Posts Tagged ‘Branding’
Not Exactly How the Cookie Crumbles: Breaking Down CCPA Hype
As the January 1 deadline for the California Consumer Privacy Act draws nearer, pockets within the ad industry are foretelling doom and gloom for our future state of affairs. Warnings from marketing bloggers predict ominous changes to the industry, with included roadmaps to surviving this marketing apocalypse. This panic-driven mindset is akin to Y2K hysteria,…
Read MoreWIN THIS FOOTBALL SEASON with data
the obsession is real. the fandom is intense. With 136MM US viewers, 56MM more viewers than its closest major competitor, the NFL isn’t the only game in town, but sometimes it sure feels that way. It stands to reason that brands are also obsessed with the NFL. Last year, advertisers spent close to $4B…
Read MoreControl Digital Investments With Buyer-Driven Branding
There’s no doubt we are in the midst of an exciting, dynamic era in marketing – an “always on” consumer culture and new technologies to apply to the customer experience are among the opportunities at our disposal. Yet as the saying goes, “water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink” — Marketers are data…
Read MoreAffinity Answers Expands to The UK and Germany
First Overseas Distribution of its Exclusive European-centric “Mutual Affinity” Social Media Audience Data AUSTIN, TX (March 20, 2017) Affinity Answers, which created the first platform for predictive branding – achieved through proprietary mutual affinity algorithms that measure active social engagement data across 60,000 brands and 400 million people worldwide – today announced it has expanded its offerings…
Read MoreSree Nagarajan Discusses the Buy Side of Brand Investment
CEO Sree Nagarajan recently contributed an op-ed to MediaPost discussing the importance of focusing on the buy side of brand investment, rather than just the sell side. Read more here: Buy Side, Where Real Money is Made, Seldom Talks
Read MoreThe Secret Lives Of Brands
As marketers, we’ve all been guilty at some point of falling in love with our brand. When you believe in the company mission – the compelling “why” of your brand – and spend a good portion of your life promoting the brand, you can fall into the trap of idealizing it and beginning to see…
Read MoreAffinity Answers Featured in New Whitepaper
Our good friend Chris O’Hara has authored his latest Econsultancy whitepaper. In association with Quantcast, the piece covers all things programmatic branding, and the opportunities and challenges that face brand marketers as they drive upper-funnel engagement in this space. Affinity Answers was proud to be among 15 companies who participated in the paper, where we offer…
Read MoreTop 10 Things You Can Do That the Big Guys are Already Doing
Social media intelligence is evolving at an incredible pace. As brands and brand agencies look to uncover deeper behavioral characteristics of consumers, understanding a brand’s social engagement and mutual interests are logical starting points. Brand engagement can be thought of as how much someone interacts with a particular brand on one or many social media…
Read MoreWe’re coming to a brand near you.
As advertising reaches an early peak in 2013 with tomorrow’s Super Bowl, thousands of brand managers and agencies left out of the most visible advertising venue of the year are left dreaming about how amazing it would be to acquire similar reach. As exciting as it is for marketers for top brands like Pepsi, Budweiser,…
Read MoreCan you “buy brand”?
Thanks to Chris O’Hara for his excellent article on ClickZ today. He covers it very well on the upcoming transition for brands – to think of their media buying in terms of their brand audience, not their media audience. This is a monumental change for brand marketing, but is inevitable. Digital is already leading charge…
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