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You’re only reaching a fraction of U.S. Hispanic voters, the fastest-growing racial and ethnic group in the U.S. electorate. Political advertisers have been wasting their budgets on ineffective, inaccurate audience targeting and missing out on millions of votes because they don't know how to reach Hispanic voters. But how can you reach Hispanic voters efficiently and effectively when they are consistently underrepresented or misrepresented in traditional media planning and measurement tools? There’s a chasm between what you know about Hispanic voters and what you need to know to reach them. It’s time to close that gap.

Healthcare advertisers, issue advocates, and political teams are all on the same precipice: Get your message to the people who need to hear it now, or the future of the healthcare industry - and your role in it - tilt in someone else’s favor. Elections and open enrollment periods are approaching. You need to reach the right people, right away. The microtargeting experts and public affairs specialists at Tunnl created nine prebuilt audiences to help you immediately reach the right people on the top issues in healthcare, including: Medicaid expansion Changes to the Medicare eligibility age Drug cost regulation

Roughly one-third of advertisers had their budgets cut in 2023, but the cost of ad inventory is up, and return on ad spend is less dependable amid a waffling economy, ad fatigue, and media fragmentation. Are you feeling the pinch yet? You’re under pressure to do more with less, the age-old struggle of every marketing department, but the odds are against you more than they’ve ever been. You need to build connections with consumers faster using more personalized ads, even though reaching them is more difficult and more expensive than it once was. There’s one way to accomplish this next-to-impossible task: audience intelligence.

Marketing departments and C-suites alike have been buzzing about artificial intelligence for months. What it means for content teams, when and how to invest in it appropriately, and if regulation is on the way have been among the top questions circulating through LinkedIn, closed-door meetings, and as break-room banter. But the real question is, what’s in it for you as a data-driven advertiser? AI is being lauded as the secret to success for lean teams with tight budgets and few resources, and AI-powered tools have been favorites for advertisers everywhere for many years already. Several of the tactics you employ in your campaigns lean on AI and machine learning to get you the results you depend on, but there’s certainly more potential for you to tap into if you want to maximize the value of AI innovations in your campaigns.

Agencies have a lot of people to please. When clients come to you, it’s because they want higher returns on their ad spend and more qualified leads in their pipeline. But media fragmentation is making it harder than ever to reach the right people, and even when you can, more than one-third of internet users employ ad blockers to thwart your efforts. Meanwhile, media buying industry profits are expected to decrease despite improved revenue, your budget is shrinking, and expectations are through the roof. Strategic audience targeting is your ticket to overcoming the odds, but how can you guarantee best-in-class results to every client that comes through your agency? If you have clients counting on you, you need accurate and easily accessible audience data that can be applied seamlessly to the different campaigns you’re pitching and planning. And you need tools for analysis, planning, and measurement. But you don’t need a more complicated tech stack. Seem like a lot to ask for? Tunnl doesn’t think so.

Short-term rental (STR) legislation throughout the country may change the way Americans travel in the very near future. As travelers continue to enjoy the variety of accommodations on Airbnb and Vrbo, local and state lawmakers are struggling to keep residents happy, housing affordable, and tourism successful. The motivations and needs of businesses, homebuyers and renters, hotel unions, hosts, travelers, and policymakers are all in conflict, inspiring a spike in issue-based campaigns for or against the regulation of short-term rentals. How do you ensure yours is the one that gets seen by the right people?