Putting a spin on ads we’re used to seeing, the first Super Bowl to air since the Coronavirus hit did not feature mask-clad actors, social distancing, or the phrase “unprecedented times”. In fact, the Super Bowl’s Most Viewed Video Ads were ruled by the winners of the pandemic, who swept it under the rug to […]
If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that we certainly can’t predict the future. Despite this, let’s gaze into 2021 and try our best. The following are five predictions you can expect will shape the advertising landscape in the next 12 months: Click on a link below to jump to that section The digital age […]
Dear Clients and Partners of AcuityAds, We’d like to take a moment to recognize the individuals, families and businesses that are being impacted by the current pandemic. We stand in solidarity with you and all communities against this very real and challenging threat. What we’re doing to help: On Wednesday March 25th, 2020 at 2PM […]
The holiday season is upon us and we know you’re all gearing up for some peaceful and relaxing time at home. Unfortunately, as digital marketers, those campaigns just don’t run themselves! The holidays can be extremely stressful for media buyers, campaign managers and anyone involved in the digital marketing task. We are all concerned about […]
How are brands approaching the trials and tribulations of parenthood? There may be no better barometer than the plethora of ads that come out around Mother’s Day. Every year, thousands of Mother’s Day ads tug at our heartstrings to encourage gift-giving. And this year, a number of non-retail brands jumped on Mother’s Day mania too. Touching […]
Week 2 of May puts Hulu on the top spot for the Most Viewed Video Ads chart. The campaign, for Hulu’s ad-free subscription, begins as one of the classic Old Spice ads with Isaiah Mustafa. However, in a comedic twist, it turns out that it is actually “a Hulu ad to tell you that you […]
The last eleven years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has all been building to this. Avengers: Endgame is the culmination of a 22-film story that’s largely revolved around original six Avengers characters like Captain America and Iron Man – and the eventual threat that Thanos would pose. Ahead of the release of Avengers: Endgame, some […]
Last week, we released our game changing whitepaper, Attention: The New Media Currency. This content piece, intended to assist all digital marketers at better understanding the landscape of digital video advertising and the challenges being faced, revealed some very intriguing data. In particular, it helped us to confirm a preconceived notion regarding a digital advertising […]
We’ve been following along with eMarketer’s Social Series, where each day they focused on the audiences of today’s most relevant social platforms including: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest and SnapChat. As we look toward the closing of this year and ahead at 2019, this was a great series to help us understand what is really going […]
