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Mirror, Mirror: Why Beauty Brands Are #1 Online

When we launched a website for Boomers in 2009, a surprising number of brands and agency people used to ask, “Are Boomers really using the Internet?” While the undeniable online activity of real people over 45 have silenced those concerns, a lot of other questions remain about how this online activity is related to their actual behavior as consumers.

In a recent survey on our site, more than 700 respondents (almost all women aged 45-65) told us they are using the Internet just like younger consumers to evaluate all kinds of purchases. But beauty brands are doing a better job than anyone else at engaging them with online content and activity.

Why beauty brands do better online -  read my complete post on MediaPost.


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Sharing the Love of Brands with Your Pet!

Pet owners are passionate about their furry little friends and they spend over $50 billion annually to prove it.  They pull out all the stops when it comes to pampering them and incorporating them into their family life.

Many brand owners and retailers are capitalizing on consumers’ deep love for their pets by offering their favorite “human” brands in pet products via licensing partnerships.  Here are just a few of our favorites: Read more


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Grocery Private Label: New Trends in Co-Branding and Differentiation

Private label brands are ubiquitous across supermarket, mass and club and dollar channels now, but lower prices aren’t cutting it any more in delivering a competitive advantage to retailers.  As several members of IMC’s team note in Progressive Grocer’s recent article, Cobranding and Licensing: Differentiatorsmore sophisticated partnerships, such as co-branding through licensing, are needed to differentiate private label brands, not just against national brands, but also against other retailers’ private label offerings.

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