As July comes to an end, retailers and e-commerce continue to push through and find themselves amidst a fervent battleground, seizing every opportunity to vie for consumer attention and market share. In this context, this article will introduce the top 10 retail...
Bud Light’s Battle with Offline Sentiment and Its Ripple Effect
Demographics Unmasked: How Male Consumers Shape Bud Light's Narrative In the realm of marketing and advertising, data-driven insights are paramount to success. When it comes to maximizing sales, brands, advertisers, and media, brands need to tap into the power of...
Unlocking the power of the Asian market: Data and strategies for effective engagement
In the spirit of AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) month, brands and media companies have a unique opportunity to tap into the vast potential of the Asian and Asian American market. According to Pew Research, Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial or...
How social data can drive business outcomes and optimize marketing strategies
The advertising industry has evolved significantly over the years, with the emergence of new technologies and trends. Social influence and word-of-mouth marketing continue to play a significant role in the industry, influencing consumer decision-making and driving...
Consumer conversations and social influence for brand success
The potency of consumer conversations and word of mouth in shaping product performance has been a long-recognized fact by marketers. In the current digital age and managing through a downturn, marketers and business leaders face new challenges due to the constantly...
Top Super Bowl 2023 advertisers that dominated the buzz: Who made the cut?
Super Bowl LVII was the third most watched television program in history with 113 million viewers, according to Nielsen. Advertisers all want to score a touchdown, but many will just settle for field goals. In other words, these advertisers may enjoy a surge in buzz...
Sports fans spotlight: FIFA Men’s World Cup viewers talk far more about advertisers and sponsors
With the FIFA Men’s World Cup finals winding up last weekend, MediaPost recently reported that “through the quarterfinals round of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, an estimated $213.6 million in national TV advertising was placed on the Fox TV networks and...
Score a goal by leveraging soccer fans for marketing and brand engagement
The fall is ripe with marketing opportunities: holiday shopping, MLB playoffs, NFL season kicking off and NBA and NHL seasons underway. But this fall, a big opportunity is falling into marketers’ laps—the highly anticipated FIFA Men’s World Cup. This 64-game soccer...
Top 20 TotalSocial Movers and Shakers: Which sectors had the most improved consumer conversations?
The TotalSocial “Movers and Shakers” are consumer brands that showed the most improvement over the past year in driving the quantity and quality of consumer conversation—offline and online. The brands on our “Movers and Shakers” lists are very diverse. The top 20 is...
3 tips to step up your influencer marketing by unlocking everyday and micro influencers
When you search for “influencer marketing,” Google easily shows about 210,000,000 results in 0.55 seconds. Culling through what are the most effective strategies, forecasts and key trends that will dominate, the current state of influencer marketing, the most...
Who’s hot, who’s not: Consumer buzz trends as holiday 2021 fast approaches
Consumer conversation trends reveal who has the most WOM traction and who needs to take quick corrective action. For much of the country, late summer means back to school, and end of summer vacations. For marketers, it means the final push to prepare for holiday 2021....
Looking for real influence? Forget celebrity influencers, focus on real people
New social network science research says it time to shift our thinking about influence At Engagement Labs, we have long believed in the power of everyday influencers to drive business results. And now there is new, independent scientific evidence that supports our...