Marketing Forecast from Ad-ology

The Ad-ology Marketing Forecast video briefing is designed for strategic marketers:  Ad agencies, in-house marketers, media buyers+sellers, business owners. Every month it features industry forecasts and trends from a variety of top sources, plus exclusive data from Ad-ology Research. The May 2011 Ad-ology Marketing Forecast features: Digital Coupons Mobile Search+Purchases B2B Marketing Watch the podcastRead the Rest…

The Ad-ology Insights May 2010 video briefing includes the Mirren New Business Conference wrap-up, data from the CMO Council State of Marketing report and Industry Marketing Insights on landscaping & lawn services.

Ad-ology Research announced their popular Marketing Forecast app is now available for Android-powered mobile devices. Marketing Forecast provides industry research, news and trends for advertisers and marketers. The latest version for iPhone and Android includes a new small business section, social media sharing functions and more content for all marketers.

Job seekers in the marketing industry have reason to hope based on the February 2010 survey results released by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. While hiring in the industry have been virtually stalled for some time, nearly half Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) expect to bring on new employees within the next 6 months.

Marketing decision makers say they are most frustrated by advertising and Web design agencies that are not proactive, don’t communicate well, and fail to understand their clients’ businesses and their customers.

According to the 2010 Ad-ology Research Attitudes on Agencies report released today at the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA) Transformation 2010 conference, after cost, marketers tend to choose agencies based on creative capability and quality of previous work.

Many marketers now comfortable with social media and the power of online product reviews have also started to lose their timidity about approaching bloggers. In fact, consumer-spend-insightssome women bloggers report marketers may be becoming overeager. Ketchum, conducting a survey of registrants for July’s annual BlogHer conference found that nearly one-half of respondents were contacted by PR professionals weekly. A further 30% got such messages on a daily basis.