Marketing

How Different Generations Will Shop This Holiday Season

The holiday season is here, and understanding how different generations plan to shop can help you tailor your messaging, media planning and creative based on the generation you’re targeting. Our recent survey of 1,000 US consumers revealed their spending habits, shopping timelines and purchasing preferences by generation. Here are the five biggest trends that the

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How whiskey brand Four Walls ‘hired its community’ to run a UGC ad campaign

Instead of hiring an agency to manage its latest ad campaign, the whiskey brand Four Walls took an alternative approach: hiring its community. Four Walls is launching a promotional merchandise line today emblazoned with rose imagery inspired by one of the brand’s fans, Emberlin Leja, who wrote to the company to share the story of

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Breaking Up Google Could Hurt Small Businesses

I’ve taught digital advertising at a leading American university since 2013. Before becoming a professor, I spent 25 years helping businesses develop effective digital marketing and advertising strategies. I’ve closely followed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) current case targeting Google’s digital display-ads business and calling for the company’s breakup – and I’m worried by the

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