IPG Media Lab

Advertisers’ attempts to engage consumers could end up leaving them cold. After all, not all attention is created equal.

Last week, IPG Mediabrands global CEO Henry Tajer announced he will leave the company and head back to Australia for personal reasons. But executive politics and challenges facing media agencies also factored into his departure. Tajer, a 10-year veteran of IPG Mediabrands, became global head in 2015 after a successful stint as CEO of Mediabrands […]

Just because an ad is “in-view,” that doesn’t mean it’s effective. On the contrary, time spent is often a better indicator of ad effectiveness than percentage of pixels in-view on a page. That’s according to a new viewability study from Interpublic Group (IPG) and measurement firm Integral Ad Science. The report, “Putting Science Behind The […]

Everyone at CES 2016 has seen it all before. Like last year and the year before, there are flatter televisions, displays bright enough to melt your face and the most aggressive gathering of people to ever combine lanyards and khakis. But even if no new gizmo is combusting the collective mind here in Las Vegas, there is […]

The IPG Media Lab is a media test kitchen for parent company IPG Mediabrands. Every week, the tricked-out tech playground plays host to CMOs and brand strategy execs that walk its aisles for inspiration on emerging devices and media-types to augment in their marketing strategies. Through a series of informal relationships with media and technology […]