Marketing

21st Century Branding: Is it a Hoax?
January 19, 2018 at 9:13 am

I smirk when anyone tells me that "branding" is the core of any campaign. Branding is to measurement what superstition is to science. You advertise to do one thing: move product โ€” period. That product is sold either online or offline. Online measurement, while not perfect, is evolving. Offline, up until recently, not so much.โ€ฆ

How Experiential Retail is Disrupting an Industry
January 18, 2018 at 11:07 am

The retail industry is undergoing a major transformation as e-commerce disrupts traditional brick-and-mortar store models and gives rise to new modes of โ€œexperiential retail.โ€ The experiential retail trend is being driven by a number of factors, including the increasing popularity of e-commerce, the decline in traditional department store traffic, and the proliferation of mobile devices.โ€ฆ

CVS Bans Photo Manipulation for Store Beauty Brands
January 16, 2018 at 10:18 am

CVS Health will ban photo manipulation in its store-brand makeup marketing, store aisle displays and social media posts by April 2020. The announcement was made by Helena Foulkes, president of CVS Pharmacy and executive vice president, CVS Health, during her presentation at the National Retail Federation's Big Show in New York yesterday. "As a woman,โ€ฆ

New Ikea Ad Doubles as an At-Home Pregnancy Test
January 10, 2018 at 12:29 pm

A new magazine ad from Ikea is generating a lot of attention. Award-winning Swedish advertising agency Akestam Holst created an ad for the furniture giant that doubles as a pregnancy test, Adweek reported Wednesday. The ad encourages women to dab urine on a modified pregnancy test strip included at the bottom of the magazine ad and wait aโ€ฆ

Retailers Must Rethink Their Data and Analytics Strategies in 2018
January 10, 2018 at 11:39 am

How many times has this happened to you: You visit your favorite department store and loyally purchase the same brands and products youโ€™ve loved for years. A few days later, you receive a generic email promotion from the same department store for products and brands you have no interest in purchasing. This pattern continues forโ€ฆ

Digital Coupons: Must Be More Than Discount Flyers
January 8, 2018 at 11:05 am

A recent study on the impact of coupons concluded that they're still very popular with shoppers and can help drive loyalty, footfall and increased customer spend. The study also found that there were 6 percent fewer coupon redemptions in 2017 than the year prior. Ironically, this is good news for retailers and marketers. How isโ€ฆ

NAPCO Media and 1105 Media Enter Reseller Partnership for Predictive ABM Platform
January 8, 2018 at 10:45 am

NAPCO Media and 1105 Media Inc., two leading business-to-business (B2B) services providers, have announced that NAPCO Media will become a reseller of 1105โ€™s new predictive account-based marketing (ABM) platform, Prophyts. Prophyts, a portfolio company of 1105 Media, enables companies to reach potential buyers early in their purchasing journey โ€” before they raise their hand asโ€ฆ

5 Questions You Need to Ask to Impact the Path to Purchase
January 8, 2018 at 10:38 am

Technology has created an omnichannel world that's bringing together physical and digital shopping experiences and offering a proliferation of touchpoints that influence consumersโ€™ brand opinions and buying behaviors. Marketers are scrambling with how to deal with this new reality, and often there's a lack of insight on how the paths to purchase are influencing salesโ€ฆ

How to Use Data to Power Up Your Customer Acquisition
December 28, 2017 at 12:47 pm

Technology has created an omnichannel world thatโ€™s bringing together physical and digital shopping experiences and offering a proliferation of touchpoints that influence consumersโ€™ brand opinions and buying behaviors. Marketers are scrambling with how to deal with this new reality, and often thereโ€™s a lack of insight on how the paths to purchase are influencing sales [โ€ฆ]