Amazon Prime Video is a popular streaming service that offers a wide variety of TV shows, movies and documentaries to its subscribers. In 2022, the company partnered with Insight Publicis to launch its services in Nigeria as part of Prime Video’s expansion plans across the EMEA region. The objectives: create awareness, increase customer subscriptions and…
Everybody knows Kim Kardashian. She has 334 million followers on Instagram and charges $1.69 million per post on the platform. However, there’s a twist: According to our research, only 1% of her followers react to her posts by giving likes and leaving comments. The lower the engagement rate (ER), the fewer of her followers actually…
Everybody knows Kim Kardashian. She has 334 million followers on Instagram and charges $1.69 million per post on the platform. However, there’s a twist: According to our research, only 1% of her followers react to her posts by giving likes and leaving comments. The lower the engagement rate (ER), the fewer of her followers actually…
Marketing’s least attractive quality is acting too desperate for attention. A customer journey must begin with awareness and familiarity, but getting that attention should not be as obvious as screaming, “Pick me!” A better way is to be useful to the customer. The problem is structural. Most marketers of both the “brand” and “performance” ilk…
Search “social media manager” on LinkedIn’s job board and these are just some of the role responsibilities you’ll find: Run all social accounts for organic and paid initiatives (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube) including creating, scheduling and publishing content to engage and delight our audience. Produce dynamic video and graphic content as well…
It started with a move that a social media marketing manager (SMM) thought industry peers would rally behind. A former NBA employee woke up and chose violence on the league’s Facebook page this morning pic.twitter.com/e8KkIl0z4m — Joe Pompliano (@JoePompliano) August 21, 2023 The now-former SMM’s post from the NBA account about fair pay and balanced…
Text-based social media appears to be back in the Wild West. With X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, inching toward obscurity and a number of contenders stepping onto the field, we’ve been left with more questions than answers. Apps like Threads, Bluesky, Truth Social, Mastodon and Spill are all picking up users, and people…
With industries and legal systems increasingly siding with users when it comes to control over their personal data and how it’s shared, the spotlight on zero-party data has only intensified. Recently deemed by Forbes as “the new oil,” zero-party data is defined by Forrester as “data that a customer intentionally and proactively shares with a…
Over the past few years, there has been an industrywide rallying cry about the yawning investment gap between the general market and minority-owned media. Nearly every marketer and media buyer agency has pledged a more diversified spending approach. At the same time, major investors including Tyler Perry, Robert Smith and Byron Allen, as well as…
In an ever-evolving social media age, it can feel as if there’s always a new celebrity or influencer scandal that commands public attention. In August alone, notable celebrities and influencers entered career-damaging lawsuits, accidentally started a riot and were brought back to life. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg–drama on maximalism-design-Tok likely ended…
It’s no secret that the social media landscape is changing at a breaking speed. Instagram and TikTok are placing evermore emphasis on video, tweaking their algorithms to favor moving content over static images. Reels are drawing the lion’s share of attention in people’s feeds, and we’re yet to see the full impact of Generative AI…
You’re not imagining the influx of brand advertisements when buying groceries online at Target.com or seeing sponsored options in the search results when surfing Amazon Prime for a new bathing suit. Those are retail media networks (RMNs) at work. New RMNs are popping up left and right every day. As of 2022, National Retail Federation…
While the saying “it’s lonely at the top” is cliche, it is also an acute reality for the less than 2% of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women in C-suite roles. Without a large enough pool of candidates for consideration, and a trending decrease in diversity investment, how do we affect any kind of…
In today’s interconnected world, social media platforms are the new town squares where creators and influencers hold court. And even in the relatively short amount of time that influencers have been around, the dynamics of influence have undergone a profound transformation. Power has shifted from traditional gatekeepers to everyday individuals who have mastered the art…
In a rapidly evolving landscape, accurately predicting the future of online advertising is no easy task. Four years ago, I wrote an article for Adweek outlining the emergence of the fourth era of online advertising, characterized by media transactions on online platforms with a focus on data privacy. Looking back, some predictions were on point,…
Working with brands as part of my everyday job, I often think about those that have had a lasting impact on my life. Growing up, one of them was Vans. Vans allowed me to embrace the lifestyle that I admired and aspired to as a teenager growing up in Southern California during the 1990s. Whether…
One aspect of the marketing industry that I love the most is its unwavering ability to constantly evolve and change with culture, consumer behavior and the overall digitization of the world we live in. Nothing we do today is done the same way we used to do it, and influencer marketing is certainly no exception….
Now that Hollywood’s actors have joined screenwriters in a dual strike seeking higher pay, restructuring of residuals and prohibitions on AI, brand-side clients have questions about how talent partnerships with brands and commercial work may be impacted. Not only are actors permitted to work in commercials during the strike, but this is a great time…
In recent years, we’ve seen advertisers increasingly take advantage of low-fidelity marketing, particularly on social media. This “perfectly imperfect” content, mostly known for its underproduced visual representation, can also manifest in inconsistent voiceover quality and low-effort copywriting that has no regard for punctuation or capitalization. Lo-fi marketing at first appeared counterintuitive to many brands and…
Cultural relevance cannot be achieved with major rebranding efforts and media and PR blitzes. It needs to be organically grown and fostered throughout the organization. The question is, how? I have worked in cultural branding for more than two decades. Through my experience, I believe marketers must understand four interrelated concepts especially well in order…
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