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If your Google Ads account has been suspended for “circumventing systems”, it means that Google has identified behavior that violates their policies and guidelines. Here are some steps you can take to address the...
If you’re running your ecommerce store on Shopify, you might be wondering how to set up external affiliate marketing platforms such as ReferDigital to work with your Shopify store. This guide is for you....
Affiliate marketing is a cost-effective way for merchants to promote their websites by paying only for the sales or leads generated by affiliates (partners who promote the merchant’s products or services). The merchant creates...
If you’re building a new SaaS product, these are the best and worst of times. It has never been easier than ever to build a new product. The tools ecosystem is now so vast and well...
“The ROI analysis shows negative ROIs at the margin for more than 80% of brands, implying over-investment in advertising by most firms. Further, the overall ROI of the observed advertising schedule is only positive...
Posted on Reddit today in r/smallbusiness: “Killed off my last Facebook ads today, going back to 100% organic marketing, very scared but relieved”
Fraudsters mimicked popular apps, siphoned off revenue from unsuspecting advertisers, cybersecurity firm says
Despite an initial falloff due to the Covid pandemic, digital advertising spending grew 12.2% year over year in 2020, according to a new report commissioned by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and conducted by PwC.
Paying for impressions, views, and any other such metrics continues to be a sucker’s game… paying for performance in online marketing remains by far the best way to go. More marketers are learning that...
Safari browsers on iOS are ignoring referrer-policy HTTP headers, even when those headers are requesting a more private no-referrer policy than the origin one which Safari now implements by default under ITP.
“In China, a drab gray Mao suit was once the required attire for men and women. No longer. The county is poised to become the largest luxury apparel market worldwide by 2025. With a...
“Most of us don’t understand how data is collected, how these mechanisms work and most importantly where and how they don’t work.”
The malicious applications were showing ads but making them appear as coming from other, legitimate apps.
Amazon banned incentivized reviews in 2016, but it’s still a rampant problem on the platform. On September 4th, a Financial Times investigation revealed nine of the top 10 reviewers in the UK were engaged in suspicious activity,...
A message sent out by one merchant to all its affiliates on a major network today (names redacted)… quite a few programs across several networks have been sending things like these out as a...
Almost a third of the world’s biggest brands will suspend spending on social media or are likely to do so, according to a survey of top advertisers that reveals the scale of the revolt...
Overall spending predicted to fall almost 12% but pain will be unevenly spread across industry.
A new study by ISBA has found that half the money advertisers invest in programmatic advertising never reaches online publishers, with 15% of the money unattributable to any players in the supply chain.
Amazon rolled out steep rate cuts to its affiliate program that pays online publishers and social media influencers a cut of sales on products they recommend. The changes mean less income for those who...
How venture capital became the most dangerous thing to happen to now-troubled DTCs like Outdoor Voices, Harry’s, and Casper
