Advertising

When Twitter first announced its intent (back in April) to be acquired by Elon Musk, Forrester said that disinformation and hate speech are ultimately at stake — and that ad dollars are at risk. In the days following last Friday’s closing of the deal, GM paused its paid advertising on Twitter. Soon after, IPG’s Mediabrands […]

Marketing agencies’ infamous environment – both vibrant and toxic – is decisively undergoing a cultural makeover in how workers work.

CMOs will face mounting pressure to demonstrate ROI, pushing media companies to innovate and consolidate in order to protect their share. Read our media predictions for 2023.

After two consecutive quarters of user decline (the first in almost a decade), Netflix saw 2.4 million paid net adds in Q3 (almost two and a half times more than its forecast). The company is at a precarious moment in time. While Netflix’s Q3 results create cautious optimism for future growth, the once market disruptor […]

Given Amazon’s dominance, competing with it in the Google Ads auction is uniquely challenging. But companies can use a strategic approach to make gains.

As CMOs turn to a frictionless marketing partner models Forrester evaluates the 10 top providers of integrated marketing.

Every advertising channel now parades as “performance” to appear accountable to outcomes. This dilution, along with three trends, is causing performance marketing’s underperformance.

In our 28-criterion evaluation of B2B advertising solution providers, we identified the 14 most significant ones — 6sense, AdDaptive Intelligence, Adobe, Demandbase, Influ2, Jabmo, LinkedIn, Madison Logic, Marin Software, Metadata, RollWorks, StackAdapt, Terminus, and The Trade Desk

For B2C marketers, Amazon's latest earnings report yielded insights on advertising, e-commerce, and more.

Regardless of when Google finally kills support for third-party cookies, if you’re not planning to manage these forces now, you’re already behind.

Here, we break down three key takeaways from Alphabet’s Q2 2022 earnings release and call and what they mean for B2C marketers.

Pandemic-induced shifts in consumer behavior resulted in a burst of content consumption across emerging platforms — from connected television to streaming radio and beyond. B2C marketers quickly shifted budgets toward these more trackable media channels in efforts to quickly capture the attention — and dollars — of prospective customers. But a new challenge emerged: Relic […]

The rise of data intelligence in the creative process will be as transformative as the creative advertising revolution of the 1960s.

The speculation has been swirling for months that Netflix was getting into the ad business. We’ve long seen this as necessary for Netflix and have been clear about the upside, so no big shock there. What is notable is the news that Netflix chose Microsoft as its adtech partner. Why Microsoft? Microsoft’s acquisition of Xandr, […]

Are Integrated Agency Relationships The Way Of The Future? Many indicators point to “yes.” CMOs Want Integration Intrigued by the potential lift from integrated marketing solutions, CMOs are changing the nature of their agency relationships to be more connected and improve marketing impact. Our research shows that nearly two in five CMOs will restructure their […]

Advertising industry growth has not yet stalled, counter to the misguided headlines. Despite rising inflation, concern for recession, and agency and tech company layoffs, US advertising industry job growth remains strong. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), advertising and related services added 3,800 jobs in June, while the total US jobs market […]

The EU announced an updated Code of Practice on Disinformation, aimed at combating the online spread of disinformation via regulatory measures, including “demonetizing the dissemination of disinformation.” Forrester’s research shows that the monetization of disinformation is a vicious cycle in which the ad supply chain infrastructure supports and funds — often inadvertently — the spread […]

Marketers are accidentally funding misinformation and fueling the proliferation of dangerous falsehoods. In this episode of What It Means, Principal Analyst Kelsey Chickering discusses how marketers can protect their brand from this phenomenon.