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Predictions 2025: The Media Industry Resolves 2024’s Unruly Unknowns

Kelsey Chickering 7 days ago
Marketers will gain confidence as some lingering media and advertising questions are resolved. But they shouldn’t get too confident or comfortable. Learn what the coming year will hold.
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Are We Nearing The End Of The Google Era?

What It Means October 24, 2024
Two major antitrust lawsuits could loosen Google’s grip on online search and advertising. What are the potential implications, and how should brands and advertisers prepare? Senior Analysts Nikhil Lai and Mo Allibhai discuss the cases and the broader shifts ahead for search marketing and advertising on this week’s What It Means episode.
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Our Latest Forrester Wave™ On Creative Adtech Calls For Consolidation

Nikhil Lai October 21, 2024
Advertisers today need tools spanning the entire creative lifecycle and creative teams need a source of truth that de-risks creative production as well as media planning and buying. Get a preview of our latest Wave which helps advertisers select tools that accelerate the creative process while synergizing creative with media.
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How Accurate Were Our Predictions For 2024?

Sharyn Leaver September 26, 2024
As we prepare to launch our 2025 predictions, we look back on some of the ones we made a year ago. Find out how we did, and get a first peek at what our forthcoming predictions will cover.
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US v. Google: The FTC Takes On Adtech Verticalization

Mo Allibhai September 10, 2024
What could the antitrust trial portend for Google and for advertisers and publishers? We break down three key questions.
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The Funnel Is Old, Unrealistic, And Still Helpful

Nikhil Lai August 21, 2024
In 1898, Elias St. Elmo Lewis developed the advertising funnel. He was the Association of National Advertisers’ first president and, along with the funnel, developed the AIDA model, an acronym that models a consumer’s journey from awareness to interest, desire, and then action. More than 125 years after its conception, brand marketers are still planning […]
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To Build Your Best Marketing Organization, Unbox Your Org Chart

Dipanjan Chatterjee August 19, 2024
As changes in media and technology have upended how consumers discover and engage with companies, marketing organizations need a more flexible approach.
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Tidying Up The Data Clean Room Landscape

Stephanie Liu August 12, 2024
Data clean rooms are attracting a lot of buzz lately. They’re pitched as a perfect solution in a data deprecation world: Brands can collaborate and maximize the value of their first-party data by running sophisticated analytics to understand customer behaviors, shopper journeys, and more. And thanks to privacy-preserving technologies, brands don’t need to expose customers’ […]
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Google Finally Scraps Its Cookie Deprecation Plans

Stephanie Liu July 22, 2024
Google is finally reversing its decision to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome. Find out what advertisers should do in the wake of this decision.
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The Paid Media Paradox

Nikhil Lai July 15, 2024
Digital marketers like digital marketing much more than consumers do. A new report explores in greater depth how consumers’ behaviors contradict marketers’ investments.
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Offsite Addressability Presents An Untapped Opportunity For Retail Media Networks

Mo Allibhai July 2, 2024
As retail media networks have grown and diversified, so have the problems in adtech. Ad fraud, made-for-arbitrage, and AI-generated content farms are multiplying, riddling the once “easy” task of programmatic buying with brand safety pitfalls. Retail owned and operated properties like displays in a Walgreens, audio broadcast in a Walmart store, or a banner ad […]
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Oracle Exits The Advertising Business

Stephanie Liu June 19, 2024
The development underscores just how quickly and significantly the foundation of digital advertising has shifted. Read the key takeaways for advertisers and marketers.
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Big Tech Will Not Solve Data Deprecation

Mo Allibhai June 17, 2024
In a recent report, we stumbled upon an ugly truth about data deprecation. Get the details and find out what steps marketers be taking now to minimize the impact.
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Rage Against The Machine: Confront The Agency AI Fear Factor With Workforce Literacy

Jay Pattisall June 14, 2024
The failure to rise to the AI moment puts the future of the agency industry and a decade of agencies’ business change at risk. Learn what it takes to help employees gain the skills and confidence to master AI so that fear of AI doesn’t master them.
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Apple’s New Intelligence Is Here

Dipanjan Chatterjee June 11, 2024
Apple, famously reticent about AI, broke its silence at its 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) and Forrester was there. Learn more about Apple Intelligence and find out what we gathered from the grand reveal.
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Learning From Limes And Forrester’s Creative AdTech Landscape

Nikhil Lai June 11, 2024
Last year, the world’s most-awarded creative was Skittles’ “Apologize the Rainbow” produced in collaboration with DDB Chicago. It profusely apologized for Skittles changing its green candy’s flavor from lime to apple and, to citrus lovers’ delight, announced lime’s return in a pantomime press conference live streamed on Twitch and X. The campaign relied on social […]
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A Match Made In Plastic? Capital One’s Quest To Acquire Discover

Peter Wannemacher May 20, 2024
Capital One’s plan to acquire Discover will change the shape of the financial services landscape (though not the fundamental forces that drive growth and success — but more on that later). To help you understand the implications of the proposed merger, Forrester took a deep dive into our research and data (full report for clients […]
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Accelerating Advertising With AI Comes At A Cost

Nikhil Lai May 7, 2024
It’s mathematically obvious to apply AI to advertising, but its efficiencies can come at the expense of advertisers’ control and transparency. Learn more about how AI benefits the advertising process and why advertisers must curate AI.
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From Taylor Swift To “Civil War” — Brand AI Models Clean Up AI Creative Pollution

Jay Pattisall April 26, 2024
What is creative pollution and how can organizations avoid it? Find out in this preview of a new report on brand AI models.
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Don’t Let Google’s Cookie Commitment Issues Delay Better Advertising Experiences

Tina Moffett April 26, 2024
Despite the delay, you still should move forward in improving your customers' advertising experiences. Here are steps to take now.
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