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Ari is a principal analyst serving Interactive Marketing Professionals. He has nearly 15 years of experience in crafting interactive marketing strategies and best practices that generate revenues, build customer relationships, and enrich intelligence. He focuses on email marketing, social media, digital direct and CRM, measurement and analysis, marketing operations, and organizational planning. Ari is based in New York City.
Ari brings extensive experience to Forrester's interactive marketing practice. Before joining Forrester, he served as director of relationship marketing for the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he managed database and email marketing, CRM, and membership programs. In this role, Ari focused on fan acquisition, engagement, and monetization primarily through digital channels. Prior to the NBA, he was director of strategic services for the interactive unit at Epsilon, where he helped clients develop, execute, and analyze digital marketing programs and strategies. His experience also includes brand management at a consumer packaged goods unit of Johnson & Johnson, as well as corporate marketing and client services roles for an international marketing services firm. Ari is also a frequent speaker at events on topics spanning digital and multichannel marketing.
Ari has an M.B.A. in marketing and finance from New York University's Stern School of Business and a B.S. degree in communications from Cornell University.
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in March 2012 of 4,501 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,501), there is 95% confidence that...
Brand Engagement The Consumer Way
The report "Brand Engagement The Consumer Way," originally written for market insights professionals, highlights key behaviors that today's US online consumers exhibit when they engage with companies...
Measuring And Analyzing The Shift In Consumers' Expectations
Six years into the smartphone transition, customers are making a mobile mind shift. The shifted customer expects that any desired information or service is available on any appropriate device, in...


Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in March 2012 of 4,518 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,518), there is 95% confidence that...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in June 2012 of 11,413 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 11,413), there is 95% confidence that...
Consumers' preferences for customer service channels are rapidly changing. And it's not just the younger generation of consumers — there's disruption and change across all ages and...

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in September 2012 of 5,485 Canadian individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 5,485), there is 95%...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July 2012 of 5,030 US online adults ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 5,030), there is 95% confidence that...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in March 2013 of 5,504 Canadian individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 5,504), there is 95% confidence...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in April 2012 of 4,491 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,491), there is 95% confidence that...
Forrester conducted a survey from April to June 2012 of 22,662 European individuals ages 16 and older in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. For results based on a...
A Technographics® Data Essentials Document
Mobile phones are an integral part of day-to-day life for most Chinese consumers. But not everyone uses their phone in the same way nor is similarly attached to their phone. Forrester's analysis of...
Why Price Needs To Become More Than Just A Number For Product Strategists
Price can no longer be just a number for product strategists. Pricing now needs to become a strategic competency that affects every aspect of product strategy, from the business model to the nature...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July 2012 of 4,731 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,731), there is 95% confidence that...
A Technographics® Data Essentials Document
Luxury goods are very popular in China; they are bought by men and women of all ages and across all income levels. Compared with non-luxury goods buyers, Chinese luxury goods buyers tend to have...
Forrester conducted a survey from April to June 2012 of 3,181 individuals ages 16 and older across urban Russia. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 3,181), there is 95%...
Latin American Consumer Technographics®
Latin America is on the priority list of many global companies. This is not surprising given the meteoric rise of social networks like Facebook and Twitter and Latin Americans' willingness to connect...
Forrester Research conducted an online survey in December 2012 of 4,108 consumers ages 18 and older in metropolitan China (including Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan, Nanjing, Shenyang,...
Quantifying The Impact Of A Facebook Fan On Brand Interactions
Quantifying the impact of a Facebook fan can be difficult and elusive for marketers. Forrester uses statistical modeling to analyze the effect of being a Facebook fan on brands. The model gives...

Consumers Define Which Aspects Of The Brand Experience Are Critical
Consumers want brand experiences that match their expectations. We asked consumers which aspects of the brand experience help them differentiate between similar brands and ultimately make them loyal...
Banking channel use is changing in France as customers slowly turn away from traditional channels like branches and the telephone to use digital channels like Internet and mobile banking. Digital...

Vision: The Innovation Playbook
Now is a critical time for CIOs to focus on innovation. The pace of change is too fast, the opportunities too great, and the risks too dire to relegate it to the annual funding process. Digitally...
North American Consumer Technographics®
Creators sit at the top of Forrester's Social Technographics ladder®: They are a group of highly active online consumers who write blogs and articles, upload self-created video and music, post...

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in May and June 2012 of 30,978 US and 2,032 Canadian online adults ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 30,978...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in September and October 2012 of 13,911 European individuals in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. This survey is based...