Screen Time
Ever since the DVR was introduced in 1999, pundits have been telling us that the days of brands being able to advertise via the traditional TV commercial were soon to be gone. Since then, there have been a number of additional marketplace dynamics that have helped to reinforce this doom-and-gloom scenario. Interestingly, the traditional TV commercial is still around today, with U.S. marketers spending nearly $80 billion per year on TV...
Are Parents Too Busy to Notice Your Ads? Or Actively Solution-Seeking?
Parents are time-constrained, cash-strapped and trying-to-do-it-all, and are one of the most highly sought after group by a variety of brands. Brands ranging from diapers to food products to cars to financial institutions, target parents with family-filled advertising images and benefit propositions aimed at making their life just a little easier…
Survey explores how the “pester power” of children drives retail sales
Advertising consultancy Communicus says it has found that “child pestering” is one of the top predictors of a parent’s purchase intentions to buy a wireless device for their children. Its study, “The Mobile Device Path to Purchase: Parents & Children” found that for Apple, “child pestering” is the top predictor, being twice as important as social media, while for Samsung, it was the second predictor (first...
Why Outdoor Advertising Still Has a Place in Contemporary Marketing
It’s not too surprising that Jeremy Male, the Chief Executive of CBS Outdoor, is a big believer in outdoor advertising as an ad medium for the future…