Digital Dawn In Adland

Drawing on a unique study of Australian advertising agencies at the dawn of the digital era, this book provides a hitherto unexplored study of the advertising industry at a point of its disruption. By exploring the dynamic interaction between this established but complacent industry, and a radically new communication medium, this book reveals how advertising agencies were forced to change fundamentally, yet as an industry helped shape the digital economy, and the platforms that dominate it. Based on contemporary reports, company archives, personal archives, and over 50 interviews with past and current advertising practitioners across the range of agency departments, this unique historical narrative reveals how power shifts between agencies, advertisers, and other media platforms forged the current models of advertiser-funded digital media. For scholars of marketing, media, communication, and contemporary history, this is an illuminating perspective on the early impact of the digital revolution and its relevance to the media landscape today.

This critical introductory text explores the role of advertising in contemporary culture and its connections to larger economic, social, and political forces. Written in an engaging and accessible style and incorporating a wide range of examples from around the world, the chapters introduce the key concepts, methods, and debates needed to analyse and understand advertising. From an investigation of advertising’s crucial function in media economics and our wider capitalist system to a consideration of the people who both make and watch advertising, this insightful text enables students to: make sense of advertising’s powerful influence as both an economic force and an artistic form; assess the various claims of these two perspectives on advertising; and understand how they challenge and complicate one another. This revised second edition includes a new chapter on branding and promotional culture, and substantially updated content on topics like digital and online advertising, surveillance and empowerment, as well as brand new topics like self-branding/influencers and using technology to evade advertising. Equipping students with the skills needed to partake in this lively discourse, the text is an invaluable resource for studying advertising critically. It is essential reading for students of advertising, media studies and communication studies.

At a time when the traditional media have been reshaped by digital technologies and audiences have fragmented, people are using mediated forms of communication to manage all aspects of their daily lives as well as for news and entertainment. The Media and Communications in Australia offers a systematic introduction to this dynamic field. Fully updated and expanded, this fifth edition outlines the key media industries – from print, sound and television to film, gaming and public relations – and explains how communications technologies have changed the ways in which they now operate. It offers an overview of the key approaches to the field, including a consideration of Indigenous communication, and features a ‘hot topics’ section with contributions on issues including diversity, misinformation, algorithms, COVID-19, web series and national security. With chapters from Australia’s leading researchers and teachers in the field, The Media and Communications in Australia remains the most comprehensive and reliable introduction to media and communications from an Australian perspective. It is an ideal student text and a key resource for teachers, lecturers, media practitioners and anyone interested in understanding these influential industries.

The Routledge Companion to Marketing and Society focuses on marketing for social impact as the use of marketing strategies, tools and techniques to improve the well-being of society. As such it does not exclude the use of marketing to increase profit and shareholder value but rather prioritises the social impact of marketing, both positive and negative (even if largely unintended). This companion is a scholarly reference providing an overview of marketing for social impact in terms of its current and emergent themes, debates and developments, as well as reflections on the future of the field. Using marketing tools and techniques for social impact is commonly accepted as an effective commercial strategy (e.g. corporate social responsibility, cause-related marketing) and increasingly accepted as an approach to planned social transformation that can be used to influence positive social change in behaviours such as recycling, healthy eating, domestic violence and human trafficking. This reference volume serves as an authoritative and comprehensive statement on the state of contemporary scholarship focusing on the diverse subject of the social impact of marketing. It features 25 chapters written by international subject specialists within six themed sections, including consumer issues, marketing tools, commercial marketing and non-profit marketing. It will find a global audience of scholars and researchers within marketing and cognate fields, interested in using marketing tools and techniques to create social impact in areas such as public health, social and behaviour change communication, sociology and cultural studies.

8 powerful ways to market your business online to consistently generate an abundance of leads that convert into profitable customers. Dynamic Digital Marketing teaches any business or individual how to increase online visibility and presence, attract their target audience, generate leads, and convert them into profitable customers. Author Dawn McGruer is an expert at making businesses and brands shine online. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs and businesses maximise their digital marketing profits by developing digital skills which scale and grow their businesses and accelerate their success. Most entrepreneurs and businesses fully understand the importance of digital marketing, yet many do not know where to start or, worse, continue to spend time, money, and effort on strategies that fail to provide the best results for their investment. To remedy this situation, Dawn developed her multi-award-winning digital marketing framework, Dynamic Digital Marketing Model. Offering step-by-step guidance, this book shows you how to use this model to market your business online whilst transforming yourself into a proficient digital marketer. This must-read book will help you: Gain invaluable insights on what works – and what doesn’t – based on the author’s 20 years’ experience in digital marketing Avoid pitfalls and missteps by implementing the same proven success strategies used by key influencers Harness the power of search engine optimisation (SEO), social media, content marketing, online video, and more Amplify your brand, cultivate customers, and increase profits Incorporate e-mail marketing, customer analytics, strategic web design, and influencer partnerships in your overall digital marketing strategy Dynamic Digital Marketing: Master the world of online and social media marketing to grow your business is an indispensable resource for business leaders, business owners, marketing and sales professionals, digital strategists and consultants, entrepreneurs, and students in business and marketing programmes.

This book introduces business historians to oral history methodologies and approaches. Using four distinct oral history case studies to explore ideas of disruption and continuity in business history over the second half of the twentieth century, Robert Crawford and Matthew Bailey demonstrate how critical engagement with oral history approaches serves to enhance and enliven business history as well as its relationship with other historical fields. The focus on disruption is used to encompass a broad set of processes such as technological change, the impact of external forces, informal business networks, social constructions of gender, knowledge transfer, firm adaptability and cultural change. The use of oral histories to interpret responses to disruption in the past, and to explore the features characterising business continuity, provides an opportunity to consider the human dimensions, subjective experiences and personal insights of workplace, firm and industry change. It also sheds light on the ways that people and firms respond to disruptive forces through innovation and adaptation – both successfully and unsuccessfully. This succinct and accessible account is essential reading for business historians with little experience in using oral history, as well as those looking to gain deeper insights from their oral history data.

[540+ pages of insights from the world's leading Mad Men] Apathetic. Numb. Overwhelmed. Those aren't consumers. They're ad professionals. Radical shifts in advertising have reached a critical point - sucking craft, quality, and satisfaction out of the business. It's now a Big Data numbers game ruled by instant response and measured in fractions of a percent. Are we doomed to mere assembly lines of offshore production and creative commoditization? Can well-established ad agency networks hang on or are they going to come crumbling down? Or... are we facing the dawn of the industry's most seismic renaissance? One that offers agencies and marketers a powerful new array of cost-effective structures and models to elevate the quality of both our work and our lives? Digital Doesn't Matter calls upon over 130 of today's most esteemed Mad Men minds from all around the world to answer. Provocative. Brutally honest. At times, pure heresy. With a complex landscape shifting by the nanosecond, this compendium of insights captures the industry at a true crossroads like never before. For any marketing pro, it is a much-needed Survival Guide - a clear, sensible path to propel agencies and individuals forward, free from budget-slashing bean counters and social media gurus who devalue the craft. Learn first-hand from the nimble veterans who have not only survived, but also thrived. Contributors include Global CEOs, CMOs, Creative Directors, Strategists, Planners, and Executives from all roles in the world's most successful agencies and advertisers. Your guide and author, Josh Sklar, stands as a digital pioneer having spearheaded several of the most respected worldwide digital agencies, creating award-winning campaigns for leading brands such as: Singapore Airlines, Visa, Heineken, Pfizer, Coca-Cola, Nokia, Microsoft, Discovery Channel, ESPN, Cisco, General Motors, and more. Here are just a few of our interviewees: Global Chairman / CEO, Y&R & the weekly ramble Global CEO, Organic Global CEO, VML Managing Director, VML Australia & Digital Buzz Co-Founder / Chairman & CEO, Razorfish & Dachis Group Chief Creative Officer, SapientNitro NYC Executive Creative Director, SapientNitro Asia Pacific Executive Creative Director, R/GA & Ad Aged Director Business Transformation, R/GA & Being Peter Kim Chief Innovation Officer, Mullen & Creativity_Unbound Head of Digital, Dentsu CMO, Microsoft Asia Pacific Jordan Brand Marketing Director, Nike Global VP Digital & Social Marketing & CRM, Nokia North American Consumer & SMB Exec Director, Dell Head of Digital, American Express Asia Regional Marketing Director, Samsung CEO, Omnicom Media Group Asia Managing Director of Ad Agency Relationships, Google Senior Vice President of Digital, Edelman & dave fleet Regional Creative Director, Ogilvy Regional Creative Director, Saatchi & Saatchi Executive Creative Director, BBH NYC Executive Creative Director, JWT Chief Digital Officer / ECD, DDB & Tribal DDB Executive Director, Art Directors Club & IHAVEANIDEA CEO, Hoffman | Lewis & The Ad Contrarian Executive Creative Director, gyro & Gods of Advertising Founder / Columnist, Adrants & Playboy's The Smoking Jacket Founder, Adland.tv CEO, M&C Saatchi Asia CEO, Publicis Greater China CEO, BBDO Greater China Director Creative Innovation, Saatchi & Saatchi NYC & Hyper Island Business Unit Head, Ogilvy Africa Founder, eYeka EVP Education, American Association of Advertising Agencies Chief Technology Officer, the 4As Senior Research Fellow, USC Annenberg School for the Digital Future and many more from WPP, Omnicom, Publicis, IPG, Dentsu, Havas, independents, collectives, individuals, influential industry bloggers, respected trade journalists and successful brands.

Win online by attracting the right customers and getting the right performance measurement Digital Impact answers the critical questions marketers have about connecting with and influencing consumers online. Written in an easy-to-read, approachable format, this helpful guide presents provocative content along with practical, commonsense methods that can be followed by any businessperson at companies of all sizes. The discussion hones in on two keys to success: building a performance measurement approach that will let you get maximum impact out of your online marketing and ad dollars, and creating magnetic content that attracts customers and keeps them engaged with your brand. Leverage trust and build ROI in social media and mobile spaces Get actionable data, best practices, cases studies, anecdotes, practical coaching tips and strategic insights Engage customers who typically resist advertising messages Learn from authors who have extensive experience across major industries and accounts, giving them a wide business appeal Whether your budget is corporate-sized or on a shoestring, you'll want to achieve the measurable bottom-line improvements that come with having Digital Impact.