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by Mary Elizabeth Germaine| July 22, 2020

A once-in-a-lifetime moment of reckoning has arrived for brands across every industry. As the COVID-19 crisis continues to unfold—alongside intensified calls for social justice reforms—data from Ketchum’s new study, Brand Reckoning 2020: How Crisis Culture Is Redefining Consumer Behavior, Loyalty and Values demonstrates a seismic shift in what consumers value. In mid-June, three months into […]

by Kate Durkin| August 29, 2019

With 1.2 billion installs globally and over 800 million monthly active users, TikTok is the newest social platform grabbing massive consumer attention – especially among Gen Z, with 80 percent of TikTok’s user base under 34 and 69 percent under 24. The platform growth has been rapid, to say the least, boasting a 275 percent […]

by Sabine Hückmann| August 6, 2019

I recently took the time to comb through Roland Berger’s 24-page study, Roland Berger Focus, which detailed some of the latest approaches in marketing and larger trends guiding the corporate communications landscape. It’s worth the read. As robust and comprehensive each chapter within the report is, based on our personal experience within the German marketplace […]

by Nataja Lutkenhouse| July 25, 2019

What started in 2010 as small online video conference with 1,400 attendees has quickly turned in to a global phenomenon. VidCon US, VidCon Australia and VidCon London are now arguably the world’s largest event for fans, creators, brands, and executives to come together as a community and build on their passion for digital video content […]

by Tristen Sechi| June 13, 2019

As communicators, when we’re given client briefs, we have a pretty clear sense of the tools at our disposal and put together picture-perfect strategies to achieve the goals set out for us. It is also because we are communicators that we need to evolve alongside, and at the same rate as, the technology that powers […]

by Kate Durkin| May 9, 2019

With influencer marketing showing no signs of slowing down, and on track to reach $6.5B in marketing spend in 2019, here are a few key trends to keep an eye on… Reaching, Beyond Reach: With follower fraud a major concern in 2017, and platforms spending much of 2018 rooting out millions of fake accounts, brands are […]