Going beyond demographics, planning, buying and selling TV with advanced audiences enables a greater bang for the advertising buck and enables sellers to optimize inventory allocation. On October 9, attendees learned about the opportunities and challenges associated with this increasingly used capability. Pete Doe of Nielsen discussed how to apply data-driven insights to enhance the effectiveness of advertising strategies. After, Paul Donato, Chief Research Officer of the ARF, led a follow-up conversation.
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On September 26, the ARF held our third annual Creative Effectiveness conference where we discussed and debated questions around reclaiming creativity in the age of AI. Brand, agency, media and research sages showcased examples of how they are stimulating and measuring creative with various approaches and tools. Following the conference, attendees joined us for an evening of celebrating at the ARF David Ogilvy Awards — honoring research- and insights-driven advertising.
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Attendees joined us on September 18 for a Town Hall on what ‘premium content’ is and whether it is the right construct for trying to assign values to media. We delved into the following questions and more: Who gets to define premium? Publishers want to claim the mantle of being “premium” and “quality” to justify their higher CPMs, but is the elitism justified? Can marketers justify it on economic grounds? Does it demean and devalue some of the population?
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At this Insights Studio, researchers from top institutions presented pioneering work addressing the evolving landscape of advertising. Topics of discussion included: an exploration of virtual influencers and the effectiveness of virtual influencers in real-world versus virtual-world settings, a comprehensive synthesis of over 250 studies examining the complex relationship between advertising and a company’s stock price, and a deep dive into the emerging world of the metaverse with a study on how the presence of employee avatars in virtual stores influences consumer behavior.
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