Calling all industry experts!

Calling all industry experts!

Today, creative technology studio Appetite Creative has made a call out to the wider advertising, retail and packaging industry asking them to share their thoughts on the future of connected packaging innovations via a short survey. Taking just three minutes to complete, the 2024 Connected Packaging Survey gives participants an opportunity to shape the future […]

ACT Climate Labs research shows cultural context is essential for climate action

ACT Climate Labs research shows cultural context is essential for climate action

Today, advertising and climate experts ACT Climate Labs, in partnership with cultural insights agency Bricolage, shared new research findings into ‘Why words matter: how to speak to Brits about climate change’. The report outlines how the challenges of communicating climate change can be solved by getting the cultural context right. ACT coined the phrase ‘Persuadables’ […]

AN AD IS FOR LIFE NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS: NEW EVIDENCE CHRISTMAS ADS DON’T WEAR OUT

AN AD IS FOR LIFE NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS: NEW EVIDENCE CHRISTMAS ADS DON’T WEAR OUT

Reused ads, or those using recurring elements, are scoring extremely well Repeating existing ads and reusing existing characters at Christmas is a highly effective strategy, according to new evidence from System1, who test every Christmas ad every year on their Test Your Ad platform. That tallies with existing studies into “Wear-Out” from System1, which show […]

Brands are wasting budget on ‘annoying’ ads that do more harm than good, new YouGov survey finds

Brands are wasting budget on ‘annoying’ ads that do more harm than good, new YouGov survey finds

YouGov/Picnic UX survey shows 70% of people find digital adverts annoying – and that bad user experience is doing real damage to brands More than two-thirds of people (70%) find digital advertising annoying and unpleasant, while 72% say that bad advertising experiences have negatively affected their perception of a brand, according to new research that […]

U.S. Workers to Senior Leaders: “You Have No Idea What We Really Want, Do You?”

U.S. Workers to Senior Leaders: “You Have No Idea What We Really Want, Do You?”

New “WorkShift” Study Shows Execs Seriously Out of Touch with Workers’ Desire for Meaningful Work New research from StrawberryFrog and Dynata reveals a rampant number of U.S. employees feel unfulfilled in their current jobs, and most don’t believe their senior leadership is aware the problem even exists. StrawberryFrog, the renowned creative marketing consultancy that does […]

Winning-over Midlife Women … it’s MORE than just talking about the menopause say experts

Winning-over Midlife Women … it’s MORE than just talking about the menopause say experts

Midlife Women express frustration over feeling invisible to brands: 69% of this demographic feel invisible to brands 62% think that advertising targeted at them rarely shows someone they can relate to Only 7% think they’re very well represented in advertising. A new report has been released on the back of exclusive research that shows a […]

Think Forward 2024: new report describes a ‘social reckoning’ for brands in value-driven online spaces

Think Forward 2024: new report describes a ‘social reckoning’ for brands in value-driven online spaces

Global socially-led creative agency We Are Social today launched the latest edition of its annual trends report, Think Forward 2024. This year’s report, titled ‘The Social Reckoning’, examines how, in a backdrop of increased commercialisation and commodification, people on social media are rethinking and reframing their worth. They are examining the value derived from their […]

Wastage from Digital Transformation Projects Could Reach $2 Trillion by 2026

Wastage from Digital Transformation Projects Could Reach $2 Trillion by 2026

New research explains alarming waste levels in digital transformation and the hefty price global businesses are paying for neglecting people in the process Digital transformation, often hailed as the panacea for business growth and innovation, is continuing to prove to be a highly damaging leaky bucket for businesses both in the UK and world-wide – […]

Peak performance: Meta’s advertising rates plummet and spending on Reels soar

Peak performance: Meta’s advertising rates plummet and spending on Reels soar

As ecommerce brands prepare for peak season, digital advertising on Meta has seen a three-year record performance, having strongly recovered from the ‘double recession’ caused by Apple’s ATT update and consumers reverting to pre-Covid behaviours. This is a key finding from Nest Commerce’s latest quarterly Readout report, based on 1.5 billion+ Meta impressions from global campaigns […]

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