Tomorrow’s creatives will need to have their feet firmly on the ground, with a working knowledge of coding, augmented reality, public speaking, trend identification and user experience cited as key skills, according to new research from in-house agency OLIVER. The agency canvassed 200 creatives working across FMCG, beauty, finance, media, healthcare and automotive, to identify […]
Marketing is a crucial activity for any business, but new research has revealed that many companies are choosing to outsource it to external agencies or freelancers rather than run it themselves in-house. A survey of 1,021 UK workers carried out by leading digital marketing agency, Marketing Signals, revealed that more than 42% of UK businesses don’t handle […]
TI Media, the publisher behind household magazine brands Woman, Woman’s Own and Good to Know, has unveiled the results of its flagship ‘Heart of Britain’ research for 2019, which reveals a number of newfound insights about the audience commonly labelled as ‘mass-market women’ (MMW). In terms of audience size, this market dwarfs the two most […]
Divido, the multinational white-label platform for point-of-purchase lending, launched the results of its UK-wide research alongside a new report titled: The Spending Index: Big Ticket Edition. The study of over 200 retailers (who post over £5 million in revenue) follows Divido’s recent research of 2000 UK consumers and highlights a fractured relationship between retailer and […]
Brands looking to embrace a mass personalisation approach to marketing need to rethink their generational targeting strategy in order to drive consumer engagement and business growth. Targeting by age is still the accepted practice across many advertising categories. However, with fundamental shifts in media consumption and trading, combined with significant changes in life stages and […]
Poor product visualisation is preventing almost a quarter of B2B customers from making purchases online, according to a new report by leading full-service eCommerce agency PushON. PushON surveyed 500 key business decision makers from up and down the country and found that, although the majority of B2B customers (78%) actually prefer to shop online, 22% […]
A study revealed shows that the 18-24-year-olds of Generation Z trust brands over anything else bar the police: a quarter (25%) say they trust brands, a greater number than trust the government, the media, their Church, influencers, or social platforms. But at the same time, three-quarters of them (75%) think they are under a lot […]
A new study conducted by Phoenix Marketing International (Phoenix MI) found that while Netflix dominates the content streaming market, there is still opportunity in the sector. The study found that 81% of US adults that stream online video hold a Netflix account, with the next most popular streaming platforms being Amazon Video at 46%, Hulu […]
Intensified political polarisation, fragmented groups and rapid digital disruption risk undermining governments’ efforts to effectively engage with citizens, concludes a new report launched on February 25 by WPP. The Leaders’ Report is the only global research study looking at the state of citizen engagement, and the key challenges facing governments’ efforts to better connect with citizens […]
New forecasts based on data from 96 countries by WARC, the international marketing intelligence service, predict a 4.3% rise in global advertising spend this year, pushing total investment to over US$616bn. This follows on from a 5.4% rise in 2018 – the strongest growth since 2011 – according to WARC’s latest Global Ad Trends report, […]