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The Art in Analytics: Data & Tools Do Not Replace People

Many organizations love to tout their shiny objects and solutions that guarantee success and wild profit. Once you have been promised the world and sign on the line, the realization sets in that you may have missed some fine print on how successful that tool would make you.  This is a story we often hear from…

Brkthru the Uncertainty –– Advertising in the Face of Recession 

This may sound biased coming from a decade-long marketer, but here is why you should continue strategically marketing during a recession.  During times of recession, many advertisers tend to decrease marketing budgets and consumers become more strict with their spending. As sales begin to drop, businesses will often cut costs, drop prices, and put new…

Digital Out-of-Home: A Shining Beacon Post-Pandemic

The rebound continues! Like many businesses, out-of-home advertising overall took a hit during the pandemic as many consumers sheltered at home and restricted their travel. 2022 continues to show a bounce back with out-of-home advertising, but the rising star is digital out-of-home (DOOH) ushering in a new normal. Consumers are reemerging, traveling, attending events, and…

NFL 2022: Major Plays On and Off the Field

The NFL business model for decades relied on simplicity to reach the most fans. For Sunday games, football sports fans could just flip on Fox or CBS. Today there are no fewer than 20 ways to watch or listen to NFL games – 16 via streaming, cable or broadcast TV; three streaming or terrestrial radio…

Political 2022 Update:

Slower Ad Market as the Finish Line Nears With the last month of the political ad spending cycle in full force, several recent announcements have made planning those final dollars even more important as we approach the last few weeks. Restrictions announced recently on political advertising by Facebook’s parent META and on political fundraising by…

Ecommerce Tips For Your Business

We’ve all been on a smart device and going about our business –– work emails, paying bills, checking-in on friends, or going down an online rabbit hole (did you know that hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards?) – and an ad appears for something you never knew you needed: an electronic gumball…

The Netflix Ad-Supported Tier is Taking Shape, and It’s Not What Marketers Expected

A $60 CPM? Out-of-reach minimum $20 million? No ability to select programming? No third-party measurement? As marketers wait with anticipation for news about the Netflix ad-supported offering, some emerging news has marketers, agencies and digital media firms scratching their heads.  The digital media pros at Brkthru are all for new paid digital media advertising opportunities…

The Surprising Growth Behind Streaming TV: Gen X and Boomers

It might be surprising to some marketers to learn that Americans aged 50 and older (like me) accounted for 39% of streaming watch time since May 2022, an increase from 35% a year earlier, according to Nielsen. That’s the biggest increase in time spent on all streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, Roku, Pluto and YouTube.…