AdAge: Ideas to Reach More Site Visitors
SEO is dead is common wisdom now… even your grandma probably knows that. So what’s alive then? Well, hopefully, your grandma. But besides that, AdAge today looks at other things to try than spending...
SEO is dead is common wisdom now… even your grandma probably knows that. So what’s alive then? Well, hopefully, your grandma. But besides that, AdAge today looks at other things to try than spending...
It’s official – and long overdue… Juicero is shutting its doors and accepting the inevitable hand of fate. We covered them earlier on this blog when we discussed their Facebook ad campaign. Goes to...
Anything crowdfunded online, i.e. bearing a “Preorder” buy button, should make you proceed with extreme caution – although some great products have indeed been started that way, there are now dozens of stories of products that...
Something interesting in the search-marketing world in today’s news: https://seekingalpha.com/news/3291623-google-removes-search-ads-petmeds-tramadol-bargain-hunters-move-stock-3-percent Fuller report in the WSJ here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/petmed-asks-google-to-remove-tramadol-ads-from-search-results-1503603884 A subscription is required for access to the WSJ article but the gist of the matter is that some...
We’d be interested in hearing from anyone who got conversion tracking as offered in Yahoo!’s self-serve Gemini platform to actually work. Our tests indicate it might have some issues. To be clear, we’ve tried...
We never cease to be amazed by how marketing departments in the Fortune 500 burn through their money. You know, online there is such a thing as conversion tracking using tools like Addue which...
The social networks need a credible mechanism to verify user numbers. Judging from reported growth in user numbers, one could conclude that Facebook is beating Twitter in the battle of social networks. Problem is, it’s hard to...
Google parent Alphabet Inc. said its advertising business continued to hum, but its fastest-growing segments — mobile and YouTube advertising — are less lucrative than desktop ads. Alphabet said clicks on its ads surged...
After forcing Facebook users to switch to a separate Messenger app to continue chatting, the social network is about to start pushing adverts on those using the function. Facebook said on Tuesday that it was testing...
It has been almost three years, but Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) has finally released Version 12 of the Adwords Editor. Number 12 will, according to the company, simplify the management of your campaigns with new rules...
Google just announced that they are going to stop contextually targeting consumers based on the content of their emails within Gmail. Users of G Suite have already experienced this change and all other consumer...
It started as an online bookseller and many thought it would never go beyond that. After all, being able to buy almost any book ever published, online, is already quite a feat. But Amazon’s...
Who said you can’t get creative with even the most mundane of products? In the news today, a successful marketing campaign by Nutella hazelnut spread in Italy which employed an algorithm controlling the label...
Well, this piece seems to think that the Verizon and AOL combination might someday be a viable competitor to Facebook and Google which between them currently dominate online advertising: http://www.businessinsider.com/verizon-aol-ad-tech-potential-2017-6 Of course if it...
We came across an interesting take on Pinterest today from Inc Magazine. They’re in the news lately after having raised $150m at an eye-popping $12B valuation but there are some concerns on the horizon,...
Well, as rather big Facebook ad spenders, we’re definitely seeing this ourselves… prices seem to have risen dramatically across the board with no end in sight. The culprit seems to be big brands ready...
Interesting article out today from NN Group: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/most-hated-advertising-techniques/ “Summary: Modal ads, ads that reorganize content, and autoplaying video ads were among the most disliked. Ads that are annoying on desktop become intolerable on mobile.”...
Not exactly sure how they’re coming up with these numbers but here are some estimates on the Instagram earning powers of various celebrities: http://www.harpersbazaar.co.uk/culture/culture-news/news/a40836/beyonce-instagram-social-media-value/ “A single post from Beyoncé brings in a staggering $1...
It’s still relatively early in Amazon’s advertising evolution. The company has quietly come on in recent years as a digital advertising contender, building out ad tech for publishers while helping marketers target their customers...
Amazon doesn’t reveal much about its advertising business. It buries its advertising sales in its Other category, under which it also reports incomes from co-branded credit card agreements. In any case, only certain advertising...