Audiences rediscovered their love for TV in a big way last year, specifically its more flexible digital incarnation. At the pandemic peak, CTV consumption soared by 160% globally and almost half of the consumers admitted to heavier use.
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The checkout flow is easily the most crucial phase of any online business. But, with customer expectations for an easy purchase journey at its peak, the process is not always smooth-sailing.
The digital advertising industry is a space of constant evolution. From the emergence of smartphones to the adoption of Connected TV, to the laser-focus on data privacy, ongoing developments continue to transform online advertising.
Data technology companies and brands are scrambling to protect income streams and create workarounds for campaign targeting to ensure paid marketing success within the new constraints.
The Out of Home industry took some big blows from the pandemic, but it is recovering fast. Along the way, we have learned some interesting things over the last year.
While digital ad spend may be rising, overall marketing budgets are still contracting, albeit at a slower rate than last year, meaning marketers need to account for every penny spent and prove they are delivering real value.
Digital transformation represents a fundamental change in how an organization delivers value to its customers. It’s the latest in a line of data-driven, tech-enabled shifts that have fundamentally changed modern marketing as we know it.
B2B marketers need to think ahead in order find their direction and navigate tomorrow’s privacy-compliant cookieless world.
You will never know whether or not your business is thriving or heading in the right direction unless you measure the effectiveness of the strategies you implement. Key performance indicators or KPIs are essential in measuring your organization’s efforts in achieving its goals.
How much “privacy” is actually in Google’s privacy sandbox? I fear a further oligopolization of the internet if no countermeasures are taken.
In today’s multichannel world, marketing campaigns are more complex than ever before. To ensure their message is being seen by the right audience, marketers have to engage consumers across multiple channels and digital media.
As a channel, email continues to evolve and become smarter. But at the same time, deliverability challenges still plague senders and prevent emails from reaching subscribers’ inboxes.
The ad tech industry has spent the past year closely monitoring and digesting updates around Apple’s SKAdNetwork and Google Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox, knowing that both carry dramatic implications for how our industry will gather consumer data.
Here are 5 significant commerce media opportunities that you can try with your clients – all with multiple important benefits.
Performance marketing has always belonged to the lower funnel, to the end of the customer journey, to programmatic and search — or so the thinking goes.
As consumers emerge from lockdown – some blinking and tentative and others in a mad dash – marketers need to remember it won’t be like it was BC (Before Covid).
If the ad industry wants to resolve its privacy and data-tracking issues, it should take a cue from retail.
With economic conditions and key indicators on the rise, B2B marketers are taking stock of their business to take advantage of what should be a very strong 2021.
Brands are increasingly turning to programmatic delivery to bolster their efficiency, but to survive the death of the cookie they’ll need a better grasp of contextual targeting.
By now, most of us have begun reckoning with the coming reality. Cookies are indeed going away, identifying customers is undoubtedly getting harder, and companies like Google and Apple are not coming to save us.
Marketers and publishers are burning the midnight oil to figure out how to keep their revenue from pancaking as we move into the post-cookie/IDFA reality, especially after Google’s recent unsurprising “bombshell.”
Consumer data is the latest battleground for companies to win dominance over their competition. They are clamoring to build honeypots of data that can be leveraged for their own benefit and purposes.
Paradigm shifts are hard. When you’re used to doing something a certain way, realizing that you can do it in a completely different way (and get similar results) is really hard to grasp.
The events of last year forced many retail companies to reevaluate their messaging, planned social content, and even the diversity of their boardrooms.
Modern advertising is a data-driven practice. So as new regulations and browser policies take hold, many fear a coming data crunch.
Marketers have become obsessed with zero-party data — and rightfully so, as it’s the “holy grail” of consumer information. Savvy marketers use zero-party data to improve the personalization of their brand communications and, ultimately, to deepen their relationships with customers — a high priority these days.
Google’s recent announcement that it won’t support user-level identifiers in its ecosystem, is just the latest step in its plans to change how consumers are tracked online.
In a blog post, a Google leader stated that, once cookies are phased out, “we will not build alternate identifiers to track individuals as they browse across the web, nor will we use them in our products.”
In theory, high shopping cart abandonment rates should reveal to eCommerce retailers that something is not working. However, online shopping carts are a feature that modern customers are utilizing quite differently than originally intended.
In a move that slaps several large DSPs and data management companies in the face, Google is making it clear that on their properties, people can only be targeted in aggregate.
It’s not news to anyone in advertising that user-generated content (UGC) can be harnessed to develop effective ad creative.
The looming end of the third-party cookie has pitched the marketing industry into crisis mode. Advertisers and agencies are well aware that the data they collect and the third-party audiences they rely on will change in the near future.
The pandemic has proved a major catalyst for boosting data capability, but one misconception is still holding back progress: the belief that data maturity follows a linear path.
Customers are the lifeblood of every business. That is why it is important to put a modern strategy in place to keep them happy. In this modern-day and age, many businesses consider automating their processes and one of the aspects that they are focusing on is customer communication.
While “data-driven insights” has been a buzz term for years, it received heightened focus in 2020 amidst the pandemic and as companies began to measure customer sentiment more frequently.
While the pandemic undoubtedly did a great deal of damage, many categories are starting to see an uptick in digital ad spend and user acquisition and cost per click rates are starting to slowly rise again.
It’s clear that brands need to work on authenticity, but that can be easier said than done when you’re promoting a business on social media. The bar is high, and distrust is the default setting for most media users.
This announcement further cements Google’s position to lead with a transparent and privacy-first approach to advertising within its Chrome ecosystem and products. It also reshapes the competitive landscape for data companies moving forward.
When considering the ways marketplaces can generate revenue, there are three basic options available to operators: subscription fees for membership (for buyers or sellers, or both), transaction fees (charged to buyers or sellers, or both), or advertising/media fees.
In marketing, the more precisely you can define your audience, the more accurately you can predict whether that audience contains your best prospects – and the more quickly you can use that knowledge to find and convert more customers. And one key tool that helps you do that is segmentation.
To provide a good customer experience across multiple channels, banks and credit unions will need to think more about bringing channels together, and a good first step is through marketing automation.
Programmatic advertising is a lot like Formula 1 auto racing: The technology is powerful, but in order to actually win races, it needs to be driven by seasoned experts.
Since Google announced the phase-out of the third-party tracking cookie last year, the digital ad industry has been scrambling to prepare for a change in how business is done.
Despite relations between advertisers and publishers having their moments, both parties go above and beyond in their troubleshooting techniques to make them work.
It’s no secret that third-party cookies are going away. We read headlines daily about the approaching cookie-apocalypse.
2021 on paper is daunting. But could 2021 be the year of rebirth? Q1 will bring Apple’s diminishment of IDFA. We’re also wrestling with the best way to soften the impact of Google’s 2022 third-party cookie deprecation on Chrome.
Marketing is an area of your business where you should never be satisfied with current results. There are virtually always new angles, methods, and trends you can implement to get the most out of your advertising spend.
Browsers are blocking third-party cookies in the name of privacy, but this alone won’t protect personal data within the digital advertising ecosystem. There is a far better and simpler solution for achieving this goal, in the form of contextual targeting.
Retailers are ready to make the most of limited in-store options and online shopping this year. And while the pandemic has undoubtedly accelerated the dramatic transformation of the consumer retail market, the trends that have been driving this transformation have actually been around for years.
Data: something digital marketers cling to and that’s universally relied on to make decisions. A silver lining of 2020 is that access to data has allowed marketers to make quick and informed decisions with each twist and turn.
The Super Bowl can be a huge performance-driver, which begs the question why would anyone invest the big marketing spend if it’s not going to go all the way to the end zone?
To effectively validate and enhance ROI, marketers must assess real actions rather than relying purely on basic metrics, such as click-through rates (CTRs). Achieving this will mean ensuring analysis produces robust and reliable insight by standardization, holistic and adding agility to their measurement approach.
Strong relationships are built on trust. That’s true between your friends, it’s true between your neighbors, and it’s true in your businesses. It’s also true when we talk about the relationship between buyer and seller, who often come together as strangers.
It’s no surprise that last year we saw a spike in pandemic-related products, such as hand sanitizer and face masks, with the majority of top 10 product searches being related to these protective items and panic buying peaking in July of 2020.
The publishing industry is undergoing yet another period of dramatic upheaval as new policy shifts among the tech giants further limit the ability of publishers to target ads using third-party data or identifiers.
The B2B customer journey is a long and complex one. Often a conversion is preceded by emails, catalog views, searches and site visits, before the first phone call or meeting.
Customer relationship management systems (CRMs) are great for collecting and organizing data. But, what are we doing with all this data?
2021 is a new landscape for sales and marketing, and each team has a lot to learn from the other.
Google and Facebook may have prioritized advertising tools for small businesses, but there’s no reason why other publishers can’t prove their worth to this vast set of buyers.
First, it was the cookie. Then the IDFA. Both Google and Apple are, in their typically outsized manner, accelerating industry trends.
The internet has always represented an amalgamation of anonymous activity and authenticated users, with the balance of power between these two diametric views of online behavior swinging dramatically throughout the digital age.
What if you could increase the accuracy of your performance data, reduce wasted cost and reinvest the savings in brand-building initiatives?
As enterprise-scale consumer brands face the disruptions caused by COVID-19, their needs eclipse and transcend the marketing use case for CDP technology.
25% of CMOs will adopt zero-party data strategies in 2021. Why? Because they have to.
Companies across industries might be prone to disruption in the coming year, but the wheels will keep turning.
The era of the standalone data management platform (DMP)—along with tech point solutions in general—is rapidly coming to an end. For a lot of brands that are hugely invested in their current tech stacks, this represents an unpleasant reality.
As Americans firm and flip (and again firm) up their holiday plans, both in terms of activities at home and potential travel over holiday vacations, they’re doing so based on their personal perceptions of the virus and the threat it poses to their families and communities right now.
Here’s one of my cardinal rules for media planning: the opportunity of a lifetime is only there during the lifetime of the opportunity. When it comes to maximizing the reach and efficiency of a media plan, those opportunities fly by at light speed.
Amid rising global privacy restrictions, accessing the data needed to understand consumer behaviour and serve content that breaks through has become increasingly tough; especially with third-party cookies facing stricter limitations.
