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Building a Multicultural Fan Base
Kim Davis is Senior Executive Vice President of Social Impact, Growth Initiatives & Legislative Affairs and Jennifer Ekeleme is Vice President of Multicultural Engagement and Integration at the National Hockey League (NHL). They will be speakers at the ANA Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Conference, November 18-20 in Las Vegas. ANA Director of Multicultural and Diversity Initiatives Karim Amadeo recently sat down with Kim and Jennifer for a pre-conference interview in which they discussed their inclusion strategies for building a multicultural fan base in traditional sports.
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Customer Journey Maps
How can I utilize customer journey maps to best connect with consumers?
Advertising Wearout
Is wearout an issue I need to worry about? What can I do to combat it?
Color Marketing
How do brands use color effectively in their products and campaigns?
Abbott Revolutionizes Traditional Trade in Vietnam with a Data Program to Assist Retailers
Abbott created a data-collection program that gave retailers in Vietnam the power of first-party data analysis normally the province of large and sophisticated organizations.
adidas Shares Local Flavor with Sneakerheads
adidas co-branded a new shoe in partnership with a legendary Dubai restaurant.
adidas’ "Running While Black" Docuseries Shows What True Commitment to Positive Change Looks Like
In the wake of Ahmaud Arbery’s heinous murder, adidas created a three-part docuseries meant to shine a light on dangers and discrimination Black individuals face while performing simple activities like running.
The ANA Global CMO Growth Council Position on Generative AI — September 24
The CMOs of the ANA Global CMO Growth Council community have steered the development of a common set of principles and guidance to help ensure that AI-based initiatives create value without harmful unintended consequences. The initial draft is available now for review and comment.
Global CMO Growth Council Leadership Assembly at Cannes LIONS 2024: Topline Recap and Key Takeaways
For the seventh consecutive year, the Global CMO Growth Council convened its leadership community at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. This pivotal forum brought together CMOs from top brands around the world to share progress and prioritize leadership initiatives for the remainder of 2024.
Executive Forum: Achieving Gold Standards in Brand-Building and Creative Effectiveness
This forum, conducted during the Global CMO Growth Council Leadership Assembly in Cannes, 2024, was dedicated to delegates connecting, learning, sharing, and challenging each other to raise our collective creative game.
#WomenKnowHow: How In-House Agencies Can Authentically Portray Women in Advertising
Learn how CARE created the #WomenKnowHow Campaign, utilizing its in-house marketing department for a 360 campaign, creating a flagship video, social media, and celebrity engagement strategy, backed by corporate partner support to leverage national impact that reached millions of people.
CMO Keynote Presentation
In this session, learn how Taylor Morrison's Stephanie McCarty built an internal team that offered more transparency into the creative process, greater collaboration from the start of a new product launch, and a heightened sense of camaraderie and shared purpose.
Evolving the In-House Partnership: Performance Marketing, Marcom, and Creative
Synchrony's Tommy Lynn and Jeff Brosseau discussed their journey bringing digital capabilities in house and how their teams continue to evolve their partnership to navigate silos and leverage the transformative capabilities of AI to optimize performance and generate better results for their organization.
Here Come the Ho Ho Ho-lidays
This infographic from Inspira helps marketers understand what shoppers are looking for this holiday season, covering their motivations and likely purchase journeys.
Programmatic Advertising 101: Everything You Need to Know to Build a Successful Campaign Strategy
Brand activation agency Inspira offers a thorough and helpful primer on programmatic marketing.
Inside the New Era of Fan Participation on YouTube
On YouTube, Gen Z has transitioned from passive consumers to active creators and shapers of culture. Learn three key strategies for brands to engage with this trend.
Comparing Project Management Tools
Grant Thornton breaks down the capabilities of the project management tools Wrike, Asana, Mavenlink, and ADO (Azure DevOps) as they apply to marketing operations.
The Attention Garnered by Each Media Channel, by the Numbers
National CineMedia (NCM) shares research that calculates the number of seconds during which viewers watch advertising on different media channels, including cinema, live sports, YouTube, Roku, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and mobile, among others.
Quantifying the Reach of Each Marketing Channel
TVB, a trade association representing America’s local broadcast television industry, shares data that gauges the reach of a wide array of different marketing channels, from broadcast TV, to email, to social media, to newspapers, and beyond.
ABM Account Plan Canvas 2025
Use our ABM Key Account Plan Canvas to create a simple, one-page action plan for each of your target accounts.
Advertising Calendar and Budget Template 2025
Use this to organize your advertising campaigns. Track media types, due dates, and budget info.
Agile Content Marketing Calendar 2025
Use this calendar template to keep track of your content marketing efforts through an agile approach.
Blog Post Syndication Calendar 2025
A report to track editorial calendar opportunities and their associated deadlines.
Sustainability in Media Planning: How Brands Can Start Reducing Carbon Emissions in Advertising
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.
Data Visualization Playbook: A Picture Is Worth Infinite Words
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.
Retail Media Networks: Optimism Tempered with Caution
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.”
Training Takeaways
Get smarter at a glance with career-critical insights drawn from expert-led trainings.
Eight Tips for Aligning MarTech with Strategy
Integrating marketing technology (MarTech) with marketing strategies is the deliberate alignment of your technology resources with your marketing objectives and the specific actions planned to accomplish those objectives. To achieve this integration, consider eight tips, drawn from the ANA’s on-demand training course, “Introduction to MarTech.”
Four Tips for Discovering and Distilling the Insights Necessary for a MarTech Assessment
Learn how to uncover your organization’s MarTech needs and challenges while aligning with key stakeholders.
Four Tips for an Effective MarTech Business Case
Learn the four key communication objectives, which, if followed, will give your MarTech business case clarity and earn it a receptive audience.
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