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 […]

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 […]

Clarion Communications serves up the latest insights in its most recent Food for Thought report

Clarion Communications serves up the latest insights in its most recent Food for Thought report

Want to know why things are looking sweet for the dessert occasion? Or how aspirational drinking remains ‘a thing’ despite the current economic climate? And is it really RIP for the restaurant Insta-moment? Using media intel, consumer insight and research, Clarion Communications today unveils some of the latest insight and trends from the ever-evolving food […]

Cringeworthy comms according to Gen Z employees

Cringeworthy comms according to Gen Z employees

“Generation Z, born between the mid-1990s and early 2010s, is entering the workforce with its unique set of expectations and preferences’ says 438 co-founder Andy Whitmore. “What this generation of digital natives isn’t expecting are the outdated methods that so many large, and supposedly ‘forward thinking’, innovation-led organisations are still adopting to ‘engage’ with them […]

Interbrand launches 2023 Breakthrough Brands Report revealing the emerging brands disrupting the global market

Interbrand launches 2023 Breakthrough Brands Report revealing the emerging brands disrupting the global market

– AI health scanning concept from Spotify co-founder, an elevated take on tinned fish, and an Indian matrimony app in the Top 12 – ‘Overnight success’ OpenAI joins other technology brands including luxury ‘sleep pod’ purveyor Eight Sleep and HiPhi premium electric vehicles – Creative studio KidSuper captures Gen Z’s digitally-rooted design language with its […]