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  • My Voice Matters: Inclusive Marketing Excellence

    Research Reports   December 17, 2024  

    Learn how inclusion impacts decision-making, career progression, and belonging across the marketing and advertising industry. This study provides actionable insights to help organizations create environments where every professional can thrive.

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  • Programmatic Transparency Benchmark: December 2024 Findings Update

    Research Reports   December 12, 2024  

    The ANA announced findings from its 2024 Programmatic Transparency Benchmark Study, which provides a unified measurement framework to the programmatic advertising industry. The study finds 7.9pp improvement of ad spend efficiency, but less than half of spend reaches consumers.

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  • Generative AI for Search Marketing

    Research Reports   December 3, 2024  

    This report explores the current state of Generative AI in search marketing and its impact on SEO and SEM strategies and provides actionable insights for marketers to leverage this emerging technology while navigating its potential pitfalls.

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  • Loyalty Marketing: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    Research Reports   October 30, 2024  

    Loyalty marketing rewards customers for their repeat purchases or interactions with a brand. While there is clear “good” in loyalty programs, there are also “bad” and “ugly” characteristics. The paper provides guidance for protecting loyalty programs.

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  • CMO's Playbook for MarTech

    Research Reports   October 21, 2024  

    For the modern CMO, mastering the MarTech stack is no longer a luxury; it's a necessity. This playbook is designed to guide CMOs through the complexity of today's MarTech landscape, offering strategies and insights to build a high-performing marketing technology operation.

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  • Ultimate Playbook for Data Clean Rooms

    Research Reports   October 16, 2024  

    Data clean rooms provide companies a secure and controlled environment to bring data together in a collaboration exercise for an analysis of a consolidated data set. Data clean rooms have a long way to go until they reach mass adoption by client-side marketing companies. This playbook is intended to close this gap.

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  • Inclusive Marketing Excellence: Award-Winning Case Studies

    Research Reports   October 9, 2024  

    This case study book provides a tool to help ANA members understand how to drive growth in a number of diverse category segments. It draws from the top work in the Multicultural Excellence, REGGIE, In-House Excellence, and B2 Awards.

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  • Sustainability in Media Planning: How Brands Can Start Reducing Carbon Emissions in Advertising

    Research Reports   September 26, 2024  

    The ANA's Media & Measurement Leadership Council, an activist group of brand advertiser's chief media and research officers, and Scope3 share practical studies and examples of how and where marketers can make sustainable advertising a reality through their influence in the ecosystem.

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  • AI Use Case Compendium for Marketing

    Research Reports   July 31, 2024  

    To help you make the most of AI for your marketing programs, we've compiled a compendium of practical use cases and real-world examples.

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  • Data Visualization Playbook: A Picture Is Worth Infinite Words

    Research Reports   July 30, 2024  

    ANA's Data Excellence and Privacy Practice's Data Visualization Playbook aims to equip marketers and practitioners with practical techniques and best practices to harness the full potential of data visualization.

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  • Retail Media Networks: Optimism Tempered with Caution

    Research Reports   July 24, 2024  

    While retail media networks (RMNs) have been around for well over a decade, they have really come into their own over the past few years. This ANA report concludes that, “Retail media networks have a measurement issue...and therefore better measurement of RMNs is clearly required.”

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  • ANA Ethics Code of Marketing Best Practices

    Research Reports   July 18, 2024  

    The ANA Ethics Code of Best Marketing Practices is a framework of high-level principles, guidelines, resources and examples of ethical marketing and advertising best practices applicable to all entities engaged in marketing, advertising, and fundraising.

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  • 2024 ANA Business Marketing Practice — Marketing Impact Measurement Study

    Research Reports   June 29, 2024  

    This study and “first-look” discussion guide report explores how to address the “snowflake” problem — that every senior marketing role appears to be uniquely defined. Aspects of the study included C-suite interviews, extensive marketing literature, and contextual industry analysis.

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  • Programmatic Transparency Benchmark

    Research Reports   June 17, 2024  

    The ANA and TAG TrustNet have released early findings from their first quarterly Programmatic Transparency Benchmark Study, which seeks to collect, reconcile, and analyze ANA members’ log-level data to establish supply chain metrics against which individual can regularly assess their own programmatic campaigns.

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  • Cost of the Pitch II: The Rise of Value

    Research Reports   June 11, 2024  

    The 2024 "Cost of the Pitch II: The Rise of Value" report builds upon a previous 2023 report, delving deeper into the evolving dynamics of value within client-agency relationships and the factors for a successful long-term client-agency relationship.

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  • The Acceleration of Principal Media

    Research Reports   May 14, 2024  

    Principal media has been getting increased attention, and marketers need to be aware and knowledgeable. This report provides detailed guidelines around areas including the importance of the client/agency contract, the approval process, and auditing.

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  • Decoding Compensation Models and Implementing the Right Model

    Research Reports   April 11, 2024  

    This executive-level guide is a joint initiative from the ANA and the 4A’s that outlines commonly used compensation models and provides foundational knowledge, definitions, best practices, and analysis of the pros and cons for each model.

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  • ANA Collection of Summary Reports on Artificial Intelligence

    Research Reports   April 10, 2024  

    The ANA presents a collection of 18 AI research reports that most closely align with the interests of marketers, summarized with key takeaways.

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  • 2024 ANA LGBTQ+ Marketing Inclusion Survey Unveils Transformative Insights

    Research Reports   March 27, 2024  

    The 2024 ANA LGBTQ+ Marketing Inclusion Survey offers a comprehensive view into the state of LGBTQ+ inclusion in advertising. With 55 percent of advertisers engaging in LGBTQ+-inclusive marketing, the survey and report highlight a significant shift towards inclusivity.

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  • ANA Response Rate Report, 2023

    Research Reports   February 22, 2024  

    The 2023 ANA Response Rate Report is an example of how the ANA takes on the role of industry thought leader, providing the tools and benchmarking studies its members need to plan and optimize their marketing mix while forecasting future marketing impact and driving long-term sustainable growth.

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