If email is part of your marketing strategy, you have likely heard that Google and Yahoo are implementing new sender requirements in February 2024. With spam rates reaching new highs, these privacy rules are meant to keep unsafe and unwanted emails from cluttering consumer’s inboxes. To avoid deliverability issues and keep your emails from landing…

“We just heard from our manufacturing partner and they begged us to pause our holiday shopping campaign.  They simply couldn’t keep up with demand…”    We pride ourselves in our unique ability to combine market research capabilities with our digital advertising expertise to produce outsized results for our partners. During the critical holiday sales cycle,…

The 23rd in our series of twice-annual Ratings Prospects Studies has just finished fielding. In the weeks ahead we’ll be sharing the latest results first with clients and then more widely across the industry. While we track results on some points we’ve asked before, first party data is a major focus of this new study. We’ll…

The spring ratings period starts in about 10 weeks. As we noted last week, we’re still at the point where we feel we have plenty of time to make programming tweaks, get promotional plans made, and marketing plans set. Sometimes, however, changes in the ratings become wrinkles in those plans. Is that decline in a…

The spring ratings period starts in about 11 weeks. We tell ourselves that’s plenty of time to get marketing and promotional plans set and programming tweaks laid in, but the reality is things go quickly at this time of year. Even if you already have your fall ratings results, you may still be working through…