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Programmatic buying for Time print; Adidas explains how to really align IT and marketing; and SMBs turn to social media marketing while luxury brands are wary.

Time screen shotTime’s print goes programmatic

Time Inc. has jumped on the programmatic bandwagon, allowing advertisers to buy print audience segments in an automated marketplace. The offering comes with post-campaign measurement powered by AdMeasure, and Target, via media agency Haworth, is executing a multi-title print ad campaign.

According to Folio, when advertisers browse Time’s private ad exchange, they now see a “print” tab that leads to the selection of audience segments. Available segments include Women, Men, Lifestyle, Luxury, Business/Finance and Rapid Scale, with audience sizes ranging in size from 5 million to 89 million readers.

Andy Blau, senior vice president and group general manager of ad sales at Time Inc., told Folio that ad sales reps are trained to sell programmatic, too, and they don’t mind if a deal is closed in front of a monitor instead of face-to-face.

Adidas CIO aligns with digital marketing

At Adidas Group, an alliance between tech and marketing let the sports gear manufacturer create a social-media powerhouse for the 2014 World Cup. In an interview with IDG News service, Adidas CIO Jan Brecht outlined the social media strategy, which included a newsroom shared with Google. “We played on every relevant social media platform, certainly not just Facebook and Twitter, but anything we can do to connect, and we didn’t just send messages, but we listened,” he said.

According to Brecht, his IT team acknowledged that it didn’t have the creativity to drive marketing, so the decision was made to fully integrate IT and marketing as the “digital experience team.” IT is even involved in agency selection, as a way to make sure that creative can be successfully and quickly implemented.

photo: Caroline Gagne
photo: Caroline Gagne

Miami digital companies could teach tech about creating a hub

With Miami already a media center, The “Hispanic Hollywood” already knows how to create a healthy ecosystem, media and entertainment executives said at a Miami Finance Forum event. The Miami Herald reports that folks from Cisneros Group, Telemundo, SapientNitro and Imagina USA explained how their community had gathered a critical mass of large and small players to build a thriving local industry.

Now, the city wants to create another hub for technology startups. Maybe – but it will take time. According to the Herald, “Building a tech hub is a long-term play that could take 10 or 20 years, said Bradley Harrison, founder of New York venture capital firm Scout Ventures. He’s bullish though; Scout recently located its first office outside New York in Miami and has made two investments, including one to Rokk3r Labs, a Miami Beach-based co-building company, that was announced at the event.

Social SMBs

Hispanic entrepreneurs are turning to social media to promote their small businesses, according to ABC/Bakersfield. They may start out small, handling their social media presences on their own. But they could turn into a new business source for local and/or regional agencies after that first growth spurt. Meanwhile, Pew Research found that Instagram is more popular with Latino and African American consumers, while Pinterest is more used by whites. However, Facebook still rocks it – seven out of 10 internet users Facebook.

The Guardian: Luxury brands should rethink ROI calculations

There’s a clear trend away from print media for luxury brands, but many top-tier marketers don’t get how to measure ROI. At a panel discussion hosted by The Guardian, marketers were advised to look at return on interaction.

Chris Moody, creative director at brand consultant Wolff Olins, said, “You are building a relationship with people who may continue to use your product for the next 25 years. Those interactions that you have, particularly through social streams that you can get through digital, are super valuable. It would be a shame not to invest in that.”

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