September, 2018

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How Content Marketing Benefits Ad Agency New Business

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Agencies talk about the value of content marketing but few are doing it and even fewer do it well. I spoke recently, for the first time, at Content Marketing World Conference & Expo. There were over 4000 marketers from 50 different countries that participated. But, where were the ad agencies? They were noticeably absent from the largest content marketing event in the world.

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Dawson, Pickering go vintage and French for Vintage French

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Creative team Neil Dawson and Clive Pickering are back in the saddle for upscale furniture business Vintage French, which sources French and French-style pieces for homes, restaurants, hotels and films. And, as it says on the tin, it’s vintage and French, featuring a mime artist in online and print.

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A new role…

Gods of Advertising

I have news. I am excited to announce my new role as Executive Creative Director for R2integrated, a full service digital marketing agency. R2i has several offices, including Silicon Valley (home base) and their headquarters in Baltimore, where I will also be spending time. As of this writing, I’ve had one official meeting, so I can’t really comment on the agency’s work or philosophy.

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How to Find New Customers: Top Ways to Use Location Based Mobile Ads

InMobi

Consistently, mobile marketing professionals struggle to accurately target their ideal customers, even through location based mobile ads. According to one recent report, which surveyed 2,000 marketers, 60 percent of respondents said they experienced difficulties with finding and reaching target audiences through mobile ads. LEARN MORE However, when done right, location based mobile ads can yield huge dividends for marketers, far greater than anything from word of mouth, content marketing or soci

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Got Comment Spam? Akismet to the Rescue!

UNI Digital Advertising

Akismet is a WordPress plugin that protects you from comment spam. This begs the questions: “What is Comment Spam?” and “Why do you need protecting from it?” What is Comment Spam? The bane of bloggers everywhere is an incipient form of spam known as comment spam. Comment spammers will post seemingly genuine comments to your blog posts which praise the quality of your blog post.

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America Is Ugly. Americans Who Vote Are Beautiful.

AdPulp

Alamo Drafthouse invited writers, actors and filmmakers from all over the United States to collaborate on the most outrageous, entertaining and non-partisan under-30-second PSAs imaginable, all with one goal: Urging American citizens to vote. The winning PSA in the Filmmaking Frenzy for America contest will now screen nationally at Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas and online until […].

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Ciesco: WPP turns a corner in post Sorrell era, Publicis is worst performer during H1 2018

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By James Harries, analyst WPP, the world’s largest marketing group, shares hit a five-year low in July amidst continued uncertainty following the departure of long-term chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell, as well as the uncertainty of GDPR. Former COO Mark Read was appointed as new CEO in September, tasked with driving a new era of.

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Reverse engineering creative so it seems scientific.

Gods of Advertising

The “science” behind the creative. One of the things I’ve come to disdain about our business is how damn serious we take it. Not the craft itself — creating, curating and choreography — but the extemporaneous crap we built around it. Stuff like process and proprietary tools; the things we fill our slides with to make people think we’re methodical and scientific.

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How are Prices Set in an Auction? Determining CPMs in an In-App Ad Auction [VIDEO]

InMobi

WATCH VIDEO It’s now well known that app publishers can maximize their revenue through in-app advertising, but some of the mechanics behind the scenes within an in-app ad auction are not always well known about among the app developer community. Technologies like in-app header bidding and real-time bidding are involved, sure, but many app publishers often have questions about the specifics.

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USPS Proposal May Cause Direct Mail Advertisers To ‘Go Postal’

All About Advertising Law

Readers of this blog often learn how the government regulates modern instruments for customer engagement – social media, texting campaigns, e-commerce sites, the use of influencers, and more. Old habits die hard, however, and many marketers continue to use the U.S. Postal Service to connect with consumers. When those mailers want to reach a large audience, Marketing Mail (formerly known as Standard Mail) may be the answer.

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Retail media advertising: How e-commerce is becoming AdTech’s next frontier

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Oddly, Workplace Ghosting Is The Trend That Reveals

AdPulp

Do you know what ghosting is? It started with online dating, but the practice of disappearing in the middle of a project you’re working on, or a job interview you’re in the middle of, is now widespread. It’s a sickening trend and its end is not now in sight. The LinkedIn post I made about […]. The post Oddly, Workplace Ghosting Is The Trend That Reveals appeared first on Adpulp.

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From The Nothing New Dept : Retail’s New Niche

Advertising to Baby Boomers

Retail's new niche: Aging baby boomers The number of senior citizens in the United States is expected to nearly double by 2050, creating a fast-growing niche for retailers and manufacturers. Odd sentence. What is an ‘aging’ baby boomer? I guess one who isn’t dead. That would be true of any demographic. How about ‘fast-growing niche’? I guess in the grand scheme of things, thirty-odd years is a nanosecond.

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Brands stand together against hate in shocking Channel 4 Friday night ad break

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When brands stick their necks out to embrace diversity and do the right thing, they invariably suffer a social media backlash from bigots. Channel 4 is exposing brand-focused hate speech with a themed ad break during Gogglebox, when three big advertisers — Maltesers, Nationwide and McCain — will show commercials featuring disabled, black or gay.

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Digital Advertising Goal Setting 101

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From a young age we are taught about goal setting and (usually) to have a 5-year plan. The primary reason for this is that, to achieve a goal, it is said that one has to be able to visualize the goal and manifest it in his / her mind over time. More concretely, there are steps that need to be taken to achieve goals and without the goal in mind, the steps to get there would not be clear.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Top Highlights of DMEXCO 2018

InMobi

Last week was DMEXCO 2018, one of the premier mobile marketing and advertising conferences for EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) and the rest of the world. Trends and discussions coming out of DMEXCO often highlight the major trends in all things mobile for the next 12 months, and we were excited to be in the thick of the action again this year.

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Learn the Answers About Consumer Surveys

All About Advertising Law

Consumer surveys play an increasingly important role in advertising law, whether it’s a Lanham Act case, a regulatory or self-regulatory matter, or internal counseling. Yet consumer surveys can also be a trap for the unwary. On Thursday, September 20, join Venable’s Randy Shaheen , as well as Jacqueline Chorn and Jason Och , experts from Applied Marketing Science , for a webinar that will unpack some of the mysteries surrounding the design and implementation of consumer surveys.

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Nature’s Bakery Fuels the Phenomenal

AdPulp

You know a kid with a dream. How are you supporting this young person and the dream that she or he holds dear? When you are a parent, a teacher, an uncle or aunt, or a good neighbor, you find a way. Nature’s Bakery has partnered with Philadelphia-based creative agency Red Tettemer O’Connell + Partners […]. The post Nature’s Bakery Fuels the Phenomenal appeared first on Adpulp.

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BIMBO - Sync social ads with T????V? ?& Sport during the World Cup 2018

AdGlow

The Russia World Cup 2018 was a huge opportunity for brands to grow social media engagement and increase brand awareness. BIMBO , the global leader in the baking industry wanted to take advantage of this massive event and work with Adglow to leverage innovative social advertising technology to increase their brand reach and engagement.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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VML ECD Harsh Kapadia picks his Desert Island Ads

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VML London ECD Harsh Kapadia began his career as an art director at JWT Mumbai before moving to JWT Melbourne and New York where he worked on brands including Kleenex, Smirnoff, Nestle and Rolex. He joined VML in 2012. Desert Island Ads Each time someone asks what my favourite piece of advertising is, my answer.

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Nike’s new ‘rallying cry’ for women misses the point

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“Just Do it” is a rallying cry in Nike’s latest instalment of its 30-year celebration of its famous slogan. The campaign began with controversial American footballer Colin Kaepernick but this one is a diversity number, featuring lots of sportswomen you probably haven’t heard of. Although Serena Williams is in there somewhere, not bashing up an.

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VML raids Europe indie agencies for new creative hires

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WPP digital network VML is expanding apace in Europe and ECD Harsh Kapadia has raided some leading creative agencies including noted independents for four new hires, all women. They are senior creative team Eve Kemanes and Andreea Nedelcu, senior copywriter Paula Hochberg and senior designer Athina Collaro. Kemanes worked at Ogilvy and VCCP, Nedelco at.

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Agency behemoths off to Germany for last round VW pitches

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Adweek reckons that teams from Omnicom, Interpublic and WPP are trekking off to Wolfsburg next week to complete the pitch for VW’s ad account – about to be split into regional ‘hubs’ in new VW CMO Jochen Sengpiehl’s big new plan. VW spent $6.7bn on advertising in 2016 although Sengpiehl says he wants to spend.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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BrewDog pinches rivals’ slogans in vintage knocking copy campaign from Isobel

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Scottish craft brewery BrewDog has so far resisted the blandishments of the big brewers (although not private equity) and agency Isobel has created a perky new poster campaign for the beer “disrupter,” comparing its products to some better known mass market brands. And appropriating their ad slogans. Using ratings from ratebeer.com, which is now owned.

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Freeview rides Anomaly’s ‘free love highway’ in TV market awash with silly money

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Freeview and agency Anomaly would have us believe that the UK’s Freeview gives us a ride on the ‘Free Love Freeway,’ which I guess it does as you don’t have to pay for it. Vocalisation by Ricky Gervais/David Brent – which most viewers probably won’t get but a nice touch. A timely reminder from Freeview.

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Radiocentre’s Siobhan Kenny: why fake news farrago matters to advertisers as much as politicians

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If the furore over fake news and brand safety has taught us anything, it’s that trust is set to be the major factor determining where the advertising money goes in future. Impartial, well-funded news was always supported by advertising revenues until social media came along and disrupted all that. And after the heady rush which.

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Mother and Moneysupermarket finally go their own ways with help from Sindy and Fleetwood Mac

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Two Sindy dolls get the last word in Mother’s last ad for Moneysupermarket, which takes the form of a tribute to Ridley Scott’s classic 1991 movie, Thelma & Louise. Just like in the film, the two main characters drive away from suburbia in search of freedom, and finish by triumphantly soaring off a cliff together.

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Solving the Biggest Tech Challenges in RevOps

In this eBook, we’ll run through real-world examples that show how RevOps teams can benefit from modern solutions for the access, management, and activation of their GTM data. Whether you need to improve lead response times, boost adoption of core tools, improve lead qualification, or target and automate your GTM motions, you’ll find examples of how revenue teams are solving some of the toughest problems in modern business.

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Got milk? Breast pumping gets its catwalk debut, and inspires some cool dance moves

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What’s the “next big thing” at London Fashion Week? Well, it’s got nothing to do with hemlines or colour palettes – this season it’s all about the stealth breast pump, if femtech firm Elvie is to be believed. Elvie launched a new breast pump at the weekend by sending model Valeria Garcia down the catwalk.

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MDC Partners on sale block after CEO Kauffman quits

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Who’s going to buy MDC Partners now? We’ve asked this question before (and had no takers) but chairman and CEO Scott Kauffman has resigned after three years during which time the company seemed to be recovering until it missed all its targets this year. MDC owns Anomaly, CP+B and 72andSunny among others so it must.

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Media agencies face new US undisclosed rebates probe

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We’ve noted the way media agencies seem to have ridden out the 2016 US ANA report into undisclosed media rebates and the like, based on their holding company owners’ published results anyway. But now the Wall Street Journal reports that US federal prosecutors have launched a probe into such alleged practices with Havas reported to.

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Talon Outdoor: the revolutionary new role for automation in out of home media planning

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The ‘Smarter as Standard’ 3-part video series focuses on the launch of Talon’s ‘Smarter as Standard’ manifesto, the role of automation in smarter planning in OOH, and the use of data in smarter planning in OOH. Back in March we launched our manifesto outlining our point-of-view on the future of OOH – road mapping how.

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Drive GTM Efficiency with Tech Stack Consolidation

Consolidating your tech stack is an effective cost-saving measure that drives GTM efficiency and adds value to your enterprise. With a cohesive, integrated tech stack, your revenue teams can deliver an excellent customer experience that sets you up to win faster than your competitors.