Championing and promoting inclusion and diversity in marketing is not new. For decades, many leading companies have made conscious efforts to alter a long-standing practice of creating advertising that failed to consider the broad and differing cultural aspects of a brand’s targeted audience. In the past year, many brands have stepped up efforts to reevaluate...Read More

Image credit NicoElNino / Shutterstock.com According to Gartner’s ”CMO Spend Survey 2018-2019,” Chief Marketing Officers(CMOs) are moving to spend more on technology in 2019 than on staffing. Marketing technology (martech) this coming year will experience a seven percent increase over 2018 with staff costs declining from 27 percent to 23 percent. The moveaway from human...Read More

“The old adage that content is king has gone by the wayside, because everything is content,” said Daniel K. Lobring, vice president of marketing communications at rEvolution. “Competition for mindshare means that brands and others who deploy content marketing have to be smarter.” The days of pulling in consumers with mindless product platitudes may be...Read More