Online Marketing

Google is coming for your cookies, and not the tasty kind lying safely in a tin in your kitchen, but the third-party ones that sit in your browser, watching, waiting, and storing all kinds of information. This has major implications, some good and some bad, for marketers and consumers alike. It also means that many of our old tools will soon become obsolete. However, you don’t need to crack open your tin of real cookies and start stress-eating yet. There are plenty of new tools on their way, one of which we’re going to get into today: The Protected Audience API.

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.

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 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.