Comic Dive: Delay, Deny, Deflect — So What?

Despite bombshell reports and seemingly endless controversies, marketers have yet to pull their ad dollars from Facebook.

By John Hazard and Lisa Burdige • Nov. 28, 2018

MLB names MGM first official gaming partner as sports-gambling space heats up

MGM sportsbooks will leverage the league's statistics feed and have exclusive access to enhanced stats as part of the multiyear deal.

By Erica Sweeney • Nov. 28, 2018

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Influencer Marketing

Amid a surge in confidence and new platform approaches, brands continue to turn to influencers for fresh content that can reach online consumers.

By Marketing Dive staff

Retailer DXL sees 6.5% engagement boost with AI-powered branded content

Arkadium's new InHabit tool reads articles and automatically inserts a relevant interactive editorial unit, helping DXL generate a 6% click-through rate.

By Erica Sweeney • Nov. 27, 2018

WPP to meld J. Walter Thompson, Wunderman as agency priorities shift

The world's oldest ad agency joins with the digitally oriented Wunderman as its parent company looks to meet a demand for data-driven insights.

By Peter Adams • Nov. 26, 2018

Programmatic advertising expands more slowly than expected, study says

Stricter data laws in Europe and investments in infrastructure by advertisers are two reasons why Zenith has pulled back its forecasts.

By Erica Sweeney • Nov. 26, 2018

Google's ad platform experienced technical problems on Black Friday

Facebook's Ads Manager also experienced an outage for a few hours on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.

By Erica Sweeney • Nov. 26, 2018

Ahold Delhaize introduces its own digital media lab

The retailer will use the lab to leverage customer data and deliver targeted, optimized ad and marketing campaigns to shoppers. 

By Jessica Dumont • Nov. 21, 2018

Digitalization of audio advertising leaps forward in new deals from iHeartMedia, Pandora's AdsWizz

The audio ad market is in flux as consumers spend more time listening to podcasts and streaming music on mobile devices and as the adoption of smart speakers grows.

By Erica Sweeney • Nov. 20, 2018

Halfway across the world, consumers demand brands take political action — but it looks different than in the US

Nearly two-thirds of surveyed UAE consumers think it's important for brands they follow to take a stance on societal issues, but what issues are "acceptable" vary.

By Erica Sweeney • Nov. 20, 2018

Amazon sees 22% jump in 'Thursday Night Football' viewership, MediaPost reports

The tech giant differentiates the Fox TV broadcasts it simulcasts on Prime and Twitch with alternate audio and interactive features.

By Erica Sweeney • Nov. 19, 2018

Sequencing video ads lifts recall 118%, Google finds

20th Century Fox ran a series of ads cut in different ways for "The Greatest Showman" and saw awareness and consideration lifts that were five times stronger than for other trailer campaigns.

By Erica Sweeney • Nov. 19, 2018

From Heineken to Duracell, brands across categories rapidly expand e-commerce teams

Some manufacturers have grown their headcounts by as much as 500% over the past year, with no signs of the space slowing in 2019, Profitero and Kantar Consulting found.

By Erica Sweeney • Nov. 16, 2018

Customer experience matches innovation in importance, new brand value rankings find

A report from WPP and Kantar Millward Brown shows that brands that prioritize the customer experience are growing 200% more than those that don't.

By Erica Sweeney • Nov. 16, 2018

Holiday marketers focus on ads for Stories and Amazon, study says

Seventy-three percent of brands think mobile will be "more important" or "much more important" than desktop sales this year.

By Erica Sweeney • Nov. 15, 2018

Comic Dive: NFL Blitzed

Will an NFL ratings recovery survive change driven by sports betting, politics, cord-cutting and liquor ads?

By John Hazard and Lisa Burdige • Nov. 13, 2018

Yelp's ad business takes a hit after switching to non-term contracts

Following a strong Q2 for ad sales, Yelp was dinged in Q3 when the new contracts led to cancellations and not enough new advertisers signed on.

By Erica Sweeney • Nov. 12, 2018

Top 5 out-of-home advertising trends

While printed signs still dominate, growth in digital out-of-home inventory lets advertisers be more timely, creative and targeted, Geopath's CEO Kym Frank says.

By Dianna Christe • Nov. 12, 2018

Gartner: CMOs spend more on innovation, but use only 61% of martech capabilities

Investments in marketing technology accounted for 29% of budgets this year, up from 22% in 2017.

By Erica Sweeney • Nov. 9, 2018

Toyota powers hydrogen fuel-cell car with high reach, data-driven approach

Partnerships with Amazon, Hearst and others promise to support efforts to target audiences across a wide range of channels with a high level of precision.

By Erica Sweeney • Nov. 8, 2018

6-second ads deliver big mobile viewership, but little emotional punch, study says

"The explosion of short form content caused by the emergence of mobile and erosion of consumer attention have changed the rules of the game," a Mars executive said.

By Robert Williams • Nov. 7, 2018

Study: 85% of millennials have purchased a product after watching a video

Video was the most memorable form of content for 21% of consumers and 29% of millennials. 

By Erica Sweeney • Nov. 7, 2018

Tug-of-war: How disruptors fight to balance brand and performance marketing

As digital direct brands like Stitch Fix mature, they're grappling with how to sustain momentum and differentiate from both legacy players and even younger upstarts. 

By Peter Adams • Nov. 7, 2018

Facebook properties saw content consumption slide 7% in September, analysis finds

While Facebook's core platform has gained more users, they're using the site less, leading to an estimated 20% decline in content consumption per person.

By Erica Sweeney • Nov. 7, 2018

Amazon's DSP jumps ahead of Google's as most-used by advertisers, study says

The two programmatic buying platforms tied for usage in January, but a new report shows the Amazon Advertising Platform at 41% usage and DoubleClick Bid Manager at 35% usage in July.

By Erica Sweeney • Nov. 6, 2018

Forrester: CMOs will use societal controversy to spark consumer energy in 2019

Marketing heads will also be more proactive in championing customer data privacy and using it to differentiate their brands, according to a list of predictions from the research firm. 

By Erica Sweeney • Nov. 6, 2018