Video, Meet the New Audio Star: Clubhouse

Clubhouse, a new invite-only “drop-in audio chat” app available on iOS, is gaining momentum. Launched in March 2020, Clubhouse is the latest platform making brand marketers take notice of the power of audio as a communication channel.

Will Human Craft Make a Comeback in the Post-Cookie Era&quest

2021 on paper is daunting.  But could 2021 be the year of rebirth? Q1 will bring Apple’s diminishment of IDFA.  We’re also wrestling with the best way to soften the impact of Google’s 2022 third-party cookie deprecation on Chrome. 

Ecommerce Marketing Strategies for Growth in 2021

Marketing is an area of your business where you should never be satisfied with current results. There are virtually always new angles, methods, and trends you can implement to get the most out of your advertising spend.

5 Overlooked Realities of True Omnichannel Success

Today more than ever, organizations need to put their customers at the center of their marketing programs and build plans based on a deep understanding of where and how they can deliver the most value.

2021: The Year Of The Independent Agency

Agencies of all shapes and sizes were disrupted as the pandemic plunged our industry into the unpredicted territory. And while the experience has been humbling for us all, I’d argue it has gone a long way to showcase the strengths of the independent agency model and how they work with their partners.

How to Tie the Loose Ends of Your Brand

Good branding is the foundation for all your marketing success, which is why so much effort goes into it. It’s important that your branding is memorable and constant across all channels and platforms, with one report finding that consistent branding increases revenue by 33%.

Great Expectations: Why Customers Want More From Your Words In 2021

The words businesses are using are under a microscope. And that means brands need to make sure that what they’re saying – and how they’re saying it – stands up to scrutiny. So how do you make sure your words are fit for purpose, no matter what 2021 throws at us?

What’s in Store for Food & Nutrition in 2021?

Now that 2021 is well underway, consumers everywhere are seeking knowledge and practical advice on how to better themselves and their health after a rocky year under quarantine and stress.

The Evolution Of Experience Design In 2021

5 experience principles that are fundamental to how we can design and reimagine brand experiences that work at every stage of the consumer lifecycle, for 2021 and beyond.

Younger Consumers Are Craving More (Authentic) Health And Wellness Visuals

With increasing awareness around mental health for Gen Z and Millennials, brands have a distinct opportunity and also a responsibility to connect with younger consumers by more accurately reflecting the realities of how and why these generations prioritize their mental wellbeing.

How 2020 Changed America

Throughout all of these events, the impact on the daily lives of Americans was profound. The compounding crises altered how we work, how we learn, how we entertain ourselves and even how we think about social issues.

3 Tips to Creating High-Powered Online Experiences

In this article, we will focus on high-powered messaging, although frequent messaging is rather straight forward as businesses engage in frequent, cross-channel advertising to catch the consumer near or at the point of consumption.

3 Tips to Creating High-Powered Online Experiences

In this article, we will focus on high-powered messaging, although frequent messaging is rather straight forward as businesses engage in frequent, cross-channel advertising to catch the consumer near or at the point of consumption.

7 Retail Trends to Fall in Love With

Retailers are ready to make the most of limited in-store options and online shopping this year. And while the pandemic has undoubtedly accelerated the dramatic transformation of the consumer retail market, the trends that have been driving this transformation have actually been around for years.

The New Tools for Tangible Transformation

As brands seek to continue transforming at speed, they require a new set of tools to build a structure that will withstand shake-ups in the digital landscape.

Kind Words at Work

The pandemic turned work-life on its head. We’re caught in the tumbling load of a never-ending workday, pinballing between Zoom and Slack, duking it out with the family for WiFi, dishes piling up around us in our office…er…kitchen, and just trying to hold it together while we just. take. a. minute. to. remember. what. day. it. is.

An Audience of One: The President

The CNN town hall in Milwaukee gave President Biden a chance to “speak to the American people,” said a Marquette University professor. When Biden arrived in Milwaukee (February 16) billboards spoke directly to the President.

Facebook’s Winter of Discontent

Though Facebook and Apple have been taking jabs at each other for years, the past two years seems to have been an acceleration toward an unavoidable crash. One that the industry has been nervously watching.

Ageism in Media Buying: The $4 Trillion Missed Opportunity

Within the advertising world, there is an inherent stigma associated with targeting older consumers. Too often marketers believe their next job lies in reaching young, hip consumers rather than focusing on the customers that are going to translate to the most sales today.

2021 is Actually 2030: We Are In Our Digital Future

If I was to predict 2030, I would have predicted that machines would be helping us make some of the most important decisions of our lives, what to buy, where to go, who to meet, and more.

Announcing the AWEurope 2021 Stages!

Returning for its ninth edition 10 – 13 May, AWEurope will be an immersive digital experience like no other. We’re excited to officially announce our stages and tracks.

Repairing Consumer Trust is the Only Way Forward

Strong relationships are built on trust. That’s true between your friends, it’s true between your neighbors, and it’s true in your businesses. It’s also true when we talk about the relationship between buyer and seller, who often come together as strangers.

The Return to New Normal for eCommerce

It’s no surprise that last year we saw a spike in pandemic-related products, such as hand sanitizer and face masks, with the majority of top 10 product searches being related to these protective items and panic buying peaking in July of 2020.

Are You Super Bowl Ready?

The Super Bowl is the single biggest entertainment event in the United States, and has always been a cornerstone strategy for brands to reach a massive audience in a brand-safe environment (wardrobe malfunctions notwithstanding).

The Eyes Have It

Scholars say the unblinking eyes of the Gatsby billboard observed the morality of the Roaring Twenties, perhaps a vigil of the Almighty. The omnipresent billboard also symbolized something more earthly: our deep cultural connection with out of home advertising.

How IDFA Being Targeted Will Affect Ad Tech

Apple’s Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) is under fire as two new complaints have been filed from the European privacy campaign. The company’s setting of the IDFA breaches regional privacy laws on digital tracking because iOS users are not asked for their consent for the identifier’s initial storage.

Finding and Hiring Talent in a Remote Work Climate

Technology is transforming the creative space. Wripple is the first agency services platform that lets you find expert, on-demand teams. We interviewed Co-Founder Ray Samuels for more insight into the mission to make it easier to find and hire talent and what this means for space in 2021.

Why Brands Need To Be Agents of Positive Impact in 2021

The word “unprecedented” has been used a lot to describe 2020. Only a few weeks into 2021 and it’s seeping into the new year as well. Yet, we’ve learned over the last several months that as people we are resilient and determined to find hope and optimism through it all.

In 2021 Approach SPO With Collaboration In Mind

In its truest form, SPO was designed to bring advertisers and publishers closer together, remove the noise, and pull back the curtain that historically formed between the two.

Advertising in 2021: Seizing the Moment in OTT

Our industry has changed and the seemingly separate worlds of digital and linear TV are colliding. As this convergence continues to become more commonplace and the viewing experience preferred by consumers rapidly evolves, the benefits of services have become impossible for traditional broadcasters to ignore.

Enhance Brand Awareness To Unlock Growth In 2021

Brand awareness has been at the forefront of priorities for digital marketing managers the last couple of years and has become even more important amidst obvious market changes. So what exactly does it take to achieve this?

The Rise of the Spectator

As we approach 2021 with little confidence in things returning to normal any time soon, is it time for brands to help add some much-needed friction back into people’s lives?

5 Reasons New Business Pitching Will Stay Remote In 2021

2020 was a year of challenges, but also, a year of learnings… sometimes the hard way. Suddenly, everything in our agencies changed, and we had to learn how to communicate, brainstorm, chat, present, produce… everything we used to do, but we had to learn how to do in a completely different way, and from a distance—remotely.

A How To Guide To Sustainability in Experiential

Below is a ‘how-to guide’ of practical tips to reduce experiential’s environmental impact. Whether you decide to implement them all or begin with just a few, every step taken is a valuable one. 

Bring Multiplayer AR Alive with Interactive Physics

As augmented reality experiences have become more mainstream, they have also become more and more robust, looking and feeling realistic. But until recently, they have been largely confined to a single-user experience.

Online Digital Identity: A Tale of Two Internets

The internet has always represented an amalgamation of anonymous activity and authenticated users, with the balance of power between these two diametric views of online behavior swinging dramatically throughout the digital age.

The CMO’s Guide to Ad Fraud

What if you could increase the accuracy of your performance data, reduce wasted cost and reinvest the savings in brand-building initiatives?

The Sustainability Agenda Drives Innovation

These are challenging times for producers in the FMCG arena. Although Covid has had a detrimental effect on some industries, it has also been very positive for others.

A Digital CES Means Big Opportunity For Bold, Innovative Brands

If there was ever an event that can benefit from using an all-digital format to make significant leaps forward, it’s CES. And there is no doubt that the best practices from CES 2021 will shape what the event will look like for years to come.

Good Design Saves Lives

The words design and creativity are widely misunderstood. If you were to ask people what they first think of when hearing them, they might say painting or drawing.

The Breakdown of Point Solutions in a Platform-Based World

The era of the standalone data management platform (DMP)—along with tech point solutions in general—is rapidly coming to an end. For a lot of brands that are hugely invested in their current tech stacks, this represents an unpleasant reality.

The Science Behind A Great Meme

First and foremost, good memes often take a novel approach to media and typically break corporate creative norms. What’s produced by the average corporate design team is likely too polished and too reliant on thoroughly researched formulas to capture the right mood.

How Brands Can Save the Holidays

The most powerful takeaway was that the coronavirus is causing consumers to face a duality of competing thoughts.

Data-Informed Creative is the Tree-Topper This Christmas Season

While analytical tools to understand and fine-tune creative performance are becoming more readily available, many brands are slow to adopt them, often casting them aside as simply more tools, more tech, and yet another platform to learn.

Announcing AW & Facebook’s What Matters Series!

Facebook and Advertising Week will be partnering in 2021 with a series of events. We invite you to join top industry experts and a diverse crowd of your peers as we explore What Matters in the year ahead.

Introducing AW All Access

Advertising Week is pleased to announce the launch of AW All Access, our all-new exclusive membership program, featuring digital access to a wealth of unparalleled industry content for only $249 annually.

Peace Out 2020, What’s Next for CTV in 2021

While almost every corner of digital advertising has experienced change this year, CTV has certainly seen a notable uptick in investment, driven by consumer trends: 80 percent of U.S. households now stream video to a connected device.

The Purpose Imperative: True Values Matter More Than Ever in Marketing

While it would be a big stretch to suggest that brands can fix society’s problems, who’s better suited than marketers to offer messages of reassurance—or even joy. To shift the conversation to what’s next and how we’ll get there, we’ll need brand leadership, rooted in something besides platitudes.

How to Embrace the Changes Caused by COVID-19

Our recent research revealed that 84% of consumers surveyed in the US and UK think their behaviours and habits have already changed for the foreseeable in the light of COVID-19, and these changes go beyond online shopping habits.

How Gen Z is Sick of ‘It’, Yet Making Things Happen

They are sick of it (it = all the things) but are making things happen. They are trying to figure out how to help themselves and the world all at the same time. They are frustrated but fierce, tired but tireless, fearful but powerful.

Blockchain Technology Is Entering the World of Gaming

Blockchain technology has already created an online economy. What other applications can this revolutionary new innovation have in the world of gaming? Let’s look at exciting new developments in the future of the industry.

7 Social Media KPIs You Should Be Tracking In 2021

According to financeonline.com, the number of social media users is expected to increase to more than 4 billion by 2021. As social media continues to play a role in many companies’ digital marketing campaigns, here are seven crucial KPIs to look-out for in 2021.

Tis the (new) Season: A Different Holiday Paradigm

For the third and final installment in our research series on consumer anxiety, we asked Americans about their holiday plans: How will they celebrate their traditions? Will they gather?

Elevating Storytelling and E-Commerce Strategies with Gaming Tech

Gaming technology is making waves in the advertising industry as a powerful production solution. Techniques previously reserved for video games promise to positively change the production playing field for brands, agencies and creative studios alike.

Where is the Experiential Marketing Heading in 2021?

2020 saw everything change, with the global health crisis largely eliminating live events and upending proven marketing techniques. With brands eager to reunite with customers, experiential marketing pivoted to help forge these important relationships now and into the future.

Gamers Are Not Who You Think They Are

The gaming audience is larger, more diverse, and more nuanced than many realize. Gamers are multifaceted and oftentimes misunderstood.

The Future Of Bringing Virtual And Physical Events Together

The shift from physical to digital events is an unavoidable necessity in the current climate. Even pre-COVID there was a significant movement towards hybrid events, but the pandemic put a rocket up the entire industry when it comes to virtual.

The Secret to Great Media Plans – Don’t Hesitate

Here’s one of my cardinal rules for media planning: the opportunity of a lifetime is only there during the lifetime of the opportunity. When it comes to maximizing the reach and efficiency of a media plan, those opportunities fly by at light speed.

Upgrading Non-Alcoholic Drinks to First Class

The brand needed a suite of both product photography and lifestyle photography to be used across its website, social channels and PR campaigns. With no pre-existing assets, the Wonderhatch team had a clean slate to work from.

5 Strategies to Help Protect Your Brand in Social Media

As part of your social media marketing efforts, you should be aware of the possibilities of mistakes that can damage your brand’s image. Taking steps towards prevention is always the best solution to protecting your brand in social media.

Raising Good Humans

Our latest AWMoms Table Talk, Raising Good Humans, features Dr. Aliza Pressman of The Raising Good Humans Podcast in conversation with UWG’s Monique Nelson and Facebook’s Crystal Worthem.

Fast 5 on the Future of Finance

Mary Hines, Chief Marketing Officer, U.S. Consumer Bank at Citi, will share her perspective on key trends transforming the financial services industry.

Be Ready For What’s Next in Finance

The past year has significantly accelerated the shift to digital and cemented new consumer behaviors. But what changes will be lasting, and how can finance marketers be ready for what’s next? This…

Fast 5 on the Future of Auto

Since COVID, the automotive industry has completely transformed. Trends that were once emerging, like buying cars online or choosing to purchase an electric vehicle, are now becoming mainstream. In this session, Miran…

Driving Transformation: A Discussion with Ford

Ford’s vision, to accelerate change by focusing on the data created outside the four doors of the vehicle, is ushering a new era within the 100+ year old company. Hear from Suzy…

Be Ready For What’s Next in Auto

As digital acceleration continues, auto shoppers are shifting what they buy, how they buy, and where they buy. How can auto marketers be ready and meet shoppers where they are?

Fast 5 on the Future of Travel

Hear directly from Chandreyi Davis, VP of Global Brand for Expedia Group, who will share her perspective on the future of travel.

Be Ready For What’s Next in Travel

The future of travel will be flexible, intentional and “up for grabs.” How can travel marketers be ready? This session will cover the latest consumer insights and travel product innovations.

Fast Five on the Future of Retail

Hear from Sajal Kohli, Senior Partner and Head of Retail & CPG practices at McKinsey on lessons other markets can learn from retail reopening in APAC, the future role of stores, and…

Fast Five on the Future of B2B

As B2B buying evolves to become more digitally-driven and more decision-making becomes more democratized across organizations, B2B marketers must rethink their approach to engaging and influencing their customers. In this session, Saber…

Be Ready for What’s Next in Retail

The past year has significantly accelerated the shift to ecommerce and created new consumer behaviors. But what changes will be lasting, and how can retailers be ready for what’s next? This session…

Be Ready for What’s Next in B2B

The shift to digital cemented new buyer behaviors, particularly as the workforce became remote and in-person meetings and events were put on hold. How can B2B marketers be ready for what’s next?…

The Unique Challenges of Marketing to Moms Amid Covid-19

Kids of all ages are no longer going to school, daycare, extra-curricular, or occupied by babysitters. While the family time and chance to grow alongside their children is appreciated, for many mothers it’s a 24-hour, 7 days-a-week job that has moms everywhere feeling the emotional and physical fatigue.

AWMoms and Facebook Present Table Talk

To celebrate Mother’s Day 2020, Advertising Week and Facebook joined forces for AWMoms Table Talk, featuring casual discussions between working mothers in the industry.

AWMoms and Facebook Present Table Talk

To celebrate Mother’s Day 2020, Advertising Week and Facebook joined forces for AWMoms Table Talk, featuring casual discussions between working mothers in the industry.

AWMoms: Life is Choices

Stephanie Latham currently leads the Technology, Mobility & Connectivity Sales Teams at Facebook; her story for AWMoms is nothing short of a must-read.

AWMoms: Katie Couric

AWMoms is a committee of moms supported by Advertising Week who work inside and outside of the home; for themselves, for organizations, corporations, and their families.

AWMoms: Janet Balis

AWMoms is a committee of moms supported by Advertising Week who work inside and outside of the home; for themselves, for organizations, corporations, and their families.

AWMoms: Carolyn Montrose

AWMoms is a committee of moms supported by Advertising Week who work inside and outside of the home; for themselves, for organizations, corporations, and their families.

AWMoms: Ambika Pai

AWMoms is a committee of moms supported by Advertising Week who work inside and outside of the home; for themselves, for organizations, corporations, and their families.

AWMoms: Monique Nelson

AWMoms is a committee of moms supported by Advertising Week who work inside and outside of the home; for themselves, for organizations, corporations and their families.

AWMoms: Laney Crowell

AWMoms is a committee of moms supported by Advertising Week who work inside and outside of the home; for themselves, for organizations, corporations and their families.

AWMoms: Ranae Heuer

AWMoms is a committee of moms supported by Advertising Week who work inside and outside of the home; for themselves, for organizations, corporations and for their families.

AWMoms: Melissa Hobley

AWMoms is a committee of moms supported by Advertising Week who work inside and outside of the home; for themselves, for organizations, corporations and for their families.

AWMoms: Soyoung Kang

AWMoms is a committee of moms supported by Advertising Week who work inside and outside of the home; for themselves, for organizations, corporations, and their families.

AWMoms: Jillian Goger

AWMoms is a committee of moms supported by Advertising Week who work inside and outside of the home; for themselves, for organizations, corporations and for their families.

AWMoms Q&A with Carly Hertica

As part of our ongoing commitment to telling the stories of industry mothers, we spoke with Carly Hertica. Carly has worked in development and fundraising for non-profits since graduating from Manhattan College in 2012.

AWMoms: Lainie Mulvey

AWMoms is a committee of moms supported by Advertising Week who work inside and outside of the home; for themselves, for organizations, corporations and for their families.

AWMoms: Karina Vasquez

AWMoms is a committee of moms supported by Advertising Week who work inside and outside of the home; for themselves, for organizations, corporations and for their families.

Writing An Article For Advertising Week

As a valued partner, we appreciate you being a part of the Advertising Week family and invite you to join and contribute to our digital media platform.  Think of our digital offerings…

Mother May I Keep My Job?

Moms in the workplace shape the future every day, whether it’s at their job or at home, growing future leaders and innovators. Working moms are more than just “mommy” or “boss”. They’re superheroes.

Mother’s Day and Agency Life

In the business world, Mother’s Day has become a time to critically reflect on the gap that still exists in creating a supportive culture and opportunity for working moms.

Retrain Travel: How Amtrak is Building for the Next Generation

The discussion centers on Amtrak’s strategy to reposition train travel as a cutting-edge, tech-enabled experience. Panelists delve into the challenges of reshaping public perception around travel, aiming to transform it from a…

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As the reality of a soon-to-be cookieless world sets in for publishers, all eyes are on the need to diversify revenue streams and forge deeper connections with readers through insights gleaned from first-party data.