The latest Forrester Wave report ranks UM, OMD, Carat and Starcom among the top media shops of today. Blazing the A.I. trail, collapsed silos for integrated media, technology and creative, content scaled with audience precision and big data. Those, in a nutshell, are all the components which form a winning media agency for the modern
Category: Thought Leadership
Last month, a story I’d written had just gone live. I punched a few keywords into Google search to pull it up so I could grab the link. That was when I noticed a publication called the “New York Times Post” had also just published a story with the exact same headline. When I clicked
As people DIY their way through the COVID-19 crisis, Pinterest search data is helping marketers predict consumers’ mindsets. But will everyone—users and advertisers alike—be able to pin their way through the pandemic? Search data on the image-sharing platform show how hobbies, interests, and plans have shifted through various stages of self-isolation. Pinterest has also been
In the seventh edition of a special COVID-19 series, IPG Media Lab’s “Floor 9″ media futures podcast, the lab hosts UM strategists Lin Liu (UM China and Mat Maroni (UM APAC) to discuss how the pandemic has impacted the consumer lifestyles and behaviors in their respective regions, and how it is accelerating trends that brands need to look
Even before COVID-19 hit the world, the gig economy was blossoming within adland, but now, the freelance world could have an even bigger surge due to the pandemic. In recent weeks, holding companies, independent agencies of all sizes and brands have all gone through layoffs, furloughs and other cost-cutting measures. Campaign US asked industry experts
The world is focused on numbers, trends, graphs and charts following the spread of COVID-19 in Canada and worldwide. But beyond infection rates, the ensuing shutdowns have also had profound effects on television production, advertising budgets and media consumption. We looked at the slumps, spikes and surprises in Canadian media data and asked buyers to
The term ‘Fear of Missing Out’ (FOMO) entered the global lexicon around 10 years ago. In the age of continual digitalization and disruption today, this fear of missing out has in fact intensified, especially for the younger generation. On social media, staying connected with the network of friends that they have amassed, and keeping them
NBCUniversal’s late-comer streaming service Peacock is debuting with far less fanfare than was planned. After a soft-launch period for some Comcast subscribers, the media company had prepared a splashy national launch in July ahead of the Olympics, followed by live streams of the opening and closing ceremonies and a steady stream of original shows. All
Everyone is talking about the “new normal,” but no one knows exactly what it means or how it will evolve in the coming months. Over the last few weeks, adland has been rife with layoffs, salary cuts, Zoom pitches, remote productions and more – and the industry will likely have to continue to adjust to
Google’s success originated in one simple insight from its founders who realized that the sprawling, chaotic mass of material that was cascading onto the world wide web could be tamed by ranking search results according to their popularity. They have not looked back since, making millions from online advertising off the back of the algorithms