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...
Packaging innovation is a great consumer buzz generator—just ask Andy England
“The marketer who steered Coors Light’s ‘cold’ ad messaging for years is now taking the same approach to vodka,” according to AdAge and other recent trade news. “Andy England—who was chief marketing officer at MillerCoors from 2008 to 2015—is now CEO at Phillips...
Study: Today’s podcast audience is a WOM powerhouse
“Even before COVID-19, the podcast industry was seeing rapid growth, with monthly listeners reaching 645mn globally in 2019 and advertising revenues growing at a double-digit rate; industry revenues are poised to more than double by 2024,” according to PwC’s...
WOM growth by industry sector as US looks forward to a post-pandemic future
Our last blog talked about America’s changing brand buzz since Covid-19, noting that WOM levels held steady during COVID-19 era, with certain categories gaining momentum during the pandemic. Now, Engagement Labs takes a closer look at the brands that have the greatest...
America’s changing brand buzz since COVID-19—who’s winning?
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought countless challenges to Americans over the past year. From the everyday issues of social distancing, sickness and childcare, to the financial issues of concern over jobs / personal finances and understanding the stimulus – the past...