Media Sales Today

EYE Corp. reports that advertisers are making their way back to malls this year, hoping it’s cool to be seen there now. Several categories have increased spending significantly in the second half of the year.

Digital out-of-home advertising has fared pretty well through the recent economic environment, and early estimates for 2010 have been positive. Now a new BIA/Kelsey report (via MediaBuyerPlanner) confirms what the industry has been saying: digital out-of-home spending will ‘skyrocket’ in coming years. In fact, BIA/Kelsey is predicting spending will increase at an annual rate of 13.5%, going from $2.2 billion in 2009 to $3.7 billion in 2013.

Ssshhhhhhh, I got top-secret, confidential access to Mom’s, er I mean, Santa Claus’ Master List for the holiday season! If you’re super stealthy, you can use it to pitch your clients all the right reasons to advertise with you. But only if you’ve been naughty — woops, there I go again — NICE this year.
According to the Marketing to Moms Coalition’s “Moms Holiday Spending Trends 2009 Report,” the word in the aisles is spending will remain the same as last year! Wait, it gets better for your retail clients — moms with older children actually plan to spend more this year! The results are based on answers from 1,225 moms with children younger than 18 living at home.

The average American spends a tremendous amount of time in the car. Based on numbers from the Arbitron National In-Car Study, these drivers are open to information they get from billboards.

Ahhhh. One of my favorite times of the year. Back to school. Notebooks in every color, pens just waiting to let the ink run wild on a legal pad, new backpacks for throwing around. I will admit it: I am a total nerd for school supplies. I like to walk into Staples or Office Max or Target this time of year just to admire the neatly stacked binders, the endless rows of packaged pencils, calculators, paper clips — oh my! Just the SMELL of all things new and plastic takes me back to that butterflies-in-the-belly feeling of a new school year, new teachers, new subjects, new friends, new crushes approaching.

No matter what media you sell, you have to appreciate an outdoor advertising campaign from an unknown optimist in North Texas. It would be even more brilliant if the sponsor were the outdoor advertising companies themselves – and an idea everyone should consider borrowing.

Some marketing myth-busting found in ARF’s batch of studies that you can use to close those clients stuck in the dark ages.