Trends
TV or Digital: What’s winning global audiences?
The rise of digital platforms and streaming services like Netflix, YouTube, and TikTok has revolutionized content consumption by offering on-demand entertainment that fits our mobile lifestyles. While this digital surge has significantly impacted viewing habits, traditional media has proven resilient—especially broadcast television, which continues to draw substantial audiences for live sports, popular series, and local news.
Marketers Vastly Understate The Sales Effect Of Creative And Significantly Overestimate The Impact Of Targeting
Over the last six years, the Cumulus Media | Westwood One Audio Active Group has commissioned Advertiser Perceptions annually to survey brands and media agencies on the sales contribution of five advertising effectiveness factors:
- Brand
- Creative
- Reach
- Recency
- Targeting
The Power of Household Identity in the New TV Era [REPORT]
Blockgraph, the privacy-first data collaboration platform designed to fuel the future of connected TV advertising, and the American Association of Advertising Agencies (“the 4As”) released new research report titled, “Reconvening in the Home: The Power of Household Identity in the New TV Era”. Ahead of this year’s upfronts, the research offers a strategic roadmap, revealing how household identity will increasingly play a central role in shaping upfront negotiations, outcome-based guarantees, multi-screen media planning, and performance-based measurement.
The 2025 U.S. Latino GDP Report [REPORT]
The 2025 U.S. Latino GDP Report represents the 8th vintage of an annual series of reports which document the large and rapidly growing economic contribution of Latinos living in the United States. It is also the 29th full-length report that the Latino GDP team has produced as part of an ambitious research initiative which analyzes the contributions of Hispanic males and females across various geographies, including targeted states and major metropolitan areas.
Latinas in advertising: The untapped powerhouse agencies can’t afford to ignore [REPORT]
As a Latina who has worked in the Hispanic marketing industry for over 20 years, I have spent my career uncovering the potential of our market. And let me be clear—the opportunity is massive. The U.S. Hispanic market represents a $2.7 trillion economic force. Latinos account for 51% of the country’s population growth, and we are one of the most influential and affluent consumer groups. Even more striking? We are young—58% of U.S. Hispanics are under the age of 34.
Advertising Is Being Rebuilt. Independent Agencies Have a Window. Talent Does Too.
Over the past year or so, the advertising and marketing industry has gone through a shift many had seen coming from a mile away. What started as budget tightening quickly turned into something deeper. By now, we all know the headlines - thousands of job cuts, months of steady decline, and an industry-wide pivot that's no longer just reactive. By John Santiago - Chief Executive OfficerChief Executive Officer at Sangre
The soundtrack of summer is bilingual: Why music is your shortcut to the Hispanic heart
It’s not a stretch to say that the sound of summer in the U.S. has a distinct beat, and more often than not, it’s bilingual. From Bad Bunny and Karol G dominating the charts to backyard parties thumping with cumbias and reggaetón, music isn’t just background noise for U.S. Hispanics—it’s the cultural glue of summer. By Aldo Quevedo - CEO, BeautifulBeast
How to Use AI to Improve Your Campaigns Now
There's so much justifiable teeth-gnashing in our industry these days. Whether it's programmatic campaigns landing on fraudulent or MFA (made for advertising) sites, similar campaigns delivering impressions on wildly objectional sites, as the Adalytics study just revealed, or verification companies somehow being unable to police these campaigns, despite sucking so much revenue from the ecosystem, buyers have a big problem. The really bad news is that publishers have an even worse problem.
Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO
Recently, Eric Schmidt stepped down as CEO of Google and founder Larry Page took over. Much of the news coverage focused on Page’s ability to be the “face of Google” as Page is far more shy and introverted than the gregarious and articulate Schmidt. While an interesting issue, this analysis misses the main point. Eric Schmidt was much more than Google’s front man; as Google’s peacetime Chief Executive, he led the greatest technology business expansion in the last ten years. Larry Page, in contrast, seems to have determined that Google is moving into war and he clearly intends to be a wartime CEO. This will be a profound change for Google and the entire high-tech industry. By Ben Horowitz
Mastering the Art of Marketing Measurement
Measuring ad effectiveness is both more critical and more complicated than ever. Advertisers are expected to prove the value of their media spend across multiple channels while navigating a complex ecosystem that is increasingly privacy-conscious and fragmented. Gone are the days when simple tracking through cookies or last-click attribution could provide basic insights. Instead, brands now rely on three major measurement approaches: media mix modeling (MMM), multi-touch attribution (MTA), and lift studies.
Multigenerational households: the real sharing economy
By Gonzalo López Martí - Creative Director
- Ain’t the first time I rant about this.
- The multiple advantages of grandparents, parents and children living under the same roof.
2025 Digital Media Trends: Social platforms are becoming a dominant force in media and entertainment
People still want the TV and movie experience offered by traditional studios, but social platforms are becoming competitive for their entertainment time—and even more competitive for the business models that studios have relied on. Social video platforms offer a seemingly endless variety of free content, algorithmically optimized for engagement and advertising. They wield advanced ad tech and AI to match advertisers with global audiences, now drawing over half of US ad spending.1 As the largest among them move into the living room, will they be held to higher standards of quality?
Principal Media: Friend or Foe?
I will start with a belated public shout-out to Jared Belsky, recently named Ad Age's 2025 Agency Executive of the Year. That is quite the honor as this recognition is reserved for just one person, in an industry rich with many talented people. While there were multiple reasons that Jared was selected, what stood out was his public stance against principal media.
Blue-collar workers are less satisfied at work, less attached to their jobs than other U.S. workers
Blue-collar workers have been at or near the center of much public discussion in recent years, from their political leanings to their wages and cultural impact.
In the Interest of Good Science: A Closer Look at the World Happiness Report
How happy the citizens of a country are is a better measure of how well that country is doing, more so than the gross national product (or GDP). To promote and draw attention to this concept, the United Nations has observed the International Day of Happiness on March 20th annually, since 2012. On that date, the World Happiness Report (WHR), which ranks countries by their populations' happiness levels, is published by the joint efforts of the UN, Gallup, and Oxford’s Wellbeing Research Center. This year, according to the 2025 World Happiness Report, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Norway remain at the top of the list of happiest countries, as in previous years.
84% of CMOs Report High Levels of Strategic Dysfunction
A survey of 403 CMOs conducted in October through November 2024 revealed organizations with high levels of strategic dysfunction are 36% less likely to report strong business and marketing performance. CMOs report multiple forms in which strategic dysfunction appears
Radio Creative Wear-Out Study Validates Mark Ritson’s Conclusion That Consumers Don’t Get Tired Of Ads, Only Marketers Do
One of the most frequently asked questions the Radio Advertising Bureau receives on audio creative involves wear-out. Wear-out is defined as the point where creative testing declines from its peak due to message frequency fatigue. By Pierre Bouvard
Think like an Immigrant.
World class leaders and companies rarely get defeated. They decide to defeat themselves by a) not taking emerging competitors with new models seriously , b) paying scant attention to underdogs with fewer resource and different approaches, and/or c) by refusing to align with the forces of the future. By Rishad Tobaccowala
