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For more than 20 years Jeanne Jennings has been helping consulting clients optimize the bottom-line performance of their email marketing programs with A/B split testing. Jennings discussed how to enhance email marketing.

For more than 20 years Jeanne Jennings has been helping consulting clients optimize the bottom-line performance of their email marketing programs with A/B split testing. In this video, Jennings discussed how to enhance email marketing.

According to Chip Walker of the agency StrawberryFrog, brand purpose is often a preoccupation in the upper echelons of companies, but, despite that fact, it often fails to resonate with the rank and file.

Did you know a 30-second spot at this year’s Super Bowl will cost advertisers over $7 million? It would be surprising if you hadn’t. It’s an increasing figure that gets rolled out every time Super Bowl Sunday comes into view – usually accompanied by incessant chatter and collective head scratching in the press about whether it’s worth brands paying such an eye-watering number for their golden ticket to the Big Game.

The rise in brand purpose has led to a surge in so-called purpose washing, in which a company claims solidarity with a certain cause — the environment, empowering women, or LGBTQ+ rights, for examples — only to do little to nothing to support. With an ever-discerning public waiting to pounce, marketers have to ensure that before they start touting their purpose they are taking actions that have a real impact on people's lives.

A collaborative study from AIMM, Sequent Partners, and 605 reveals cultural relevance and persuasion drive in-market performance. The research offers marketers actionable insights to optimize multicultural advertising effectiveness and ROI.

Recession and performance. These are the two somewhat contrarian subjects I’ve been discussing with my partners, clients, colleagues, and industry peers over the last few weeks. No matter which side of the industry they sit on, everyone is searching for the answer to how we can move through a global tidal wave affecting the tech and advertising industries at their core while remaining focused on achieving strong growth and performance.

It’s become a bit of a tradition for ANA to announce the chair(s) for our annual Advertising Financial Management Conference and I am delighted to now make that announcement for 2023.

Flock Associates offered advice on how clients can improve their working relationships with agencies and shared nine tips for motivating and inspiring those agencies.

What are some trends and best practices for sponsorships?

In this session, Quad, a commercial printing, marketing strategy, and management services company, shared five direct mail trends emerging in 2023.

How effective are brand characters and mascots in ads?

The concept of attribution had noble and necessary beginnings – entering the marketing landscape like a newly anointed royal ready to wave away our collective blindness to which ads were working and which were not. Even with its rules-based and/or data-driven origins, “attribution” has always been a misnomer. While it’s been a reasonable success in understanding basic ad performance – it is one the greatest distractions of our time.

More data means more insights. At least, that seems to be the presumption behind a recent Salesforce survey of 6,000 marketers about 2023. The research finds that brands are looking to greatly diversify their data sources, from identity data to transactional records. From 10 sources on average in 2021 to 15 in 2022, they anticipate increasing to 18 sources this year.

In the following video series, a slate of experts walks viewers through the entire process of understanding, producing, and marketing podcasts, covering every aspect of the undertaking, from the gear you’ll need to the use of distribution platforms and, ultimately, to monetization.

Love them or just live with them, there is no debate that retail media networks (RMNs) have had a spectacular rise to prominence. In a relatively short period of time, they have established themselves as the must-have marketing platform for retailers and the must-buy media platform for brands.

In a previous installment of Industry Insights, I shared some tips for defining a company’s brand purpose that guests on the Beyond Profit podcast have offered. While that process can be mysterious and daunting, so too can be the process of conveying to the wider world one’s purpose and one’s efforts toward its fulfillment. Fortunately, Beyond Profit has insights to impart on this matter as well, and seven tips offered by guests of the podcast follow below.

“Performance Marketing” has had its time as a buzz word, but amid the current economic climate, it’s more important than ever. Consumer behavior has always been unpredictable, particularly in the last few years, and 2023 waters are looking to be quite murky. However, marketers can find clarity in measuring and optimizing performance.

What are marketers concerned about right now? Recent discussions I’ve had with CMOs from a range of industries have revealed three consistent themes.

Brand purpose has become increasingly critical to how a company differentiates itself, appeals to consumers, and, perhaps most importantly of all, attains a goal loftier than simply making a profit. However, the process of defining a given organization’s unique purpose can be baffling for those undertaking it.