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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
