Jim and Fawn talk about Canada's top 5 brands of 2014, using ICA and Ipsos Reid's latest study.

They also talk about Bell's Let's Talk campaign, and how it's affected their brand.

Check out the full ICA and Isos Reid survey here: http://www.bettermail.ca/m/1541/114877/

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This week, Jim & Fawn talk about the customer journey and personalized video.

Also this week - the priorities marketers have, based on Salesforce's State of Marketing Survey.

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Fawn and Jim compare their reading lists to learn about the latest marketing field developments at the start of 2015. Jim's reading Tim Keiningham's Wallet Allocation Rule that tells marketers about why customer satisfaction ratings aren't the metrics they're looking for. Meanwhile, Fawn's reading about the top 10 business priorities for 2015.

This week Jim Love & Fawn Annan talk about Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2014.

Why did Black Friday flop?

Why did Canadian online shoppers order from the U.S. for Cyber Monday?

Tune in for these answers, and more.

Our Shout Out this week goes to Judy Bishop, CMO of BlackSquare. BlackSquare develops and sells BlackBoxx, a professional platform for wineries to sell merchandise online, in North America, Australia, Asia and Europe.

Check out Judy's CMO to Know Profile here: http://www.itbusiness.ca/news/judy-bishop-blacksquare/52511

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This Week on CMO Digital, Jim Love and Fawn Annan talk about Contributor, Google's new program.

Contributor allows users to pay $1 to $3 monthly for a sites content, ad free.

10 online publishers are already using Contributor, including Mashable, Imgur, and The Onion.

If this program catches on, what will it mean for marketers?

How will it change online marketing?

Jim and Fawn also compare Bing Ads and Google's marketing offerings.

Why should you invest in Bing ads, when Google gets more clicks?

We'll tell you.

If your company has exciting news, shoot us a tweet @CMODigital to be featured in next week’s shout-out. https://twitter.com/cmodigital

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This week Jim Love and Fawn Annan talk about comScore's findings on Canadian online video consumption, as well as Yahoo!'s aquisition of BrightRoll, and how it could effect the platform.

ComScore's VP of sales presented at the NextMedia conference in Toronto this year.

We discuss the insights he shared, including Canada's smartphone use versus other nations, and how different demographic groups prefer to consume their online media.

You probably already know Yahoo! acquired BrightRoll - a leading programmatic ad buying platform - for $640 Million. We talk about how this change of ownership could affect the platform, and how that would affect marketers.

Shout Out to Tom Ward, VP of Marketing at Qnext.

Check out Tom's "CMO to Know" profile:

http://www.itbusiness.ca/news/a-cmo-to-know-tom-ward-qnext/52027

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Earlier this week Publicis - one of the "Big Four" agency companies - bought Sapient, a marketing technology & services company for 3.7 billion dollars.

A study by TappedMobile, App Promo, and Brandspark reveals shocking new statistics about smartphone use in holiday shopping this year.

The CBC reached 86% of Canadians for this year's World Cup.

Jim & Fawn talk about Adobe Analytics, which helped the CBC alter their marketing strategy real-time.

A special shout out to Marie Hattar, who joined Check Point Software as CMO earlier this year. Keep an eye out for her feature on itbusiness' "CMO to Know".

If your Canadian company has exciting news or a change in its executive team, shoot us a tweet at @CMODigital for a chance to be featured in next week's Shout Out!

Jim & Fawn talk about IDG's recent study on the marketing industry "GPLM'14".

IDG is a global technology media publisher & research organization.

If you'd like to hear about this study in greater detail, email us at [email protected] and we'll be glad to give you full presentation.

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ShareThis powers social media sharing across 2 Million sites. They released "Wired for Sharing - Social Moms Study", which explores Canadian mothers' social media use.Chartbeat works in social media analysis. Their quarterly study "Matters of Time" examines social media use worldwide. Shoutout to Peter O'leary, the Ottawa Senators' new CMO! Follow us @CMODigital for marketing news all week long.