Zenith launches global culture initiative on Blue Monday

Zenith launches global culture initiative on Blue Monday

Zenith wants to make the world a more positive place. Blue Monday – the third Monday in January – is known as the saddest day of the year, so Zenith offices around the world are working together to bring happiness to their communities. On 21 January, Zenith is encouraging its more than 6,000 employees across […]

Matt James appointed Global Brand President at Zenith

Matt James appointed Global Brand President at Zenith

Matt James has been appointed Global Brand President, Zenith. Reporting to Steve King, CEO, Publicis Media, Matt will take up the role in January 2019 and will be based at Zenith’s HQ in London. Matt succeeds Vittorio Bonori, who was recently appointed Publicis Groupe Italy CEO. With a career in global media spanning over 28 […]

Personal and targeted communication is driving ad growth, according to Zenith

Personal and targeted communication is driving ad growth, according to Zenith

Online video and paid search are driving the growth in global adspend, as advertisers focus on personalised and targeted communications, according to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, published December 3. With advertisers now able to use these channels to target with pinpoint accuracy and serve personalised messages, they are increasing both the efficiency and effectiveness of […]

65% of digital media to be programmatic in 2019, according to Zenith’s ad spend report

65% of digital media to be programmatic in 2019, according to Zenith’s ad spend report

65% of all money spent on advertising in digital media in 2019 will be traded programmatically, according to Zenith’s Programmatic Marketing Forecasts, published on November 19. Advertisers will spend US$84bn programmatically next year, up from US$70bn this year, which represents 62% of digital media expenditure. Zenith predict that in 2020 advertisers will spend US$98bn on […]

Bally targets Chinese and Russian travellers with hyper targeted “travel corridor” ad campaign

Bally targets Chinese and Russian travellers with hyper targeted “travel corridor” ad campaign

Bally, the Swiss luxury brand established in 1851, has this week launched a hyper targeted advertising campaign to promote its latest collections to Chinese and Russian travellers as they travel to London. Devised by PSI and Zenith, the campaign creates a global “travel corridor” in partnership with BA Media that will reach travellers at multiple […]

Brands must reorganise to maximise eCommerce growth, according to Zenith

Brands must reorganise to maximise eCommerce growth, according to Zenith

Many brands are missing out on driving growth through new commerce platforms as their marketing and sales teams are not structured to leverage these opportunities. This is the key finding from Zenith’s latest research: Five Commerce Imperatives for Marketers. Traditionally, brands have had separate sales and marketing teams, often with different objectives. Marketing teams need […]

Zenith celebrates its 30th Anniversary

Zenith celebrates its 30th Anniversary

Zenith is celebrating its 30th birthday. In October 1988, Zenith opened for business in a converted warehouse in Paddington, London. Created from the media buying departments of Saatchi & Saatchi, BSB Dorland and KHBB, it went on to become the first worldwide media agency network. From its original UK base, Zenith became the first media […]

Search and social to drive 67% of adspend growth by 2020, says Zenith’s Ad Expenditure Forecasts

Search and social to drive 67% of adspend growth by 2020, says Zenith’s Ad Expenditure Forecasts

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 […]