Resource Guides
Cable Guide

The 2013
Cable Guide

Marking its 25th year in 2013, the Ad Age Cable Guide provides an in-depth look at leading cable networks and the top trends affecting this year’s upfront market. Profiles explore the integrated media opportunities each network offers as well programming and audience highlights to help you make the best buying decisions.

Audience Buying Guide 2013

Audience Buying Guide 2013

Reaching the right audiences in the expanding digital marketplace is crucial for marketers today. Ad Age's Audience Buying Guide offers profiles of ad networks, platforms and solution providers to guide you through the many choices available.

Social Media & Marketing Guide

Ad Age's Guide to Social Media

Social media is connected to everything marketers do today—but figuring out what's what can be daunting. Ad Age's guide can help you make the right choices for your brand.

newfronts2012 2012

The Guide to Digital NewFronts

With online video expanding, industry leaders have more to offer marketers. Here, key players highlight the services and products they offer in this booming online market.

Relationship Guide

Relationship Guide 2012

Connecting with the right customer has never been so critical. Ad Age's Direct-to-Customer Relationship Guide profiles companies that can help you create key strategies to develop that bond between your brand and your most important customers.

Mobile Marketing Guide

Mobile Marketing Guide

Ad Age's Mobile Marketing Guide offers you insights on how and why to use the mobile medium and the best vendors to work with as you integrate mobile into your marketing efforts.

Ad Age & Creativity School Guide

Ad Age & Creativity School Guide

The Ad Age & Creativity School Guide showcases some of the best marketing and creative schools in the U.S., highlighting their programs and opportunities, plus work produced by advertising and design students today.

Your Brand in Sports

Your Brand
in Sports

Your Brand in Sports looks at how marketers are working with major sports to expand their brands in ways that have a huge impact on avid sports fans. It includes a guide to companies that offer opportunities to get marketers involved in this hot area.

Custom Media Guide 2010

Custom Media Guide 2010

Custom is a bright spot in an economic environment that has hurt other media players. That's a bonus for marketers as they look to custom providers to create high-quality content in a variety of formats—and to reach an increasingly global audience that is on the move.

Integrated Media Guide

Integrated
Media Guide

In this increasingly complex media and economic landscape, it's more important than ever that marketers' media plans be consumer-centric as well as efficient. To help navigate this exciting and challenging landscape, Advertising Age presents its Integrated Media Guide.

Salutes
FEDEX AT 40: BUILDING ON ADVERTISING

64TH ANNUAL ADVERTISING HALL OF FAME

The American Advertising Federation is honoring seven individuals and one corporation for contributions to the advertising industry and to society. They join 215 other legends and three corporations in the prestigious Advertising Hall of Fame.

FEDEX AT 40: BUILDING ON ADVERTISING

FEDEX AT 40: BUILDING ON ADVERTISING

Using creative advertising, FedEx has built a business that is more than a delivery service. Through its relationship with longtime agency BBDO, the company has established a brand that helps its customers "connect to the world."

2012 Cannes Lions Journal

2012 Cannes Lions Journal Presented by USA TODAY

USA TODAY takes a look back at some of the leading creative work that was honored at 2012 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

Cartoon Network Turns 20

Cartoon Network
Turns 20

Cartoon Network is marking its 20th birthday—and it has cause to celebrate. In just two decades, it's grown to reach 367 million households in 178 countries and 26 languages, thanks to its unique programming and savvy marketing tactics.

Cause Marketing Halo Awards

Cause Marketing Halo Awards

The Cause Marketing Forum's Cause Marketing Halo Awards honor outstanding companies and causes. See how marketers are teaming up with nonprofit organizations to do well by doing good.

OMD at 10

OMD at 10

As the media agency turns 10, it takes a look at the evolving agency business and what matters to clients now, supporting its position with an exclusive Advertising Age/Erdos & Morgan survey.

Hallmark Channel at 10

Hallmark Channel at 10

Hallmark Channel celebrates 10 years of family-friendly, original programming-with much more to come in the future.

Campbell Ewald's 100th Anniversary

Campbell Ewald's 100th Anniversary

In 1911, when Frank Campbell and Henry Ewald set up shop, they had two simple goals: Do effective work and serve each client well. Now, as it celebrates 100 years of iconic work and innovation, Campbell Ewald continues to push the boundaries of what an “advertising agency” is.

National Geographic Channel Turns 10

National Geographic Channel Turns 10

As it marks its first decade, National Geographic Channel has much to celebrate: its rapid growth, its new offerings and its blockbuster programming highlighting new discoveries in everything from nature to technology. Looking to the future, NGC is excited about how much remains to be discovered.

100 Years of L'Oréal

100 Years
of L'Oréal

As it marks its 100th anniversary, L'Oréal celebrates its history of advertising and marketing, as well as its many varied diversity, sustainability and philanthropic efforts.

Cause Marketing Halo Awards

Cause Marketing Halo Awards

The Cause Marketing Forum's Cause Marketing Halo Awards honor outstanding companies and causes. See how marketers are teaming up with nonprofit organizations to do well by doing good.

Mad Men Salute

Mad Men Salute

A retro issue of Advertising Age to celebrate the DVD release of the first season of "Mad Men." The issue features reprints of actual articles published in Advertising Age during that time period, some "then and now" comparisons and more.

Publicis Centenary

Publicis Centenary

Publicis Groupe, under the guidance of Chairman-CEO Maurice Lévy, has grown to become the fourth-largest advertising holding company worldwide. Here is the "youngest" holding company's success story.

Omnicom at 20

Omnicom at 20

Twenty years ago, BBDO, Doyle Dane Bernbach and Needham Harper Worldwide shook the ad world by forming Omnicom—a move known as the "Big Bang." Today, Omnicom continues to send out seismic ripples.

Marketing Practices
Maxus: Reaching Consumers With Relationship Media

Maxus: Creating Relationships Through Data

Maxus takes real data and uses it to precisely target messages, using that intersection of technology and media to reach the right people at the right time.

Univision: One for All

Univision: One for All

Univision knows how to connect with Hispanics, the U.S.A's fastest-growing demographic, serving as the gateway for marketers wanting to reach this influential audience.

How SMG Is Making CES Relevant

How SMG Is Making CES Relevant

With technology transforming how marketers do their jobs, Starcom MediaVest Group is redefining the Consumer Electronics Show—as the Consumer Experience Show.

The PR Factor 2012

The PR Factor 2012

In today's increasingly complex world, the power of public rela­tions—in business, corporate reputation and brand marketing—is expanding as companies look for marketing partners that can successfully move them to the center of the action.

Black Consumer

The Black Consumer Opportunity

With Black buying power at an estimated $1.038 trillion annually, marketers need to know how to best reach this savvy, trend-setting group. The Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau's "In Plain Sight" offers a market-first collection of the most in-depth Black consumer research available to help marketers tap into this complex demographic.

The Power of Direct Marketing

The Power of Direct Marketing

With the triple impact of digital, data explosion and demand for accountability among major marketers, direct marketing today is finding itself in the right place with the right tools at the right time.

Integrated Customer Marketing

Integrated Customer Marketing

Merkle offers a look at how marketers can achieve the optimum customer relationship, putting customers at the heart of their company strategy.

USPS Mail Advertising Survey

USPS Mail Advertising Survey

When times are hard, postal mail works. A new study conducted by the U.S. Postal Service and Ad Age Custom Programs finds mail advertising is a marketing favorite for boosting brands-and sales.