Unilever plans spending jump on 'manpower-intensive' digital marketing

CEO Alan Jope highlighted the effectiveness of digital campaigns in Q3, including steps to ensure its ads were seen in brand-safe environments.

By Robert Williams • Oct. 23, 2020

Amazon, Spotify, Netflix see big gains in brand value during pandemic, study finds

A quickly changing landscape has created opportunities for some brands — especially those with a digital focus — to gain value.

By Robert Williams • Oct. 21, 2020

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Multichannel Optimization

There’s greater urgency around the need to optimize multichannel marketing efforts and unite channels including retail media, social media and others.

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Nielsen adds ratings for YouTube CTV ads as digital viewing surges

The move can help Nielsen bring together viewer data that may be siloed across platforms, so advertisers can better measure campaign effectiveness.

By Aaron Baar • Oct. 16, 2020

CMOs must decipher pandemic-related consumer behavior changes, Dentsu survey finds

While more than half of chief marketers have been affected by the health crisis, there are stark differences between how prepared and unprepared executives are handling the challenges.

By Chris Kelly • Oct. 15, 2020

Wells Fargo cracked empowerment formula as advertising heated up in Q3, analysis finds

Typically a quiet period, Q3 was busier this year as many brands played catch-up after keeping their powder dry in the early days of the pandemic.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Oct. 8, 2020

Social listening enabled Kroger's speedy pandemic marketing response

Focusing on the channel helped America's largest grocery chain develop a three-pronged playbook that's kept it reactive to continued volatility, executives said during Advertising Week.

By Peter Adams • Oct. 7, 2020

How Kraft Heinz, MolsonCoors and L'Oréal make the most of CTV's pandemic-related growth

As media consumption habits quickly change, executives from major brands detailed the opportunities that connected TV provides during an Advertising Week panel.

By Chris Kelly • Oct. 7, 2020

P&G's pledge for social change embraces 'progress, not perfection'

In the wake of the pandemic and protests sparked by racial injustice, the bar is higher for purpose-driven marketing to have the same impact as years past, panelists said during Advertising Week.

By Natalie Black (Koltun) • Oct. 7, 2020

How Kimberly-Clark navigates a digital ecosystem where every ad platform is a walled garden

The Huggies marketer spoke at Advertising Week about how digital is getting more complicated with the death of cookies and as traditional retail partners enter the same fray as Google and Amazon.

By Peter Adams • Oct. 6, 2020

Candy ad spend decreases 19% while product sales increase before Halloween

The effects of the pandemic are being felt on candy advertising, with data from market researcher Numerator suggesting that companies are running smaller digital campaigns, rather than large TV buys.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Oct. 5, 2020

Influencers gain acceptance in traditional media campaigns, study finds

Despite the broader reach, brands see a different role for social issues in influencer marketing than content creators and consumers. 

By Robert Williams • Oct. 1, 2020

Advertisers care more about transparency in TV upfronts than timing, study finds

While less upfront buying occurred this year — and despite some marketers walking away — just 7% of advertisers said the TV ad marketplace should be canceled.

By Aaron Baar • Oct. 1, 2020

Mondelez lays out marketing strategy for a post-cookie future

During Advertising Week, the company behind brands like Oreo and Wheat Thins detailed a layered approach to performance-based marketing.

By Peter Adams • Oct. 1, 2020

Facebook names new CMO as it looks to meld trust-building with tech focus

Hiring from within will do little to quell concerns that Facebook is growing resistant to outside influence at a time when public opinion of its brand is low.

By Peter Adams • Sept. 30, 2020

How Crocs stepped up during the pandemic and built on fans' trust

The shoemaker listened to loyal customers in March and responded with $40 million worth of free shoes, a move that nurtured brand love and trust, an executive said during an Advertising Week panel.

By Natalie Black (Koltun) • Sept. 30, 2020

Nearly half of consumers will try new brands if the ad is relevant

Context matters more than ever amid the surge in content consumption spurred by the pandemic, according to a new DoubleVerify study.

By Aaron Baar • Sept. 28, 2020

E-commerce ad spend to surge 18% amid overall decline, WARC says

As the pandemic changes consumer behaviors, Amazon's ad business grew 4.5 times faster than Facebook's and 63 times faster than Alphabet's in the first half of 2020, the report notes.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Sept. 25, 2020

Consumers and marketers at odds over ad preferences, Kantar study finds

While consumers prefer offline channels overall and TikTok when it comes to digital, marketers remain committed to established digital platforms.

By Robert Williams • Sept. 23, 2020

Some blue-chip brands see loyalty drop precipitously during pandemic, survey finds

As consumers adjust to a "new normal," an annual ranking of brand loyalty adds the most newcomers ever while some previous stalwarts disappear.

By Aaron Baar • Sept. 17, 2020

Magna: Digital platforms like Amazon remain resilient amid overall ad spending declines

While traditional media faces a bigger blow than during the Great Recession, digital heavyweights are notching gains as e-commerce and streaming are enshrined in consumer habits.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Sept. 16, 2020

Google expands media-buying services as connected TV's importance grows

With the pandemic only compounding media buying's existing troubles, a potential opportunity has opened for digital platforms like Google to gain a stronger foothold.

By Robert Williams • Sept. 16, 2020

Nielsen cuts neuromarketing research amid pandemic

It's unclear whether this is a harbinger of more cutbacks in the neuromarketing space as difficulties recruiting subjects for in-person tests continue.

By Robert Williams • Sept. 15, 2020

Gen Z shows higher ad recall than older age groups, Snap study finds

The cohort's higher rate of brand preference and shorter attention spans suggest both a challenge and opportunity for marketers to connect with this valuable audience.

By Robert Williams • Sept. 10, 2020

Consumers want brands to address systemic racism, survey says

Almost half of respondents said how a brand responds to the protests against racism majorly impacts their likelihood to purchase a product.

By Robert Williams • Sept. 9, 2020

Consumers form loyalties to new brands they bought in quarantine, survey finds

Some of the new shopping habits formed during the pandemic could endure, providing opportunities for marketers, Bazaarvoice found.

By Robert Williams • Sept. 8, 2020