51 Marketing Trends found for Agencies / Holding companies

... the digital titans to prevent ads from appearing adjacent to controversial content.

According to Mr Pritchard, P&G has slashed spending on digital advertising by more than $200m last year, after a recent push for more transparency had revealed such spending to be largely wasteful.

It's no surprise therefore that WPP PLC, the world’s largest ad agency conglomerate, earlier this week logged its worst performance since the financial crisis, posting a decline in net sales and projecting zero growth in 2018.

These developments highlight the fallout as marketers reassess their relationships with ad agencies and big tech companies like Facebook and Google.

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... thousands of global brands.

The study, now in its twelth year, also provides an analysis of the financial performance of each company determining their brands overall value, taking into account regional differences and customer perceptions.

According to Jane Bloomfield, Kantar Millward Brown’s head of UK marketing: “The superstar technology brands in the BrandZ global top 100 are capable of abundant innovation, using their platforms to create connected ecosystems that meet multiple needs and make our lives easier.”

Despite hitting a major low among advertisers after The Time’s exposé earlier this year, Google’s brand value remains buoyant among consumers. The advertising ‘duopoly’ of Google and Facebook also appears to show no signs of slowing, as combined they attracted one-fifth of global adspend across all media in 2016, with Google pulling in the lion’s share of $79.4bn, versus its rival's total of $26.9bn.

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... the Marketo Summit in San Francisco, with founding members from Europe and the Americas.

According to Emma Storbacka, founder partner at Helsinki based agency Avaus, the main challenge for B2B agencies is that such agencies not only need to adopt new marketing technology, they must also learn how to work with the technology to drive business results.

Ms Storbacka also claims that "With more than 300 martech consultants and around 100 certified Marketo experts, we are one of the biggest Marketo partners globally".

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... Azure cloud service.

The partnership highlights Publicis’s push to generate more revenue from intellectual property and compete with consulting companies, as well as Microsoft’s ambitions to expand its cloud-based offerings.

Cosmos gleans people’s behavioral data for marketers and constantly updates individual customer identities that are stored in the Microsoft cloud. Marketers are therefore able to use that customer information to create and send targeted emails and digital ads to individuals.

According to Shannon Denton, chief strategy officer of Publicis digital agency group SapientRazorfish: “How customers behave in real time changes how we market to them”.  

“When we’re competing with other agencies and also with consultancies, this data is a huge advantage. That’s the big play and why we’re going to continue to invest in this area.”

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... meaningless data.

Whether it's providing a friction-free experience for TV viewers to interact with ads, or making in-app shopping more rewarding, it all starts with dynamic human understanding.

According to Chad Stoller, evp and global innovation director at IPG Mediabrands [IPGM], this is why his company is hosting live demos of technologies and platforms at the Dmexco 2016 conference and exposition in Cologne Germany.

These technologies are designed to create greater resonance between marketing opportunity, application and consumer relevance.

Says Stoller: "Only by embracing these and other exciting tech innovations can we drive greater business outcomes while providing meaningful, enjoyable consumer experiences".

IPGM's Partner Pavilion at Dmexco is showcasing companies like Ad Mobilize, Grand Visual, Innovid, Layer, Placed, Samba and Yext. Space doesn't allow for a complete recitation of their efforts to help brands discern and deliver human desires and unmet needs, so Stoller intends to focus on Innovid, Layer and AdMobilize.

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... global network of freelancers and talent who are similarly young and fast at production.

It's also likely that the JWT25 crèche will extend to other parts of the WPP empire and - given adland's 'Me Too' persona - seep into the global fiefdoms of Omnicom, Publicis, Interpublic and Dentsu.

Says Peter Womersley, Ceo of J Walter Thompson Singapore: “Clients are increasingly looking for an alternative service to complement long form film. JWT25 was set up to respond to clients seeking a fast, effective, high quality snackable video service for the lowest cost.”

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billions of dollars every year. 

The pledge, signed last year by Publicis and WPP, commits the companies to using services that meet TAG's requirements for preventing ads on pirated content. Also among the newest companies to sign the pledge are Google and GoDaddy. 

According to TAG ceo Mike Zaneis, the additions mark a "really major step forward" for the anti-piracy program. The dozens of companies that have signed the pledge provide scale with the billions of advertising dollars going through TAG's approved anti-piracy software.

Omnicom was one of the founding partners of TAG, helping to fund the organisation when it was getting started in 2015. In an interview yesterday morning, Omnicom Digital ceo Jonathan Nelson said piracy and fraud are "huge issues."

"Piracy is a problem in the industry and we are looking to create value for clients and one of the ways we create value for clients is by fighting piracy," Nelson said. "(TAG's anti-piracy pledge) is one of the tools to do it ... it's a no-brainer."

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... creative, media, digital/technology and healthcare.

According to M Lévy, the restructuring comes as Publicis Groupe focuses on a new ambition:"To be the admired force for business transformation driven through the alchemy of creativity and technology".

It's unclear whether M Lévy's orotund prose is directed at the group's clients (who include CocaCola, AXA, AstraZeneca and Bank of America) or at other major advertisers who have yet to be coaxed into the Publicis fold.

This is how the Publicis brands will be grouped in future:

1. Publicis Communications: Arthur Sadoun will head up Publicis Communications as its new CEO. This hub will include Publicis Worldwide, MSL, Nurun, Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, BBH and Marcel.

2. Publicis Media: The media arm of Publicis will be led by Steve King whose remit includes Starcom Mediavest, ZenithOptimedia, Vivaki, Performics, MRY and Moxie.

3. Publicis.Sapient: The digital hub, will be led by Alan Herrick and includes Sapient Consulting, SapientNitro, DigitasLBi and Razorfish.

4. Publicis Healthcare: Nick Colucci will head up the healthcare hub, Publicis' newly integrated health and pharma offering.

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... the neighborhoods where store visitors live.

The technology also lists the sites these consumers recently visited via mobile browsers and other devices.

It's all part of a push by the world's largest phone operators to counteract diminishing subscriber growth via new business ventures that tap into the data that showers from consumers' mobile web surfing, text messaging and phone calls.

There is a lot of marketer interest in that information because it is tied to actual individuals. For the same reason, however, there is potential for resistance from privacy advocates.

According to Nick Nyhan, Ceo of WPP's Data Alliance units - among them Kantar Media and Mindshare - have "kicked the tires" for three years on Consumer Insight 365, testing and helping to develop applications for the service. The extensive time spent, says Nyhan, so far partly reflects "high sensitivity to not doing something that would be too close for comfort from a consumer point of view".

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... thirteen TEM&M deals during the first six months of 2015.

In toto these deals have a disclosed value of $18bn, although Ciesco notes that the value of the deals has not been disclosed and that their true worth is likely to be significantly higher.

All of Dentsu’s thirteen deals in H1 were conducted in markets outside Japan. In the year-prior period, the Japanese agency giant made ten deals in the digital, media, marketing and tech sectors.

WPP’s TEM&M deal-making, however, appeared to slow in the H1 period.

According to Ciesco, WPP, the world’s largest advertising and marketing comglomerate, made thirty-nine acquisitions in the tech, media and marketing sector during H1 2014.

However, Ciesco’s data implies that WPP’s deal-making deceleration last year was likely due to its focus on growing market share in the wake of the ill-fated merger between rival ad holding companies Publicis and Omnicom.

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