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Marketing News Quiz for July 27, 2024
In this week's marketing news quiz: A study on retail media networks, Kamala Harris's trendy presidential campaign, unexpected updates on Google's deprecation of cookies, and more.
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6 Marketing Leaders on How to Better Understand Your Consumer
Being "consumer-obsessed" isn't a new idea for marketers. We are living in an age where data is used to refine targeting, and marketers target products and services to different demographics by tailoring messages (and how those messages are received). However, to do this successfully, consumer demographics need to be understood beyond shallow and superficial narratives.
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How the Industry Is Reacting to Google’s Latest Cookie Bombshell
After years of deliberation, numerous extended deadlines, and a handful of shelved solutions, Google has announced that it won’t be killing the cookie after all. The U-turn comes a number of months after the deadline was once again extended, this time in response to concerns from the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
Search Marketing: SEM, SEO, and More
How are marketers utilizing and optimizing their search marketing efforts?
AI Marketing and Ethics Issues: Bias, Privacy, Transparency, and More
What ethical risks and issues come along with using AI (Artificial Intelligence) in marketing?
USAA Leverages the Army-Navy Game to Attract Customers
The Army-Navy Game presented by USAA offered the organization an excellent opportunity to reflect its brand values and showcase its products and services to a large cross-section of members and prospects. USAA leveraged sponsorship rights and tactics to develop a campaign aligning with fan passion-points while supporting marketing objectives.
National Grid Promotes Energy Efficiency
National Grid undertook a multi-year campaign to encourage its customers to pursue greater energy efficiency.
SAP Riffs on the Day’s News with AI-Generated Images
SAP leveraged AI image-generation to accelerate the creative cycle, allowing it to pitch its technology to mid-size companies.
The UN Live at the Global CMO Growth Council Leadership Assembly in Cannes, 2024
Speaking at the Global CMO Growth Council Leadership Assembly in Cannes, Katja Iversen, CEO of the Museum for the United Nations (UN Live), emphasized the organization's mission to inspire sustainable behavior by engaging people globally.
How CMOs Are Shaping Their GenAI Future
According to our 2024 survey in partnership with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), of over 200 CMOs in seven countries, CMOs increasingly view generative AI (GenAI) not only as a way to improve efficiencies but also to unlock growth.
2024 CMO’s Guide: A Compendium of Cases from Brands Driving Business Growth and Innovation with Generative AI
Adding to the Growth Council’s Position on Generative AI, CMOs and other thought leaders have shared examples of how leading brands across many industries are successfully implementing Generative AI into their marketing strategy.
Negative Option Programs: Trends and Traps to Avoid
This session provided an overview of the legal landscape and key takeaways in light of federal law and rulemaking, new state requirements, and recent enforcement actions surrounding “negative options.”
New Decisions in the NAD and Federal Courts for “100%,” “Made in the USA,” and “Best” Advertising Claims
In this session, speakers discussed recent NAD decisions and the consequences of improperly made claims, along with tips and best practices for advertisers to keep in mind while contemplating the assertion of such claims.
What’s New in Promotions? Developments in Sweepstakes, Charitable Promotions, Gift Cards, Loyalty Programs, and Other Promotions Topics
In this session, learn about new laws and cases regulating promotion techniques, as well as the legal issues raised when promotions integrate cutting-edge technologies like AI, augmented reality, and CGI influencers.
The Cool Down’s Five Big Things: Business and Sustainability Insights from The Cool Down’s Proprietary Audience Data Stack
A media company specializing in sustainability issues, The Cool Down shares insights derived from its proprietary audience data stack to shed light on consumers’ attitudes toward the topic.
An Event to Inspire Latino Men Toward Better Mental Health
In a groundbreaking live event fostering mental health discussions within the Latino community, LATV hosted the "Entre Hermanos Love, Your Mind" event as part of the Love, Your Mind campaign, a collaborative effort from the Huntsman Mental Health Institute and the Ad Council.
Are You Ready for the Next Wave for Advertisers?
From the continued evolution of TV and video advertising to the emergence of adaptive retail, AI-powered strategies, immersive ad formats, and frictionless experiences — we are in the midst of a new ad industry wave. Media teams that don't have the right tools to buy, bill, and pay for media will be left behind.
Charted: Gaming Genre Preferences by Device Type
Comscore shares data that reveals the relative popularity of gaming genres by the types of devices that they are played on.
How Gamers' Device Preferences Affect Their Willingness to Spend on Games
Comscore shares data that reveals the amounts that users are willing to pay for video games based on their preferred device type.
The Ages and Incomes of Gamers, by the Numbers
Comscore shares data that breaks down the percentage of gamers in each age demographic and each household income bracket.
E-commerce Quick Win Package
ANA's E-commerce Quick Win package includes a high-level cheat sheet and a comprehensive, customizable checklist to guide you through every step of the way when activating and growing ecommerce at your company.
E-commerce Cheat Sheet
Use this cheat sheet to learn about marketing's role in e-commerce and how to overcome common pitfalls.
E-commerce Checklist
Use this checklist to help you take a systematic approach to activating and growing e-commerce at your company.
ABM Strategy Playbook
Follow this simple step-by-step guide to develop an account-based marketing (ABM) approach and strategy.
Retail Media Networks: Optimism Tempered with Caution
While retail media networks (RMNs) have been around for well over a decade, they have really come into their own over the past few years. This ANA report concludes that, “Retail media networks have a measurement issue...and therefore better measurement of RMNs is clearly required.”
ANA Ethics Code of Marketing Best Practices
The ANA Ethic Code of Best Marketing Practices is a framework of high-level principles, guidelines, resources and examples of ethical marketing and advertising best practices applicable to all entities engaged in marketing, advertising, and fundraising.
2024 ANA Business Marketing Practice — Marketing Impact Measurement Study
This study and “first-look” discussion guide report explores how to address the “snowflake” problem — that every senior marketing role appears to be uniquely defined. Aspects of the study included C-suite interviews, extensive marketing literature, and contextual industry analysis.
Training Takeaways
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Aligning the Customer Journey to Goals: Lead Gen Versus Retention
The USPS offers examples of how you can tailor your customer journey to either lead generation or retention.
Four Tips for Finding Your Most Valuable Direct Mail Audience
To make direct mail more effective with segmentation, you have to know how to categorize your audience. Finer, more granular audience targeting will focus your message on those who will be the most receptive to it. To achieve just this, consider four tips drawn from the ANA’s Affiliate Training Program, The USPS Advanced Marketing Certificate Program.
Three Advantages of Direct Mail Retargeting Technology
Direct mail retargeting delivers multiple touchpoint opportunities for customers who have engaged with your brand. This technology provides consistency across touchpoints as customers consider and evaluate decisions while navigating their path to purchase. Adopting this approach offers marketers three key advantages as “front-end” activity triggers valuable responses on the back end of the technology.
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