With audience attention becoming increasingly fragmented across platforms and formats, visibility alone is no longer sufficient to ensure meaningful engagement. Brands continue to produce a high volume of content and activations, but the gap between output and audience response has widened. Exposure does not guarantee interaction, and interaction does not always translate into impact.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about AI is that it is new yet nothing new.
The president of Snacking Global at Mars, Andrew Clarke, recently spent some time chatting with The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Clarke articulated some important and exciting areas of innovation and interests that Mars continues to pursue for its snack brands.
Ferrari’s recent introduction of the Luce, its first fully electric four-door model, has sparked exactly the kind of controversy one might expect from an iconic brand. Just as the Jaguar rebrand did, and many others before it.
Claire’s, the tween accessory retailer, is in turnaround mode. Again. Claire’s is hoping to pierce the boredom barrier among its target audience of not-yet-teenage girls.
