Brand Support Helps to Push Through Economy’s Challenges: Carat’s Mike Law

ORLANDO – The Federal Reserve this week raised its target interest rate to a 14-year high as it tries to reduce the highest inflation since the early 1980s. Amid these economic strains and consumer doubts, marketers that get behind their brands will be in better shape in the longer term. “There’s still so much opportunity […]

 
 

Measuring Attention to Ads Has Most Meaning in Sales Results: Carat’s Michael Law

CANNES – Today’s consumers see or hear dozens of advertisements throughout the day among a growing variety of media channels, challenging marketers to measure the effectiveness of their campaigns. Attention metrics have become more significant, especially for any insights into driving business outcomes such as sales. “We can now trade on Attentive CPMs [cost per […]

 
 

Addressable TV’s Growing Pains: Cadent, Dentsu, LiveRamp, Essence, Omnicom Discuss

SAN JUAN — It is the technology that can laser-target an ad at individual TV viewers or households, and then control how many more ads get seen across TV and other media. But what is the state of “addressable” television? A Beet Retreat panel convened by Beet.TV in Puerto Rico discussed that topic. Slow addressable […]

 
 

Agencies Need To Skill-Up ‘Lightning Rod’ Staff: Dentsu Aegis’ Law

SAN JUAN — By now, we are familiar with the idea that software engineers in Silicon Valley can pretty much name their own salary. But it’s not just in technology that certain key staff are in-demand. In this video interview with Beet.TV, an ad agency boss says that all sides of the marketing industry are […]