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LinkedIn Ads vs. Google Ads: A 30-Day Comparative Analysis
In a 30-day experiment, we pitted LinkedIn Ads against Google Ads to see which platform offers the best value for our advertising spend. Here are the results.
2023 Advertising Media Spending Forecast – Executive Summary
Here’s how 2023 global media spending breaks down into offline vs. digital advertising, programmatic, walled gardens vs. open web, and DSP’s share of it.
How to Train Your Media Planning AI (The Right Way)
Discover why media planning AI needs good training data to be effective. Learn the right way to source high-quality media plan data for machine learning.
How to Use AI in Media Planning – You’ve Got To Be Careful!
As a media planner, you're hearing how AI is the future of media planning. You may be starting to feel you’re becoming obsolete. But is this really the case?
5 Problems Thwarting Media Supplier Diversity Initiatives
On March 2-4, 2022 in Orlando, the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) held their 10th annual Media Conference. The ANA led the conference with a program focused on supplier diversity, which both celebrated progress and identified the problems thwarting these initiatives.
The 2022 Agency Trends Report
Last week, our friends at Function Point revealed the results of their new research on the 2022 trends at advertising agencies. Watch the recording above to see their presentation.
Anatomy of an Advertising Investment Tracking System
Smart advertisers treat media as an investment. Unfortunately, many agencies fail to deliver. They lack the right dashboards, database, or data. Here’s what you need and an easy way to get it.
Advertisers Want Their Data (or else!)
With the latest ANA industry standards, ad agencies who are unable (or unwilling) to provide advertisers with access to their advertising data will erode trust and risk losing clients in 2020 reviews. In contrast, data-centric agencies will build trust and win new clients. Bionic agencies stand to gain the most.
Trailblazing Women Lead First ANA In-House Agency Conference
The ANA's new In-House Agency conference distinguished itself with its high concentration of trailblazing female leaders on the main stage including Jessica Cipolla-Tario of MGM, Maureen Boyle of Trunk Club, Jean Batthany of Disney, Marla Kaplowitz of the 4A’s, Helen Lin of Publicis, Kerri Martin of Clorox, Belinda Smith of Electronic Arts, Keri Bruce of Reed Smith, Patti Cocciolo of Cisco, Charissa Messer of Bank of America, and others.
How Might We Bring More Transparency, Accountability, and Control to Advertising?
The ANA, Jon Mandel, K2, Ebiquity, ISBA, and ID Comms have raised awareness, spurred discussion, and presented a challenge of bringing more transparency, accountability, and control to advertising. What started as an investigation into rebates, has grown into an operating philosophy of better corporate governance. This Transparency Initiative was the hot topic last week at the 2018 ANA Media Leadership Conference in Orlando, Florida.