5/3/2021 11:30:55 AM Can Marketing Still Lay Golden 'Growth' Eggs in a Post Pandemic World? By Stephen Sumner Prior to this pandemic marketing communications should have been about 8% of the marketing function’s duties. However, it increasingly...
8/24/2020 6:58:15 AM Three Ways to Personalize Your Next ABM Campaign to Close More Deals By Tim Hughes Account Based Marketing (ABM) or Account Based Selling is a great way to focus on existing clients, something all companies should be...
7/21/2020 5:50:53 AM Can Authentic Content Reduce The Reliance on Ad Agencies? By Stephen Sumner Despite a slump like no other, ad spending may fall by less this year than the 11.2% drop that followed the financial crisis in 2009. And...
7/14/2020 10:25:22 AM The Visibility Problem Facing Every B2C & B2B Online Brand. By Stephen Sumner With revenues in the toilet, enforced redundancies looming, all manner of businesses having no option but to become fiscally tighter, so,...
7/6/2020 10:42:33 AM Have Publishers & Broadcasters Really Had Enough of The Duoply? By Stephen Sumner If your a regular reader of my Blogs it won't come as a surprise that I've been beating the drum for the past 6 years about the fact you,...
7/5/2020 12:37:10 PM Why You Should Ask Your CMO to Highlight Streaming Fraud in Your Budget. By Stephen Sumner I write quite a lot of blogs, they vary from my focus on the digital intrusions from the advertising industry, to how social media and...
6/29/2020 1:24:47 PM How To Create a 'Front of Mind' Brand Strategy That's Also Authentic. By Stephen Sumner Are you on Instagram and FaceBook? I read that 1 in 4 post on those platform are now Ads. I also read that in order to maintain demand...
6/29/2020 12:57:37 PM Why Your Media Agencies Cookies Are No More? By Stephen Sumner According to a recent survey from the Interactive Advertising Bureau, nearly a quarter of media buyers, planners and brands will not...
6/29/2020 12:28:27 PM Why Your CFO Should be Happy and Worried for the Same Reasons By Stephen Sumner The global advertising industry is expected to decline nearly 12 per cent this year as the coronavirus pandemic batters businesses around...
6/28/2020 1:35:38 PM Why The Golden Age of Martech is Over By Tim Hughes This story all took place in 2019, before covid19 hit. I live 30 minutes drive from Heathrow airport in London. A few years ago, there...
6/14/2020 11:26:04 AM Is Mobile Advertising Still Relevant Today? By Stephen Sumner A number of months ago I asked the question; Is Anything Going to Transform the Intrusive Ad Experience? It seems that it took a global...
3/1/2020 12:00:00 AM 5 Reasons Retail Marketing Is Losing Its Mojo. By Stephen Sumner My Children tell me that inventing banner ad is like inventing smallpox. J.McCambley (inventor of the banner ad) Or to use a current...
2/23/2020 11:35:51 AM 3 Ways Retailers Can Improve Content Discovery. By Stephen Sumner Time to hold your hands up - digitally speaking that is. "Skip The Ad" - Who can't wait for that few initial seconds to be over so you...
2/13/2020 12:00:00 AM What’s a ‘Retail Warm Up'? By Stephen Sumner The answer is; When consumers choose one channel to get warmed up over a brand and go on to make a purchase via another!! The majority of...
2/10/2020 11:40:10 AM Social Media is great for paid media - BullS#]t!! By Stephen Sumner Media agency review sessions for some can be weekly, but for most its a monthly retrospective session, the purpose is based on your media...
2/10/2020 12:00:00 AM We all know about annoying ads, but WTF’s a disruptive ad? By Stephen Sumner Not only are there now 1 in 4 people adopting ad blocking software, not only is their forecast to be circa $100 Billion in ad fraud by...