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The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
Since Forrester published its first Wave™ evaluation on marketing mix modeling in 2011, the market has undergone significant growth and evolution as marketers demand more in-depth, real-time,...
Road Map: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
This report outlines the road map portion of Forrester's solution for interactive marketing executives working on digital media buying. Moving to a higher level of digital media buying maturity...
Emerging Trends In B2B Social Marketing For 2013
Our data shows that social channels are key to the decision processes of your business-to-business (B2B) customers and prospects, so to avoid falling behind or missing emerging trends, you should...
Strategic Plan: The Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Playbook
The customer life cycle provides a better explanation of modern marketing than does the traditional marketing funnel, but most marketers have not yet moved their organizations to the customer life...
ForecastView Spreadsheet
Spending by companies on mobile and tablet marketing segmented by display, search, and social. Includes data on mobile Internet users and spending by company size as well as mobile video...
Growth Slows But Remains Strong Despite Legislative Uncertainty
Social media marketing spending in the European Union (EU) will rise over the next five years, boosted by increasing numbers of addressable devices; consumers' willingness to use them; continued...
The online marketing suite supports many of the priorities that customer insights (CI) professionals hold dear: customer centricity, cost efficiency, measurement, and marketing relevance. But...

A Technographics® Data Essentials Document
Brand loyalty and price sensitivity guide consumers' purchasing decisions, but these qualities also create unique audiences that embody distinct social attitudes, technology engagement, and...
New Consumer Viewing Behaviors Force The Industry Into A New Future
Since its invention, TV has beaten back many challenges to retain its place as the king of the media plan. That won't change anytime soon, but the way advertisers plan and buy their campaigns will....
The Eight Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
In Forrester's 49-criteria evaluation of social relationship platform (SRP) vendors, we identified the eight most significant vendors — Adobe, Hearsay Social, salesforce.com's Buddy Media,...
And Why Google, Not Facebook, Will Dominate Affinity Marketing
Every day, huge numbers of people tell us what they like by voting for things, talking about things, reviewing things, and engaging in other online social interactions. All these behaviors add up to...

Direct Integration With Social Channels Creates The Richest Engagement And Data Opportunities
Across the globe, more and more consumers are interacting socially than ever before. When it comes to loyalty, social channels provide an opportunity for brands to engage with members beyond the...
ForecastView Spreadsheet
Online and offline advertising spending by marketers. Segments online display spending by pricing scheme, media format, and share of spending through ad networks. Includes historical data going back...
ForecastView Spreadsheet
Online social media spending by companies, segmented by spending on integrated campaigns, agency fees, display ads on social networks, and technology spending. Includes social spending directed...
Asia Pacific Technographics®
For the past seven years, Forrester has been tracking consumers' online and offline behavior in Asia Pacific. As in recent years, this dedicated report helps companies understand the online and...
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...

Benchmarks: The Innovation Playbook
While innovation is a hot topic among most of the organizations we work with, our recent survey of IT leaders indicates that a minority of firms have formalized their practices and processes. Only...

Tools And Technology: The Social Marketing Playbook
Marketers spend billions of dollars on social media every year, and they're increasingly turning to technology vendors to support their social programs. But for many marketers, the social technology...
Vet Interactive Agencies Against Four Key Criteria To Effectively Drive Your Marketing In China
The opportunity for interactive marketing professionals to reach and win Chinese consumers via digital channels is enormous. But the threat of failure looms just as large for brands with a shallow...

Tools And Technology: The B2B Online Community Playbook
Many IT managers tell us that marketers seem quick to jump to technology selection without first articulating the business reason for or the organizational impact of those choices. On the other hand,...
A Tool To Help You Uncover The Economic Value Of Your Community
Two of the most common questions we receive from B2B marketers are "How do I know if it's worth having a community?" and "How can I prove to my executives that my community is worth their...

During our recent customer engagement agency (CEA) Forrester Wave™, we surveyed more than 100 CEA clients to understand their choice of vendors and the quality of the relationships. We found...
The Ultra-Connected Customer Will Upturn Marketing
In 2013, the ultra-connected customer base will grow at a staggering pace, destabilizing marketing as you've come to know it. This report identifies the changes you'll see in your customers'...
Landscape: The Interactive Marketing Agency And Organization Playbook
This report of the interactive marketing agency and organization playbook examines the landscape of organizational structures and agency relationships. Three common organizational models have...

Vision: The Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Playbook
Today's empowered customer has the world at her fingertips — literally — through the multiple keyboards and connections to opinions all throughout her day. The challenge for today's...