Thoughts on celebrating and promoting women in business. By Julie McIlroy, Partner M&K Media I am honored to be the co-owner along with Julie King of our female led media buying company M&K Media in Toronto, Canada. We just recently celebrated our twentieth anniversary which is a
Read more →By Jill McDonald – Associate Partner M&K Media The main thing we have learned over the past 21 months is the importance of nimbleness and agility. Our world will continue to be in flux as we wrestle with the realities of the pandemic and we will
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Last week, Canada’s largest circulation newspaper, The Toronto Star, was sold off, after 128 years of publishing, to private interests. The price tag was a stunningly low $52MM. It’s a sign of the times: advertising revenue for the newspaper category has been slipping precipitously from 21% share
Read more →There’s no getting around it—I miss sports. This isn’t to say that they should come back immediately or without fully considering the ramifications, just that the absence of major sports further decreases feelings of normalcy during a time of heightened anxiety. There’s something to be said for
Read more →As Canadians adapt to spending more time at home, consumers’ lives and media habits continue to change. Radio Connects recently issued a report* showing how these changes have affected radio. Some of their key findings were: Radio has retained 88% of its reach compared to
Read more →What we see today will drive our evolution into the new normal. Is this the future unfolding before our eyes? In a recent IPSOS webinar, several trends were identified that may be with us for some time. The primary of these was the “triumph of science”, noting
Read more →Canadian media habits are changing as the “new normal” starts to set in. But, Canadians aren’t feeling settled yet…or anywhere close After the initial panic, some things have settled and media habits have changed. However, Canadian’s are still feeling uncertain about what the immediate as well as
Read more →It is no surprise that, in times of crisis and social upheaval, digital social behaviour will change as well. We seek hope and reassurance from others, we seek information and we seek better ways to cope with this great disruption in our lives. Cluep Inc., reports for
Read more →As traditional sports remain on pause, esports may move towards the Mainstream. We are now a few weeks into social distancing from Covid-19, and media habits have already shown rapid changes. There has been a specifically large change in sports media, where networks are dealing with all
Read more →Media habits are changing rapidly as Canadians begin to adapt to our “new normal” and M&K Media has been closely monitoring the CoVid-19 crisis to begin to understand how the “new normal” will effect businesses and the evolving media landscape. Below are 6 key changes to media
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