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 […]
Commissioned by MWWPR and conducted by Wakefield Research, a recent study unveiled today has identified that 24% of the UK population believe that a company’s values, actions, and corporate reputation are just as important as its product attributes and features. Dubbed the CorpSumer, this growing and powerful segment are valued for their loyalty, but their […]
New research by the International Television Research Group (inTV) and GlobalWebIndex has identified an untapped TV audience of 112.5 million consumers who are frequent consumers of international TV channels, but who fall outside of the top income segment that advertisers usually target through ad campaigns on international TV channels. International TV channels (i.e. those that […]
Publicis Media agencies Zenith and Starcom were named a Leader and a Strong Performer, respectively, in The Forrester Wave: Global Media Agencies, Q3 2018. Both agencies were among the select companies that Forrester invited to participate in this evaluation of the media agency landscape. Zenith received the second-highest score in the Strategy and Current Offering […]
Being a ‘Lifestyle Brand’ has become the aspiration of brands today. But what ‘lifestyle’ actually means – and what we expect it to deliver – is still undefined. So, just how do brands become a desirable lifestyle brand of the future? Pearlfisher’s new Futures insight report – Life Mode 2018: How brands can design the […]
Almost half (49%) of businesses in the US are using contextual targeting in their advertising mix with 32% relying on contextual targeting in the UK, according to a new research report “Contextual Advertising: The New Frontier.” The report, released on September 13 and commissioned by GumGum, an artificial intelligence company with deep expertise in […]
According to research released on September 12, nearly half (44%) of UK women aged 50+ feel patronised by advertising (compared to 31% of all women), while more than a quarter (27%) feel that ads contribute to creating and maintaining negative stereotypes of their demographic group. Almost half (45%) of older women also agree that ‘society […]