If you're going to focus on one thing this year, make it audio branding


As a brand marketer, this is the year to set your sights on defining and refining your brand’s audio presence.

Why?

In addition to the fact that audio has a significant effect on brand perception, consider also that audio is second only to video as a consumer’s preferred format for content. The average American consumes five hours of video each day and two hours of audio content. More than ever, brands must leverage the audio (or audio-visual) medium to reach consumers.

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Opinion: Make it a Super Bowl every day for customers


It’s the time of year where companies go all-out to advertise their brands and products at the Super Bowl. Broadcaster CBS is getting more than a $5 million market rate for each 30-second ad airing during Sunday night’s game. And then there are the millions spent on sponsorships, side parties and more, let alone the $190 million expected to pour into the Atlanta economy.

With more than 100 million viewers focused on the Big Game, it’s a great way to be noticed, to make waves, to convince people to buy your products and interact with your brand. But what if companies also put that same kind of effort into creating stellar customer experiences all year round?

Hear me out. PwC research found that 65 percent of U.S. consumers say that a positive experience with a brand is more influential than great advertising or marketing. Ads and branding get you noticed, but we are judged by the experiences we create for our customers every single day.

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Meet this year's Women to Watch Mexico honorees


For the fourth consecutive year, Adlatina and Ad Age are recognizing a group of women who stand out in the field of marketing and communications in Mexico. These 16 women are being honored for their significant accomplishments in the ad and marketing industries and will be hosted at an event in Mexico City on March 26.

Karla Berman, head of consumer packaged goods, Google

Berman has led Google Mexico’s CPG practice for the last three years, and was responsible for YouTube’s commercial strategy for Spanish speaking Latin America. Before joining Google, she was in charge of digital business at Grupo Expansin. There, Berman launched and headed most of its products, including Quien.com, Chilango.com, and the group’s partnerships with CNN: CNNMexico.com and CNN Expansin.com. Her role was key to the company’s digital transformation. Berman was also a business analyst at McKinsey & Co. and a reporter at the newspaper Reforma. She graduated from Universidad Iberoamericana as an industrial engineer and holds a masters degree from Harvard Business School. In addition, she has headed the Mexican chapter of Women@Google and is a member of MBA Mujeres de Mxico A.C.

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Watch the newest commercials on TV from Burger King, Head & Shoulders, McDonald's and more


Every weekday we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and conversion analytics from more than eight million smart TVs. The ads here ran on national TV for the first time yesterday.

A few highlights: Burger King’s monarch helps tease the fast-feeder’s Super Bowl commercial. McDonald’s want you to know that right now toys from “The Lego Movie 2” are available in its Happy Meals. And Head & Shoulders serves up glamorous scenes from a school dance in what turns out to be the story of a same-sex romance.

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Super Bowl Alert: Female Bowl and more AI


Good afternoon Super Bowl junkies,

I’m Jeanine Poggi, Ad Age’s senior editor, here with the latest edition of our Super Bowl Alert. It’s the home stretch and Ad Age is bringing you breaking news, analysis and first looks at the high-stakes, big-game commercialsall in our Super Bowl Alerts newsletter. Sign up right here to get them in your email.

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NOW-NYC: #Healmetoo

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NOW-NYC Integrated Ad - #Healmetoo
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Dietz & Watson: Craig Robinson Likes Dietz Nuts

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Amazon Prime pulls no punches with its latest Super Bowl spot


An adaptation of the 2011 theatrical thriller bearing the same title, “Hanna” stars the English actress Esme Creed-Miles in her first leading role alongside veterans Joel Kinnaman and Mireille Enos, who played opposite one another in AMC’s “The Killing.” The Super Bowl trailer features Creed-Miles’ character in a grueling arctic training montage before giving way to a series of quick cuts in and out of various action sequences.

In light of last year’s successful maiden runAmazon Prime Video’s one-minute teaser for “Jack Ryan” aired immediately after the halftime show, and was seen by 106.5 million viewersBenson says his team all but jumped at the chance to land another Super Bowl spot. Beyond the obvious appeal of the Big Game’s incomparable reach, Sunday’s audience should prove to be teeming with two of “Hanna’s” most viable demographic segments.

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If you're going to focus on one thing this year, make it audio branding


As a brand marketer, this is the year to set your sights on defining and refining your brand’s audio presence.

Why?

In addition to the fact that audio has a significant effect on brand perception, consider also that audio is second only to video as a consumer’s preferred format for content. The average American consumes five hours of video each day and two hours of audio content. More than ever, brands must leverage the audio (or audio-visual) medium to reach consumers.

Continue reading at AdAge.com

Watch the newest commercials on TV from Burger King, Head & Shoulders, McDonald's and more


Every weekday we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and conversion analytics from more than eight million smart TVs. The ads here ran on national TV for the first time yesterday.

A few highlights: Burger King’s monarch helps tease the fast-feeder’s Super Bowl commercial. McDonald’s want you to know that right now toys from “The Lego Movie 2” are available in its Happy Meals. And Head & Shoulders serves up glamorous scenes from a school dance in what turns out to be the story of a same-sex romance.

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BuzzFeed, Vice and Group Nine form measurement alliance


BuzzFeed, Group Nine Media and Vice are teaming up to try to solve the nagging puzzle of measurement in digital media.

The three digital publishers are working with Tubular Labs, a social analytics firm, to create new standards for measuring digital media on Facebook, YouTube and other sites. Tubular Labs already gives publishers monthly rankings that show which videos got the most views on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, but it is difficult to define whether those views actually influence audiences. Advertisers want to see exactly what value they get from a video or article they sponsor, not just how many views or clicks they tallied.

“There need to be better ways to measure quality engagement and quality viewership on video,” says Ashish Patel, Group Nine’s chief insights officer.

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Opportunities for Advertising With Augmented Reality Are More Popular Than Ever

Most investors and many marketers I speak with don’t quite realize what’s happening with AR ads today. I anticipate that AR advertising will account for at least 10 percent and as much as 25 percent of digital ad spending by the end of 2019. AR ads are performing incredibly well, with conversion rates in the…

How Tourism Australia’s Super Bowl LII Spot Reaped Rewards for an Entire Country

Imagine you’re a marketer trying to convince your board of directors that the massive cost of a 60-second Super Bowl spot is a smart investment. Now imagine that you need to convince an entire government and the Australian taxpaying public. In this world of programmatic efficiencies, it can be difficult for any advertiser to justify…

Projeto da CVS Pharmacy leva marcas de beleza a abrirem mão do photoshop em campanhas

Há mais de um ano, a rede de farmácias CVS Pharmacy anunciou que adotaria mais transparência em sua publicidade através do não uso de photoshop nas fotos de mulheres em campanhas para marcas de beleza. Mas só agora o projeto entrou no ar. Na campanha “CVS Beauty Unaltered”, a farmácia elimina as alterações feitas pelo …

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Personagem negra e defensora dos animais estreia nas histórias da Turma da Mônica

Em dezembro de 2017, durante um evento no Parque Ibirapuera, a personagem Milena foi apresentada como nova integrante da Turma da Mônica. Mas apesar da apresentação, ela só chegou agora aos quadrinhos em “A Nova Amiguinha”. Milena é descrita como uma menina cheia de personalidade, com autoestima elevada e filha de uma veterinária, o que a faz …

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Facebook pagou para monitorar celulares de jovens de 13 a 25 anos

A maré de polêmicas que persegue o Facebook desde o escândalo da Cambridge Analytica parece não ter fim. Dessa vez, foi descoberto que a empresa de Mark Zuckerberg pagou mensalidades de vinte dólares para ter acesso aos celulares de adolescentes e jovens adultos e monitorar suas atividades. Segundo o TechCrunch, o Facebook estava realizando o experimento …

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Apple promete baixar preços de iPhone em alguns países

A Apple parece ter percebido que os preços de seus modelos de iPhone fora dos Estados Unidos são absurdos. Mas o motivo “da ficha cair” não é exatamente um olhar bondoso da empresa para as economias internacionais, e sim a queda em sua receita no último trimestre. Em entrevista à Reuters, Tim Cook, CEO da …

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Super Bowl 2019: Comercial da Expensify vai sortear um carro feito de gelo

A empresa de gerenciamento digital de despesas Expensify este ano resolveu embarcar na loucura dos comerciais do Super Bowl, e seu anúncio para o evento não desaponta em loucura: a companhia vai literalmente sortear um “carro de gelo” que é a principal atração de sua peça publicitária. A ideia, no caso, é engajar a galera …

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Super Bowl 2019: Toyota aposta em jogadora que pode ser a primeira mulher na NFL

A Toyota convidou a jogadora de futebol americano Antoinette “Toni” Harris para protagonizar sua campanha especial para o Super Bowl 2019. Nascida em Detroit e atualmente morando em Los Angeles, Harris pode ser a primeira mulher a receber uma bolsa de estudos de futebol universitário. No momento, a jogadora recebeu oferta de bolsas de estudo …

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Super Bowl 2019: Comercial da Olay é um filme de horror estrelado por Sarah Michelle Gellar

Seguindo uma espécie de grande tendência do Super Bowl 2019 de revisitar ícones e itens da década de 90, a Olay seguiu o exemplo da Doritos e da Stella Artois e resolveu voltar vinte anos no tempo em seu comercial. Intitulada “Killer Skin”, a peça criada pela Saatchi & Saatchi é basicamente um filme de …

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