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May 29 2024

2024 Advertising Agency Report

See how advertising agency professionals feel about their jobs, their industry, and the challenges and opportunities that are shaping their futures.
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2024 Basis AI Report Cover
Sep 18 2024

AI and the Future of Marketing

AI has begun to re-shape the marketing and advertising industries. Find out how in this comprehensive research report, featuring exclusive survey findings.
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Dec 4 2024

Reality Check: The 2025 Advertising Trends Report

Uncover the trends and opportunities that will shape advertising in 2025 in this comprehensive report.
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Seats in congress where legislators consider legislation on digital advertising regulation
Aug 7 2024

Digital Advertising Regulation in 2024: What Marketers Need to Know

It’s been a busy year for digital advertising industry regulators. How will the latest legislation impact advertising and marketing professionals?
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Centro’s Green Team Gets Its Hands Dirty

Centro’s Green Team participated in a field trip to Growing Power, a Chicago urban farm that “promotes equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe and affordable food for people in all communities.”

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The State of the Agency, Tablets and SMBs

In collaboration with BOLO, The Agency Post surveyed advertising professionals to understand the state of their agency. Tablets increase news consumption according to a new PewResearch study. A recent study found that 40% of small and mid-sized firms plan to increase their digital spending budget within the next 12 months, while only 3.7% said they plan to decrease digital budgets.

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Maps, Apps and How You Can Target Both

In the wake of the iPhone 5 maps blunder, alternative mapping options have been all the craze; to the point that Apple CEO Tim Cook even suggested going elsewhere in the meantime.
One such suggestion is Waze, an Israel-based traffic and navigation app. Since Cook’s suggestion to use Waze, the app is adding 100,000 users daily. Waze isn’t taking this lightly, they are capitalizing on the opportunity.

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Centro Surpasses 5,000 Campaigns Managed This Year

CHICAGO, IL - Oct. 24, 2012 — Centro (centro.net), a provider of managed services and cloud applications for advertising agencies, today ...

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The Mobile Metric Map Out

When dealing with the digital analytics space, all marketers are essentially looking for the same thing: To quantify the effectiveness of their strategic media campaigns.
Advertisers naturally maintain this same expectation in the mobile realm. However, breaking into a new media space raises a critical question: What types of user engagement will effectively drive valuable user interaction on a mobile device?

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Newsweek, Tablet Ads and Internet Ad Spend

With the rise of digital media, print days are numbered. After nearly 80 years, Newsweek has decided to end their print edition on Dec 31. By 2015, more than half of U.S. internet users will us a tablet, according to eMarketer. Advertising is on the rise around the globe and across nearly all media types, according to Nielsen’s Global AdView Pulse report.

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CEO Spotlight: Centro's Shawn Riegsecker

Read the Entire Story on NBC 5 Chicago

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Simple Solution to Agency Efficiency

If you haven’t yet seen Centro board member Andrew Swinand’s recent guest column in Advertising Age “Want to Win the Race to the Bottom? Don’t Invest in Tech” you’re missing out on one of the most prescient analyses of why agencies need to find new ways to raise their efficiencies and, in turn, their profitability.

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Want to Win the Race to the Bottom? Don’t Invest in Tech

Is the advertising industry willing to look at itself and acknowledge that it has a big problem? Can anything reverse what seems like a race to the bottom and allow a rainbow to emerge?

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