Industry Insights
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Balancing Act: Navigating Personalization and Privacy in Modern Marketing
Industry Insights March 19, 2024Marketers face a precarious tightrope act as they attempt to balance personalization and privacy. The stakes are high, with a single misstep threatening to send a brand spiraling downward. Yet, as circus performers know, it’s possible! Before we explore methods to strike the required balance, let’s address why “taking the walk” is worth it.
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Why Businesses Should Be Thinking About Measurement First
Industry Insights March 18, 2024Not spending the time to set up an effective, resilient measurement strategy that’s focused on the right things will hurt businesses who are relying on the general ease with which they get information today. Here are three key steps to making sure businesses are set up as they prepare for this pivotal year.
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Programmatic Transparency: The $22 Billion Opportunity
Industry Insights March 15, 2024By now, you are undoubtedly familiar with at least the key recommendations from the ANA's ongoing Programmatic Media Supply Chain Transparency Study. In this blog series, I’ll be covering the top 10 issues the study has revealed and precisely how brands can go about tackling them in relatively straightforward ways.
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How Marketing Agencies Can Ensure "Zoom Fidelity" with Media
Industry Insights March 14, 2024If you’re doing media and marketing right, the strategies and tactics in your plan should all work together to drive a business outcome. But how many times have you looked at a media plan where the strategies and tactics look like they were done by completely separate teams and the two don’t exactly line up?
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Key Takeaways from SeeHer’s Latest Report on Gender Equality
Industry Insights March 14, 2024The ongoing, collective journey toward achieving gender equality is, and will always be, a community-led effort. SeeHer’s latest report, Global Perceptions of Progress on Gender Equality, illustrates that gender inequality is still a persistent and global issue; it takes all institutions, including marketing, to change perceptions, fight for equal rights, and pave the way forward for all.
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How to Weed Out Made-For-Advertising (MFA) Inventory
Industry Insights March 13, 2024Yet another Adalytics report is shaking up the digital marketing community this week. The report highlights that, contrary to previous assurances by advertising giants, the scale of impressions driven by made-for-advertising (MFA) sites remains alarmingly large.
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Unleashing Strategic Potential for Mid-Level Agencies
Industry Insights March 13, 2024One of the key challenges faced by mid-level agencies is the high-cost threshold to run brand awareness or brand lift studies that often prevent smaller players from participating competitively. Coupled with the lack of respondents, agencies are being compelled to cut their budgets. But the game is far from over. To overcome these hurdles, agencies need to cultivate a keen edge, leaning on innovation.
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Brand Purpose and Sustainability
Industry Insights March 12, 2024As the effects of climate change threaten society in more and more ways, a growing number of companies are working to integrate sustainability initiatives into their brand purposes. Efforts to do so, however, can often be beset with questions and uncertainty. To bring added clarity to the matter, consider three tips shared by guests on the ANA Center for Brand Purpose’s Beyond Profit podcast.
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How Advertisers Are Flubbing Contextual Discovery
Industry Insights March 12, 2024As advertisers scramble to find addressability signals that will remain amid cookie deprecation, many are turning to contextual data.
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Katie Williams, Chief Marketing & PR Officer at Haleon, Talks Purpose
Industry Insights March 12, 2024Katie Williams, chief marketing and PR officer at Haleon U.S., will discuss the process of developing purpose while accelerating growth, as well as share learnings at the upcoming ANA Brand Masters Conference on April 15 to 17.
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We Need to Level Up If We Want to Hit Sustainability Targets
Industry Insights March 11, 2024Sustainable media is not a new topic. The numbers around advertising emissions have long been discussed at industry events and in the press. To reach sustainability targets in the realm of media, it is crucial to bridge the gap between discussions on sustainable practices and their effective implementation. While numerous marketing technology solutions promise emission reduction, there seems to be disparity in how agencies and clients approach the issue.
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Creating Campaigns Consumers Love: America’s Favorite Ads of 2023
Industry Insights March 8, 2024Every year, advertisers bring new creative to all platforms: TV, digital, print, audio and out of home. There are larger-than-life Super Bowl commercials that bring comedy, action, celebrities, cultural references, and lovable characters to a couple hundred million eyeballs. There are holiday ads that celebrate the magic of the festive season and the joy of togetherness. And there are major moments for brand presence, like March Madness, Fourth of July, Halloween, Black Friday, and more.
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Inspiring Inclusion: Women in Advertising Mark International Women’s Day
Industry Insights March 8, 2024As we mark yet another IWD where gender parity remains a goal for the future rather than a reality of the present, here’s what prominent female leaders across the tech landscape have to say about their experiences as women in advertising and what still needs to be done to achieve true equality.
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For Diversity in Advertising to Stick, It Must Be Considered in More Places
Industry Insights March 7, 2024The future is about finding new and alternative ways to maximize the value and impact of existing data to greater effect. Media planners themselves benefit from understanding how they differ from the audiences they may be targeting.
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The Best Way to Fight CTV Fraud: Ditch View Through Measurement
Industry Insights March 6, 2024Fraud has long plagued the digital advertising landscape, siphoning off vast sums of money. As we delve deeper into the realm of connected tv (CTV), we see that it's not impervious to the cunning tactics of fraudsters. With advertisers increasingly gravitating towards streaming platforms, opportunistic fraudsters have followed.
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Brand Purpose as Competitive Advantage
Industry Insights March 5, 2024More and more companies are embracing brand purpose; however, many continue to do so simply because “it’s the right thing to do.” While true, this position ignores the competitive advantage that the adoption of a brand purpose can afford an organization. To illuminate this matter, guests of the ANA Center for Brand Purpose’s Beyond Profit podcast shared three observations on the benefits of purpose that go beyond altruism.
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How to Succeed on the Full Funnel Journey
Industry Insights March 4, 2024The marketing industry is transforming, as brands grapple to find the sweet spot between performance-driven tactics and long-term brand-building strategies. Historically, the industry has been divided between brands in two categories: performance brands or brand-building brands. What we are seeing now is a reconciliation of this divide. Marketers who understand the dynamics driving this shift to integrate the two will evolve and experience more powerful outcomes.
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Why CTV Will Be the Influential Ad Channel to Watch in the 2024 U.S. Elections
Industry Insights March 1, 2024The 2024 U.S. election cycle will look unlike any that have come before it, right down to the ways in which political advertisers will reach and influence voters. While past election seasons have been defined by new and deeper investments in mobile and social channels, 2024 is poised to be the year connected TV (CTV) reshapes the political landscape, particularly among regional advertisers.
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Women in the Workplace & in Media: Recent Trends & Case Studies
Industry Insights March 1, 2024We took a look at recent trends, case studies, and research findings when it comes to women’s portrayals in the media, workplace conditions, and brand activations and/or developments.
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What Advertisers Need to Do for a More Sustainable Super Bowl 2025
Industry Insights February 29, 2024You’ve already likely read several articles recapping and the ads, and even the sustainability issues around the Super Bowl, but, before you tune out, this is about the specifics that we need to get into to make sure next year isn’t a repeat with a lack of sustainability consideration in the advertising.
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