2021 Best of The West event recap
Some of the biggest advertising agencies gathered at Best of the West to discuss how they’re dealing with changing consumer media habits, technology trends and privacy laws.
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Some of the biggest advertising agencies gathered at Best of the West to discuss how they’re dealing with changing consumer media habits, technology trends and privacy laws.
Nancy Marshall uses inspiration from Maya Angelou to talk about the importance of empathy and how that can empower your brand ambassadors -- and grow your business.
The Glew’s Dylan Duke goes over not only why you should be making more of your influencer marketing strategy but also how. Using these three actionable tips, brand can make better use of influencer marketing for greater success and ROI.
Vokal CEO Reid Lappin looks at how two 1990s brands have made a comeback and what you can learn from them to revive your business.
There are always the go-to marketing hacks that professionals tend to preach, but, although they are useful in helping businesses grow, there are other tips that aren’t always shared that can boost your brand’s reputation. Here are four of them.
Amobee’s Kara Puccinelli says the consumer privacy issues of today are little different than what the industry faced more than 20 years ago. She offers four areas that marketers should focus on without relying on an adtech “silver bullet.”
Anvil Media’s Meg Riley looks looks at the value of content marketing, and how it can shorten the sales cycle.
StrawberryFrog’s Scott Goodson and Chip Walker, co-authors of “Activate Brand Purpose,” detail what it takes for an organziation to create a successful culture-change movement.
EGC Group’s Nicole Penn details why businesses of all sizes, especially those that rely on online businesses listings from Google and other sources, to counter “zero-click search.”
Semcasting CEO Ray Kingman looks at how employee-based targeting can help B2B marketers fill the top of their sales funnel with qualified prospects to dramatically improve the quality and scale of engagement.
Azoya’s Franklin Chu offers retailers social commerce best practices based on successful campaigns from several luxury brands in the Chinese market.
Nancy Marshall of Marshall Communications writes about the importance of relationships, and offers six ways to build trusted, valuable business relationships.
Antronix's Joe Palermo discusses broadband as a necessity and how the company's Inverse Fiber Amplifier helps cable operators clear last-mile connectivity hurdles.
Refersion’s Raj Nijjer looks at an often overlooked aspect of influencer marketing: brand ambassadors. Nijjer looks at the value brand ambassadors offer brands and how your brand can work with them.
Anvil Media’s Kent Lewis looks at the growth and value of content marketing and offers strategies for growing your 2021 CM budget.
MacGillivray Freeman Films’ Shaun MacGillivray shares the importance of using long-form storytelling practices like documentaries in advertising and marketing campaigns to leverage a brand’s connection with consumers around social movements.
Ty Heath of the B2B Institute at LinkedIn looks at how marketers can move beyond “hashtag activism” and use their abilities to take an active stance on social issues and transform norms and influence culture.
Klarn DePalma of MNI Targeted Media offers best practices from the 2019-20 election cycle that marketers can use to help brands engage customers across channels, and with meaningful, personalized messaging.
Sway Group’s Tiffany Romero offers her first-hand experience of using audio app Clubhouse, and the possibilities the audio-only social network offers for influencer marketing.
While marketers face a complex world in 2021, Amobee’s Caity Noonan offers advice on how they can navigate that complexity by first putting their house in order in terms of privacy, identity, customer and prospect data and unified measurement solutions.
Walmart recently dipped its toes into livestream e-commerce, already a popular trend in China. Azoya’s Franklin Chu explores this trend and how brands use influencers to grow sales and connect with their consumers.
Influencers and affiliates are great tools to promote your brand in an authentic way, but they only work if they have faith in your brand to begin with, writes Refersion’s Raj Niijer.
Open rates are a key metric for gauging the success of email marketing campaigns. To increase open rates marketers should pay particular attention to personalization, content, subject line and design.
RangeMe’s Brandon Leong looks at retail trends created by the coronavirus pandemic and three key trends we can expect in 2021.
Shane Barker, a digital marketing consultant, writes about how artificial intelligence can play a major role in helping you monitor your Facebook ads campaigns.
Recruiter Sasha Martens makes the case for why marketing creatives should stay put in their current role, even when job-hopping is so common in the advertising industry.
What health care marketers need to pay attention to in 2021
Microsoft’s Rashan Dixon offers tips on increasing the success of your digital marketing efforts in 2021.
VDX.tv’s Jim Johnson looks at the value of marketing through connected TV and OTT streaming services and how the ability to finely target audiences may make CTV and OTT a sure bet.
Establishing a solid influencer platform in today’s constantly shifting social media landscape can be challenging. The good news? You can create incredible market impact just by leaning into more of what makes you … you.
Anvil Media’s Kent Lewis provides background on the rise of ethical consumerism and 6 ways brands can engage and market to these consumers.
DISQO’s David Grabert takes a look at the data “war” between Apple and Facebook and concludes “the industry has little choice but to communicate better and to broker a new deal with consumers around their data.”
AdQuick’s Matthew O’Connor offers a refresher on about 20 terms often used in out-of-home media. It’s a look that’s helpful whether you’re a newbie or a veteran in the OOH industry.
Want to make remote work more efficient? It’s time to leverage marketing automation. Attrock’s Gaurav Sharma explains how marketing automation can help your business grow.
Alto New York’s Genevieve Hoey and Tara Fray make the case for B Corporations and why real change will come from brand activism when big brands take the lead.
Tremor Video’s Stephanie Scheper details how retailers can effectively use connected TV during the holiday shopping season.
RaffertyWeiss Media’s Patrick Rafferty offers 10 tips for event organizers to create and host successful virtual events.
Zen Media CEO and founder Shama Hyder talks in this Q&A about how brands can benefit from adding livestreaming videos to their marketing mix.
Azoya’s Franklin Chu look at how the coronavirus pandemic as changed China’s retail market, and how those changes in consumer behavior could affect the US and global retail markets in 2021.
Anvil Media’s Kent Lewis gazes into his crystal ball to see four trends in digital marketing we can expect for 2021.
Bailey Lauerman’s Kathleen Al-Marhoon talks with several influencers about trends they see for the holiday shopping season and what they’re hearing from brands.
Wrapify’s James Hellers looks how the out-of-home industry has recently rebounded during the coronavirus pandemic as people have ventured out more. He also looks at the major growth that’s to be expected once a COVID-19 vaccine is approved.