Brand/Marketing Innovation
Marketing's digital transformation presents enormous opportunities and implications for building brands and growing businesses.
To leverage this potential, the ANA works to highlight — and offer insight into — our industry's most innovative brands and campaigns, giving our members a broad network of intellectual capital they can tap into for inspiration and ideas.
The Challenge
As the more tedious and time-consuming media transactions become automated and marketers begin to fully leverage innovations like facial recognition, predictive analytics, and blockchain, companies will need to invest in the latest technology and infrastructure to meet new benchmarks of marketing success, create a compelling customer experience, and accurately measure the brand's overall value.
The ANA’s Response
Building a successful brand and leveraging innovations to keep it fresh requires a large investment in both time and resources. That's why we offer a robust selection of workshops and courses, along with thousands of videos, articles, and tools, to help members delve into the latest emerging trends and technologies.
Latest Content
Articles, insights, research, and more to advance your marketing and advertising.
Forward
The Right-Brain Approach to Brand-Building
The functions of the left and right sides of the brain help shape how people see the world around them and have specific implications for marketers. Appealing to one side of the brain or the other can sculpt consumer impressions, improve recall, and drive conversion.
Industry Insights
5 Trends to Sharpen Your Brand's Social Media Strategy in 2024
Though we cannot predict exactly what 2024 will have in store, we can certainly make a few educated guesses. Consider these macro trends when planning your brand’s 2024 social media strategy.
Champions of Growth Podcast
Seeing the “How” in Business Transformation
Allen Adamson, former chairman, North America of branding agency Landor, joins host Matthew Schwartz to talk about why it’s incumbent upon brand managers to “zoom out” on their audiences to bolster consumer engagement and generate better returns.
Featured Events
National, regional, and online events to help you learn and grow throughout the year.
Training
Equipping marketers with the skills they need to advance their careers, their brands, and the industry.
- ‘STORYMAKING for Good’ (101): The Co-Creation Concept (Half Day)
- ‘STORYMAKING for Good’ (101): The Co-Creation Concept (Virtual Open Enrollment)
- ‘STORYMAKING for Good’ (101): The Co-Creation Concept (Virtual)
Committees
Bringing marketers together to learn from each other and debate new approaches and solutions to industry hurdles.
A benefit of ANA membership, committee meetings feature a mix of member case studies, perspective from outside experts, and benchmarking/best-practice sharing that drive thought leadership on key industry issues. Each ANA committee meets three to four times per year and can be attended in person or remotely. Depending on the committee, 10 to 30 participants may attend — big enough for diversity of opinion, yet small enough for more intimate exchanges.
- Ethics Policy Committee
- Nonprofit Organizations Committee
- Analytics & Data Science Committee
- Commerce Marketing Committee, Southwest Chapter
- Brand Management Committee