How to Track Email Marketing Performance
It’s a fun time to be a marketer. We have more avenues than ever to reach out to our audiences, and our creativity is bolstered by data and objective decisions, not just a gut feeling. Email marketing is one such channel where metrics allow for extensive testing and measurement. And while there are several data […]
The Display Advertising
Display advertising is one of the web’s oldest marketing strategies and is sometimes looked at with scepticism by those in the community who have had less than positive returns from the technique. Despite the vocal minority, it is nevertheless an advertising format that continues to thrive. Take Europe, for example. Total spend in the sector […]
Targeted Pay-Per-Click Marketing: How to Reach Online Buyers in the Aisle
The appeal of internet shopping is that it allows us to peruse the websites of numerous retailers offering comparable goods, all while lounging on a couch and binge-watching The Bachelorette’s most recent episode. Err, I mean Mad Men.This leads to the issue that, as consumers, we have shorter attention spans and become impatient when we […]
In the Digital Age, Direct Mail’s Power
Things aren’t always sunshine and rainbows for digital marketers. The digital landscape has significant inherent issues that are not being discussed.A long time ago, days, weeks, or even months of meticulous investigation and creative work culminated in commercials. For better or ill, clever advertisements from McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Kodak, and even Marlboro cigarettes ingrained many legendary […]
AVAILABILITY DEFICIENCY & NON-TRANSPARENCY RISKS
A recent essay on the dangers of averages and a lack of openness in our industry was published by AdExchanger. The article exposes the shortcomings of campaign outcomes wherein individual tactics perform outside of the desired range of performance, but the average KPI of all strategies falls within target. Additionally, the paper provides media planners […]
THE DREAM OF A WELL-CURATED RTB WORLD
Openness. Visibility. Confirmation. The most popular words in the ad tech industry all center on one idea: a lack of trust. When real-time ad exchanges first started, marketers were so transformed by the remarkable reach, scale, and targeting capabilities of RTB platforms that they became less concerned about fuzzy metrics. But once the honeymoon period […]