Curated Guide to Research
MediaPost's comprehensive guide to current research in the marketplace.
Search results for "digital marketing"
- More than half of executives in a recent survey by IDC agreed user tracking will soon become obsolete. Yet more than 40% are not familiar with targeting technologies other than advertising identifiers.
- When the male grooming brand Manscaped has something big to say, you can count on that announcement to make a splash. From taking over digital and static ad space in New York's Penn Station, to fully decking out the men's restrooms at Levi's(R) Stadium, Manscaped's iconic branding and bold campaigns are as eye-catching as they are impactful. Add influencers into the mix to amplify that message, and the experience becomes fully immersive. As the company enters new international markets, it is exploring how to use legacy tactics and emerging OOH trends to optimize efficiency and augment creativity. Manscaped's Senior Partnerships Manager, Lucas Colye, explores what the company has learned, how it maximizes campaigns, static vs. digital screens, and the ways the brand stimulates social amplification with striking creative execution.
- Aimclear, an independent tech and digital marketing agency, created a marketing lab and think tank focused on artificial intelligence (AI).
- "The data clearly debunks the perception of globalization going into reverse gear. Globalization is not just a buzzword, it's a powerful force that has transformed our world for the better," says DHL CEO John Pearson, adding: "we can build a brighter future that benefits us all, creating a world that is more interconnected, more prosperous and more peaceful than ever before."
- Patagonia's mission statement is: we're in business to save our home planet. For over 35 years, Patagonia has supported over 1,500 environmental groups by donating 1% to grassroots activist organizations that have direct-action agendas and work on strategic, multipronged campaigns to preserve and protect the environment. We built Patagonia Action Works to take this a step further. Patagonia Action Works - a response-driven, relationship building digital ecosystem and toolkit - meaningfully connects our customers and greater community to the grassroots environmental activist groups we support. Patagonia's Director, Digital Impact: Community & Activism, Scott Carrington, discusses how the initiative was driven by a desire to transform brand values into tangible actions in this latest case study.
- OOH used to be a glorified real estate business where location and road-side visibility was the unique selling proposition. Programmatic then emerged as a transformative equalizer to the conversation. With a complete "through-line" view into what people consume beyond their home, brands have started to leverage the future of OOH and its connection to broader programmatic ecosystem. Walton Isaacson's Managing Director of Digital Innovation, Albert Thompson, illustrates how brands have executed within the programmatic marketplace to stitch together a "connected experience" of ad exposure. Physical Proximity is the driver as the consumer moves from gas stations, retail stores, business offices, public transit, biking paths, and ridesharing - all through OOH.
- While a majority (56%) of agency execs believe "sustainability" is now more important than the cost of buying media, only a minority (46%) of advertisers believe so, according to new research.
- Addressable TV advertising needs better ROI measurement for the business to accelerate. A new study finds half of advertisers would increase their investment in addressable products if the business remedied some of their concerns.
- While 75% of procurement execs say their role managing media has been successful, only 26% of marketing execs say so, according to a new ANA study.
- But many see skills and measurement as key barriers to growth, WARC and MMA report.
- Instead of their standard search shopping campaigns, Tecovas digital team launched Google Smart Shopping on their product feed with huge success. Tecovas' Performance Marketing Manager, Paige Malloy, will share the implementation requirements for their testing; which resulted in greater efficiency, more revenue volume, and better ROAS for the western boots and apparel retailer.
- Professional sports players may get a break during the off-season, but for the Arizona Cardinals' marketing team, this is the time to engage fans on a different level and aim them toward season ticket products. Arizona Cardinals' Email Marketing Analyst, Angie Weyman, explains how the brand is using hyper-segmentation routines to isolate season holders from ticket buyers from non-buyers in order to tailor messaging for these different relationships with the team brand. Their use of dynamic content insertion and careful measurement is giving them a fuller picture of these different fan sets and what it takes to engage them whether players are on or off the field.
- Email remains the main fundraising funnel for political campaigns. But as SMS becomes increasingly important for organizations, voter mobilization, and fundraising, integrating the two messaging channels is critical. NRCC's Digital Fundraising Director, Taylor Black, shares learnings from recent Republican campaigns about how text and email can amplify and reinforce one another in unexpected ways. The two channels can reference and even quote one another to create a cross-channel conversation with users.
- The report is from Stagwell's MMI and Harris Poll, which found that 98% says its important to work with brands that align with their values.
- The soft-serve shop 16 Handles has always been about the on-premise experience of personally personalizing customer desserts. It is a case study in building in-person delight. But as the company has moved into delivery and on-app ordering it has been challenged to digitize the experiential dimension of the brand across channels. The Founder and CEO of 16 Handles, Solomon Coi, shares how the brand thinks about making WOW omnichannel.
- The all digital wireless carrier, Visible, developed a top to bottom approach for market infiltration via data and market research. The challenger brand's head of brand marketing, Pearl Servat, shares with us how they leveraged a marketing mix of digital and traditional channels to introduce prospects to the brand at various touch points and drive consumers to its digital storefront. Learn how Visibles repeatable & scalable marketing strategy is reshaping what meaningful experiential activations looks like for a digital-first brand.
- 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.
- Through surveys and data, Joybird found their customers wanted more inspiration and engagement when shopping to style their rooms. In response, at MediaPost's D2C Insider Summit, Eric Tsai, the furniture retailer's vp of marketing & business development, shows us how they turned to a 3D planner tool on Pinterest. It enabled shoppers to click on a photo, drag it into a scene and create a customizable 3D design space; resulting in greater engagement, a 50%+ lift in AOV and an enhanced shopping experience for their customers.
- But over half of marketers expect to use cookies as identifiers in two years, and slightly less expect to use email, a study by MMA Global and Boston Consulting Group finds.
- As one of the world's leading brand licensors, Meredith has had commerce in its DNA for decades. Online, the company has learned from its innovations across every emerging e-comm opportunity. From shoppable video to inspiration-to-shopping cart deep integrations with retailers like Walmart, GM of Commerce Content Chloe Reznikov walks us through how these next-gen e-comm models bring publishers way beyond the affiliate link.
- Baird Capital Analysts late Tuesday lowered stock estimates for a majority of Internet companies the group covers to reflect the impact from a possible mild recession.
- Many consumers describe personalized ads as "annoying," but others say such messaging is "useful" or "enjoyable."
- The ability to teach students coding skills and the importance of data is crucial to the future of digital advertising. About 58% of students in a study agree that the ability to write software code is either equally or more valuable than learning a foreign language for their future career choices.
- Consumers who use digital pinboard platform Pinterest are the most likely to engage with promoted or sponsored posts on social media.
- Advertisers on Facebook and Instagram spread their spending more broadly across the purchase funnel.
- Online video is the most popular category of digital media, with 77% of marketers saying they will spend more on the channel.
- After surging during the second and third quarters, the price of digital advertising grew more moderately during the final three months of 2021.
- Email personalization is the top method, with chatbots now in second place, Persado and Coresight Research report.
