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• Report The Forrester Wave™: Customer Database And Engagement Agencies, Q1 2021

  The Eight Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  February 8, 2021 | Fatemeh Khatibloo, Nick Monroe

  In our 29-criterion evaluation of customer database and engagement agencies, we identified the eight most significant — Acxiom, Bond Brand Loyalty, Epsilon, Havas Helia, ICF Next, Merkle, RRD, and...

• Report Create An Omnichannel Advertising Strategy Centered On Customer Experience

  Executive Overview: The Omnichannel Advertising Playbook

  January 22, 2021 | Joanna O'Connell

  B2C marketers need to embrace omnichannel advertising strategies to orchestrate connected experiences that drive better results. How? By adopting a customer-obsessed planning and buying approach...

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  Webinar Listen Up: Use Podcasts To Engage Customers And Reach New Audiences

  January 19, 2021 | Collin Colburn, Sarah Dawson

  For marketers looking to connect with customers in new and trendy channels, podcasts may be a natural choice. But podcasts are a unique channel, and they require specific consideration before...

• Report Research Overview: Personalization

  A Guide To Our Personalization-Related Research

  December 11, 2020 | Rusty Warner, David Novitzky

  B2C marketers strive to deliver relevant, personalized customer experiences. But heightened customer expectations, conflicting business goals, overlapping technologies, and execution challenges...

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  Webinar Advertising Predictions 2021

  November 24, 2020 | Joanna O'Connell, Sarah Dawson

  2021 will be a year of transformation for the advertising industry. As impending privacy restrictions, the specter of total third-party cookie deprecation, and rising expectations of values-based...

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  Playbook The Omnichannel Advertising Playbook For 2021

  Create An Omnichannel Advertising Strategy Centered On Customer Experience

  B2C marketers need to embrace omnichannel advertising strategies to orchestrate connected experiences that drive better results. How? By adopting a customer-obsessed planning and buying approach...

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  Webinar Adtech And Martech Enter An Era Of Disruption: When And Where To Invest

  September 17, 2020 | Mary Pilecki, Emily Collins, Sarah Dawson

  Marketers need technologies that enable omnichannel advertising and memorable, moments-based experiences. These advertising and marketing technologies are not new, but industry forces like data...

• Report The Forrester Tech Tide™: Adtech For B2C Marketers, Q3 2020

  Tools and Technology: The Omnichannel Advertising Playbook

  July 30, 2020 | Mary Pilecki, Sarah Dawson, Collin Colburn

  Advertising technology (adtech) has been fundamental to B2C marketers' efforts to raise their brand profiles, connect with customers, and sell their products and services. The adtech ecosystem is...

• Report Now Tech: Creative Advertising Technologies, Q2 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 23 Creative Advertising Technology Providers

  May 15, 2020 | Joanna O'Connell

  You can use creative advertising technologies (adtech) to realize creative production efficiencies, improve ad performance, and increase creative relevancy for consumers. But to realize these...

• Report Get More From Mobile Advertising

  Mobile Ads Struggle To Deliver Value For All

  April 24, 2020 | Collin Colburn

  Mobile advertising is a critical tool for advertisers and publishers alike, as consumers use mobile as their primary device. But mobile ads still fall short. Read this report to determine what B2C...

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  Webinar Crawl, Walk, Run Your Way To Omnichannel Advertising Acumen

  April 23, 2020 | Joanna O'Connell, Jim Nail

  Advertising efforts born out of a disconnected multichannel approach are coming at the cost of business performance and consumer experience alike. Omnichannel advertising, however, is not a...

• Report Omnichannel Advertising Mastery Is A Journey That Starts By Looking Inward

  Assessment: The Omnichannel Advertising Playbook

  April 10, 2020 | Joanna O'Connell, David Novitzky

  B2C marketers are tasked with the difficult job of generating revenue while improving consumer ad experiences. Unfortunately, not all marketers have achieved the level of advertising maturity...

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  Webinar The Future Of DMPs In A Cookieless World

  April 9, 2020 | Tina Moffett

  Data management platforms (DMPs) help advertisers analyze, create, and syndicate audiences through media buying platforms by connecting the advertiser's first-party data with third-party cookie...

• Report The Future Of Advertising Is Imminent Upheaval — And You're Not Ready For It

  Vision: The Omnichannel Advertising Playbook

  April 7, 2020 | Joanna O'Connell, Sarah Dawson

  In advertising, brands, publishers, and consumers share a relationship based on balance and tension. But industry missteps have thrown that balance off-kilter, unsettling consumers and threatening...

• Report Your Global Martech Stack Won't Cut It In China

  Assemble A Local Martech Stack To Support Your Marketing Strategy In China

  April 7, 2020 | Xiaofeng Wang

  Global marketers struggle to adapt to the unique and fast-changing digital ecosystem in China. Many of their global marketing technology (martech) vendors either lack a business presence in the...

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  Webinar Applying The Forrester Wave™: Social Suites, Q4 2019

  March 19, 2020 | Jessica Liu, Sarah Dawson

  As social media management solution (SMMS) technology tacks additional capabilities on top of core social organic publishing and customer response, SMMSes evolve into social suites that offer a...

• Report Lessons In Customer Acquisition: Learn From DTC Disruptors' Awareness Strategies

  DTCs Move Customers Quickly From Discover To Buy

  February 28, 2020 | Ryan Skinner, Sarah Dawson

  Direct-to-consumer (DTC) disruptor brands are growth engines, capturing the imaginations of a new generation of consumers, creating new markets, and opening the M&A wallets of much larger...

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  Webinar The Future Of The Third-Party Cookie

  Implications Of Third-Party Cookie Deprecation For Consumer Privacy And The Advertising Technology Ecosystem

  February 24, 2020 | Fatemeh Khatibloo, Stephanie Liu, Tina Moffett

  With Chrome, Firefox, and Safari taking active measures to limit or block third-party cookies, what’s in store for B2C marketers? This roundtable discussion examines the future of the...

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  Webinar The Future Of Advertising Is Here — Are You Ready For It?

  February 20, 2020 | Joanna O'Connell, Sarah Dawson

  Advertising rests on the balance and tension between three stakeholder constituencies: advertisers selling things, publishers creating revenue to fund content, and consumers learning about products...

• Report Modern Privacy Laws Change The Paradigm For Marketing And Advertising

  Roadmap: The Customer Trust And Privacy Playbook

  February 19, 2020 | Fatemeh Khatibloo

  The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has changed how B2C marketers and advertisers operate in the European Union (EU). But more privacy regulations are in play, from the US to Japan, all...

• Report Crawl, Walk, Run Your Way To Omnichannel Advertising Acumen

  Roadmap: The Omnichannel Advertising Playbook

  February 3, 2020 | Joanna O'Connell, Jim Nail

  B2C marketers have to graduate their advertising efforts from a disconnected multichannel approach to a holistically managed omnichannel one — to benefit business performance and consumer...

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  Webinar 2020 Media Predictions: The Media Disruption Just Won't Stop

  December 4, 2019 | Collin Colburn, Sarah Dawson, Jim Nail

  2020 will kick off a new decade for the media industry with continued change and evolution. Consolidation, streaming wars, new ad formats, and a revitalization of local news will result in a group...

• Report The Future Of Omnichannel Advertising Must Be Customer Obsessed

  November 8, 2019 | Joanna O'Connell, Susan Bidel

  Advertising is a decades-old revenue engine for brands, but it's gone off the rails in an era of data and technology obsession. Little understanding of consumer ad sentiment and too much short-term...

• Report Predictions 2020: Privacy And Data Ethics

  Marketers Fight To Retain Access To Consumer Data As Regional Regulations Make A Global Impact In Courtrooms And Boardrooms

  October 30, 2019 | Fatemeh Khatibloo, Heidi Shey, Enza Iannopollo

  2020 is poised to be the "year of the privacy regulator." As a result, privacy and data ethics will rightfully take their place on the boardroom agenda. This report lays out Forrester's five...

• Report Predictions 2020: Media

  Streaming Wars, Podcasts, And Further Fragmentation Will Dominate The Media Industry In 2020

  October 29, 2019 | Collin Colburn, Joanna O'Connell, Jim Nail

  2020 will kick off a new decade for the media industry, with continued change and evolution. Consolidation, streaming wars, new ad formats, and a revitalization of local news will result in a group...