Thursday Thoughts On Advertising 113
MCKAY ADVERTISING + ACTIVATION
Every Thursday we look at the trends/updates/interesting articles found in the Marketing + Advertising + Tech industry. Each submission is presented by a different MA+A digital advertising agency employee and covers various topics applicable to our business. The following are professional opinions, summaries or both.
This week we’ll look at: How The Super Bowl Represents A Return To Normalcy, TikTok e-Commerce Is Coming For Hyper Engaged Gen-Z, WTF Is A Data Clean Room, & Google Ads to Phase Out Modified Broad Match.

A RETURN TO NORMALCY

Bob McKay
President + Founder
How The Super Bowl Represents A Return To Normalcy see article here
Even with that blink of normalcy this past Sunday, there’s a sobering reality that the uncertainty of 2020 is extending into 2021. “The Super Bowl was trying to put a gloss on a world that’s really messy right now,” said Ann Billock, partner at Arc Advisors.
PAID SOCIAL ADVERTISING

Alex Andrews
Executive Director of Social Advertising
TikTok e-Commerce Is Coming For Hyper Engaged Gen Z see the article here
MARTECH: DATA CLEAN ROOMS

Christian Bayne
Director of Content Strategy + Market Research
WTF Is A Data Clean Room? See the article here.
In a recent webinar hosted by Merkle speaking of the Current State of Customer Engagement 2020, the term ‘Data Clean Room’ was thrown around many times. Marketers, are you aware of or making use of this?
PPC STRATEGY

Matthew Giardino
Director of Performance Marketing + Analytics
Breaking: Google Ads to Phase Out Modified Broad Match See the article here.
We hope you enjoyed these snippets of information that we chose to share. Look out for the upcoming #ThursdayThoughts post. (Yes, it’ll be on Thursday). See our previous post here.