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6 tips to stand out in social media
July 6, 2016 By

For most marketers, social media is undervalued and misunderstood.

Disney X Coach: The long-term effect
July 5, 2016 By

The perception of the Coach brand differs by audience. To some, mainly middle class United States consumers, Coach is perceived as luxury. To others, well versed in the “true” world of luxury, Coach is not even close to being defined as a luxury brand.

Hershey CMO: Marketing now part-art, part-science
July 1, 2016 By

CANNES, France – Cannes Lions’ Festival of Creativity last week attracted the great and good of advertising and marketing. Among them was Peter Horst, chief marketing officer of The Hershey Company, one of the leading chocolate makers nationwide.


P&G’s Marc Pritchard: Advertising has terrible reputation … that is why we are trying to re-name it content
July 1, 2016 By

CANNES, France – Marc Pritchard, chief brand officer of Procter & Gamble, has led the consumer products goods giant’s marketing efforts since 2008. He believes in brand building for P&G’s portfolio of brands that generated nearly $71 billion in annual sales worldwide.

Emailing the super rich? Here are 10 lessons I learned
June 30, 2016 By

Experts say make your emails short and sweet, and never send on weekends. How true is that?

Digital ad spend sees fastest growth in 7 years, but marketers underestimate power of mobile
June 29, 2016 By

More than a third of marketers are not even measuring their ROI in relation to mobile display advertising.


PR and media in rapid mobile-powered transition
June 28, 2016 By

The global public relations industry, while growing, is teetering on the precipice of decline: growth slowed to 5 percent in 2015, according to new research. It is a troubling spot for the sector to be in, especially as PR remains incredibly valuable to businesses and their marketing teams.

Cannes Lions: Virtual reality is the new luxury game-changer
June 27, 2016 By

CANNES, France – According to Google statistics, virtual reality has grown by nearly four times in the last year. And while this piece of tech still lacks in accessibility to the mainstream, both brands and consumers are taking the leap and embracing it.

Visual Web is the future of digital
June 24, 2016 By

Marketing cycles continue to get shorter as the number of marketing channels expands. It is no longer enough to show and tell.


Sales success begins and ends with engagement
June 23, 2016 By

As a sales leader, my professional life is filled with quotas, metrics and dashboards. But if I had to pick just one thing that I am optimizing for, it would be engagement. Why?

Beauty brands and celebrity: The new paradigm
June 23, 2016 By

Beauty ads used to follow a simple formula. Find a well-known and liked celebrity prepared to endorse the product, add a generous fee and a little airbrushing and place the result in a glossy magazine. And why not? It worked.

Anna Wintour: Noise and light distract from thought and creativity
June 22, 2016 By

CANNES, France – “A perfectionist, a hard task-master and someone who does nothing half-heartedly … underneath the iconic bob and famous sunglasses lies an incredible woman.”


Cannes Lions: Vogue’s Anna Wintour in conversation with Christopher Bailey, CEO of Burberry
June 22, 2016 By

CANNES, France – Burberry CEO and chief creative officer Christopher Bailey yesterday at Cannes Lions gave a warm welcome to Anna Wintour, editor in chief of Vogue and artistic director of Condé Nast.

Running an effective SMS campaign in this environment
June 21, 2016 By

With text-message response rates of 98 percent – unheard of with any other type of platform – brands and retailers have the closest thing to a captive audience that they can get anywhere.

Story is key to wooing today’s affluent consumer
June 20, 2016 By

The luxury market is one that shifts constantly. In the current post-recession world, it seems we are moving away from a label-conscious culture where established brands have dominance to a more value-focused approach where people seek what is authentic and unique.


Trends in the Los Angeles real estate market
June 17, 2016 By

The Los Angeles real estate market has experienced varying levels of highs and lows, but it is still going strong compared to other markets.

Riposte to Scotty Moore’s screed to CMOs to stop all mobile advertising immediately
June 17, 2016 By

In response to Scotty Moore’s VentureBeat-published “Open letter to CMO’s: Stop all mobile advertising immediately,” yes, our industry does have a problem with mobile advertising. Marketers are wasting money on mobile campaigns that drive errant and fraudulent clicks, and they cannot tell if their ads are actually being viewed.

What devices can tell us about consumer intent
June 15, 2016 By

An eBay Enterprise report found that 81 percent of consumers use more than one device to browse online and that 64 percent rely on more than one device in the evaluation and purchase of a single item.


Using high-impact ad units for immersive content
June 14, 2016 By

According to Cisco, more people will have mobile phones (5.4 billion) than electricity (5.3 billion), running water (3.5 billion) and cars (2.8 billion) by 2020.

Luxury marketers are in the happiness business
June 14, 2016 By

Through the research process, it has become clear to me that at its heart, every brand participating in the luxury market is ultimately in the happiness business.

Blueprint for profitable luxury collaborations and partnerships: Part I
June 13, 2016 By

A decade ago if you asked 100 luxury brands in a room for a show of hands as to how many had engaged in a strategic partnership or collaboration with a kindred-spirit luxury brand, you would be lucky to see five hands raised.