In this day and age, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to be original and distinguishable from others. In the midst of mass production of ads keeping your brand above the others might seem like an impossible endeavor. On the other side, there are so many examples of campaigns that stuck with us years after they ran and maybe even made us regular customers of a brand. In an effort to learn...
A lot of marketers focus on producing excellent content that brings users to their website and helps them create and maintain brand awareness. However, no matter how good the content is, if there are not enough views, ultimately, it becomes useless. While social media is the first and most apparent go-to place to promote content, email is one of the best ways to promote content to registered users. A lot...
If anyone doubted that multichannel marketing is the optimal advertising strategy, 2018 surely convinced that one person. Not only did Google again make a huge change in its algorithm with mobile-first indexing, but GDPR and the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal also impacted the way data is collected and used. What if Facebook disappeared scenario almost happened and users got harder to reach and define. Digital advertising is moving at the...
As users change their behavior, digital marketing has to adapt and follow the surviving and new trends, while abandoning practices that don’t yield results. Innovation in technology and digital channels shapes the road to consumers. Keeping an eye on future predictions and riding the wave of innovation before certain practices become over-used, not only explores the best ways to communicate with users but also positions brands as fearless leaders. As...
When it comes to purchase intent targeting strategy, pay per click advertising is the way to go. However, smaller businesses will often struggle with this model, losing dollars without remarkable results. The first step in determining the effectiveness of your campaign is to enable conversion tracking (Forbes 2018). While automatic bidding saves a lot of time, manual bidding gives you control on all levels to allocate your budget towards strategies...
As a brand selling to clients, you should never ask: what can we do to make it look like we care, you should ask: what can we do to show our clients that we care? Cue in Dove's brilliant Real Beauty Sketches that parallels how we perceive ourselves and how others perceive us. An artist drew women based on their own description and based on the description of a stranger....
Alex was walking down the street, consumed by thoughts about the meeting he was going to have in the morning with an unsatisfied advertiser. As a campaign manager, he had to find a way to keep them happy and returning each quarter with more budget. The numbers didn’t tell a good story. Not a lot of users clicked on the advertiser’s ads, and the ones that did didn’t proceed to...
Publisher support teams can be a great addition to your business, but only if you pick the right people for the endeavor. Let us say you decided to stick to external help and not hire more people for your media business. Now, how do you choose the proper professionals? Let me tell you a story on how one of our clients found us, what dilemmas they had, and which questions they...
Tale of a modern superhero In order to commence a tale, one must have a protagonist. A protagonist is the one who is unavoidably responsible for each and every possible outcome of the story since the narrative revolves and builds up on his decisions and actions. This hero has great impact on other people’s lives as his deeds and thoughts are primarily observed, evaluated and (often) looked up to. On the...
Change is the only (inevitable) constant The unvarying ultimate goal of every successful media business is to secure partnerships with their existing clients while finding and attaining even more clients. More clients means more profit, but how will “the more, the merrier” slogan reflect on your workforce? Well, if you double your clients but aren’t considering to hire more staff, the most probable scenario goes like this: your employees will try to...
