Last year, nearly all of the top 50 telecasts in the US were connected to sports. The 97th Oscars, SNL 50th, a 60 mins interview, an episode of The Floor and 67th Grammys were the exception. #27 was “NFL Weather Delay,” turns out we will watch anything with sports in the title. 😊 Sport is the last bastion of people watching live TV, and together. That is why streaming giants are getting into acquiring sports telecast rights. It is unsurprising then that marketers have been rushing into all sorts of sports advertising. Sponsorships of teams, dresses, balls/bats/cars/horses/sideboards/back panels for interviews.…
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HiPPOs still hand down most decisions in a company – even when surrounded by piles and piles of reports with metrics galore. Marketers still use the “funnel” to imagine and allocate budget, people, actions – even when there is multi-decade data that the funnel is a lie. Company after company misses trends and goes kaput – even after investing in multi-million dollar data projects to build clean rooms, unified consumer view cloud-based business intelligence platforms. ☹️ The core challenge isn’t data scarcity; it is insights latency. Which impacts your ability to follow my advice to deliver IAbI, and not data.…