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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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The Once and Future King

Connected TV: Strategy Analytics is reporting that the global Connected FPTV (flat-panel TV) market will grow at a healthy rate of 45% annually during 2012 to reach 91 million units. And while only 40% of all FPTVs sold in 2012 are projected to be internet-enabled, this figure is set to rise to nearly 80% of all FPTV unit sales in 2016.

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Window Washers for an Industry

Time to introduce a new adage to the information age: If you want to know how best to layout an office space, talk to the window washer.

Maybe not the first choice, but when you consider the volume and variety of floor plans a window washer sees over the course of a day, week or month, you start to realize there is a sea of potential insights you might not be considering in your own design.

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CTR for Online Ad Formats, Mandate for Multi-Screens

A recent MediaMind study highlights the avg. CTR for various display ad formats served in the U.S. Of the adformats, video ad-serving template (VAST) and video player-ad interface definition (VPAID) formats performed the best. While these are interesting results, “clicks are not always necessary, particularly when ads are brand focused (vs. DR) and/or when interactive ads appear in long-form video content where clicking would be disruptive to the experience.”

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Live from the LMA Fall Conference in Atlanta

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One More Thing…

Well, it’s finally here. Are you planning to pick one up? With today’s announcement of the iPhone 5, millions of consumers will shortly be gearing up to wait in enormous lines and pick up the latest piece of consumer technology. However, this one could be a big deal.

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Finding the Freedom to Plan ‘Dream Campaigns’

I recently read a great article on Digiday called The Ad Network Transparency Conspiracy that resonated with me – I felt it aligned perfectly with some industry challenges Centro has aimed to address.
If you ask any media planner or buyer to think back to when they studied media planning and were asked to create a “dream campaign,” they’d probably tell you that they hadn’t yet gained understanding of the challenges execution poses in reality. And I seriously doubt that anyone would have relied on networks to account for much of their plan.

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Engaging External Digital Media Partners for the Win

Adding third-party digital media logistics experts to a service provider adds another layer to the evolution of the industry. According to Craig Montgomery, principal of marketing strategy firm CMG partners, “It can be done, but it will take time and there will be some carnage along the way.”

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Mobile to Make Up 7% of Ad Spend and OOH Growth Strong

Is mobile an essential part of your marketing mix? A new MMA (Mobile Marketing Association) study concludes that the optimized level of spend on mobile advertising for U.S. marketers in 2012 should be 7% (on avg.) vs. the current budget allocation of less than 1%. Findings also reveal over the next 4 years, mobile’s share will increase to at least 10% (on avg.) based on increased adoption of smartphones alone. Consumers are rapidly adopting mobile…shouldn’t marketers too?

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The Media Landscape in 2017

Even as we rush headlong towards 2013, the speed-of-light changes in our industry demand we all become visionaries, able to look past what I like to call “The Great Disruption” – the immediate and ever-evolving commotion in the media landscape – to the horizon: 2017.
That’s exactly what I’ll be talking about when representatives from 2,000 local newspapers and their digital products gather in Atlanta from September 11th to the 14th for the 2012 Local Media Fall Publishers’ & Advertising Directors’ Conference.

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