Do People Hate Ads? Marketers Seek To Embed Brands Into Culture As Dislike Grows

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People hate advertising. They hate it...and it's the advertisers fault." Those comments, made by Boudica's creative director and former Hearst chief content officer, Joanna Coles, during a panel on the future of creativity at Ads Week, helped close the first day of the conference with an acerbic crash. Coles said consumers today will take "any opportunity" to skip to the end of an ad or sign up for an ad-free service like Netflix, with which his co-panellist Chief Brand Officer Procter & Gamble, Marc Pritchard, largely agreed. It wasn't an auspicious start to one of advertising country's busiest annual shows, nor was it an optimistic read on the health of the industry. The gloomy outlook came as underlying advertising growth, excluding political advertising, is expected to be below 3% this year, according to GroupM. While Coles was ostensibly defiant as moderator, her thoughts embodied the speed with which brands were striving to break away from the old way of doing things, and echoed throughout a week that saw the marketers repeatedly avoid focusing on traditional advertising. For four days in a cramped AMC movie theater near Lincoln Center, marketers continually touted the promise of new innovations and sponsorship models on channels like esports and TikTok, while acknowledging that these emerging spaces lack some key features. "What we need to do is really merge the advertising world with other creative worlds," said Pritchard, who cited the statistic that about seven in 10 people today find ads boring. “We tried to change the ad ecosystem by doing more ads, and that only created more noise. "You can run an ad and you can get a message out about your product pretty quickly. But you can't figure out what a brand really stands for," he added. Cultural relevance What does a fusion between the advertising and creative worlds look like? Deeper content integrations have been embraced by P&G, with Pritchard saying some of the CPG's documentary series with National Geographic have generated hundreds of millions of impressions. Earlier this year, the executive claimed he could look to a future without any publicity.


But tools that can track ROI or product sales — the kinds of solutions marketers still struggle to implement with digital marketing — have proven a sticking point for some of the advertising alternatives. offered at the show. The executives suggested that it's difficult to measure the success of new media beyond spongy metrics, though they agreed that such tactics are key to engaging the cause-conscious, publicity-averse young demographic. "If we're trying to weave our brand more into culture – to become culturally relevant – there's no better place than content." Brad Feinberg Vice President of Media and Consumer Engagement, MillerCoors "The honest answer is there's no really great mechanism or tool available to get to 'what's an ROI? “for content integration,” said Brad Feinberg, vice president of media and consumer engagement at MillerCoors, during a panel with Hulu and mattress disruptor Casper later in the week. "What we believe is that the longer our brands are on screen...intuitively, that's a good place for us," Feinberg added. "If we're trying to weave our brand more into culture – to become culturally relevant – there's no better place than content, especially when, in most cases, consumers are trying to avoid advertising." What does the culture look like Brands leveraging culture seemed to usurp the brand focus held at Ad Week last year as the main talking point. It's an unsurprising development given that a deluge of misguided “woke” campaigns over the past 12 months has led to accusations of brands cynically clinging to a trend without understanding how the purpose works. Where the purpose is the positioning and values ​​marketers develop to lend credibility to their organizations with skeptical consumers, culture is more nebulous, seemingly most often defined as where brands can embed their messages. so that they resonate. Navigating the nuances of culture can be difficult, as each category has its own cultural set of values, influencers, holidays and events, according to John Elder, CEO of Deloitte Digital's Heat agency. "In order to bring effective work to market, you need to focus on what we call sharing culture," Elder said in comments to Marketing Dive. "The best creative shows your target audience that you speak their language and that your intention is to contribute to the culture rather than use it to sell a product or service." This year, Advertising Week featured case studies of companies leveraging culture to their advantage.


Chipotle took a deep dive into how the break from a previously conservative and decentralized digital marketing strategy brought its brand back from the brink. "We wanted to be more visible, we wanted to be more culturally relevant," CMO Chirs Brandt, who joined the company last year, said at a conference. The chain's recent marketing successes, led by Brandt, have manifested in trendy new apps like TikTok, but are unified by a focus on the "real world" aspects of QSR's operations, from its ingredients to the work of his employees. “The real was also kind of a counterpoint to everything the culture is today in terms of the EMAIL LIST falseness and the contrived nature of so many things we come across,” said Paul Birks-Hay, president of Venables Bell & Partners, Chipotle's creative agency. "It was like a nice antidote to how people felt." Where is the culture TikTok was often at the top of the advertising week's agenda, appearing on multiple billboards and with a large screen in the center of the showroom floor. Marketers said the platform, which is owned by Chinese startup ByteDance and focuses on user-generated social videos, is a refreshing change of pace from social media networks like Instagram, which it says several speakers, have become overwhelmed with glossy influencer content that feels less and less authentic. A TikTok display at Advertising Week commanded the show's second floor. Peter Adams for Marketing Dive Tristan Roy, global managing director of Edelman Digital, explained at a conference how the company's client, HP, used TikTok to market around the Coachella music festival - a culture-related event - without appearing intrusive. HP rolled out a hashtag challenge, a common marketing tactic on TikTok, to not only generate interest in experiential brand activation on-site at the festival, but also to raise awareness among absent consumers. “For people not at the event, it changes behavior from sort of passive consumption to more active engagement and creating content with the brand,” Roy said, adding that TikTok is fighting a “ thumb scrolling discomfort". On the same panel as Roy, Cosette Rinab, a popular TikTok creator, offered advice on how brands can better blend into the platform that has quickly become a favorite of Gen Z and consumers. young teenagers. “When a brand approaches you for a partnership, it could be professionals in the creation of television commercials or media for television, which is very different,” Rinab said.

“[TikTok content] should be fast, accurate and – especially from an advertiser's perspective – it should convey the brand but also … not look like an advertisement.”Avoiding capital-A advertising was reflected in marketers' approach to esports, or professional video games, another fledgling category that was taking up a lot of space on the calendar. Mastercard first gained market favor by taking inspiration from the playbook of endemic brands like computer hardware. The financial services marketer, together with its partner Twitch, sent out loot boxes to content creators around the world to show off during their live streams. MillerCoors adopted a similar tact with the launch of a "Cantroller" campaign earlier this year around the E3 gaming expo. The brewer leaned into esports influencers and the novelty of the titular element – ​​a functional game controller shaped like a can that can hold beer – to spark interest rather than just start a publicity blitz . "We put our toes in the water," MillerCoor's Feinberg said on his panel. "We felt our category was coming and just sponsoring a bunch of esports, be it teams or leagues, was not the right approach." Tuner Discussions around relevant places to integrate brands naturally led to more established but still growing channels like over-the-top TV and streaming. Netflix's interactive film "Black Mirror: Bandersnatch," which lets viewers guide the protagonist's choices, including what brand of cereal they eat, came up during a conversation as a potential avenue to explore. "[The subscription model] doesn't accept branded content in the same way that digital platforms and traditional TV platforms [do]." Samantha Glynne Global SVP of Branded Entertainment, Fremantle In the same panel on Marketing in a Total Video World, William Swann, Head of Entertainment at BBH, spoke about the evolution of content marketing. He pointed to "Dads," a new feature-length documentary funded by Dove Men + Care and directed by Bryce Dallas Howard, which was picked up by Apple at the Toronto International Film Festival. "Really, there's no product placement," Swann said of the movie focusing on modern fatherhood.

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