Marketing Mecca: Why Adland Is Swarming CES
Posted in: UncategorizedThe International Consumer Electronics Show is Mecca for gadget geeks, but for marketers like GE and Unilever it’s something else entirely: a glimpse of how they’ll reach consumers in the future.
For media agencies and a growing number of non-tech brands, CES has become the most important date on the calendar, if not for the opportunity to see where tech is taking consumers, but to conduct a first round of meetings with ad sellers like Google, AOL, Yahoo and Twitter.
While in years past brands might have approached CES with wide-eyed wonder, this year they’re coming to Vegas with a more-focused agenda. “Today brand marketers are coming with a much clearer picture of what they want to achieve,” said MediaLink CEO Michael Kassan. “It’s not the exploratory stage. They know what they’re there for.”