Industry Insights
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How the ANA’s Marketer-Led Initiative Is Progressing
Industry Insights July 21, 2022The ANA’s Cross Media Measurement (CMM) Initiative has made extensive progress over the past year, entering a pivotal – and exciting – stage. In 2021, the ANA began building the framework to answer a critical marketer knowledge gap. Now, with the foundation and planning complete, the ANA’s marketer-led initiative is focused on testing, developing, and optimizing.
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Celebrate National Junk Food Day
Industry Insights July 18, 2022Candy, cookies, and chips sometimes get a bad rap as “empty calories.” Maybe so, but the marketing they inspire is brimful of creativity. As we prepare to celebrate National Junk Food Day on July 21, 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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How to Reach Moviegoers This Summer
Industry Insights July 18, 2022Things have been heating up this summer at the box office. Top Gun: Maverick topped the $1 billion mark in global box-office revenue over the course of its five-week run in theaters. It’s not the only film that’s earning the attention of moviegoers – Paramount’s Top Gun was in a dead heat with Warner’s “Elvis” biopic on its opening weekend, and Universal’s Jurassic World: Dominion has also been a top grosser.
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Contextual Versus Behavioral Advertising: Which Is Which?
Industry Insights July 12, 2022Most web browsers are slowly slipping away from third-party cookies, and no one can deny that it caused quite the turmoil in the advertising industry. No wonder various marketers and advertisers are constantly searching for alternatives to reach consumers. Evidently, behavioral advertising can now be considered a challenge because it leverages cookies - leading to a favorable edge for contextual advertising.
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Brand Purpose at a Crossroad: Evolve or Self-Implode
Industry Insights July 7, 2022Purpose. It’s like a misunderstood Halloween — just because you put on that hero’s cape, you are not a hero. For most brands purpose is either viewed as a lifebuoy or as a crusade toward growth.
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5 Inspiring Quotes on Building an Audience
Industry Insights July 6, 2022ANA events bring together some of the smartest and most-talented marketers in the industry to share insights and best practices that help ANA members get the most out of their own marketing efforts.
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The Secret Benefit to Personalization
Industry Insights July 6, 2022Businesses no longer just need to capture markets, they also have to capture moments - the exact points in time when a customer is searching for a product and is ready to buy. This means brands need to be right there when those crucial high-intent moments occur. Brands also need to be able to anticipate those moments using data and analytics—and then capture those essential moments by quickly connecting customers with whatever they want.
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5 Video Advertising Priorities for Brand Marketers
Industry Insights July 5, 2022This year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity was a prime moment for brands, agencies, creatives, and technology companies, following a pandemic-induced hiatus. Key themes included sustainability, diversity, equity and inclusion, data and technology, brand creativity and effectiveness, talent, and business transformation — backed by numerous resources, insights, and events.
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How Ad Agencies Can Better Source and Nurture Talent
Industry Insights July 5, 2022The Great Resignation has challenged businesses across industries, and the media vertical is no exception. Agencies and holding companies are struggling to source and retain talent, leading some to question whether there are enough skilled candidates to go around.
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Is Text Marketing Effective? What You Need to Know from a Marketing Pro
Industry Insights July 5, 2022As a marketing professional who’s spent most of my career helping businesses with their marketing needs, I am here to announce that text marketing is here to stay. In this fast-paced world, this form of marketing just makes sense. Texts are direct, to the point, and don’t take a lot of time to draft or send.
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The Capitalization of Culture
Industry Insights July 5, 2022We have become a country of months: Black History Month, Women's History Month, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Latinx Heritage Month, and more. June is, of course, the month-long celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride.
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How Data Stole the Show at Cannes Lions 2022
Industry Insights July 1, 2022Fresh off a week at the 2022 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, I, like many other attendees, have come home reinvigorated (and albeit jet-lagged) about how data will play a vital role in the future of advertising. Between hosting marketers at our designated spot on MediaLink Beach, my team was also able to attend awards presentations, panel discussions, dinner meetings and soirees with seemingly endless carafes of rosé.
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Now That June Is Over, Your Brand’s Commitment to Pride Really Begins
Industry Insights July 1, 2022Being an outspoken ally to the LGBTQ+ community during the month of June is easy. Since so many brands do it now, the act has lost almost all meaning. That’s not to say that brands should no longer offer their support during PRIDE month. Of course, they should. But doing so is now the barest of bare minimums. And in the world we’re living in today — where the rights of many are under assault — doing the bare minimum is no longer enough to consider your brand a true ally. Not that it ever should have been in the first place.
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VP of Brand Engagement at Denny’s on TikTok-Inspired Menu
Industry Insights July 1, 2022COVID-19 caused a significant category-wide decline in in-store traffic, with consumers spending more time engaging with a brand’s digital presence, ordering delivery, and spending more time on social in general - with TikTok playing a starring role. We needed to generate #FOMO for the brand to drive traffic back in-store once COVID-19 receded. To do so, we worked with 24 up-and-coming TikTok stars to act as hype machines to welcome the world back to Denny’s, co-collaborating on unique menu items and social/digital content to drive urgency among their social communities and re-ignite crave for our food.
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Ageism in Marketing Is a Problem — Let’s Fix It
Industry Insights June 30, 2022Ageism in marketing has been a problem for a long time. Really think about it. When was the last time you really saw older people in ads (that weren’t specifically geared toward aging)? You know, ads where older people are portrayed as themselves, living their lives, joyously?
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Attention Metrics Are More Important Than Ever
Industry Insights June 30, 2022ANA just ran a virtual conference dedicated to attention metrics. I learned so much — and want to share that learning.
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Web3 and the Future of Marketing
Industry Insights June 28, 2022Over the last several years, data privacy concerns have grown in both awareness and magnitude. Marketers and consumers alike have had to ask difficult questions and consider the implications of how data is shared, sold, and used across companies and platforms in a rapidly evolving digital ecosystem.
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Agile Creative Is a Brand Imperative — And the Key to Better ROI
Industry Insights June 27, 2022Performance marketing is misunderstood. In the marketing family, it is often regarded as the transactional, cold, and bottom-line focused cousin to the beautiful and inspiring storytelling of brand marketing. But that mental model is out of date. The truth is that done right, agile data-driven creative and inspiring brand creative are two versions of the same thing, and when they work together, they can be a brand’s superpower.
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How to Recruit and Retain Diverse Marketing Talent
Industry Insights June 23, 2022Amid rapidly changing demographics in the U.S. and the mainstreaming of diversity equity and inclusion is a growing responsibility on marketers to broaden their horizons to have the kind of workforce that will more accurately reflect what the country looks like now and will look like in the years ahead.
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Restaurant Marketing Strategies for 2022
Pulse June 23, 2022Restaurants suffered greatly at the hands of COVID-19, when only take-out could feasibly be an offering. Add staff shortages, supply chain issues, rising inflation, and gas prices to that blow, and one can see that restaurants have not had an easy time regaining their footing. With the pandemic mostly behind us, consumers’ pent-up desire for dining out has increased, and despite the other setbacks the industry is facing, restaurants are seeing a resurgence, as QSR magazine recently reported. The struggle is not over yet, however, and an agile approach to marketing a restaurant brand is key; the resources here look at some strategies restaurants can take to help their recovery.
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