Exclusive research released today by Bountiful Cow, a leading independent UK media agency, proves that brands adopting Relative Advantage growth principles can deliver a significant uplift across brand metrics and business performance. Analysis of 236 advertising campaigns from the IPA Databank, demonstrated the impact of Relative Advantage as a growth framework, that is particularly relevant […]
New report finds that the world averaged 8.4 new social media users per second over the past year We Are Social, the socially-led creative agency, and Meltwater, a global leader in social and media intelligence, have released Digital 2024, their latest annual report on social media and digital trends worldwide. In a bumper year for digital milestones, Digital […]
With US buyers and planners shifting budgets from Linear TV to thriving CTV, the challenge of deduplicating CTV (including YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime…) and TV metrics becomes apparent. With YouTube dominating CTV ad spending, traditional TV and AV measurement methods grapple with walled-garden complexities, hindering accurate cross-platform data comparisons within the same campaigns. Beatgrid […]
Creatives with synaesthesia are more likely to see ‘Blue Monday’ – the third Monday in January widely regarded as the most depressing day of the year – as yellow not blue Ahead of Blue Monday on January 15, a survey of people in the creative industry with synaesthesia reveals that 80% don’t ‘see’ the word […]
Only two thirds of South West businesses have a written marketing strategy and a third don’t have a business plan new study reveals According to a new study of business and marketing leaders across the country, 39% of respondents in the South West don’t have a written marketing strategy for their business. This was significantly […]
The economic context and continued shift to streaming put pressure on UK TV pricing in 2023, while next year’s sporting and election events are likely to fuel growth in media spend across the board ECI Media Management has released its Q4 Media Inflation Update, revealing that in the UK, TV pricing has fallen overall in […]
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 […]
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’ […]
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 […]
Leading B2B Adtech PR Agency scored a 100 net promoter score The Digital Voice™ was one of 23 leading agencies surveyed in the past six months across PR, communications, digital, integrated and full-service categories. The research project by YouBecome, led by Mike Turner, took place to look into the key “people metrics” in the marketing […]
