Advertising

TORONTO, ON–Moneris has enhanced its Offlinx marketing analytics tool with the introduction of the Campaign-Specific Analysis (CSA) feature.  Marketers taking advantage of Offlinx’s powerful attribution methods will now have a new tool to help identify which online campaigns were most effective, where they were most effective and how many sales …

BRAMPTON, ON—Loblaw Inc. has acquired the technology and the related team from Eyereturn Marketing Inc., a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation. The transaction complements and strengthens Loblaw Media, the company’s full-service digital marketing agency launched in 2019. With this new technology and expertise, Loblaw Media can better connect brands and consumers …

TORONTO, ON–Republix, a new marketing technology company that unites top-tier agencies to clients, and clients to predictable results, has officially launched its brand across North America. Created to unite a fragmented service-oriented industry that is rapidly evolving with the post-COVID-19 digital world, Republix connects businesses with the perfect combination of …

TORONTO, ON–TikTok has launched its first-ever ad campaign in Canada, “It Starts on TikTok,” which celebrates diversity, trends, stories, conversations and more that are born and celebrated on TikTok and explode in popularity, delivering cultural and social impact on and off-platform. This multi-channel campaigns span social, digital media, out-of-home, and linear TV …

First-to-Market Advertising Solution Leverages Artificial Intelligence to Predict Creative Elements and Classify Audiences to Help Drive Optimum Engagement for Clients IBM announced the launch of Advertising Accelerator with Watson, a first-to-market offering that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the optimal combination of creative elements to help drive high engagement …

The results of the Love the Way campaign show that investing locally can pay off MONTRÉAL, QC–The Canadian media scene may be reaching a turning point, but VIA Rail Canada (VIA Rail) and media agency Touché! have demonstrated that investing in local media can still yield excellent results, all while …

TORONTO, ON–The entertainment world has the EGOT, the ultimate four-part awards show accomplishment of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. Well, now the Canadian ad industry has the ELOC: Effie, Lion, One Show, and Clio trophy. Any agency winning all four in one year will get a special commemorative trophy …

Rate card discount practice works against agencies TORONTO, ON –The billable rate card continues to dominate Canadian advertising, with variable fees based on time billed in use at 79.4% of agencies, according to the new Agency Progressive Pricing Report from the Institute of Communication Agencies (ICA). Read the Report Agencies …

Powered by Small Business Insights, leading online lender seeks to evolve financing for small businesses MONTRÉAL–OnDeck Canada, a leader in online lending to small businesses (SMBs) in Canada, today announced the launch of a groundbreaking national marketing campaign powered by coast-to-coast SMB research, to highlight the reality of business owners’ …

Digital landscape changing the rules GATINEAU, QC–Elections Canada is issuing guidance regarding political ads during pre-election and election periods. The goal of this new document is to help online platforms and advertisers comply with transparency requirements in accordance with recent changes to the Canada Elections Act (the Act) that will …