Curated Guide to Research
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- A new Hub Research Entertainment survey finds 53% of respondents view advertising video-on-demand services as having an ad experience that is "a lot better" or "a little better."
- The top three streamers in share of time spent viewing are YouTube, Netflix and Hulu, with YouTube TV at 8% share and Amazon Prime Video at 6%. The top premium streaming platform in household reach is Netflix with a 64% share followed by YouTube at 57%, Hulu, 41%; Prime Video 34%; Max, 29%; Peacock, 23%; Disney+, 22%; and Paramount+, 21%.
- Short-form advertising video via TV, streaming and digital platforms plays an important role in effectiveness when it comes to advertisers' media mix, according to a new study from WARC, an ad research company.
- Most brands still face challenges to creativity that AI might help resolve, according to the Braze Customer Engagement Review, a study by Wakefield Research.
- VidMob identified five creative insights for top-performing Super Bowl ads. You might need a car in that commercial or a backdrop of grand vistas -- a city, rural location or even the stars and planets.
- A sale of Paramount Global to any big legacy TV-based media or digital-first company is an uncertain situation, Bernstein Research says. "Without a clear buyer/structure, the outcome is still up in the air," writes Bernstein media analyst Laurent Yoon. "It could limp along for a while and requires a risk-taker with a lot of money to burn."
- Sam's Club has an ambitious video ads program that launched Tuesday, targeting members supported partly by The Trade Desk across CTV networks.
- Despite the push for streamers to cut TV/movie spending, major platforms keep funding billions on new TV and movie content, according to analysts from Bernstein Research.
- Omnicom's OMD unit and Teads will release results of what they call a pioneering neuroscience study analyzing the new metric, as well as three measurement tools associated with it.
- As their consumers returned to IRL shopping last summer, Lively brought its full-funnel approach to re-engaging their community. WearLIVELY's Senior Manager of Lifecycle Marketing, Hayley Squire, walks us through a month-long tour of the brand hitting the road: coordinating partnerships, social, local influencers, retail, SMS and email (even swag bags) into a community-based surround-sound messaging model. What did she learn about the discrete and integrated impact of so many syncopated channels?
- Keeping customers engaged with your brand is a key to future success. A loyalty program is one way to keep customers engaged. Sleep Number's Senior Director of CRM & Loyalty, Lisa Erickson, will share how, even with their long purchase cycle, they're able to build brand love and advocacy with their InnerCircle Rewards Program.
- There is a science to using and driving marketing results with them, judging by a new report by Phrasee, which shows football emojis have seen a 37% improvement -- but not in November.
- A link between sustainable ad practices and positive attention metrics shows that the longer an ad was viewed on a page, the lower the carbon emissions, according to a recent study. Here's why. The analysis proved a spot in view for 10 seconds produced 64% less carbon emissions than a spot with a 5-second in-view time. The Scope3 carbon emissions model, which calculates the total grams of carbon dioxide released from digital impression delivery (gCO2e), was the standard measurement used for the study.
- Rankings come at a time of shifting social and political landscapes, and a 37-count, first-time federal indictment of former U.S. President Trump.
- A study released last week found that Black creators on TikTok, YouTube and Twitter drew higher online followings than their non-Black peers.
- The study examined how ad creative impacts 61 metrics including lift, search intent, click-through rates and more in the consumer product group, automotive and other verticals. Creative quality can lead to 23% aided ad-recall, which drops to 2% for ads with poor creative quality. The study found that consumers looking for a product are 20% more likely to notice and 13% more likely to enjoy ads with improved visuals such as human presence, product images, or prominent logo placement.
- Microsoft has partnered with Roku since 2022. Microsoft's analysis of how CTV increases performance for campaigns shows TV streaming drives an increase in search behavior. Roku TV streaming ads lead to a 9% increase in brand searches per user and an 11% increase in clicks per user.
- Teachers, those in the military and other community members are motivated by exclusive offers, SheerID reports.
- Only 16% of viewers of online video stick with content that is longer than an hour.
- Three of the top spots for online engagement for this year's Super Bowl went to pure entertainment marketers. The ad for Warner Bros.' upcoming film "The Flash" led with a 2,373 engagement index, according to EDO Ad EnGage -- which means it was 24x more effective than the median Super Bowl LVII ad.
- Like many brands today, H&R Block wanted to boost their perception with a younger audience. In 2021, there were changes to the NCAA's Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) rules. Being able to earn income off of their NIL meant a big payday for college athletes, and with that, tax consequences. This gave the tax preparation company a real opportunity to connect with consumers through a cultural moment. Pierson Curtis, H&R's Director of Growth Marketing & Engagement, will share how a culturally relevant, purpose-driven campaign helped them drive performance across paid, earned, and owned channels.
- Delivering a relevant, timely and personalized experience to customers, but how do you do it no matter how many people are on your team? OpenTable's Senior Director of Engagement Marketing, Nikki Snowhite, shares her strategy, tips and tricks on how to make the most of your team, amplify and automate your assets and create internal processes that optimize customer experience. You can watch the entire interview here:
- Persado analyzes 21.6 billion emails to find that the leading word is "announcement."
- With a name like JaM Cellars, you know they've got to love wine and music. Over the life of John Anthony Family Wines brand, from 1,000 to almost 1MM cases, music has become core to the JaM Cellars marketing ecosystem; including festivals, venues, digital shows, podcasting, and charitable giving. John Anthony Family of Wines' CMO, Sarah Montague, will share how the JaM Cellars marketing ecosystem leverages music to connect emotionally with consumers, keep them engaged and entertained, and drive value for the brand.
- TV viewers are more concerned about seeing "entertaining" ads -- and ones that offer "value" -- than seeing "fewer ads," a study from media agency Magna's research division Magna Media Trials and Roku finds.
- Facebook's Q3 Widely Viewed Content Report shows just one in the top 20 posts qualified as engagement bait, vs.100% a year earlier. For the first time since the report has been produced, none of the top 20 posts violated platform rules. The Widely Viewed Content Report aims to provide transparency and context about what people see on Facebook by sharing the most-viewed domains, links, Pages and posts for a given quarter on Feed in the United States.
- The TelevisaUnivision agreement starts in Jan. 2023, and includes Nielsen Marketing Cloud and Gracenote's Advanced Discovery suite. It offers measurement and advanced planning across TelevisaUnivision's national, digital, local and audio affiliates as well as its streaming service, ViX.
- Like many hot DTCs, smart oven brand Tovala touches and re-touches consumers across every imaginable medium. But how do you stitch these disparate channel experiences to minimize friction in the customer journey and optimize these touchpoints to improve conversions? Tovala's Senior Director of Growth Engineering, Brian Krall, digs into Tovala's use of replay session analytics to better understand engagement trends, drop-off points, and conversion paths. What has the brand learned about using this toolset to smooth the journey for customers but also evaluate media performance and test new channels?
- Using three kinds of biometric measures -- eye-tracking, "cardiac deceleration" and "sweat secretion" -- Comcast Advertising says advertising in long-form TV programming on full-screen TV or streaming platforms yields better ad "memories" than with advertising placed on digital media platforms.
- The study shows viewability is device-driven -- determined by how and where the ad gets loaded on the screen -- while attention is human-driven by how the viewer responds to the ad served on the screen.
