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 …
Kate Sirkin, EVP, Global Data Partnerships at Publicis Epsilon, has received the 2023 Margaret H. Blair Award for Marketing Accountability, presented at MASB Summer Summit by Chair David W. Stewart. Kate spearheaded and nurtured many initiatives which put in place …
Former finance executive and current MASB Trustee/Treasurer Jim Meier saw the Bud Light “brand divorce” coming. He and co-author Frank Findley (Bud Light “Brand Divorce” Continues – with no end in sight) believed that the travails of the popular beer …
On May 10, 2023, the Marketing Accountability Standards Board (MASB) released its briefing, Bud Light ‘Boycott’ May Not End, Here Is Why. It opined that the travails of Bud Light which began in early April were not a consequence of …
According to Annette Tower, Assistant Professor of Marketing at Clemson University, marketing executives will likely face significant changes in their business strategy and communication approach in response to the regulatory advances in mandatory environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting. The …