Marc Pritchard

Amazon’s Alexa gets voice-activated shopping assistant ads; AI-affiliated Super PACs are the big spenders this midterms; and P&G throws cold water on the agency “one-stop shop” model.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The round-up will return Tuesday, February 21, in observance of the Presidents’ Day holiday. Thanks, George and Abe, for the long weekend! The Clone Wars Every few months, social platforms align on a shiny new object … that’s really just another version of […]

Today, Latinos make up nearly 20% of the current U.S. population. They’re also the future of America. Almost 30% of all kids are Latino. But despite U.S. Latino consumer power coming in at around $1.7 trillion annually, only 6% of the overall industry investment goes toward this market. 

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Against Mall Odds TikTok is many things: a payday for influencers, a news service, an entertainment provider, a music video player, a search engine and more. “Though, what executives really want TikTok to be known as is a digital shopping mall,” MarketWatch reports.  TikTok […]

Multicultural markets are the single biggest growth opportunity for the media and advertising industry. At least according to Marc Pritchard, chief brand officer of Procter & Gamble, speaking at the Association of National Advertisers’ (ANA) Masters of Marketing Summit in Orlando, Florida, this Wednesday. The industry needs to step up not just because it’s the right thing to do, he said, but because multicultural markets could be “the economic growth driver for decades to come.”

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media.  Today’s column is written by Jason Wulfsohn, cofounder and COO at AudienceX. Over the past five years at seemingly every major industry conference, P&G’s Global Marketing Officer Marc Pritchard has gone on stage and issued a […]

This summer, P&G posted the best quarter of sales growth in a decade, and its stock price has nearly doubled since spring 2018. To create that growth, P&G is increasingly grabbing the reins, Chief Brand Officer Marc Pritchard told attendees at the ANA Masters of Marketing in Orlando, Florida, on Friday. P&G’s progress came after […]

After years of banging the drum about gaining more control, transparency and efficiencies from service providers, marketers are doing it themselves. Cost and speed to market are necessities for marketers struggling to drive growth, but too many third-party relationships often slow things down. “Our current situation is unproductive, unsustainable, undesirable and untenable,” ANA CEO Bob […]

After a quarter-century in marketing roles at P&G – including seven as CMO – you learn a thing or two about how to grow a brand. Jim Stengel started at P&G in 1983 as a brand assistant on Duncan Hines, moving his way up the ranks to marketing chief by 2001. He handed the reins to Marc […]

Despite a year marred by brand safety blunders, measurement errors and targeting missteps, marketers are mending ties with Facebook and Google as they place blame for the industry’s many issues on its ad tech underbelly. “Just 25% of CMOs’ digital media investment reaches target audiences,” said ANA CEO Bob Liodice during his opening remarks at […]

Procter & Gamble Chief Brand Officer Marc Pritchard is pleased overall with the response to his tough talk of the past year. And he’s optimistic that Facebook, Google and others will meet P&G’s deadline to align on third-party measurement standards and have their methods audited by the Media Ratings Council by the end of this […]

Procter & Gamble will slash $1.5 billion from its marketing budget over the next five years, the CPG giant said during its Q1 earnings call Wednesday. At least $1 billion will come from media, specifically by lowering rates and getting rid of supply chain waste, said Chief Financial Officer Jon Moeller. P&G wants to save […]

Procter & Gamble Chief Brand Officer Marc Pritchard continued his rallying cry for a cleaner and more transparent advertising ecosystem Tuesday at the 4As Transformation show in Los Angeles. This time, he called for simplicity in the agency business, which has become increasingly fragmented as shops pop up to service every channel, platform and digital […]

Fragmentation is to the buy side what agita is to a stomach: upsetting. “Data is perhaps the most important asset we have as an advertising agency,” said Mauricio Sabogal, global CEO of WPP’s Kinetic Worldwide, during the Modern Marketing Summit at the Mobile World Congress on Monday in Barcelona. “There are too many companies managing […]

Marla Kaplowitz, named president and CEO of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4As) on Friday, has made mending fences with the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) a top priority. Addressing the rift between the two organizations – and, more broadly, between marketers and agencies themselves – over agency transparency has “got to happen this […]

P&G isn’t going to give digital a free pass anymore. Its agencies, ad tech partners and publishers must enable viewability and third-party measurement and root out fraud. Contracts must be transparent. And if they don’t? P&G will pull media spend. According to its 2016 financial report, P&G spent $7.2 billion on advertising last year. “We […]

“We need CMOs to turn up the leadership dial,” Association of National Advertisers CEO Bob Liodice told attendees during his opening keynote at the Masters of Marketing conference Thursday. Liodice rattled off a litany of problems familiar to the contemporary marketer, including fraud, viewability, privacy, talent shortages and poor creative, that have withered the effectiveness […]

Programmatic ad buying is an inexorable and positive progression for the marketing industry, according to Global Marketing Officer Marc Pritchard of Procter & Gamble, the world’s largest advertiser. “[Programmatic] is inevitable, and we’re definitely interested,” Pritchard told AdExchanger on Thursday. “It enables you to more precisely target, and do it at a very valuable price, and […]