Health care and pharma brands spend north of $3 billion each year on TV ads, according to Kantar Media, but oftentimes the trade-off is the associated waste that results from mass reach. Although these advertisers have been comparatively slow to adopt data-driven digital tactics, more are investing. EMarketer estimates the sector will spend $1.8 billion […]
Maybe the Interactive Advertising Bureau should have titled its Annual Leadership Meeting, “Data, Data Everywhere And Not A Terabyte To Think.” This year’s theme was how Big Data can complement or conflict with big advertising – i.e., creative ideas. The general takeaway was that yes, the two sides can inform and influence each other, but […]
On one end of the online revenue spectrum, there’s advertising, which runs the gamut from direct response (primarily) to traditional, branding-style “premium campaigns” (to a lesser extent). At the other end is e-commerce. Content companies have been playing catch up on both fronts, even as the two revenue streams require very different strategies. Former Google […]
