Bicultural Hispanics: The Middle Child
The advertising community has begun to take acculturation levels into account when advertising to Hispanics, but there’s an aspect of Hispanic consumers that most advertisers fail to consider. In many cases the individual consumer doesn’t have even one static acculturation level — in other words, that we as individuals think and behave in different ways (that reflect high or low acculturation). As a bicultural Hispanic, I’m keenly...
A Top-Shelf Partnership: Retailers & CPGs Go Down The Advertising Aisle
At Advertising Week in New York, recently, Communicus attended Match Marketing Group founder Michael Dill’s session in which he explored retailers’ engagement with today’s connected consumer…
Kids Have Opinions About Smartphones; Tablets, Too
Although they’re not generally the target consumer for high-end electronics, kids are using smartphones and tablets in increasing numbers and are showing a clear preference among brands. According to advertising consultancy Communicus, one-third of American pre-kindergarten-age children have a tablet specifically used by them, while two-thirds of kids regularly use tablets. Among those that don’t have tablets, 50% ask their parents to...
Digital Media and Marketers: Love Affair or Friend Zoned?
Most marketers agree: There is a lot to love about digital as an advertising medium. It is highly targetable, cost efficient, extremely trackable, easy to optimize on the fly, and ever evolving to more effectively buy and serve ads…
Surprise, Social Media Changes Behavior
Jeri Smith talks to Media Life about how brands can persuade, whether TV commercials are persuasive as well, and how TV and the web can best work together for advertising. Read Media Life Magazine’s: Surprise, Social Media Changes Behavior HERE.