Perspectives

Using specialized technology vendors can help a smaller company optimize digital advertising campaigns and compete with bigger rivals.

We are already two months into “Mode B” testing of the Privacy Sandbox, with 3rd party cookies blocked on 1% of Chrome browsers worldwide. As part of our efforts to ensure the advertising industry retains effective tools without third party cookies, we have been actively experimenting with Privacy Sandbox tools. The results so far are encouraging, but there remains much to do.

Tasked with making client budgets deliver maximum results, media agencies have a laser focus on cost optimization and martec trends throughout the planning and execution of digital campaigns. In this article, Gabrielle de Souza, Media Supervisor at Lew’Lara\TBWA Brazil—a leading Brazilian media agency—shares her experiences planning and optimizing campaigns for global brands and how technology platforms can empower agencies to extract maximum value.

A globally-recognized brand like BMW is hugely valuable, yet the company still has to sell product to survive. Group Marketing Director Marie Dellbrant reveals how she balances these twin demands and manages creatives on either side.

The profound changes in consumer behavior that have swept the world in the last couple of years have also had distinctive local features. Cultural differences, penetration of technology, and the unique strategies of individual media players have all contributed. Nowhere is this more evident than in Latin America.

To get a sense of how campaigns will look in 2022 and what’s in store for the future of advertising, we talked to David Abad, Digital Strategy Manager at Mediacom, Colombia. We asked him to set out the key trends he sees in consumer behavior and what that means for the brands and agencies targeting them in the years ahead.

Targeted ads have come under fire for the past few years due to a toxic combination of privacy concerns, and the potential for abuse during democractic elections. While targeted ads can help us find products that we’ll love, the seemingly magical way that they can predict what we want has unsettled many consumers, and led to very real concerns about how our data is collected and used, and thus the rise of the cookieless future.