Podcasts continue to grow in popularity, with the number of US adults who listen to them increasing each year. And, while the majority of podcast listeners are white, listeners in the US span ethnicities and races to a greater extent than the general population, per a...
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Public Trust in Advertising Practitioners’ Integrity Worsens
Another year has gone by and advertising professionals’ standing among the least trusted professions in the US has not improved. The most recent annual Gallup report on honesty and ethics in professions puts advertising practitioners just slightly better than car...
ANA Reports No Progress in Racial and Ethnic Diversity of the Marketing and Advertising Industry
Not much has changed this year when it comes to ethnic and racial diversity in the role of CMO or its equivalent. A survey of members of the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) shows that although women have made strides in the role of CMO, the same cannot be...
Hispanic Americans Represent More Than 1 in 4 Gen Z Consumers
In the past 20 years the Hispanic population in the US has grown by 78%, accounting for 56% of the total growth of population across all races and ethnicities during that time-frame. On average, Hispanics tend to be younger than other races or ethnic groups in the US,...
TV Universe Expands Slightly for the 2020-2021 Season
After a significant increase of 700,000 in 2019, growth in the number of TV homes in the US has been somewhat slower this year — climbing by 400,000 to reach 121 million. So finds Nielsen’s latest TV Universe estimates for the 2020-2021 season. Based on US Census...
Black and Hispanic Gen Xers Willing to Consider A Number of Auto Brands on the Path to Purchase
Hispanic auto shoppers consider an average of 5.1 brands over the course of their purchase journey, making them the demographic with the highest consideration - despite demonstrating low initial brand awareness. So finds a new report [download page] from Nielsen...
How Can Brands Better Reflect Consumer Values?
While it’s true that there are certain groups of Americans who feel vastly underrepresented in advertising, it appears advertisers are not doing an adequate job of representing US consumers as a whole. All in all only about 1 in 10 (9%) of the almost 21,000 Americans...
New Census Figures Show Increasing Diversity in the US
The population of each minority group in the US has grown by double-digits since 2010, according to new data from the Census Bureau that paints a picture of a country becoming more racially and ethnically diverse. The Census Bureau estimates indicate that the Asian...
The CMO Role Grew Slightly More Diverse in 2019, While Average Tenure Slipped
The role of the CMO has not always been a diverse one. Indeed, in 2018, none of the new CMOs among the 100 most-advertised US brands came from racially or ethnically diverse backgrounds. But that appears to have changed, if only somewhat. The latest annual analysis...
Asian-Americans’ Digital Device Adoption Remains Above Average
Asian-Americans continue to be ahead of the curve when it comes to digital adoption. Per new data from Nielsen, 9 in 10 Asian-American TV households own an internet-connected TV device of some kind, compared to 76% of all US TV households. Almost across the board,...
US Adults Spend More Time Accessing the Internet and Apps on Their Smartphones Than Watching Traditional TV
TV is reaching fewer US adults than before, as more people are spending time with their smartphones and other connected devices. Recent data from Nielsen reveals that in Q3 2019, more US adults used an app or the web on a smartphone (85%) than watched traditional...
Are Advertisers Breaking Through to Multicultural Groups?
While multicultural media spending is growing, it is a small fraction of overall spend and far from proportional to the populations it is meant to target. It certainly seems as though marketers are missing out: a new report from Horowitz Research reminds that...

A Slight Majority of CX Leaders Think Customers’ Preference for Digital Channels Will Persist Post-Pandemic
Improving customer satisfaction is the most-cited high priority for CX leaders.

Here’s How Marketing Budgets Are Being Divvied Up Across Online and Offline Channels
The largest share of online budgets is being spent on paid social, while events get the biggest piece of the offline pie.

What’s The Most Over-Used Buzzword in Advertising?
It’s not “cookieless” – although if you guessed that you’d have quite a lot of company.

How Can Brands Better Reflect Consumer Values?
While it’s true that there are certain groups of Americans who feel vastly underrepresented in advertising, it appears...

New Census Figures Show Increasing Diversity in the US
The population of each minority group in the US has grown by double-digits since 2010, according to new data from the...

The CMO Role Grew Slightly More Diverse in 2019, While Average Tenure Slipped
The role of the CMO has not always been a diverse one. Indeed, in 2018, none of the new CMOs among the 100...