Industry Insights

Bounteous commissioned a study conducted by Forrester Consulting research in 2022 “to evaluate the state of digital transformation maturity and the benefits companies at varying levels of maturity have realized” through an online survey with 415 respondents and six interviews with customer digital leaders.

What is in-housing purgatory? It’s when companies are stuck half-way between building media technology and buying it. Many organizations have only accomplished a middle state where they have hired a few employees to become power-users of certain platforms, and where they have perhaps added a superficial layer of UX on top of those platforms and technologies.

ANA 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.

Brand marketers have been battening down the hatches as they navigate the current macroeconomic and geopolitical storm. While much of the conversation and strategizing has been around budgets and profit and loss (P&L) maneuvering with uncertainty clouding the horizon, it would be wise for brands to also allocate bandwidth to proactively devise a digital advertising strategy for 2023 and beyond. The “beyond” in this instance could be inferred as the paradigm shift from the era of personalized advertising to the era of personified advertising.

Google keeps pushing back its date for the so-called “cookie apocalypse.” But if you’re a retailer hoping to prosper in the 2022 holiday season, that doesn’t matter one bit. If you’re still relying on third-party cookies, you might be as doomed from a long-term perspective as the cookie itself.

In his presentation at the ANA’s 2022 Masters of Marketing Conference, Marc Pritchard, chief brand officer at The Procter & Gamble Company, declared that the greatest opportunity for business growth is engaging multicultural segments, a market that has over $5 trillion of buying power.

The rising amount of pressure agencies and marketing teams are under has been becoming clearer. The state of the economy has restricted budgets, paused investments, and slowed down business deals, to name a few of many mounting challenges.

Like marriage, client-agency relationships require a high level of investment, commitment, and long-term mindset to understand, grow together and respond to each other's needs.

Like marriage, client-agency relationships require a high level of investment, commitment, and long-term mindset to understand, grow together and respond to each other's needs.

The holidays are on the horizon, but so too is the growing impact of the worst inflation in 40 years. With financial concerns putting a strain on the festivities, many may be wondering how to afford the usual holiday expenditures — presents, travel and produce, to name a few. Fortunately, necessity sparks innovation, and there are several ways for consumers to save money, while finding gifts for everyone on their list.

Watching television, scrolling through social media, and working on a laptop, are all inherent parts of everyday life. But screen time is becoming excessive. The average American spends over 7 hours per day looking at a screen.

Programmatic audio advertising is growing rapidly. Find out how to make the most of digital audio ads, targeting the right audience and boosting engagement.

Digital transformation looms large for many brands and businesses, who know the process is important but may be less sure about how to tackle it. The end customer is increasingly empowered, the pace of innovation is faster, and expectations of exquisite experiences have risen accordingly. How do brands integrate these digital advances and rapid cultural change into a cutting-edge digital customer experience strategy?

The holidays are a time of celebration and love — both to celebrate the people we love and to cherish the moments we have with them. Regardless of which holiday, any time we carve out a moment to be present and enjoy each other’s company is a gift — and a gift we need to do more of. The best ads don’t just try to sell stuff (and yes, every ad is selling something) but hopefully inspire us and remind us of our own humanity.

Today the C-suite has high expectations for CMOs, requiring them to demonstrate their value to a company's bottom line. Creativity and big ideas alone no longer suffice as senior marketers are expected to also bring data, analytics, and technical know-how to the leadership table.

Today’s brands are increasingly seeking to reach diverse, multicultural audiences to drive revenue. We have seen it with Coca-Cola’s “America is Beautiful” ads and Adobe’s “When I See Black.” However, attempts to reach new audiences can feel inauthentic or simply ineffective.

Since its inception, the internet has allowed us to generate creative ideas together, from across continents, keeping lines of communication open through a vast advertising landscape even during a global pandemic and myriad lockdowns.

“Audience-first” was in some ways a reaction to “content is king.” A decade ago, as the programmatic space was reaching critical mass, the industry glommed onto the glory of cherry-picking audiences based on fancy new algorithms that allowed us to “personalize” impressions.

Advertising has a dire brand suitability problem and needs a systematic solution. The advertising-fueled attention economy has incentivized publishers and social platforms to support the loudest and angriest voices with few safeguards in place to allow brands to exclude false, misleading, and divisive content while prioritizing the suitability factors most important to their business.

Science confirms it: People who give money to others are happier. Regardless of age, gender, or socio-economic status, giving just makes you feel good. And last year Americans opened their wallets and hearts wide, breaking all records for Giving Tuesday in 2021; 35 million U.S. adults participated in 2021, with total gifts of $2.7 billion, a 9 percent increase from 2020. And for the full year, individuals, bequests, foundations and corporations gave an estimated $484.85 billion to U.S. charities in 2021. That’s a lot of happiness!