2020 promises to be an exciting year in marketing. We asked brand and media agency executives that are part of the Portada Council System where they see the main challenges and opportunities.
As the new year fast approaches, Portada touched base with brand marketers and media agency executives, members of Portada’s Council System. We asked them what 2020 could bring in terms of challenges and opportunities. Among the most alluring opportunities and/or challenges, they cited: preparing for a world without (or a smaller) Facebook, more proprietary data for brands, efficient cross-screen metrics, marketing in a divisive political scenario, and finding synergies between Hispanic and general marketing campaigns.
2020 opportunities: Preparing for a world without (or a smaller) Facebook
Marketers’ reliance on social media as a marketing and lead-generation tool has been parallel to Facebook’s rise to social media heaven. But has the social media giant reached its zenith or, even worse, is it starting to decline? “How to future proof my business in a world without or a smaller Facebook. In performance marketing, Facebook is still king, and also in terms of reach and signals of consumers’ interests and intent. What happens if Facebook changes? Or if there is regulation? Or if it doesn’t enjoy the popularity of generations like Z and beyond? This is more of a longer-term challenge, ” says John Sandoval, Senior Brand and Latino Marketing Manager at Intuit.
Brands need more ownable and proprietary data
To Peter Lee Brown, Brands & Communications Strategy, at Nestle, “Data has become commoditized, brands need more ownable, proprietary data“. Related to this challenge, Brown sees an opportunity for brand marketers in terms of “lean innovation and in-housing capabilities”, as he expects them to “lead to greater speed, creative expertise, and control.”. According to Brown in the current scenario of perpetual disruption, “brands can drive disruption and become challengers.”
Ariela Nerubay, Chief Marketing Officer at Curacao, also cites disruption, in this case in the retail space as an alluring opportunity: “Disruption of the retail in-store experiences to drive traffic to physical stores.”
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Making second-generation Hispanic campaigns attractive to non-Hispanics…
Successful marketing to the LatinX consumer (second and third-generation Hispanics) is paramount to the progress of Corporate America in 2020 and beyond. Ariela Nerubay, Chief Marketing Officer at Curacao, tells us that “How to develop targeted campaigns for the 2nd and 3rd gen Hispanic on general market media that also attracts non-Hispanics” is one of the main challenges for her company in 2020. Similarly, she also cites developing a “lead generation strategy for Hispanic and non-Hispanic customers with same creative” as a challenge and opportunity.
…in a world where it is increasingly “not good” to be the “other”.
Marketing in a politically convoluted environment that is often divisive has been an important topic at Portada Council System workshops in 2019. Going into 2020 it will continue to be a challenge for brand marketers. As Intuit¨s John Sandoval notes “Specifically to multicultural marketing, in a country and increasingly in a world (last week’s UK election) where it is ‘not good’ to be the other or a minority or a population group other than the ‘mainstream’, how do we get the resources, attention, etc, from across the landscape? What if Trump is re-elected for another 4 years?”
Cross Screen Measurement to understand Reach and Frequency
The ascent of video marketing, partly a result of the substitution of TV media budgets by video, is bringing in more 2020 opportunities for media buyers. Darcy Bowe, SVP, Media Director, Starcom USA tells Portada that “cross-screen measurement that allows us to understand overall reach and frequency, including understanding where truly incremental reach is being driven” is an important opportunity for efficient media buys in 2020. Bowe is part of Starcom’s Video Center of Excellence, where she focuses on investing in all video media as well as creating content and building integrated programs in the video media space on behalf of her clients.
Bowe also notes that, given the range of CPMs and creative units across media types, it will be important to develop solutions for how impressions should be valued in each type and how this impacts ROI. To resolve the relationship between performance and branding (awareness) will be another challenge: “How can we best create media plans that balance targeting the most likely consumer to interact & transact with the brand as well as find broad reach to create awareness?”
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