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Is AI financially beneficial for agencies?

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AI promises speed, efficiency—and fewer billable hours. So why are ad agencies investing millions in a tool that threatens their bottom line? Campaign Red digs into the tension between progress and profit.

80% of brands worried about agency use of gen AI, WFA survey finds

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Half of brands also shared they're planning to change contracts with agencies to address legal, ethical and reputational risks.

Dentsu finds growing belief among CMOs that AI can rival human creativity

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2024 CMO Report reports rise in proportion of marketers who agreed that AI ads can 'truly move people.'

It’s time to fix how we measure

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Unless we start from scratch and build systems that give us meaningful insights, we may as well move to the Caribbean, says Henry Wood at Marquis Insight.

Emotional data is not an oxymoron: Unruly's take on engagement

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The ability to mine emotional information separates winning brands from losing ones, and will be even more crucial as tech develops, according to Unruly's global insight lead.

Top 1000 Brands briefing: 4 key takeaways (and photos)

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Insights into Samsung’s lessons learned, downplaying tech, paying agencies better, video ad fraud.

Mobile marketing means 'more than just Google and Facebook'

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Brands are not creating robust mobile marketing strategies, because they’re relying on the two digital ad giants to do it all for them, according to IPG Mediabrands leaders.

Walled gardens: Love or hate? Why?

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MEDIA TALK: As data is becoming the window to identify insights on consumers, will the walled gardens increase visibility or hamper it?

Insights disconnect: WFA research says quarter of marketers unhappy

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KUALA LUMPUR - Less than a third of marketers are satisfied with the insights function within their companies, and a quarter have a negative perception of the ability of their insight teams to produce commercially actionable insights and act as strategic consultants, according to research released today by the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA).

Four steps to engaging the ‘self-educated’ buyer: Oracle

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Today’s buyers arm themselves with information before they even approach a brand; marketers who fail to adapt to this new reality risk being left behind the curve. A new white paper from Oracle offers an easily digestible guide to solving the B2B engagement challenge

Insights2020 launches

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BEIJING – Leadership initiative to help business leaders decode how insights and analytics drive change and growth.

Blockbusters reborn: the big screen is back

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As cinema audiences grow across Asia, advertisers are returning to the big screen and finding new ways to engage the masses.

China Revealed: Download the free exclusive report

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HONG KONG - Over a quarter of the world’s internet users reside in China. That metric comes from ComScore’s Media Metrix and is just one of the useful stats you’ll find in Campaign’s China Revealed exclusive report.

Bacteria-chic, teetotal millennials and hipster macha: 2015 trends

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Selections from JWT's annual analysis of 100 key trends and cultural shifts to watch for in the year ahead.

Twtrland promises social insights for brands at $100 a month

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ASIA-PACIFIC - Twtrland, an Israel-based startup serving 3 million monthly visitors, has launched Twtrland for Business, which claims to give brands a host of social-media analytics and strategy-planning tools for a low entry price.

Insights: Forget everything you know

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The truth is that consumer insights don't have to be deep truths, nor come from consumers. Here are some tips for generating disruptive insights, with powerful examples from Japan.

Beneath the bling: Look to hip-hop for your next great insight

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A strategic planner finds campaign-worthy insights and inspiration in music from the likes of Kanye West, Jay-Z and The Notorious B.I.G.

Living with a predictive genie: JWT mobile trends for 2013

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GLOBAL – Consumers have not only become used to life in a cloud of connectivity, they have come to expect it and demand more from it, according to JWT Intelligence’s latest report on mobile trends for 2013 and beyond.

Steve Garton departs Ipsos to venture out on his own

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HONG KONG - Steve Garton (pictured), the former executive director of business insights at Ipsos, has gone independent with his own consultancy.

OPINION: Insights critical for effective PR, but must go beyond 'bleeding obvious'

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Insights into target stakeholders are as important in PR as they are in creative campaigns—and just as hard to achieve, according to Marion McDonald, Asia-Pacific managing director for strategy and measurement, Ogilvy Public Relations.

IBM enters web and social media marketing analytics space

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LAS VEGAS – IBM has launched a new digital marketing system and big data software that pits it against Oracle, Salesforce Marketing Cloud and other web and social media analytics platforms.

How mobile is changing our lives: JWT

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Mobile will disrupt everything, according to JWT Intelligence in its report, "15 Ways Mobile Will Change Lives". Here, a few of the most relevant insights.

Dentsu hires Saatchi Lab's Sean Mathews as strategy lead in Singapore

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SINGAPORE - Dentsu Singapore has added Sean Mathews (pictured left) as strategy and insights director for its planning division called Communications Planning Cell (CPC).