Award-winning global brand experience agency Sense has launched an updated guide to experiential measurement called Real World Impact, 10 years on from the release of its original one in 2008. Many brands and agencies still struggle to measure experiential. Sense’s book outlines how experiential marketing CAN be successfully measured and it shares learnings and updated […]
Global marketing strategy and transformation business CLEAR part of the M&C Saatchi Network, announced the findings of the inaugural ‘Experience Gap’ study. Based on an online survey of more than 34,000 people across the US, UK, Germany and China, the report ranks 225 brands across 8 categories, based on how well they align advertising and […]
Corporate brands that combine a clear sense of purpose with the ability to deliver a complete brand experience are best placed to thrive in the future, according to the 2018 FutureBrand Index – the major perception study of the world’s biggest companies. The Index, published on October 9, re-orders PwC’s Global Top 100 – the […]
Interbrand has announced Apple, Google, and Amazon are the three most valuable brands in its 2018 Best Global Brands report, with luxury and retail as the two dominant sectors. Now in its 19th year, the report’s 2018 theme is Activating Brave, and examines the role that brand strength plays in the bold transformation of the […]
Research released on October 4 has shown that retailers that focus their marketing budgets on social media and smartphone campaigns might be on the wrong track – across the UK, fewer than one in ten shoppers (9%) say that social media forms part of their purchase journey. In addition, more than half (54%) still use […]
The omnipotence of social media means that brands face a stark challenge to remain relevant to an ever-evolving Generation Z being forced to live BETA test their identity, reveals the findings of a new white paper by leading youth creative agency ZAK. As the first generation to truly come of age during the social […]
In a new survey, Chatbots are still at the top spot as the digital trend considered most important for organisations to embrace in the coming months. More than six out of 10 of respondents said that Chatbots would be important to their organisation in the next five years; and 28 per cent said that they […]
Hotwire, the global communications agency, releases its newest report: “The Parents of Generation Alpha”. This second report is part of an ongoing global investigation into the way technology will impact the lives of Generation Alpha, children born after 2010. This year’s findings show that UK parents increasingly believe their kids view their gadgets as […]
Two thirds of all the growth in global advertising expenditure between 2017 and 2020 will come from paid search and social media ads, according to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, published September 24. Over this period, total spending will increase from US$86bn to US$109bn on paid search, and from US$48bn to US$76bn on social media. Paid […]
New research released today by Inskin Media and Lumen Research using a large-scale audience eye-tracking study has proved that high-impact formats, such as pageskins, can help draw consumers’ eyes to standard formats for longer. The UK study, in partnership with Mindshare, carried out 3,160 eye tracking experiments and revealed that, within a browsing session, standard display […]