Industry Insights
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6 Marketing Leaders on How to Better Understand Your Consumer
Pulse July 26, 2024Being "consumer-obsessed" isn't a new idea for marketers. We are living in an age where data is used to refine targeting, and marketers target products and services to different demographics by tailoring messages (and how those messages are received). However, to do this successfully, consumer demographics need to be understood beyond shallow and superficial narratives.
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How the Industry Is Reacting to Google’s Latest Cookie Bombshell
Pulse July 26, 2024After years of deliberation, numerous extended deadlines, and a handful of shelved solutions, Google has announced that it won’t be killing the cookie after all. The U-turn comes a number of months after the deadline was once again extended, this time in response to concerns from the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
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A CMO’s Guide to Unlocking the Potential of Human-Centered AI
Leading Edge July 25, 2024As digital experiences continue to influence how brands interact with consumers, paradoxically, human experiences are more critical than ever to building the strong emotional connections required to secure purchase and loyalty.
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AI Campaigns and Case Studies
Pulse July 24, 2024Below are case studies and campaigns that successfully utilized AI.
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Programmatic Advertising for Election Campaigns
Leading Edge July 24, 2024The landscape of election campaigning has evolved dramatically since the last cycle, with programmatic access transforming how campaigns connect with voters. Gone are the days of being limited to upfront TV buys and local radio stations. Now, with programmatic advertising, campaign managers have unprecedented control and flexibility throughout the election cycle, plus the ability to leverage data to drive better results.
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Innovative Engagement Strategies for Entertainment Advertising
Leading Edge July 23, 2024In an over-saturated market with limitless viewing options, the entertainment industry faces a formidable challenge: How can a new release stand out and become a blockbuster rather than a flop? Traditional formats and strategies, once reliable, now falter in the face of evolving audience behaviors and fragmented platforms.
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Cassandre Charles of TIAA on the Importance of Cultural Alignment
Pulse July 22, 2024ANA's Denise McDevitt connects with Multicultural Excellence Awards judge and TIAA’s senior director, multicultural marketing & communications, Cassandre Charles.
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How This Challenger Beauty Brand Used Influencers to Become Target’s No. 1 Shave Brand
Budgeting Brilliance July 22, 2024When influencer Carly Joy posted an authentic video instructing women on how to shave their nether regions, the brand featured in the video saw it as a unique marketing opportunity. The post, which amassed over 17 million views, inspired Soyoung Kang CMO of eos products to fire off a text to Kerry McKibbin, partner and president at Mischief @ No Fixed Address, the brand’s creative agency.
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Pathways to Transparent Media: The Old Blame Game No Longer Applies
Leading Edge July 19, 2024The past decade of our industry has been rife with headlines detailing egregious brand safety scandals and mind-blowing levels of wasted ad spend. The inevitable villain in these stories? Digital platforms like Meta and Google, not to mention the myriad ad tech vendors that comprise the digital supply chain.
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How Curation Solutions Supercharge Media Buying and Advertising Strategies
Leading Edge July 18, 2024As the digital advertising industry transforms with the ongoing phase-out of third-party cookies, advertisers are forced to adapt their strategies to accurately target the right audiences with their campaigns. In an evolving landscape such as this, data providers have appeared as key players, offering advertisers access to valuable consumer insights.
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Editor Highlights: AI, Diverse Suppliers, and the Full-Funnel Journey
Pulse July 17, 2024Do you feel like it’s a challenge to keep up with the latest trends, best practices, and marketing strategies? You aren’t alone. Bimonthly, ANA’s Pulse will highlight content within ANA’s resources hub, from Industry Insights, Knowledge Partner contributions, ANA Magazine, case studies, Marketing 101, Tools and Playbooks, and more. This way, the hard work of finding actionable insights, marketing trends, and helpful guides is done for you.
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Level Up Your B2B Game: Social Media Tactics That Drive Serious Results
Leading Edge July 17, 2024Throughout 2024 and into 2025, B2B social media ad spend is predicted to grow even while growth in other channels plateaus. As social media platforms become indispensable for reaching today's B2B buying committees, brands must adapt their strategies to stay ahead of the curve. Here, we’ll dive into some practical, proven strategies to level up your B2B marketing game with paid social media marketing.
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Want a Successful Business Transformation? Build the Right Marketing Team
Leading Edge July 16, 2024Whether they are fueled by the promise of AI and other technologies, responding to the demands of the evolving economy, or aiming to turn around tired businesses, many leaders are scrambling these days to transform companies and reinvent their brands.
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Measure Up: Incremental Versus Ad-Attributed Sales
Leading Edge July 15, 2024Consider a consumer searching for sunscreen in May. She may begin with a general search for products to protect against the sun. She may see an ad for a product on TikTok or Instagram, before researching, and ultimately purchasing the product, when it goes on sale from Amazon. What part of the customer journey can be ultimately attributed for her purchase?
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National Junk Food Day: Showcasing Successful Campaigns
Pulse July 15, 2024In light of these biological underpinnings of our taste for cheese curls, potato chips, and bob-bons, we can perhaps feel justified if we periodically indulge our taste for junk food. And what better time than July 21st, National Junk Food Day. As we prepare to celebrate this auspicious occasion, take a peek at a few of the campaigns used to promote some of the more indulgent snacks in the food pyramid.
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The Test & Learn Mindset
Leading Edge July 12, 2024Mastering the art of personalization is the big difference-maker in this era of digital marketing, where consumers expect “tailored” experiences. In the spirit of pop culture icon Taylor Swift, we’ve re-mixed some of our marketing insights to some of her chart-topping song lyrics.
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As Marketers Experiment with Gen AI, New Applications Emerge
Leading Edge July 11, 2024The emergence of generative AI is the defining feature of 2023 and 2024, in both a broad cultural context as well as within the world of data-driven marketing. Initially, like many other trends, marketers gravitated towards gen AI’s most apparent initial applications — copywriting, research, and image generation. But as this year unfolded, a shift occurred. Marketers began to recognize and harness less obvious applications of gen AI, marking a significant evolution that we can expect to carry forward.
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AI Is Great, But What Does It Mean I Have to Actually Do as a CMO?
Leading Edge July 10, 2024You would need to have been on Mars to avoid the onslaught of news stories and startup launches in the AI space, but there remains a paucity of good perspective on the implications for marketing. Technology has become an extension of humans for many years starting with the personal computer evolving to the www and then the smartphone. AI is no different but arguably represents a more fundamental and tectonic shift as it is not purely behavioral, it is a new form of intelligence, meaning limitless applications.
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Agencies Should Always Act in the Clients' Best Interest
Leading Edge July 9, 2024Client/agency relationships were once predicated on the concept of a principal-agent relationship, where the agency had a fiduciary duty to act in their clients’ best interest. When this concept was the accepted practice, most client/ agency agreements reinforced this expectation.
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Doris Huang of Admerasia on Transparency
Pulse July 9, 2024ANA's Denise McDevitt connects with Multicultural Excellence Awards judge and Admerasia’s managing partner, Doris Huang.
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