Survey explores how the “pester power” of children drives retail sales
Dec19

Survey explores how the “pester power” of children drives retail sales

Advertising consultancy Communicus says it has found that “child pestering” is one of the top predictors of a parent’s purchase intentions to buy a wireless device for their children. Its study, “The Mobile Device Path to Purchase: Parents & Children” found that for Apple, “child pestering” is the top predictor, being twice as important as social media, while for Samsung, it was the second predictor (first...

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College Football Playoffs – Who cares how teams succeed; how can brands succeed is the bigger question
Dec18

College Football Playoffs – Who cares how teams succeed; how can brands succeed is the bigger question

ESPN announced a line-up of 15 brand sponsors for the first-ever college football playoff series. Official sponsors range from food and beverage brands such as…

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How Your Brand Can Leverage Competitor Ads This Holiday Season
Nov25

How Your Brand Can Leverage Competitor Ads This Holiday Season

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. It’s just coming a bit earlier and lasting longer than expected. Welcome to the year of the “Christmas creep,” as described by Stuart Elliott’s October 15, 2014 column in The New York Times. Retailers have holiday displays up before Halloween. Brands are sharing holiday shopping wish lists earlier than ever before. Consumers are receiving e-mails, mailers, ads and a variety of “shop here now”...

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Bicultural Hispanics: The Middle Child
Oct23

Bicultural Hispanics: The Middle Child

The advertising community has begun to take acculturation levels into account when advertising to Hispanics, but there’s an aspect of Hispanic consumers that most advertisers fail to consider. In many cases the individual consumer doesn’t have even one static acculturation level — in other words, that we as individuals think and behave in different ways (that reflect high or low acculturation). As a bicultural Hispanic, I’m keenly...

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A Top-Shelf Partnership: Retailers & CPGs Go Down The Advertising Aisle
Oct17

A Top-Shelf Partnership: Retailers & CPGs Go Down The Advertising Aisle

At Advertising Week in New York, recently, Communicus attended Match Marketing Group founder Michael Dill’s session in which he explored retailers’ engagement with today’s connected consumer…

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