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Report:Chart A New Course For Your Brand

Strategic Plan: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

In order to build and preserve brand equity in the face of higher consumer expectations and support 21st century brand marketing, CMO and marketing leadership professionals must develop a strategic...

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Blog:Adapting Marketing Yet Again — This Time For The iPad And Other Tablets

You are the CMO or the head of marketing for your company, and you’ve just finalized your social media plans for 2011 at the request of the CEO. Despite the unknowns out there, you are...

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Report:TV And Video Advertising Is On The Upswing In 2012

Forrester partnered with the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) to better understand marketers' current attitudes toward TV and digital video advertising. Marketers have regained their...

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Blog:What’s Important To CMOs In 2011?

Forrester’s CMO Group fielded a survey in December in partnership with Advertising Age, to get a handle on what CMOs and marketing leaders are making a strategic priority in 2011. The article...

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Blog:Is This The Year You "Go Mobile" With Your Brand Or Sales Channels?

Forrester is launching a new survey to find out how marketing leaders like you integrate the mobile channel into their marketing strategy. Planning and organizing for the use of mobile technologies...

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Blog:Web GRPs Are A Band-Aid Solution For Cross-Platform Ads

In the wake of Nielsen’s and Facebook’s announcement of a new “Web GRP” metric, there has been some exciting debate over whether GRPs will be good for the advertising industry...

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Blog:Hurricane Sandy Reminds Us How To Speak To Customers During A Crisis (Or Not)

Major events — political, natural, or economic — create a lot of eyeballs on a select set of media and stories. But as friends chimed in on Facebook, Twitter, and texts, they...

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Blog:New Data Is Bringing New Insight To TV Viewing

At our Marketing Leadership Forum in April, Forrester Researcher Mike Glantz will be talking up TV in its future state with a panel made up of Comcast, ABC, and others. Here is a post written by Mike...

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Blog:When Will Your Consumers Be Ready To Spend?

When will customers be ready to spend on [insert product or service]? As CMOs and senior marketing leaders, you are often business leaders first and marketers second and have a strong interest in the...

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Report:Case Study: Cleveland Clinic Takes A Stepladder Approach To Achieve Social Media Success

Start Small And Engage The Enterprise To Overcome A Regulated Environment

The Cleveland Clinic was not the first healthcare firm to experiment in social media, but it achieved success where others failed. A pragmatic assessment of the barriers it faced in developing social...

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Blog:A Few Questions For Ross Martin, EVP And SWAT Team Leader At MTV Scratch

I am excited! Not just about the fact that Forrester's Marketing Forum is just around the corner. I am excited because I just got to spend some time with Ross Martin, the energetic executive vice...

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Blog:Is Nielsen In Trouble?

  This past week, Rino Scanzoni, chief investment officer at GroupM, openly decried Nielsen’s national, sample-based TV measurement. Although Scanzoni has an inherent bias (GroupM’s...

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Blog:The Next Competitive Advantage: Customer Obsession

I had the good fortune to work with Josh Bernoff, co-author of Groundswell and Empowered, on a groundbreaking new report. Along with colleagues from across Forrester, he has raised the red flag on a...

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Report:Marketers' Empowered Opportunity

The HERO Index: Finding Empowered Employees

Your customers are more empowered every day. Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter — accessible on smartphones, tablets, and connected TVs — are just the latest in the growing list of...

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Blog:Social Media Engagement Turns Out To Be A Boon For TV

Despite being the largest advertising medium (Forrester projects TV marketers will spend $76 billion on advertising in 2011), TV still lags in its ability to measure anything deeper than basic...

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Report:CMOs Must Lead The Brand Experience

Organization: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

Twenty-first century brands are grappling to maintain their traditional sources of competitive advantage in the age of the customer — a world in which the companies that take an obsessive...

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Blog:Moving From Cool To Critical: What We Learned At The Forrester Marketing Leadership Forum

Last week, Forrester got about 700 of our friends together (ok, conference attendees) to figure out what is cool and what is critical in marketing today as well as what is likely to cross from the...

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Blog:The Old Spice Campaign — An Old Spice Guy Mastering New Tricks

My colleague Augie Ray has written a great blog post about why the Old Spice campaign with Old Spice Guy Isaiah Mustafa has been such a huge success out of the gate. Here are some of the early stats...

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Report:TV's Currency Conversion

Marketers Need To Prepare For More Complex TV Buying In The US

Since the birth of TiVo in 1997, set-top-box data has been discussed as a more accurate alternative to Nielsen data for buying commercial slots in linear TV. But advertisers remain comfortable with...

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Blog:Introducing Forrester's CMO And Marketing Leadership Online Community

Hot on the heels of our new blog platform, Forrester has launched The Forrester Community For CMO & Marketing Leadership Professionals focused on the key business challenges that senior marketer...

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Report:Brands Must Adapt To Customers' Higher Standards

Vision: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

The traditional pillars of brand equity are cracking under the weight of the higher standards of the 21st century consumer. Marketers are disoriented in this world where they are losing influence...

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Report:TV's New Advertising Frontier

New TV Advertising Options Point Marketers Toward The Future

After 50 years of the 30-second spot, "innovations" like infomercials, and product placements, the world of TV advertising is about to go through a massive change. The promise of interactive TV is...

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Blog:Conquering The Marketing/Technology Divide

The competitive challenge that companies face today is driven by new issues that transcend classic distribution, brand, and product challenges. In the world we live in today, which Forrester defines...

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Blog:The ANA TV Conference And The Future Of Television Measurement

On February 10, our Researcher Mike Glantz was able to attend the ANA TV and Everything Video Conference. In light of our recently published call on the future of TV audience measurement in our new...

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Blog:CMOs And CIOs Tackle Technology: Q&A With Robert Mead, CMO, And Michael Mathias, CIO, At Aetna

Recently my colleague Sharyn Leaver and I had the opportunity to meet with Robert Mead and Michael Mathias, the CMO and CIO, respectively, at Aetna. They will be speaking at our upcoming CIO-CMO...