The document summarizes 10 key takeaways from the 2018 ANA Advertising Financial Management Conference. The takeaways discuss the need for accountability and using data to back up decisions, addressing the differences between how marketers and finance view terminology, balancing privacy and value in AI use, ensuring brand safety online, managing risks in digital advertising, having processes for working with influencers, focusing on long-term customer relationships not just short-term sales, discussing money issues openly with clients and agencies, and embracing constant learning instead of making predictions about the future.
2. A number of pressing concerns wove their way through the
2018 ANA Advertising Financial Management Conference,
April 29–May 2, in Hollywood, Fla. From artificial intelligence
to transparency, speakers had a lot of good advice for attendees.
3. Here are the 10 key takeaways they shared
during the four-day conference.
4. Warren Byrum, VP of professional services and marketing procurement at State Street Corp.
“ACCOUNTABILITY IS THE NEW NORM.”
22. Ken Auletta, journalist and media critic with The New Yorker
“IF I SAT TO INTERVIEW SOMEONE AND THEY SAID
‘LET ME TELL YOU WHAT THE FUTURE IS GOING TO BE LIKE,”
I WOULD SAY TO MYSELF ‘THIS PERSON IS AN ASS.’”
24. Interested in what else you missed from this year’s conference?
Our Marketing Knowledge Center has a whole series of recaps
to help you with that.
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