Consumer product goods (CPG) ad spending is in flux, as shown by the public comments of marketers like Kimberly-Clark and technology shifts such as the matching of offline data with online users to track the effectiveness of digital ads. The impact of this shift may be most visible in the area of digital video. In a […]
Brand marketers are shifting from outbound, push-based approaches to creating recurring engagement, fueled by data and technology. This was a key trend at the IBM Smarter Commerce Summit in Tampa Wednesday, where marketers from Allstate, Intercontinental Hotels and David’s Bridal spoke about their respective brands’ journeys from push to pull marketing. Allstate Sanjay Gupta, EVP […]
Pinterest has finally launched the beta version of the Promoted Pins ad product it first promised last September. As flashy as a Pinterest-related ad unit might seem, however, brands still need results. As if on cue, social media marketing company Ahalogy, working with AcuPOLL Precision Research, conducted a study showing that Pinterest users tend to […]
Tremor Video’s management this week hammered on the company’s embrace of programmatic video and talked up plans to roll out a supply-side platform (SSP) for premium publishers later this year. (Read the earnings release.) Tremor posted a top-line revenue increase of 40.8% year over year, to $34.9 million. CEO Bill Day emphasized during Tremor’s earnings call the company’s […]
The relationship between procurement and marketing has always been dicey, but things may be turning a corner. New survey results previewed Wednesday at Association of National Advertisers (ANA) Advertising Financial Management Conference show that while procurement and marketing professionals may not always see eye to eye, both parties are starting to collaborate better to achieve more […]
Although theme-park operator Six Flags says TV still accounts for half of its media mix, smartphone adoption has led the company to define that mix more expansively, meaning “the sight, sound and motion” of digital video. To account for cross-screen consumer habits, the advertiser and its agency, BPN, tapped Tremor Video’s “all-screen” campaign optimization tool, […]
CPG giant Kimberly-Clark embraced programmatic buying in 2011, setting up a “trading desk” that combines in-house oversight with execution through its demand-side platform (DSP), Turn, and its media agency of record, WPP Group’s Mindshare. Mark Kaline, Kimberly-Clark’s global media, licensing and consumer services director, detailed the company’s specific approach and its learnings in a presentation this […]
Update: Dunnhumby CEO Simon Hay tells AdExchanger the acquisition of retail retargeter Sociomantic Labs and its demand-side platform (DSP) technology came from a realization that “we were a media player without really knowing it at all.” “I think we saw the opportunity with everything becoming more programmatic and more of an opportunity to use data […]
During his three years at Kellogg Company, Bob Arnold became a poster child for programmatic buying at the brand marketer level. Arnold, who recently quit cereal to join Google, presented his rules for programmatic at the Association of National Advertisers’ Media Leadership Conference in Boca Raton, Fla., on Tuesday. His key message: Don’t let complexity […]
Programmatic buying is on marketers’ radar, with new survey data from the Association of National Advertisers finding strong adoption of platform-driven buying across a range of media types. But familiar barriers continue to hinder adoption, including a lack of understanding about what programmatic is. Thirty-nine percent of respondents to the ANA survey – which was conducted […]
Target’s December data breach, which exposed the credit card and other personal information of as many as 110 million customers in late 2013, was calamitous for Target, scary for its customers, and an “early Christmas present” for identity protection brand LifeLock Inc., according to the company’s head of media. But rather than sit back and […]
Although national automotive ad budgets are often planned three years in advance, the successes in digital media and marketing on local campaigns have brand managers rethinking those appropriations more frequently. Such was the case with Toyota’s Scion line, a brand designed for younger auto buyers. “Come March, we will likely have discussions as for how […]
The world’s biggest advertiser wants more targeting. According to comments made Friday by Chief Financial Officer Jon Moeller, Procter & Gamble (P&G) has seized the audience segmentation opportunities presented by mobile, social and other digital media. Meanwhile the relatively weak targeting of the TV channel has stripped away some of its appeal, he said. “[Digital […]
You might not call it an epic fail, but Vail Resorts’ first stab at developing its EpicMix social ski app forced the brand to reconsider its original digital approach. First launched by the ski resort in the 2010-2011 season, EpicMix tapped RFID-enabled lift passes and gantries to track where and how skiers soared its slopes. […]
In a sign of the growing incursion consulting firms have made on terrain once held by digital agencies, retailer Belk has tapped management consultancy Accenture to execute its push into cross-channel selling. The consulting firm was chosen from a field of 10 suitors to support the North Carolina-based department store chain’s five-year, $200 million “omni-channel […]
The largest purveyor of Latin American-influenced food products in the United States, Goya Foods has come a long way from the “Goya, oh boy-a!” tagline it popularized in the 1980s. After reaching $1.3 billion in revenue last year, according to Forbes, the New Jersey-based, family-owned and -operated food company will continue to tap its core […]
Lego’s Charles McLeish said the brand’s first attempt at measuring marketing effectiveness began six years ago and is a constant work in progress. “We are not limited to screens,” he said during the Advertising Research Foundation’s Industry Leader Forum this week in New York. “TV and online video are a big part, but we also […]
Marketing beer gives Steve Mura, director of digital marketing for Chicago-based MillerCoors, and his team, a “license to play.” Joining a panel discussion at the DMA 2013 show in Chicago that also included MillerCoors’ agency, DigitasLBI, Mura said digital media has given the modern marketer more capability mid-funnel. “When you think about tools that allowed […]
Michael Scissons, founder and former CEO of the recently shuttered Syncapse, has a new gig as entrepreneur in residence at the Anheuser-Busch InBev brewing company — a title often reserved for venture-capital and law firms. In his new role at AB InBev, Scissons told AdExchanger in an email that he will support the brewing giant […]
Each day at 6:30am, Dunkin Brands President of Global Marketing and Innovation John Costello gets a report showing the previous day’s sales by item at every US location. The company, which owns Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robins, launched 43 new products this year, Costello told marketers at the Association of National Advertisers’ annual Masters of […]
Breaking: The sizzle reel still has legs. Two thousand attendees at the Association of National Advertisers’ annual Masters of Marketing conference were treated to numerous examples of the genre Friday, as senior marketers from Chrysler, Walmart, MARS and Coca-Cola showed off their favorite TV spots. Repeatedly. But while the raw storytelling power of television remains […]
Walgreens is pursuing digital in a “deliberate and strategic way,” according to its CEO. “Sometimes I feel like a B-52 bomber where I’m clearing a path to a 112-year-old brick-and-mortar business,” Greg Wasson confessed to a packed room of retail brands and marketers today at the Shop.org summit in Chicago. “Digital wasn’t something Walgreens was […]
Clearly Criteo is feeling no pressure to “go quiet” following its-F-1 filing last week. President Greg Coleman appeared at Advertising Week yesterday for a rapid-fire session with marketers. At the outset of the panel discussion, it was made clear “there won’t be any questions [taken] about Criteo going public.” Coleman was accompanied onstage at the […]
Shell may bear the label “Big Oil,” but the global brand is not neglecting paid campaigns on the local level. Like many, the company is carefully testing performance of its owned vs. paid media channels. An interesting example can be seen in its use of dynamic video creative to drive people to regional events. “To some, […]
Independently owned-and-operated outdoor specialty retailer Rock/Creek has realized early return as one of Twitter’s early beta advertisers. The brand was founded 25 years ago as a Chattanooga-based canoeing company. It operates five standalone stores in addition to an ecommerce platform, but has yet to mobile-optimize its site. Fifty-one percent of retailers cited this very optimization […]
PopSugar, the online media platform blending everything from celebrity content covering Prince Williams’ new baby to a hand-selected beauty and fashion subscription service, is in the process of creating a full-scale digital outfit to bring content and commerce to a new level. Colette Dill-Lerner, who recently joined PopSugar as EVP of Performance Marketing, spent close […]
Sprint Nextel has seen mobile visits as a ratio of overall traffic spike dramatically in recent months. And it has responded by throwing marketing investment at mobile touch points – including paid media and mobile-in-retail experiences. “The embrace of mobile in commerce, in shopping, in everything we’re doing across marketing has been a huge shift,” […]
What does the marketer really think about the Omnicom-Publicis marriage? Intuit’s Head of Online Acquisition, Cezanne Huq, shared his thoughts on the merger, which is partially informed by his own company’s agency services needs as well as his background in the services world. Though he declines to say exactly which agencies Intuit works with today for competitive reasons, […]
JetBlue, the New York-based airline servicing 78 cities with more than 800 flights per day, stands as one of the first and only carriers to institute a Customer Bill of Rights. In line with that theme is JetBlue’s social media strategy, which initially began as a means of engagement to connect with flyers on Facebook […]
The use of data tied to a consumer’s brand loyalty remains data-driven “gold” to marketers. And as addressability propagates across digital and offline channels, the importance of a loyalty strategy only strengthens. In early July, Alliance Data’s data-management and marketing company, Epsilon, announced (see the release) that it had been chosen as the technology platform for Dunkin’ […]
