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Among top of mind issues for marketers in 2015 will be transparency for media buys. A major focus of these transparency issues is the burgeoning digital media advertising space—a significant new channel for marketing communications. The importance of this new channel is reflected in the phenomenal growth of programmatic buying/trading of digital media ad views. […]

By Howard Lichtman, Partner, Ethnicity Multicultural Marketing & Advertising In the United States, driven by market forces and a desire for increased revenue, American corporations have embraced multicultural marketing with a passion. For years, they have worked with best of breed multicultural agencies—experts in either the Afro-American or Hispanic ethnicities.

Who remembers the movie Moonstruck staring Cher and Nicholas Gage? It is a Norman Jewison directed romantic comedy about a woman engaged to one man but falls in love with his estranged younger brother. A little messy and a little perplexing especially for the woman’s grandfather, who, upon hearing the news towards the end of the film proclaims sympathetically, “I’m so confused”.

This must be how most marketers feel these days. Their professional lives are becoming increasingly complex on so many levels.

Consumer research, which was simply either quantitative or qualitative now has the added dimension of big data. One of the most cited pain points expressed by marketers is the amount of information they feel compelled to digest. They simply don’t have the time or recourses to properly exploit it. Big data can often cause big headaches.

By Stephan Argent, CEO, Argedia Group With so much discussion, confusion misunderstanding and indeed – fear – around programmatic buying, I thought a beginner’s guide to programmatic buying would be both timely and helpful. But before getting into the issues, pros and cons, and what the future looks like, let’s make sure we’re on the […]

By Brad Jeffrey, Platform Services Manager at Index by Casale Media A report issued by the International Data Corporation (IDC) in October of 2013 projected that RTB spend in Canada would eclipse $80MM in 2014. Of that number, the percentage of ad dollars that could be going to fraudulent or deficient impressions (i.e. non-human, non-viewable) […]

By Brett Colbert, Chief Procurement Officer, MDC Partners During my years as procurement professional, I have been asked the same question time and time again – how do you work so well with marketers? Sure, the relationship between procurement and marketing has gotten better over the years. But, let’s put our emotions on the table […]