Compiled from a series of articles published between May and September 2023, this white paper from the Marketing Accountability Standards Board (MASB) describes how impaired brand preference led to persistent sales volume decline at AB InBev, parent company to the …
Many marketers are interested in the financial dimensions of creativity and how creativity should be managed. In the new MASB white paper, Measuring Financial Return on Creativity, MASB Chair David W. Stewart, Ph.D., introduces the MASB Measuring Creativity Initiative. “We’re trying …
Since there is some confusion about revenue marketing, how should one define it? Revenue marketing is not properly defined but given its current popularity, the Marketing Accountability Standards Board (MASB) is developing a fresh definition for the Universal Marketing Dictionary, …
Samford University has joined the Marketing Accountability Standards Board, and the MASB Sponsorship Accountability Metrics Project team has a valuable new member: Darin White, Ph.D., Executive Director of Samford’s Center for Sports Analytics. “I am truly honored to join MASB …
THE SITUATION: In early April, transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney released March Madness-related, sponsored Instagram posts promoting Bud Light that were immediately met by a wave of criticism within social media. MEDIA RESPONSE: Within days, the news media was …
Smucker’s $5.6 billion acquisition of Hostess Brands validates the contribution of the financial value of brands to future cash flows, as detailed in the white paper, The Financial Value of Brands Imperative: Why Brands Must be Valued in Financial Terms, …
Insights from Unstructured (Big) Data for Marketing Value Purush Papatla, Professor of Marketing and Co-Director of the Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee demonstrates how unstructured (big) data have insights which, if extracted, can lead to …
The Truth About Brand Boycotts Jim Meier and co-author Frank Findley saw the Bud Light “brand divorce” coming. Meier explains how their conclusions are supported by the MASB Brand Investment & Valuation (BIV) model, which established drivers of a “generally …
Intellectual Capital in the Boardroom – A New Standard Avasta CEO Edgar Baum explains the commercial benefits of implementing a standard for appropriate oversight of intellectual capital value/enhancement and risk mitigation newly released by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) …
Fireside Chat: Mark Stouse, CEO, Proof Analytics Mark Stouse, former CCO and VP at BMC Software, discusses with MASB CEO Joanna Seddon why people should stop seeing Data Analytics as “a judge in black robes” when they should be seeing …