Perspectives

How will clients assess their marketing services partners amid the decline of 3rd-party cookies, and what strategies can help firms prosper?

The digital advertising industry is facing a precipitous moment on the back of Google’s decision to remove 3rd-party cookies from its Chrome browser in 2023, but marketeers must act now by implementing other strategies rather than waiting for the perfect solution to replace their favourite tracking tool. In this interview, Louise McMahon, Automotive Marketing Communications Section Manager at Honda UK, outlines what changes her business has made and what marketing services partners need to do to stay relevant when it comes to cookieless advertising.

A globally-recognized brand like BMW is hugely valuable, yet the company still has to sell product to survive. Group Marketing Director Marie Dellbrant reveals how she balances these twin demands and manages creatives on either side.

The last couple of years have seen a revolutionary change in online consumer behavior, with some brands needing to adapt quite radically. That, along with tighter privacy controls, has left agencies wondering what the future of advertising holds and how campaigns will look in 2022 and beyond.

For an answer, we asked Desmond Lawrence, Global Digital Activation Director at Havas Media Group, to set out the key trends he sees in consumer behavior and what that means for the brands and agencies targeting them in the years ahead.

Brand messaging is not an exact science – but still many campaigns fail to meet their objectives despite the presence of strong creatives.

For an expert perspective on the most important considerations when designing effective creatives we asked Valeriia Filonich, Digital and e-Commerce Manager at Sisley Paris to outline some of the processes that can be put in place to maximise the chances of success.

The profound changes in consumer behavior that have swept the world in the last couple of years have also had distinctive local features. Cultural differences, penetration of technology, and the unique strategies of individual media players have all contributed. Nowhere is this more evident than in Latin America.

To get a sense of how campaigns will look in 2022 and what’s in store for the future of advertising, we talked to David Abad, Digital Strategy Manager at Mediacom, Colombia. We asked him to set out the key trends he sees in consumer behavior and what that means for the brands and agencies targeting them in the years ahead.

Attention-grabbing videos are helping brands across industries to cut through the noise and capture that coveted audience attention span. Such are the power of video ads that within seconds, a viewer learns almost everything you want them to know about your brand and your products. Video ads also have the potential to evoke strong emotions among viewers which improves brand awareness and engagement. To help brands better understand the power of video advertising and the role it plays in brand building, RTB House spoke to Łukasz Wójcik, Marketing & PR Director, Mitsubishi Motors Poland about his experience as both a consumer and a marketer.