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What Marketers Can Learn by Stealing a Consumer's Diary

What Marketers Can Learn by Stealing a Consumer's Diary

Draftfcb measured human emotion expressed through the written word by collecting consumer conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, Blackberry's BBM platform, blog posts, and chat rooms, among others. With this data in hand, Draftfcb placed a framework of emotion over these conversations to evaluate which emotions are expressed, how frequently, and the strength of them.

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Today's America: One Nation, Highly Divisible

Today's America: One Nation, Highly Divisible

Now, more than ever, an updated segmentation foundation can serve as a common customer language across marketing channels for more effective customer acquisition, development and retention.

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All Marketing Roads Lead Through Mobile

As mobile becomes a key conduit through which people connect with each other and the world -- from managing calendars, finances and social networks to navigating online, on the road and on the path to purchase -- many are still treating it as ancillary to their marketing efforts.

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Stat of the Day: How Tablets Are Like Vampires

Stat of the Day: How Tablets Are Like Vampires

New data from Google shows a dramatic spike in tablet use during the evening. While not entirely surprising, it supports the theory that people break out their iPads etc. while sitting on the couch after work -- often while watching TV.

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Who's Using What Media and When?

Who's Using What Media and When?

A new study by Magid Generational Strategies breaks down who's using what media at what time of day. We worked with our friends at MBA Online to visualize it for you.

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Stat of the Day: the Unique Profile of LGBT Affluents

Affluents who describe themselves as members of the LGBT community have a distinctive profile, one that is particularly attractive to marketers and advertisers in a variety of categories.

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With Borders Gone, What does Barnes & Noble Stand to Gain

With Borders Gone, What does Barnes & Noble Stand to Gain

GfK MRI finds only 5.5% of book buyers said they shopped at Borders but not Barnes & Noble. That represents 12.5 million book shoppers and an opportunity for the last chain standing. What will it need to do to take advantage?

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Meet Today's Analytic Creative

Meet Today's Analytic Creative

The growing influx of data-driven insights is by necessity moving beyond researchers and planners to where it can be utilized for the greatest advantage. As a result, today's creative needs to bring left and right brain together.

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Stat of the Day: The Rise of the Renter

One surprise from Census 2010 was the skewed distribution of household growth by age. Except for a small increase in millennial renters, virtually all of the 11 million unit household growth from 2000 to 2010 took place among baby boomer and older households. Here are three reasons why that matters.

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Stat of the Day: The Lost Decade of Home Ownership

With Thursday's release of what the Census calls the Summary File 1 for all states, we can get a more detailed picture of what happened to housing and households in the U.S. It's not a pretty picture.

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Stat of the Day: Just Who Has Left the Workforce, Anyway?

Much is made of how many people have dropped out of the labor force. What has generally not been reported is that most of those leaving the workforce over the past five years were either teenagers or age 65 or older. Marketers need to focus on where the money is.

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Stat of the Day: 63% of Readers Don't Care About Your Comments

Publishers and pundits talk a lot about the importance of reader engagement to the future of news. Here's some exclusive Ad Age/Ipsos Observer data to show why they are wrong. And why they're dead on.

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Stat of the Day: The Need for a New Baby Boom

Here are two candidates for consumers who, if they work together, could become the figurative cavalry riding in at the last minute to rescue our economy.

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Meet Men's New Role Models

A recent survey found that a whopping 35% of men consider entrepreneurs to be their role models. Surprisingly, only 24% looked to athletes and a meager 8% accepted the figures held up by the media -- actors and entertainers -- as those to emulate.

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Stat of the Day: 25% of Toddlers Have Used a Smartphone

While we've come to accept that millennial moms are uber-digital, what we don't often talk about is how that's going to shape the generation coming up after the millennials -- the iGen.

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Stat of the Day: 37% of Newspaper Subscribers Are Habitual

More than a third of local newspaper subscribers does so partly out of habit. Thankfully, less than 10% renew purely out of habit. In our monthly Ad Age/Ipsos Observer American Consumer survey, we dug a little into what the remaining newspaper subscribers are looking for when they sign up for the year. Here's what we found.

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Among Affluent Americans, Print Media Is Tops

Among Affluent Americans, Print Media Is Tops

Ipsos Mendelsohn digs into generational trends among the affluent's media consumption.

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Stat of the Day: Does Summer Movie Excitement Translate into Dollars?

Stat of the Day: Does Summer Movie Excitement Translate into Dollars?

We talked to consumers about the summer movie season and a near majority said that they were more excited about this year's crop of blockbusters than they were last year. But that hasn't yet translated into sales.

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Boomers Are to Nascar as Millennials Are to Soccer?

The folks who compile the Nielsen/E-Poll N-Score broke out their usual survey into a generational showdown of top brands and athletes. There are interesting similarities and striking differences.

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Stat of the Day: HD Ads Double

Stat of the Day: HD Ads Double

The number of ads delivered in HD has doubled from 10% to 20%, according to a new study from Extreme Reach. Of course, that means that 80% of ads are still delivered in standard definition. Clearly, there is still a lot of room for growth here.

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