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Like water to a vessel, marketers must adapt to today’s many media platforms if they want to succeed. That is, in essence, what Marshall Self, Head of Media Solutions at Google Canada, told his audience at the November 5 annual .

Self highlighted how new technologies – smartphones in particular – have fostered a new generation of consumers, and a new audience by the same token. For him, the most pressing challenge for marketers in this new universe is finding the right target consumers and contributing to their quest for a better life.

Self says that brands don’t sell themselves to consumers anymore. On the contrary, it’s the consumers that do the selling by expressing their support in the many communication platforms they have access to. He suggests marketers maximize their ads’ efficiency by making them more accessible and user-friendly (through the use of Skip Ad buttons, for instance), then let consumers find them and take action as they deem appropriate.

By Jorn Socquet, ‎Vice President, Marketing at AB InBev Innovation is easy. It sounds like a contradiction in terms, but with our key cultural principles at AB InBev (ABI) focused on creating a culture of entrepreneurship, hard work and consumer centricity (and we truly mean it), the result is a very fertile ground to develop […]

By Randy Scotland, ACA When Geoff Ramsey talks, smart marketers listen up ‒ with good reason. With his grip on the latest research trends and best practices, the chairman of eMarketer offers a rich understanding and big-picture perspective of the digital landscape and its impact on marketing and media. In the following interview, Ramsey, who […]

By Randy Scotland, ACA How innovative is your organization’s marketing culture? How you answer that question speaks volumes about your company’s prospects in today’s post-digital world, according to innovation expert Bert DuMars, Vice President, Principal Analyst with Forrester Research.