The document outlines key media industry trends for 2014, emphasizing a shift in focus from media delivery to understanding consumer responses and expectations. It highlights successful examples of cross-channel campaigns, the effectiveness of visual and quality content, and the importance of interactivity in engaging consumers. Brands are increasingly using innovative advertising strategies, such as mobile ads and rich media, to foster deeper connections with their audiences and drive sales.

1. Media Industry
Trends for
2014
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2. What’s Inside
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‣Executive Summary
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‣Cross-Channel Campaigns
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‣Visual Content
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‣Quality Content is King
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‣Interactivity
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3. Executive Summary
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4. EXECUTIVESUMMARY
It has been a long time coming, but with the changing media landscape, media planning is shi ing towards
communications planning where the starting point is the consumer, not the media channel.
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Media, as a discipline, is moving away from the job of delivering messages to audiences and moving toward
be er understanding of how consumers receive and respond to communication.
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The below chart is a summary of consumer expectations for brand communications and how emerging media
strategies are facilitating interaction between brands and consumers in a meaningful and bo om-line
impacting way.
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Consumer Expectations from
Brand Communications
Media Communication
Trends in 2013
Media Hot
Topics for 2014
I want relevant and personalized content
that is not confusing when I switch from
device to device throughout my day
Cross-Channel Campaigns Mobile Ads
I crave instant gratification Visual Content Video Ads
I am tired of online ads Quality Content is King Native Ads
I want ads that don’t suck, fit into current
context, and give me something we want
Interactivity Rich Media Ads

5. Cross-Channel Campaigns
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6. CROSS-CHANNELCAMPAIGNS
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The Challenge and Opportunity
Home Depot had 11 different offers ranging from $20 off a five-gallon bucket of paint, to
10% off appliances of $397 or more and they wanted to drive incremental sales leading
up to and through Memorial Day. To do so they needed to generate consumer
awareness around the key products and seasonal offers.
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The Mobile Ad Media Plan
‣ Home Depot deployed a Mobile Circular ad unit
- similar to the traditional free-standing inserts o en used by retailers in outlets like
local newspapers
- gave consumers the option to “swipe through” the range of products and offers
‣ The campaign began running 10 days before Memorial Day, and featured a 3-day ad-
block around the holiday weekend where the ads were assured a dominant share of
voice around Home Depot’s predetermined audience and channels
‣ Targeted ad placements reached Home Depot’s desired audience of adults 25-54, and
utilized local market and demographic targeting
‣ The ads ran cross-platform across iPhone, Android and other smartphone operating
systems
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The Results
‣ On the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, the ad-block generated the highest mobile
site traffic in Home Depot history
‣ Consumers engaged with every offer featured in the Mobile Circular, allowing Home
Depot to successfully market 11 products in a single ad unit
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7. CROSS-CHANNELCAMPAIGNS
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Why Mobile Works:
‣ It presents opportunities for engagement as people rely on smartphones to both research online service brands
and connect with them
‣ Targeting can be very precise and include behavioral, demographic, content, location, contextual, private pool
retargeting
‣ Mobile ads can be optimized to help people connect by utilizing click-to-call, form fill, link to map, link to site, etc
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Basic Mobile Ad Types:
‣ Banners
- Connects brands with their target audiences economically and efficiently across a broad range of inventory
‣ Interstitial
- Displays full-screen rich media ads either at app or mobile browser launch or in between content pages
‣ Mobile Circular
- apply highly localized features, benefiting consumers and retailers
‣ Expandable banner
- Expands an ad to cover the full screen upon a tap, without removing the user from the app or mobile browser
experience
‣ Interactive Video
- Delivers the rich branding experience of a TV commercial on a platform that is uniquely personal and always
on
‣ Gamification
- Activate consumer interest and brand affinity by presenting an entertaining game that has powerful viral
appeal and longevity
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8. Visual Content
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9. VISUALCONTENT
The Challenge and Opportunity
Rokenbok Toy Co. offers premium specialized educational systems and their
products were historically demonstrated on play tables in specialty toy stores.
When the population of specialty toy stores dramatically collapsed they had to
find a way to provide playtime experience without the hands-on capability.
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The Video Ad Media Plan
‣ With fun and educational videos, Rokenbok Toys was able to create entertaining
in-store demos of their toys virtually
‣ They pushed the message out through paid YouTube ads
‣ Targeted ad placements reached kids and adults who have an affinity for
mechanical things
- the ability to narrowly target this audience was of enormous value
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The Results
‣ Today, the majority of their online sales come from YouTube channel viewers
who make up more than half of their customer base
‣ Video advertising has not only been a good return-on-investment for this brand
but has also set the direction for all of their marketing communication
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10. VISUALCONTENT
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Why Video Works:
‣ Allows for “permission marketing” and engaging with the right audience
- only pay when people watch
- zero in on the right people based on who they are, where they’re located and what
they’re interested in
‣ Create powerful stories that integrate with digital advertising campaigns
‣ Shows up across devices
‣ Ability to see what’s working
- Analytics can be used to fine-tune the media plan in real time
‣ Build a following
- ads can drive video shares and new channel subscriptions
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Three Basic Video Ad Types:
‣ In-Stream: pre-roll, mid-roll or post-roll
- run in the same player as the video content
‣ In-Banner: not connected to any video content and therefore could appear on any
webpage
- typically needs to be started by the user
‣ Branded Content: longer-form ads sponsored by the marketer
- sometimes the audience does not even view this branded content is an ad since most
of the video contains potentially valuable information or entertainment
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11. Quality Content is King
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12. QUALITYCONTENTISKING
The Challenge and Opportunity
MINI wanted to go beyond methods of conventional advertising to
enhance the brand’s perception. The primary goals were to broaden
awareness for the brand slogan “Not Normal” and to emotionally engage
with their audience ultimately enhancing the perception of MINI as a fun
brand.
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The Native Ad Media Plan
‣ MINI partnered with BuzzFeed to create 7 new custom social posts
‣ The posts challenged readers to reconsider “normal” - inspiring them
with amazing “not normal” topics ranging from environmental
phenomena to interesting competitions and bold fashion statements
‣ The theme reflected MINI’s personality and voice, allowing the branding
to integrate seamlessly into the content
‣ By increasing the length and flight of their campaign in collaboration
with BuzzFeed, MINI achieved cumulative gains from exposure and
drove more traffic to existing posts
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The Results
‣ Over one million engagements - 2/3 of which resulted in social sharing
- 3.0x social li
‣ Featured in the right rail section of BuzzFeed’s new posts page. providing
even greater exposure, momentum and page views
‣ 32.9% Brand Li - MINI was a car they might consider for their next
vehicle purchase
‣ 52.2% Brand Li - MINI is a brand that stands for fun
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13. QUALITYCONTENTISKING
Why Native Ads Work:
‣ Native advertising came about by the need for brands to stop interrupting and start talking to consumers
‣ Native ads offer the opportunity to publish content that’s interesting to an audience that is interested in the
content
- The content should not be promotional
‣ Ads match the visual design of the experience they live within, and look feel like natural content
‣ Ads behave consistently with the native user experience, and function just like natural content
‣ Consumers looked at native ads 52% more frequently than banner ads *
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Basic Native Ad Types:
‣ Gallery
- Brand content is integrated into the organic look and feel of publisher sites
- To experience the content users click through to individual, high quality viewing pages.
‣ Posts
- Contextually targeted brand content is delivered in-page within the content
- The content flows with the natural experience of the page, capturing the a ention of engaged readers.
‣ Feed
- Brand content is integrated within content feeds on the homepage of social discovery and premium editorial
sites
- Brand content is placed near the freshest content and can be watched directly within the feed
‣ Game
- Videos are integrated directly within a social game
- When a user chooses to watch the video, the game is paused and the video player is overlayed on the screen to
provide a full viewing experience
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13*Source: IPG Media Labs 2013

14. Interactivity
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15. INTERACTIVITY
The Challenge and Opportunity
Faced with declining flavored milk sales and low market share, Promised
Land Dairy needed a fresh way to drive brand awareness for their
products. Research conducted indicated that Promised Land Dairy’s
variety of flavors gave them a competitive advantage so they utilized
this information to launch a rich media campaign that promoted the
flavors online.
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The Mobile Ad Media Plan
‣ Each Rich Media Ad featured a dairy farmer pulling a wheelbarrow of
milk canisters across the computer screen, the farmer would stumble,
causing the milk to “spill” into a 300x250side unit containing the farm-
fresh ingredients specific to that quarter’s seasonal flavor of milk. The
resulting 300x250 ad unit highlighted one of the Promised Land Dairy’s
seasonal varieties including Marvelous Mocha, Mooberry Blueberry,
Creamy Dreamy Orange and Egg Nog.
‣ This single unit ran in one-month flights and was used to create
awareness and drive consumers to find a store location
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The Results
‣ While category sales declined, Promised Land saw revenue increase
driven by the flavored milks
‣ Total site traffic increase of 511% during rich media flights
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16. INTERACTIVITY
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Why Rich Media Ads Work:
‣ Engage users with in-ad interactive features, functionality and content
‣ Capture user a ention and keep it, all while measuring engagement, time spent and other key metrics including
site-side activity tied to the ad unit
‣ Rich media ad units can include multiple panels and videos, polls, data collects, newsle er sign-ups, syncing and/
or linking to Facebook, Twi er and other social sites, photo galleries and much more
‣ Create a mini-website experience, so the user doesn’t have to click through to a site
‣ Leverage platform capabilities like real time marketing to personalize the ad experience for each of your
audiences without the need to produce multiple creative versions
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Basic Rich Media Ad Types:
‣ Polite: a universal rich media ad
- All features and functionality are contained within the borders of the ad unit but the advertiser is afforded
with unlimited k-weight as opposed to the standard limits of 30-45k
‣ Peelback:
- Located in the top right corner of the browser, this unit enables users to interact and unveil deeper content
- Upon click, the unit fully expands and the advertiser’s content lays over the editorial—focusing more
a ention on the marketing message
‣ Pushdown
- A pushdown starts as a regular ad unit but upon page load it instantly expands while politely pushing all
editorial elements downwards (rather than covering them)
- A er a set duration, the unit retracts and resolves into an expandable or polite ad unit
‣ Rising Star Units
- The IAB created Rising Star program to help increase creativity and branding options within standard ad unit
sizes
- Includes Billboard, Pushdown, Portrait, Filmstrip, Sidekick and Slider