Ad spend against news content is in decline across channels. Despite high audience interest, serious news stories are frequently unmonetised due to blunt keyword blocklists deployed by brands ...

Fear, driven by cultural shifts or global crises, can significantly impact how audiences perceive a brand's trustworthiness, relevance and value – brands that ignore these shifts risk losing ground to ...

The shopping habits of luxury consumers continue to evolve, with research suggesting that logos and overt status are becoming less important and that many buyers now prefer to “purchase memories” in ...

Media literacy is taught in schools and social media literacy is an emerging area of academic study; now influencer literacy is becoming a topic for debate; as ever, it’s about money, power – and ...

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Dove launched the Real Cost of Beauty Ideals study to get American society to realize that body dissatisfaction and appearance-based discrimination is a silent public health epidemic, especially among ...

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Doing more with less is a familiar demand on marketers, and budgets are rarely all that they might hope: however, there are several key principles that help maximise the impact of advertising even ...

As streaming platforms muscle in on live sporting events, advertisers need to understand how they can best use platforms’ first-party data and new ad formats to reach fans and achieve impact, says ...