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By ACA Staff Five Ways Marketers Should Use Digital Big Data to Their Advantage It was just this past November at ACA’s Annual Conference that Gian Fulgoni, Founder of comScore’s Media Metrix, announced that his company’s multi-platform online measurement tool was coming to Canada. Marketers would soon have access to seemingly endless amounts of data […]

Let’s stop the craziness.

After sitting on the sidelines attending a variety of industry conferences over the past five years and listening to more than one pundit state emphatically that companies don’t create brands customers do, it’s time to call balderdash.

Times have changed but brand creation has not. If companies have relegated the creation, management and nourishing of brands to consumers I’d argue they’re just plain lazy.

Ready or not, here comes the brave new world of digital measurement.

It seems it’s been the ‘Year of Mobile’ for about five years in a row now, but next year it may just happen.

Announced at ACA’s Annual conference by Gian Fulgoni, the Founder of comScore Media Metrix, multi-platform online measurement is about to become a reality in Canada.

By Jessica Yared, ACA Consumers will now have access to more information and greater control over ads displayed to them based on their online behaviour. For their part, advertisers will be able to educate themselves and determine whether they are observing the principles of responsible online behavioural advertising in Canada.

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 Bob Reaume, ACA A new self-regulatory program for Online Behavioural Advertising (OBA) has been developed for Canada. OBA involves tracking consumers’ online activities in order to deliver advertisements targeted to their inferred interests. It has proven to be quite an effective method of advertising.