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I recently wound up a 90-minute conference call only to be informed that a decision was made to not do the pre-concept research we’d been discussing over the past week. The reason? There was no budget (again) and the client didn’t see the value. This got me thinking (as many of those kinds of calls […]

The fundamental reason CMOs and their legions of marketers exist is to create brand loyalty, but this in and of itself is becoming an irrelevant and dated concept.

Increasingly, especially in Canada, it appears marketers are becoming devoid of brand zealots, who define and passionately champion and protect their brands.

This is partly attributed to the repatriation of packaged goods marketing to America. At one time Canadian offices of American multi-nationals recruited and trained brand managers to champion their brands in Canada.

Canadian TV debuted on September 6th, 1952, when CBC launched CBFT in Montreal and CBLT in Toronto. Some of the first advertisers were Ford, Campbell’s Soup, Westinghouse and Imperial Tobacco. Less than 10 years later, census data showed that 82.5% of Canadian households had TVs – more than had flush toilets. Even in 1996, 76% […]

Commonly and with little difficulty, bad actors are defrauding the digital marketplace. They’re playing tricks to make exchanges think they’re selling inventory from reputable, premium publishers – often at bargain basement rates – when in fact the domain name offering the inventory provides only junk, creating problems for everyone in the business. We’re not talking […]

The BrightRoll Video Summit, hosted at the Arcadian Court in Toronto Oct. 29, 2014, explored strategies and key opportunities in programmatic video that drive success for both buyers and sellers. Industry leaders from advertisers, agencies, publishers and ad tech addressed some of the most pressing questions and biggest challenges in the digital video advertising ecosystem. […]

Working under a Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) who has spent the entirety of his career thinking outside the box while keeping progress at full throttle; I would argue that there’s no better motivation day-to-day, than feeding off a committed desire to change the game. The world of advertising has an undeniable draw that brings people […]