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COVID-19 Changed the Advertising Playbook. Now What?
Even as the world begins to re-open more permanently, it’s clear that the pandemic will have a lasting impact on consumer behavior and brand-to-consumer engagement. My advice: Learn to embrace uncertainty. After all, the only constant in today’s media ecosystem is change.
Christmas ads 2020: how might spend change this year?
The traditional advertising landscape experienced a huge shift in 2020, and with the market still unsettled, we expect some atypical spending patterns among advertisers during the critical Christmas period.
The Esports Playbook: Maximizing Investment By Understanding the Fans
This study of esports fans in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany provides a deep dive into the esports audience.
The Changing Value of Sponsorship: 2021 Sports Marketing Trends
This report examines how sponsorship value is evolving as the world around it changes and why a clear understanding of ROI across channels and over time is a business imperative.
Global Sports Sponsorships are Shifting East and Growing into New Categories
An analysis of data from Nielsen Sports Sponsorglobe found that Chinese brands will be responsible for one-third of all growth in the global sponsorship market over the next decade.
Store Shifting: Unlocking Insight With Data Science
Convinced that huge levels of COVID-driven FMCG growth in many countries were masking a larger, fundamental change, a team of Nielsen data scientists dug into the data to understand the nuances underneath the broader retail data. And they were right.
China’s Shifting Retail Landscape Signals the Permanence of Change Post-COVID-19
Pandemic-led shifts to further online adoption and an increased focus on neighborhood and small-format stores have become an ongoing normal in China's rebound from COVID-19.
The World’s Most Successful Grocery Stores (Literally) Aren’t What They Used to Be
The stores we shopped in yesterday are not the stores we are shopping in today, and unlikely to be those we shop in tomorrow. There is no longer a need to squint … our data scientists have brought this phenomenon into plain sight.
Central London Grocery See Huge Sales Decline as City Workers Become Home Workers
With most offices shut and huge numbers of Londoners forced to work from home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, travel into the capital has come to a halt, and so has the daily shopping.
COVID-19 Has Flipped the Value Proposition of Omnichannel Shopping for Constrained Consumers
Six months into the pandemic, an early reliance on e-commerce has expanded into a fundamental dependence on still-evolving omnichannel shopping experiences.
Case Study: Measuring The Effectiveness Of Influencer Marketing Beyond Likes And Shares
Read how Influencer Brand Effect helped Lucozade Energy and The Fifth measure the effectiveness of their Influencer campaign beyond likes and shares.
Riding the Tide of Sentiment Change and the Need for Tailored Engagement Strategies
Face masks, working from home, social distancing and businesses operating at partial capacity remain constant reminders of our new world, and consumers see it with different eyes than before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived.
Case Study: Maximising the impact of TV advertising to influence mass social change
TV advertising is an important medium for reaching mass audiences, and brands continue to pump marketing budgets into this channel.