The Association of National Advertisers has once again asked 157 senior marketers what their top priorities are. For the second year in a row, the number one response was integrated marketing communications. Here's how CMOs and other senior marketers see their challenges: 1. Integrated marketing communications 2. Marketing accountability 3. Aligning marketing organization with innovation 4. Brand …
When A Book Is An Ad
According to The New York Times, Charm!, a book written by a character on ABC's soap “All My Children” is doing well at retail, having sold 100,000 copies since its debut in February. The book also appeared on the New York Times best-seller list. Naturally, a fragrance called Charm, which is a product of the cosmetics company in the novel as well as a plot point on the soap, will be on sale in Sears stores …
Clip, Redeem and Save More Than Money
A few days ago I was wondering about P&G's FSIs and what, if anything, they had to do with content. In order to extend the dialogue on this topic, High Jive kindly clipped the following images from yesterday's paper and sent them AdPulp's way. Here's what High Jive is saying about these content-infused FSIs: P&G has been taking a “magalog” approach to their FSIs, attempting to make them feel like brochures. I know …
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Dearest Customer, You’re Really Just a Target of Some Brand’s Accountability Strategy
Can TV adjust itself to the realities of direct marketing? TV doesn't have much of a choice, experts say. Advertisers continue to demand greater targeting and accountability as the growth in Internet advertising heats up competition for budgets. Comcast and Starcom MediaVest now have some data to push things in that direction. Conducting a 16-month study, they found that households that had TV ads targeted to them …
Acme Widget Content Co.
Ad Age is running an article on the former chief operating officer at WPP's Alliance, David Caruso. Caruso has started a new agency, Acme Content Co., dedicated to branded entertainment. "I felt in a big agency [branded content] still wasn't being treated with the respect and thought leadership that the other disciplines were," he said. "It was still sort of a black sheep." Part of the value of having an independent …
Invite Yourself To The Client’s Private Party
Adrian Ho at Zeus Jones is reflecting on leading firms like Google that "don't really use advertising agencies and instead rely upon innovative business ideas to communicate their benefits and values to their customers." Ho also mentions Alex Bogusky's 2004 claim that "everything is an ad" and wonders how ad people are coping with that news. Rather than creating "communications objects" that help to grow a client's …
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Zune Equals Art, Music and Discovery
According to Ad Age, Zune Arts was born more than two years ago as part of an alternative marketing effort by Microsoft that invited emerging artists to create online art around social themes to help launch the Zune digital music player. But since then the website has morphed into an online haven for emerging artists and musicians. While still part of the Zune family of marketing initiatives and still touting the …
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CUL8r English Language
Brace yourself, big marketers are getting hip to text-message lingo. In ads that begin in two weeks for a new line of Degree deodorant for teen girls, Unilever is highlighting "OMG! Moments." Print ads running in magazines such as Seventeen and CosmoGIRL show "High School Musical" star Ashley Tisdale at a glitzy affair discovering that she has toilet paper stuck to one of her shoes. "We wanted to show the teens that …
