion have been at the forefront of public consciousness since 2020. While these tenants were commonly known in academia, awareness among the general public is relatively new. Many companies and brands, in particular, are now grappling with balancing consumer expectations for DEI and navigating their learning curve.
