Adapting Advertising to a New Normal: Insights, Trends and the Path Forward During COVID-19
As people adapt to a new way of living during COVID-19, companies are tasked with reevaluating how to reach them with the right message at the right time across platforms. As an advertiser, agency or publisher, how can you adapt your strategy to enable short-term and long-term success for your...
COVID-19 Can Inhibit Innovation Or Foster It: It’s Up To You
If you think innovating can be hard normally, try doing it during a global pandemic. It can become downright defeating if you allow it. But if innovation were easy, everyone would do it.
Become the Brand that People Remember: How to Increase Share of Market in Uncertain Times
Even during a crisis like the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, businesses need to consider strategic plans and continue to invest in their brands. Continuing to invest in advertising will help set your company up for success when life eventually settles into a new normal.
Kids and Teens Drive Daytime TV Viewing and Streaming Increases During COVID-19
TV makes a pretty good babysitter for homebound kids. Now several weeks into the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) shutdown in the U.S., a clearer picture is emerging around how “shelter-in-place” orders are affecting the daily lives of American families in local cities across the...
Quarantined Consumers Are Staying Connected With TV and Social Media
Marketers are adapting to a new world of TV advertising in the midst of COVID-19. With consumers staying home and TV consumption at a high, we look to highly engaged social media communities to discover what TV audiences are tuning in to in response to disruptions in regular TV programming. Here we...
Sustainable Brands Can Pivot With Purpose to Help Address COVID-19
As we look for a pathway out of the global COVID-19 pandemic, one thing is clear: This situation requires collective action and meaningful collaboration across different communities, countries and cultures. We've identified some consistent themes across sustainability, brand loyalty and efficacy...
Streaming Consumption Rises In U.S. Markets with Early Stay-at-Home Orders During COVID-19
In March 2020, most states across the U.S. implemented stay-at-home orders as concerns about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic swept across the country. And many Americans stuck at home turned to streaming content to fill their time. New Nielsen data shows that streaming trends varied...
Advertising in the Age of COVID-19
Faced with uncertainty about the future, many companies are responding by trying to freeze all activity, from hiring to marketing. But stopping and cutting all activity can only persist for so long without dramatic downstream effects. Adaptation will be the key to survival.
It’s Time for Facts, Not Fear: Asian Americans are Doing Their Part
We’ve seen many headlines about Asian Americans falling victim to hate and harassment amid the COVID-19 pandemic. But we are not a community that will sit quietly and turn a blind a eye. We are one with a voice to be heard.
During COVID-19 Sports Viewers Are Still a Scoring Opportunity for Brands and Media Owners
The sports blackout at the hands of COVID-19 hasn’t dampened the passion that many fans have in terms of their media behavior, according to a recent Nielsen analysis on sports viewing.