The struggle to optimize the marketing mix across channels has recently been called the biggest challenge facing marketers. Now, a newly-released study [download page] from Millward Brown Digital (MBD) indeed finds that this continues to be a monumental struggle, with marketers demonstrating a decided lack of confidence in their media allocations.

The restaurant and computer industries enjoy the best net perception among US adults, reports Gallup in its latest annual look at US business sectors. The restaurant industry supplanted last year’s leader, the computer industry, with 66% viewing it favorably as opposed to just 7% seeing it negatively.

Online shoppers believe that the main advantages offered by e-commerce over in-store buying are the ability to take time to think about things, benefit from special offers or better prices, and greater choice. That’s according to DigitasLBi’s latest annual Connected Commerce study, which surveyed 1,000 internet users aged 18-64 in each of 15 countries.

Polar has released its latest branded content benchmark report [download page], this one covering Q2 2016 but also containing references to earlier quarters. The study shows that average click-through rates are up year-over-year through the first half of 2016, with mobile devices leading the way.

Personalized digital ads deliver 3 times the performance of rich media ads, touts Jivox [download page] in releasing results of an analysis of more than 1 billion of its personalized ad impressions. Comparing the results of its personalized ads to the Google Benchmark for Rich Media Creatives (GBR), Jivox found that the personalized ads excelled […]