Business Marketing

Your brand might have marketing to millennials down, but what about the upcoming Gen Z?

If you’ve been wracking your brain to find the best way to target younger consumers in your business model, wrack no longer, as globalwebindex released a recent report that explains the behavior of those consumers.

How beauty brands tap influencers (and you should, too)

Recently, more and more brands and companies are leveraging influencers to drive engagement and awareness, and usage isn’t slowing. Marketers are teaming up with influencers for content creation and promotion.

How marketers are measuring customer engagement these days

All marketers should evaluate their strategy. If you’re not currently using any of the above metrics to evaluate the success of your consumer engagement levels or overall marketing strategy, you should start today.

Pop-up coffee shop tricked hipsters into loving grocery store beans

It’s a formula that works for marketing in general; present your product in an appealing, trendy or familiar way, and the consumer will (more likely) believe that it is higher quality. And this grocery store played the ultimate prank.

Here’s where the big boys will be pointing their ad dollars in 2016

Newer social ad venues are intriguing marketers. Many senior ad buyers plan to point their advertising dollars to new social media venues in 2016.

Brand names jumping on the “Be Like Bill” bandwagon (eyeroll)

If imitation is the fondest form of flattery, then Bill creator Eugeniu Croitoru must be thrilled to no end because Bill, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, is popping up all over the world. Reebok, Square, PizzaHut and more are all following the template. Sigh.

Coca-Cola’s gif maker gets trolled hardcore, brands should take this as a warning

Last week, Coca-Cola ditched their 7-year-old slogan “Open Happiness,” in favor of the fresher “Taste the Feeling.” However, the brand is now “tasting the trolls” instead, because it didn’t take long for the Internet to reinterpret Coca-Cola’s new advertising campaign.

This Play-Doh campaign is so perfectly snarky, pokes fun at tech

Let’s face it: we’re addicted to technology. A fact which is the focus of Play-Doh’s new ad campaign. The most famous doh company on the planet is having fun with our tech addiction and throwing some shade at the digital world with their new advertisements.