Super Bowl LV Advertising Gets a 15-yard Penalty

From assessing the ads that aired nationally, it feels like we regressed at least 15 years.  By Louis Maldonado / d expósito & Partners

Do Good, Covid-relevant Ads Take A Step Forward, Multicultural Ads A Step Backward

Hispanics were conspicuously left out, the largest ethnicity and highest business growth segment, except in Huggies’ multi-ethnic real babies born this Super Bowl Sunday.  By Liz Castells-Heard, CEO & Chief Strategy Officer, INFUSION

How Can the B2B Buyer Experience Help Grow Your Agency?

The past year has hastened the evolution of the agency new business landscape. As larger pieces of business disintegrate into smaller opportunities and more projects are undertaken with speed, the path to new business has changed.  Competitive reviews don’t make sense for smaller projects. Decisions for smaller projects are typically made faster. There is increasing diversity in the way agency prospects make new business decisions. That is reason enough for agencies to revisit their buyer journeys — and specifically, how their websites support the modern B2B buying experience. But it's certainly not the only one.  By Mark Duval / The Duval Partnership

Spanish Broadcasting System announces launch of $310 Million Senior Secured Notes offering

Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. announced that it has launched an offering of $310 million in aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due 2026 (the “Notes”). The Notes will be guaranteed on a senior secured basis by certain of the Company's subsidiaries, and secured, subject to certain exceptions, on a first-priority basis by the Notes collateral.

It’s Time For Your Media Planning To Focus On People

If you’re still planning your media the way you did a year ago, you’re a bit late to the party. Just like it has done to everything else, COVID-19 has thrown traditional media norms for a loop, forcing a massive reset amid rapidly evolving consumer behaviors. So in that way, banking on yesterday’s data and processes to succeed heading into 2021 is a recipe for dubious budget allocations, missed opportunity and wasted spend.

How To Get More New Business By Talking About Solving Client Problems

To be fair, most agencies I see do give at least a head nod to results and outcomes, but too many give a disproportionate amount of attention to what they do and how they do it. It’s out of balance. As a group, agencies haven’t done the best job of communicating what they do in terms that hold value for prospective clients.  By Mark Duval - The Duval Partnership

How We Listen to Music Is Rapidly Changing

Technology has radically changed how we listen to music, news and stories. Just a century ago, the first commercial radio broadcast in the U.S. delivered the results of the Harding-Cox presidential race. The success of that broadcast would define public radio and the distribution of news for years to come.

Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic, Home is Where the Connectivity Is

It’s likely that the world has never been as reliant on connectivity as it has become over the past year. With much of the world spending more time at home, technology has become the lifeline to everything from commerce to social gatherings to the latest entertainment. Much has been written about these areas, but, given that connectivity affords millions of Americans the ability to work from home and provides countless children across the country access to virtual schooling, it’s fair to say that virtual is the new IRL.

Beyond the Register – The Correlation Between Multicultural Employees and Consumers [PODCAST]

Diversity, equity, and inclusion took center stage in 2020, with many brands rushing to restructure internal teams and re-evaluate advertising campaigns in response to calls for social justice. There was a cultural shift among the general population. Multicultural consumers became the focal point, and forward-thinking brands responded by creating culturally relevant marketing that appealed to multicultural consumers.

Transacting TV in 2021 and Beyond

The key areas that buyers and sellers need to resolve in the evolved TV marketplace

2020 Demographic Analysis Estimates [WEBINAR]

The 2020 Demographic Analysis estimates include national-level estimates of the population by age, sex, race and Hispanic origin as of April 1, 2020.

Technology Report 2020: Taming the Flux [REPORT]

Rapidly changing markets, rising geopolitical tensions and the Covid-19 pandemic have created unprecedented challenges for tech companies.

How purchase decisions are made

It is my attempt to summarize as clearly and simply as possible the process by which people choose between brands based on their intuitive and deliberative thinking. I would love to hear your thoughts about it, good, bad, or indifferent.  By Nigel Hollis

UN chief calls for regulating social media companies

The United Nations chief called Thursday for global rules to regulate powerful social media companies like Twitter and Facebook.  Source: AP News

XUMO launches Telemundo powered channels

XUMO, the Comcast-owned free ad-supported streaming TV service, announced the launch of three new curated channels from Telemundo. 

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