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Brand Marketers Can Forge a Personified Path to Growth
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.
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United, Converged TV Advertising Should Stand
TV is in the midst of a revolution. There's more content than ever before, and the modern viewer consumes it on their own time, in their own way, and through a variety of devices. This fragmentation means one thing for brands and agencies: They need to reimagine the TV advertising experience.
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Brands Still Relying on Cookies This Holiday Season Are Lagging Behind
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.
B2B Content Marketing
What are best practices for B2B marketers getting into content marketing?
Measuring Brand Health
How can I track the health of my brand?
Frito-Lay’s “'Twas the Night Before Super Bowl” Leverages a Star-Studded Cast of NFL Legends to Lift Sales
Frito-Lay created a star-studded Super Bowl ad featuring legendary NFL greats to drive sales and bring joy to football fans during the pandemic.
How the AHN Orthopaedic Institute’s “Fewer Stitches” Campaign Used Baseball to Drive Awareness of its Services
The AHN Orthopaedic Institute leveraged its status as the official medical provider of the Pittsburgh Pirates to promote its minimally invasive services and quell the fears of its target audience.
HP Notebooks. Work Better.
HP created a hero film featuring Markus — a change reluctant protagonist that mirrors the unique elements of German business culture, mindset, and values — to show tech decision makers how HP Notebooks enable more flexibility in the new hybrid environment.
Reaching Gen Z and Millennials on Yahoo
Gen Z not only wants more control over the content they consume, but also wants ads based on their activities and interests. Marketers armed with data and intelligent ad tech can help build personalized experiences.
Transformational Storytelling — Amazon Sapiens
During the annual festival in June, LIONS recognizes creativity. We exist to drive progress through it. In this inspirational and future-focused presentation, hear a conversation between two creative thought leaders on the transformative power of storytelling.
Creativity Matters: Big Creative Ideas from Cannes Lions 2021
In this video, take a look at best-in-class examples from campaigns awarded a LION at this year's Cannes Lions Festival in a variety of sectors and categories, which represent breakthrough, provocative ideas pointing to a new direction in the industry.
Media Procurement Reimagined in an Unboss Culture
“Unboss” represents a shift in leadership mindset where a leader should exist to serve their team and dismantle barriers to empower their people to engage in healthy collaboration. The team from Novartis shared advice for procurement professionals navigating a complex multi-business unit organization.
Mobile Barbershop Brings Broadway to the Boroughs
Discover how Broadway play Thoughts of a Colored Man used data insights and grass roots marketing efforts to engage the community and generate significant audience growth with an authentic experiential campaign.
Sponsorship Measurement: A Path Forward
Northwestern University's Larry DeGaris presented a simple but effective framework to measure sponsorship effectiveness.
What's New in Agency Compensation
In this session, get an overview of the major compensation trends from the Trends in Agency Compensation survey and projections for the coming years.
Brands Still Relying on Cookies This Holiday Season Are Lagging Behind
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.
Procter & Gamble “Widens the Screen” to Show the Diverse Depth of Black Life
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.
Direct Mail: Signed, Sealed, and Still Delivering Results
This direct mail benchmark report from SeQuel Reponse illuminates key insights of direct mail performance, volume, digital integration, opportunities, and challenges.
The Myers Report: Upfront Inflation
Following the 2022/23 Upfront, The Myers Report polled senior buying executives across multiple agency organizations to gather its annual survey of upfront inflation rates. This report details their aggregate responses across various marketplaces.
Advertising Calendar and Budget Template 2023
Use this to organize your advertising campaigns. Track media types, due dates, and budget info.
Agile Content Marketing Calendar 2023
Use this calendar template to keep track of your content marketing efforts through an agile approach.
Blog Post Syndication Calendar 2023
A report to track editorial calendar opportunities and their associated deadlines.
Content Marketing Editorial Calendar 2023
Use this calendar template to keep track of your content marketing and distribution efforts.
Trends in Agency Compensation, 18th Edition
For more than 50 years, the ANA has fielded a unique and comprehensive agency compensation survey among client-side marketer members. According to the results of the latest ANA’s Trends in Agency Compensation survey, fees, particularly labor-based fees, are the most dominant method of compensation today.
A Diversity Report for the Advertising/Marketing Industry (2022)
This report from ANA and ANA's Alliance for Inclusive and Multicultural Marketing (AIMM) reveals that representation of women in the industry overall and in leadership positions continues to be strong and that there has been an increase in the ethnic diversity of the marketing teams of ANA member companies.
AIMM Diversity Report: Compendium of Historical Member Case Studies
Throughout the years, AIMM’s Diversity Report for the Advertising/Marketing Industry have included compelling case studies from ANA Members’ DE&I initiatives. This is a compendium of the premiere cases presented.
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