Creative

One way to get a handle on your brand creative is to, well, grade your homework, according to Anne Stilling, Vodafone’s global director of brands and media.

Bayer partnered with its data agency, fifty-five, to develop a custom in-house creative analytics dashboard built on Google Cloud to more effectively measure and evaluate creative performance.

Mar tech company Constellation allows companies in highly regulated industries, such as auto, pharma and banking, to launch personalized and compliant assets more quickly.

It’s not hard to imagine the applications of AI-generated art for media and marketing, including spitting out multiple variations of creative quickly, cheaply and easily. But AI art is also sparking a lot of very tricky questions, such as: What is “real” art, and can robots create it?

Old El Paso launched an awareness campaign to reach new customers in the UK with personalized ad creative promoting “Fajita Friday” (because why stop at Taco Tuesday?). Specifically, the General Mills-owned brand saw an opportunity to reach incremental new households with more individualized messaging, said Aditi Hilgers, head of meals for General Mills in the UK, which is partnering with WPP-owned agency Mindshare and search intelligence company Captify on the campaign.

Many brands have made commitments to do better in how they portray BIPOC and women in their advertising messages. To equip advertisers with the technology they need to measure how often women and BIPOC are depicted in their ads, and in what context, the creative analytics company CreativeX collaborated with the Geena Davis Institute on […]

Erik Huberman, CEO and founder of marketing consultancy Hawke Media, has some pretty strong – if not outright harsh – words for most media agencies out there: “They’re full of [expletive].” Before founding the Los Angeles-based company in 2014, Huberman launched and sold two commerce companies – Swag of the Month and Ellie – and […]

It’s well known that good video creative can boost campaign performance. But good video creative is expensive to produce, difficult to test and the impact on down-funnel performance is often tricky to measure. Between the end of 2018 and into 2019, KURU Footwear, a direct-to-consumer brand focused on eliminating foot pain, invested heavily in a […]

As ecommerce advertising becomes more expensive on Facebook, Jeremy Bloom, co-founder and chief revenue officer of tech startup Marpipe, said that brands need to take a data-driven approach to creative testing instead of relying on antiquated “spray and pray” A/B testing methods. Marpipe was founded by 26-year-old CEO Dan Pantelo and last year launched an […]

Direct-to-consumer advertisers pumping tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars into their Facebook ads each month know the power of a good creative message. The best ad creatives drive ROAS (return on ad spend) that can be orders of magnitude higher than a failed message. But how can busy, short-staffed marketing departments test new creative […]