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ACA’s incoming VP of Media Policy and Marketing Capabilities is already making her presence felt. Judy Davey tackled the CRTC’s decision to eliminate simultaneous substitution during the Super Bowl (providing Canadian viewers with access to the flashy U.S. ads) stating in an op/ed in Media in Canada why a change to the regulations is a […]

With his access to a trove of 10,000 measured digital campaigns and more than 2,000 creative tests, Millward Brown Canada President Scott Megginson has a firm grasp of what works online and what doesn’t. Megginson, who hosted a webinar at ACA’s offices last week, sat down for a Q&A to discuss strategies for digital success.

ACA President Ron Lund has issued a challenge to the industry to tackle the issues of fraud, transparency and viewability.

“It is the marketer who should and must lead this effort, but with close industry collaboration,” Lund argues in a recent Op/Ed in Marketing Magazine.

This call to action comes on the heels of the ACA’s Executive Forum, where Canadian marketers showed how they are starting to take action. Meanwhile, the ACA has taken a leadership role to help restore trust and transparency in the Canadian digital marketing ecosystem, starting several initiatives, both independently and with other industry associations.

If you’ve drunk the content-marketing Kool-Aid, you might be feeling a bit perplexed right now. It’s a confusing time for content marketers: the social landscape is shifting ever more heavily to social ads. But organic posts seem to drive a different kind of result, one that is strictly focused on the quality of the content, […]

As an industry we have been talking about and around Addressable TV for way too many years and, in my opinion, the time has come to make some hard decisions. At a conference in Berlin recently, Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, essentially gave traditional TV two decades to live. I secretly hope it does […]

Earlier this quarter eMarketer published a report estimating that one out of every three ad dollars spent in Canada in 2015 will go towards digital, with mobile in particular, set to grow exponentially in the next few years. The confluence of this mobile-fueled digital growth and the recent rise of automated TV buying have minted […]