Mass media holding company Gannett announced today that it has created a new executive leadership role, chief marketing and strategy officer, to lead the organization’s direct-to-consumer and business-to-business endeavors as it transforms into a subscription-led content generator. Mayur Gupta, former CMO of Freshly and vp of growth and marketing at Spotify, has been appointed Gannett’s […]
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Key Insights Gap is leaning into the idea of ‘modern American optimism’ in its first campaign under its new CMO. Gap has brought the entire consumer experience in-house, with all elements created by Alderete’s team. Gap has a new marketing chief. Mary Alderete, a veteran of Gap Inc., has taken on the role Alegra O’Hare […]
TV measurement company VideoAmp has hired Jonathan Steuer, former chief research officer of Omnicom Media Group, to help bring audience-based buying to television. TV has historically been traded on broad age and gender demographics. Steuer’s task is to build out a “transactional” currency that can be used for audience-based trading, and to get networks and […]
The U.S. Travel Association has a simple message for the country: Let’s go there. Anywhere. Literally, anywhere. It doesn’t have to be tomorrow, but please, put something on the calendar. Launched this morning, the new campaign titled “Let’s Go There” is a collaboration between prominent USTA members including Marriott, Disney, Delta and American Airlines, along […]
The mysterious exchange of people’s online information starts with pen and paper. Contract negotiations between buy-and sell-side advertising platforms are what kickstart the aggregation and selling of user data for the purpose of serving targeted ads, but lawmakers and regulators are ramping up scrutiny of these opaque data practices, since data can easily fall in […]
A slew of agencies have inked a partnership with Profitero, a performance analytics firm that helps brands, particularly ones in the CPG space, optimize ad spend on Amazon, Walmart and other ecommerce sites. Profitero’s clients include L’Oreal, General Mills and Revlon. By directly partnering with the agencies that service these companies and their various brands, […]
Target has appointed Maurice Cooper as its newest senior vice president of marketing. In joining the company, Cooper will directly oversee Target’s marketing operations, overseeing campaigns and promotions across paid, owned and shared media. According to a statement from Target, he will create “plans that are guest-centric, culturally relevant and inclusive to fuel consumer affinity […]
No one’s suggesting that visitors to the new Virgin hotel in Nashville should act like rock stars, circa 1969, tossing TVs off balconies, smashing plate-glass windows and trashing the place. In fact, the hotel would rather you didn’t. But if you want to get up to some mild 2020-style shenanigans—like checking in with a fake […]
Key insight: The pandemic has highlighted consumers’ desire for brands to add value and show a human interest. It’s a good time to be in the CPG business. As stay-at-home orders forced people inside (and out of restaurants), grocery stores became one of the few storefronts that remained open for business. And as unprecedented challenges […]