Digital

As personal care brands expand their offerings to men beyond the basics of body wash, shampoo and shave cream, they are thinking differently about how to engage the male shopper, who can be overwhelmed by choice and underwhelmed by traditional advertising.

From the moment original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) began investing in web properties, marketers have used data to attempt to prove to executives that digital dollars deliver a return on investment (ROI).

“The Future of Correspondence” assesses the role of mail in the digital age, delving into the rise of “slow communication” and the fusion of digital and physical. It examines what’s driving these developments, the ways in which they’re manifesting and what they mean for marketers. The report also spotlights eight innovative direct mail campaigns and takes a look at how email is evolving, the advent of delivery lockers and new approaches to stamps and addresses.

In their ongoing quest to build profitable and sustainable businesses around digital media, content owners are increasingly turning to subscription models. Although a sizeable portion of the target audience remains unwilling to pay for online or mobile content, many consumers are beginning to accept the idea that quality comes at a price.

Detailed findings are compiled in “The IAB Summer Skincare Digital Report,” based on data from Prosper Insights™, which demonstrates digital’s influence on the lives and purchase behaviors of skincare and suntan lotion enthusiasts

Sponsorship regularly extends beyond digital channels to the entire marketing ecosystem, according to a new eMarketer report, “Online Sponsorship: Defining, Tracking and Measuring an Amorphous Channel.” So for many marketers, sponsorship is a multichannel game, where the activity in one channel supports and leads to another.

A recent survey of advertising and marketing professionals conducted by SQAD highlighted the large gap in the industry’s understanding of TV advertising costs compared to display advertising costs.

Email remains a workhorse for marketers: It’s cheap and reasonably effective. According to an April 2013 Economist Intelligence Unit survey of US and UK web users, email ranked as among the top outreach channel at each stage of the purchase process, from introduction, to final prepurchase assessment to post-purchase follow-up.

This Fall nearly 22 million college students will head back to campus to kick off the 2013-2014 school year. This is the largest assembly of college students ever to arrive on campuses, and they’ll do so boasting immense buying power, wielding a vast arsenal of gadgets and relying on mom and dad more than ever.

Terra announced the official launch of its new channel, “Sabores de America,” through which visitors can embark on a gastronomic journey discovering flavors, spices and culinary secrets from all over the world.