The Inbound Marketer’s Guide to Earned Media

whitePaper | September 12, 2022

Spark Ninety is a strategy consultancy focused on the digital media and advertising sectors. It helps clients to understand complex markets and emerging business models; to develop strategies and plans; and to assess investments.

whitePaper | July 25, 2023

A deep dive into performance TV advertising and exclusive insights on how to use it as a growth engine. For television advertisers, upfronts and Newfronts season sets the tone for the rest of the year. And in 2023, the big story was Connected TV (CTV). Advertisers plan to allocate 40% of their 2023 budgets to CTV, bringing upfront spend on this channel to $8.14 billion.

whitePaper | October 10, 2022

Retail media networks (RMNs) are at a pivotal moment in their growth. In the last two years, advertiser investment in these platforms has surged, and marketing industry analysts predict growth to continue in the near term. While RMNs offer multiple benefits—including the ability to deliver highly targeted messages that connect with consumers at the point of purchase—they also have significant challenges. Among the largest: no industry-wide standardization.

whitePaper | February 3, 2020

Well, this is typically the time when you make New Year's Resolutions, and maybe one of those is timekeeping compliance. But rather than starting with the thinking behind all this, we'll save that for last and instead dive right into some suggestions on how to get better participation. If you're an employee vs. a principal reading this, you might want to feather your own bonus bed by taking the lead here and rallying the troops. That sort of sucking up never goes unnoticed.

whitePaper | September 22, 2022

The local advertising marketplace will reach $167.4 billion in 2022 as local, regional, and national buyers compete to bring their messages to local audiences across major traditional and digital media platforms. The fastest-growing media segment is OTT with an annual growth rate of +57.4 percent in 2022. This emphasizes how competitive this media channel has become, as consumer behavior follows the same trend. In this whitepaper developed in collaboration with BIA, discover key trends impacting shifting media budgets, the effects of programmatic, and forecasts for local advertising in the years to come.

whitePaper | May 31, 2021

It's the age of digital transformation. And for TV advertising, this evolution is fueling growth for both brands and television networks. But to take advantage of new opportunities to deliver critical business outcomes, both advertisers and media companies need to embrace four key priorities: TV attribution, identity, agility, and measurement.