Agency

Smartphone ownership and home broadband adoption are up slightly since 2019. And 30% of Americans say they at least sometimes experience problems connecting to internet at home

Inclusion and Diversity in advertising is a hot topic, and one of the creative devices used by many of Kantar’s Creative Effectiveness Award winners. And we know that demonstrating inclusion and diversity in advertising is no longer optional, it’s an imperative. It isn’t just socially and morally right; progressive and inclusive advertising improves ROI.  So how can you get inclusive portrayal of people right in your ads?

Six-in-ten Americans say they are very familiar with their origins. Black and Hispanic adults feel more connected to roots than White adults

The opportunity for brands is to identify and attract potential shoppers by diverting spend away from competitive brands. Targeting based on real-world purchase behaviours can deliver a measurable improvement in advertising performance.

Last year, the average US adult spent more time per day with most media formats and devices, including TV. Although adults will spend nearly as much time with media this year, their TV viewing time will drop below pre-pandemic levels.

Major brands are holding themselves accountable and setting the expectations for their agency partners to model similar DEI values

Promotions have always been an important sales driver for consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) companies.

A dizzying array of changes in consumer behavior will touch nearly every industry as the reopening period progresses, vaccination rates rise, more schools and businesses open, and people start to emerge from their homes and re-enter the larger world. Changes to work and school patterns, and the reemergence of dining out and other experiential spending, will affect how consumers reprioritize their spending in the coming months and beyond.

Advertising, PR, creative, digital, and full-service agencies have played a crucial role in the marketer’s toolkit for decades. But the landscape is changing. More than ever, overlap exists between agencies and consultancies, in-house and external agencies, and the roles of humans and automation. ANA Marketing Futures gathered perspectives from marketers and subject matter experts to understand how marketers view the future of agency and how its trajectory impacts marketing decision making.

Data-based insights help TV networks make strategic decisions around promo loads, promo saturation, and use of sister networks.

The current industry conversation around investment inequalities in the media and creative supply chain has been extensive, and rightly so.  For example, there has been tremendous interest in supporting Black-owned businesses and Asian-owned businesses have also garnered interest and support.  By Bill Duggan /  Group EVP, ANA

SBS Entertainment and LaMusica announced the return of CALIBASH – the crown jewel of live Latin music – at the iconic Staples Arena in Los Angeles, California.

According to MediaPost, Publicis Groupe has diversified its US workforce by 5.5%.

Few areas of the media landscape have been in focus over the past year as streaming video content has. With a growing wealth of platform and program choice, the options for consumers continue to expand and diversify.

Miami is quickly becoming the next Silicon Valley. Fueled by the tech explosion permeating South America and corporate America’s waning interest in settling out west, Miami has become a bustling hub for upwardly mobile Hispanics.  Gabriela Alcantara-Diaz, Founder and President of Semilla Multicultural, joins us on The New Mainstream podcast to discuss the importance of understanding upwardly mobile Hispanic American culture and how it’s impacting niche markets.

On today’s episode, we discuss what the world will look like in 2030. Who will be the digital ad giants, how much shopping will we do online, will bank branches disappear, and more. Tune in to the discussion with eMarketer vice president of forecasting Monica Peart, senior director of forecasting Shelleen Shum, and directors of forecasting at Insider Intelligence Cindy Liu and Oscar Orozco.

Post-pandemic business travel is slowly on the upswing among U.S. marketers, and the key reason appears to be the growing number of vaccinations against the coronavirus, according to a new ANA survey.

Estrella Media announced it will launch Estrella News, a 24/7 Spanish-language digital news network, on digital subchannel MGEN in the greater Miami area. Estrella News on MGEN is the newest announcement in Estrella Media’s expansion strategy in the South Florida market, which is led by its owned and operated WGEN Estrella 8 Miami broadcast station.

A social media crisis is a frightening prospect. So much so, that many organizations avoid thinking about it, have only rough plans in place, and only learn how to deal with one when they actually face a p

One of the stickiest areas of B2B PR, for many of the B2B brands we work with, is how to show what they’ve accomplished for their clients without sharing the clients’ names.