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Blog:How Can Digital Out-Of-Home Fulfill Its Potential? (Insights From The MediaPost Digital Out-Of-Home Summit)

As digital infuses every medium, one of the oldest advertising mediums around — out-of-home — is getting a digital makeover. Forrester Researcher Cory Madigan recently attended a...

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Blog:Want To Know Your Secret Brand Building Weapon? Sshh, It’s Your Employees.

There’s a lot of effort exerted by marketing leaders to turn customers into brand advocates. But their customers have a lot of brand choices and a lot of other things on their minds. What these...

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Report:Digital Remakes Out-Of-Home Advertising

A Traditional Channel Gets An Interactive "In Person" Makeover

Adding digital to traditional out-of-home has transformed a stagnant medium into a fast-growing channel with significant upside for marketers as small screens grow ever-more cluttered. The landscape...

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Blog:Jay-Z Decodes The Future Of Digital Out-Of-Home

For the 2010 launch of his autobiography Decoded, hip-hop mogul Jay-Z ran a teaser campaign with Bing that released one page of the book per day on out-of-home signage; people across the US tried to...

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Blog:How Will You And Your Marketing Programs Be Measured In 2012? Take Our Survey On ROI Trends.

According to an Advertising Age article that discussed a new IBM survey released today, many CMOs "believe that marketing's financial return on investment will become a...

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Blog:Want To Know How Your Marketing Colleagues Are Planning Their 2012 Budgets? Take Our Survey And Find Out.

Budget season is upon us. With a rapidly changing media landscape, many marketers are re-evaluating how they allocate their marketing dollars. How is your budget changing for 2012? Will you take back...

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Blog:Brand As Publisher Or Brand As Newsroom? My POV: Brand As Storyteller.

Oreo’s recent quick-thinking “Dunk In the Dark” response to the power outage at this year’s Super Bowl put the spotlight on real-time branded content and reinvigorated the...

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Blog:Trust Me, Take Small Steps To Build Brand Trust

I’m currently quite taken with the new Fox TV series The Americans, which features a chameleon-like Matthew Rhys and a kick-ass Keri Russell as deep-undercover KGB spies. They live an...

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Blog:How Is Social Media Changing Your Brand Strategy?

How many times have you been asked, “What’s your social strategy?” As Facebook’s IPO grabs the headlines, and new social sites like Pinterest and Tumblr grab consumers’...

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Tool:The 21st Century Brand Building Self-Assessment

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Report:Engage Women With Personal And Relevant Social Interactions

Women have the potential to drive a brand's reputation online because, compared with men, they are more connected with each other and like to talk about brands and products, especially in social...

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Report:Shopper Marketing Breaks Out Of The Store

Follow The Customer Life Cycle To Influence Pre-Store Purchase Decisions

Shopper marketing is expanding beyond the brick-and-mortar world as frugal and in-the-know consumers use technology to inform their purchases. This shift will create a proliferation of marketing...

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Blog:Consumers Embrace Digital On Their Path To Purchase, But Online Still Trumps Mobile

As consumers continue to embrace all things digital to enhance their shopping experience, Forrester is conducting a series of research studies on the consumer’s new path to purchase. My...

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Blog:How Green Does Your Brand Need To Be?

The recent Earth Day celebration brought a slew of often-conflicting reports on consumers’ environmental or green attitudes and behavior, such as “consumers cut spending on green,”...

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Blog:Brand as publisher or brand as newsroom? My POV: Brand As Storyteller.

Oreo’s recent quick-thinking “Dunk In the Dark” response to the power outage at this year’s Super Bowl put the spotlight on real-time branded content and reinvigorated the...

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Blog:P&G Brand Building Goes Digital, But This Is Not The End Of TV Advertising

As the world’s largest advertiser, any move by Procter & Gamble (P&G) is closely watched. So much attention has been paid to its recent announcement that it will cut $10 billion from its...

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Report:How To Build Your Brand With Generation Z

Generation Z, the generation born after the Millennials, are true digital natives who have grown up in the age of technology. The only world they know is a digital one — where they can connect...

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Blog:Make A Digital Connection With Women Around Life Stage And Passion Points

When the FBI finally captured Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger after a 16-year hunt, it did it by talking to women. Why? Because it realized that women would be more likely to have connected with his...

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Report:How Social Media Is Changing Brand Building

Social media has fundamentally changed how consumers interact with each other and with brands. As a result, marketers tell us that they now consider this new channel to be a critical component of...

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Report:Benchmark Your Brand Building Capabilities

Benchmarks: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

In 2012, Forrester surveyed marketing leaders to get a pulse on their progress toward successfully building 21st century brands. The results show that marketers are in the early stages of 21st...

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Report:CMO Imperatives For 2012

Use Technology To Move From Experimentation To Driving Results

In 2012, CMOs will need to embrace technology to help them handle big issues like: 1) addressing the maturation of social media from cool tool to critical connector with customers; 2) determining how...

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Report:Why Marketers Must Integrate TV And Video Strategies

In addition to the variety of media options that the digital age has brought forth, TV is the next medium to get a digital makeover. New access points to the living-room screen and the invasion of...

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Report:Build Your Army Of Brand Advocates From Across The Enterprise

Forrester's research with senior marketing leaders shows that enterprisewide commitment and engagement are critical to successfully building a brand in the 21st century. But this is also marketers'...

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Report:Marketing Budgets For 2012 Expose A Fear Of Commitment

Digital Media Spending Surpasses That Of Traditional Media, But Marketers Wait To Commit Spend

As the economic recession lingers on, marketers remain cautious. Forecasts show that budgets are on the rise, but marketers are reluctant to commit. A more pragmatic marketer is emerging who wants...

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Report:Metrics That Matter For B2C Marketers

As the economic malaise lingers on, marketers face increased pressure to prove the value of their marketing programs. And while many CMOs believe that future success will be judged on return on...

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