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Marketing Measurement Report: Emerging Media Outperforms Traditional Media
Analytic Partner’s latest ROI report is now out. Insights from over 16 years of research and measurement projects conducted with 700+ brands. Findings indicate higher ROI potential over traditional channels, although one needs not [...]
Is your Digital campaign performance good? Some say YES, some say NO.
After decades of TV advertising, there is a market culture, that certain things are certain. As for example the ratings campaigns are getting. No question about it, as every TV spot list can be crosschecked [...]
TV declines. Anything to be done?
Behavioral changes in TV consumption – once limited to young early adopters – are now cascading through older age groups. The trend is also present in Greece, as seen on the above chart, based [...]
TV over-deliveries in GR
In April 2019, all main TV Channels had -5% in number of spots on air and +15.5% in GRPs delivered!!! Contributors to this result were The unusual for the season cold weather, that kept [...]
Short videos? Then what about storytelling?
We were saying in our June 2018 post, that a study published by ADMAP magazine in March 2018, referred on research results comparing 30 sec TVCs and 15 sec. Using rational and emotional drivers of [...]
Digital Transformation and mindset
Photo: Christian Fregnan / Amsterdam / Unsplash All businesses will have sooner or later to take the plunge. But we meet quite often business executives or owners saying they don't have the money to [...]
Truth, the most precious asset
We truly appreciated the extracts from McCann Worldgroup’s Truth About Global Brands 2: They explore both the macro cultural forces and the local impacts on brands. Conducted by McCann’s Truth Central, the study surveyed [...]
What Research For Strategy?
Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash In Europe, the immigration problem, the effects of the ever changing rivalries between the US, China and Russia and the accelerating Eastbound move of the economic "center of gravity", destabilized among other, [...]
Is your ad on fire to attract attention?
We have been repeatedly arguing this year, that advertising in off-Line media needs in priority to accomplish two things: Become more entertaining & more attention grabbing. Needs primarily to grab the attention of [...]
Silly AUDI advertising on FB?
Photo https://unsplash.com/@levisaunders Marketing and advertising entertain a number of beliefs that govern our practices, until … a brave counterexample renders them obsolete. Our June 2018 post “Long or short?” went against the belief that [...]
TV needs to become extrovert!
Photo by Jack Daniel Ocampo Palacios on Unsplash Extrovert towards its own clients, the advertisers. Digital ad expenditure is expected to grow by 13% in 2018, while expenditure on TV by only 2.5% (Source: MAGNA) A universal [...]
Length Of TV Commercials
One of the 1 mil $ questions in TV advertising has always been about the right length of the commercial. The media planners were never in favor of the long versions (not always for [...]
Should Digital Campaigns Auditing follow on the steps of TV auditing?
When advertisers need to check the performance of their digital campaigns, very often jump into seeking benchmarking comparisons, exactly as they do in TV. But in digital, targeting is much more precise and objectives much [...]
GDPR, Media & Advertising Agencies
The 25th of May is speeding onto us and our daily routines will not be the same from the moment the GDPR will become part of the EU legal system. Are we prepared for this? Barely! [...]
Can TV have only 2 minutes of advertising per hour?
Fox Plans to Reduce Ad Load to 2 Minutes Per Hour by 2020 !!! The issue of overdose of advertising airtime on Greek airwaves is the major complaint for every advertiser and every viewer, [...]
“Cosi fan tutte”. And you?
Così fan tutte is an opera in Italian by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The work premiered in Vienna Advertising Industry: Financial results for third Quarter of 2017 have just been released: Google in the [...]
2nd Screen usage
By Kostas Houndas, Strategy & Business Analytics Officer, TEMPO OMD HELLAS. The concept of “Second Screen”, i.e. of using a second screen while watching television (75% according to Greek Barometer 2016), gained traction in recent [...]
Balancing TV & Digital
KANTAR MILWARD BROWN just released their paper "Get the Media Right - 2017". It is an excellent approach of the discussion of the day. Do we have the Research resources to split our marketing [...]
Mobile Ads: Not a media only issue
COSMOTE, the biggest mobile operator in Greece, just announced that in Aug 2017 data traffic was 40% up vs. 2012 and 50-100 % up in Chalkidiki and other touristic areas. For sure, this reflects the [...]
To be or not to be… advertised on SURVIVOR?
SURVIVOR proved to be the game changer of Greek TV. From March till June 2017, every night the show was on screen, 50 to 70% of all viewers were also there. The rest channels have abandoned [...]
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