With consumer journeys becoming more complex and non-linear, the role of digital is becoming more prominent across the journey. As a result, this festive season will require marketers to rethink their media strategies to succeed.
MMA has partnered with GroupM and Amazon Ads to co-author an industry whitepaper for offering a collective view on how the industry should approach the festive season this year and recommendations on winning in the upcoming festive season.
The report highlights conversations around responsible utilization of consumer data becoming the need of the hour. The report unravels the new age customer’s need for personalisation without compromising their need for privacy. Marketers need to put more effort into educating consumers about data usage and tracking. They need to find ways to ensure privacy is not a hindrance to providing better products and services to the consumers. Rather, how a privacy-first approach to data can facilitate consumer trust in the brand.
Despite Identity Concerns, MMA Global Research Finds Nearly 50 Percent of Marketers Believe Multi-Touch Attribution is Still the Future of Marketing Measurement. Data regulations and lack of executive buy-in remain hurdles for the adoption of MTA.
The report is a first-of-its-kind toolkit for marketers to steer brand safety, from understanding the issue to responding to critical incidents. It will also help in answering key questions such as who is responsible for brand safety and developing a culture of brand safety to manage external and unpredictable threats to your brand.
The Modern Marketers Guide to Leveraging Data & MarTech is an insight-packed, action-oriented playbook - An initiative by the MMA India AMMP community represented by the MarTech & Data council.
This second edition focuses on why Data and MarTech need to be looked at from the same lens to ensure that together they create great business impact.
MMA India, a part of MMA Global, which is the world’s leading not-for-profit marketing trade body, along with GroupM unveiled its Annual Report - Modern Marketing Reckoner 2022: Building Winning Marketing Organisations. The report is a ready reckoner to enable marketers to build winning marketing organisations. It is inspired by the MMA Global report which finds that the differential in sales growth performance for firms with low and high marketing capability fit is 3X or three times.
The term "social commerce" refers to the "purchasing and selling that occurs on social media and other networking sites." Social commerce offers the particular advantage of engaging customers and enabling them to buy things inside their comfortable social media environment. According to Accenture, global social commerce is predicted to increase three times faster than conventional commerce, from $492 billion in 2021 to $1.2 trillion in 2022. Social commerce is one of the main e-commerce channels in Vietnam, owing to the population's high Internet and social media usage rates.
New insights from a survey by the MMA, in partnership with the BCG, reveal that marketers are struggling to adapt to the shifting identity, privacy and regulatory landscape.
Among the key findings in The Year of Change In Digital Marketing report include:
Uncertainty Abounds:
50% of marketers believe their CMO does not fully understand implications of changing privacy regulations and only 12% of marketers feel fully prepared for upcoming changes.
As part of the MMA’s Great Marketing Growth Debate, this research was launched to understand marketers’ application of the leading marketing growth frameworks presented as part of the series. Through this study, we aimed to explore two important questions:
What is the level of marketing alignment when it comes to driving growth?
How do companies approach marketing growth?
Key Findings Include:
What is the level of marketing alignment when it comes to driving growth?
This year, over 4.6 billion people will use the internet to find information, interact with friends and loved ones, read news and be entertained1. Those online experiences and the infrastructure that supports them, specifically digital advertising, are increasingly dependent on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). These advanced technologies help increase efficiency and accuracy, help users find and discover content, and provide relevant products and services.
Digital Marketing Communications Platform DPIP was established in January 2021 by the cooperation of four associations, namely Turkish Advertisers Association (RVD), Turkish Association of Advertising Agencies (RD), Interactive Advertising Bureau Turkey (IAB) and Mobile Media Research, Marketing and Advertising Association Turkey (MMA), that shape the marketing communication and advertising industry.
The theme of MMA 2021 is “Shape the Future of Modern Marketing” under the today context of technology evolving, consumer being more and more tech-savvy, yet socially conscious. Covid Pandemic has make the technology landscape, consumer behavior changes accelerating with much higher speed. The current situation has been forcing us to move faster on organization restructure, business operation reinventing. The technology and marketing technology specifically is the key enabler for organization to deliver this job to be done.
To set the stage we have an analysis by two analysts at EY who explore the key points in two frameworks.
One by Byron Sharp whose thinking resolves around how brands grow, and the other by Joel Rubinson, a proponent of outcomes-based marketing and the pivotal importance of targeting consumers in the movable middle.
Following this we jump right into panel of experts who offer their take on both frameworks, and actionable advice for you to follow.
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Use the Guide as a resource to help you create a brand safety and suitability strategy for your organization. If your organization already has a brand safety and suitability strategy, consult the Guide for insight to help you improve and augment it going forward. Use it to spark new ideas to help you remain informed and proactive, and continue to iteratively build on best practices in a changing landscape.
Brand safety is in a nascent stage in India with limited awareness and very few brand custodians taking it seriously. The present brand safety guidelines are not aligned with the changing business needs where digital takes the centre stage. Brands will need to revisit their guidelines with a digital first approach. With Brand infringement increasingly becoming a gateway to brand safety issues, it cannot be ignored.There is a definite need to formalise a structured and purpose driven knowledge repository around brand safety in India.
The Evolution of Gaming, Why modern marketers need to embrace gaming as a channel.
Technology is everywhere, and it's changing people's lives. We're exposed to technology from the moment we wake up to the last few minutes before we close our eyes.
The primary device for access to technology is the mobile phone. According to Statista, in 2020, the smartphone adoption rate in APAC reached 28%, and is expected to grow to 83% by 2025.
The Modern Marketing Reckoner Report 2021 was developed to help businesses move forward and gain leverage in the online marketing industry. It will provide valuable insights on the latest modern marketing strategies, as well as comprehensive coverage on topics including how to plan for post-IDFA mobile marketing strategies, the role of the rising e-sport industry for marketers, cashless society, and the new era of programmatic mobile video advertising.
Technology transformation has been enabled by Vietnamese’s highly adaptable digital consumers, who are becoming enthusiastic about these technologies. By the end of 2020, the number of internet users in areas outside metros hit 91% and for the first time ever surpassed TV in both penetration and time spend.
The MMA & WARC report summarises the Vietnam findings of our latest APAC modern marketing survey, which assesses how advertisers and agencies are using, and planning to use mobile as a part of their marketing strategy. It focuses on the critical areas which need to be taken into account by advertisers, including the importance of social, the impact of commerce on the use of mobile, the challenges being faced and the future of mobile technology.
