Spending is set to grow 25% from this year to $33.8 billion by 2027 in the United States.
Forty-two percent of people ages 18 to 34 have switched companies or providers over data policies.
Amazon Web Services has announced data-matching capabilities for advertisers using AWS Entity Resolution through integrations with LiveRamp, TransUnion, and Unified ID 2.0.
Some 60% of marketing and sales professionals participating in a CMO Council survey do not co-own data and customer strategies.
Fabre-Hernoux says privileged access to the inside thinking about and application of some of the most powerful consumer data insights in the world prepared her to innovate the way Wavemaker and parent
GroupM handle it.
About two-thirds of CMOs say the volume of data available to them has become increasingly overwhelming, with 33% citing the rising numbers of channels and platforms.
About three quarters of U.S. consumers said it's acceptable to receive more relevant ads based on the media they consume.
Walled-garden media environments add to the challenges that DTC marketers face with measuring media performance.
The way companies handle people's data has significant implications for brand value and trust.
The marketing of catering and event services within the new digital and delivery ecosystems offers brands unexpected challenges and opportunities. How do you allocate across convenience and
celebratory segments, target the right new and old customers, and convert those third party acquisitions into first party loyalists? Trish shares lessons learned as she adds celebratory marketing to
Earl's portfolio of casual brands via third party apps, a dedicated loyalty program, and beyond.
In the world of politics where profit doesn't come from financial gain, going beyond the plurality is the only way to ensure success. Edith Jorge-Tunon from the Republican State Leadership Committee
helps analyze why reaching a plurality in corporate America can be considered profitable, but doesn't quite cut it in most political systems today.
Introducing a new brand can be daunting in today's ever-expanding video landscape. Ocean Media's svp, head of media, Jared Lake, talks strategy launching a brand campaign across multiple platforms,
how consumers' consumption behaviors and GRP informed the media mix and why certain channels didn't make the cut.
Retail Media Networks (RMNs) have added new inventory, targeting, sales and measurement opportunities...and headaches, to the digital ad market. Kim, who manages media buying for Mindshare CPG
clients, maps the terrain. How are the RMNs from Walmart, Target, Kroger, etc. plugging into existing infrastructures, offering new and difference metrics of success, creating new challenges for
marketing teams?
Data-Centric approaches to marketing work best when all areas of a marketing organization understand the principles and tools for using data. As Empower's Brett Mowry outlines, data maturity often
means moving companies away from "centers of excellence" and towards a more democratized structure where all marketers work more collaboratively and holistically with a common understanding about
leveraging a CDP, managing 3rd party data and mapping customer journeys.
Hunter Douglas has been on a five-year journey of bringing ever more of its media buying and planning in-house, first search, then social, and now Video and programmatic and branding. But as Tiffany
Leung explores, this has been more than an operational shift. It required not only changing KPIs, staffing and messaging but a cultural shift to value a data-driven approach to all aspects of
marketing, internal organization and event onboarding customers.
As regulation and data deprecation across browsers and operating systems moves the ad ecosystem beyond third party cookies, having a first-party data strategy becomes critical. Corey shares best
practices and strategies around sourcing first-party data, leveraging publisher relationships for amplification and the ways in which high quality data can be best applied to cusytomer journey
mapping. The future of of government and industry policies for data remain unclear; marketers need a future-proofed strategy.
What does "personalization at scale" really mean - not just for customer interactions but for data and media strategy and even company culture? Walgreens Jennie Peelle, shares the lessons learned as
the brand moves towards personalized interactions at every touchpoint. It means changing the way you gather and use data and lean into advanced predictive modeling. It changes how you target and plan
paid media for customer acquisition vs. retention. It reworks KPIs towards customer-level measurement and away from mere sales goals. It takes more than mere shifts in tech and technique. It's a
culture thing.
It's easier for consumers to forgive a person than a business. A study shows marketers need to carefully consider language used in campaigns, as consumers are sensitive to the words used.
In 2020, The New York Times added a record 2.3 million digital-only subscriptions, bringing its subscriptions to digital products and print newspaper to more than 7.5 million. By focusing on improving
the reader experience, the Times has built stronger relationships with its subscribers and knows what type of information and storytelling resonates with their influential audience. Hear how The Times
is focusing on fewer higher quality ads and using its first-party data to offer targeting, based on emotional states and reader motivations, to provide more powerful ad experiences.
USIM worked with Roku to help solve the problem of generating foot traffic during the pandemic by providing a new ecommerce strategy to offset the reluctance of consumers in the market to return to
in-person shopping.
How do you grow your brand in an extremely fragmented market? For GetYourGuide [GYG], it took consumer data, timing and making a spectacular splash. Already a market leader in Europe, the travel
booking site wanted to boost their brand awareness in the United States, so they turned to out-of-home media to help. In early 2021, with news that domestic travel in the U.S. was expected to open
before Europe and the U.K., they knew it was the optimal time to strike. After collecting data on American's newly acquired habits during lock down, GYG created specific messaging on how consumers
could experience those interests in real life. Zip-code lookalike technology determined GYG's target geographic areas for the OOH placements; which included billboards to maximize reach and transit
and place-based screens to drive website traffic. The campaign cut through the clutter, resulting in a 500% lift in unaided brand awareness, while driving over 42k online conversions - - exceeding
GYG's direct response goals.
Most B2B sales and marketing execs said the mass shift to remote work has disrupted their ability to effectively identify and reach buyers.
COVID forced performance driven ThirdLove to drastically cut ad spend; shifting focus to marketing efficiencies and repeat business in order to generate profit. They did a lot of testing, learning and
data collecting. As a result, a new holistic marketing approach evolved. How does leveraging customer insights, dynamic quizzes, new channels, and 3D technology result in more efficient and better
performing marketing strategies?
A century ago Betty Crocker taught us everything we needed to know about authentic consumer engagement. From personalized connections to data collection to creating engagement and innovation loops.
General Mills' CMO, Ivan Pollard, explores how the company draws lessons and inspiration from this CPG icon.
More than a "campaign," Pancheros' recent brand push put digital and data at the center. But how do you reorganize diverse franchisees around social-first local tactics, and relaunch an app so that it
nearly doubles participation? The QSR brand's marketing team leveraged data to unlock the power of fanatical customers in a digital-first brand makeover.
The path to customer loyalty will be mobilized, but cracking consumers' limited app awareness and reuse takes a multi-pronged approach. Fazoli's chief marketing officer, Jodi Conrad, explains how the
QSR brand used aggressive acquisition tactics, streamlined interface, 360-degree promotion, and data-driven segmentation to grab home screen mindshare. The results not only grew the topline loyalists
number but also bottom line participation and revenue.
What would it mean to your media mix model if you bought people instead of channels? Building out your media campaign with smart data and custom modeling instead of working from the top down. Cadillac
is doing just that with their current audience first approach.
The traditional ad value exchange -- trading free, ad-supported content for consumer attention -- is no longer good enough, concludes a new IAB/PwC report being released today.
The data will enhance the Omni marketing operating system's ability to provide a single view of the consumer that can be dynamically shared across all marketing practices.
EASTON, CT -- Data scientists may be the new rock stars of Madison Avenue, but there's a reason they don't write copy for ads and Arun Kumar, Chief Data & Marketing Technology Officer of IPG and CEO
of its Kinesso unit, proved it Tuesday when he presented recommendations for the ad industry's new language for consumer "targeting" during the day's opening keynote at i-com's Global Data Summit
online.