As you are undoubtedly aware, ad servers used to deliver online display campaigns come with many options and possibilities. One of the options is the pacing of the campaign. You can either set it to deliver evenly, or as fast as possible.
Read MoreAny and all significant investment you make, be it personal of business related, merits that you pay attention to its performance to ensure proper working conditions and to highlight any learning that could enable you to perform better at the same or lesser cost.
Read MoreOnce your permanent direct response campaigns are set to capture all types of “easy sales,” you now need to turn your attention to the future. It is one thing to capture today’s business, but you also very importantly need to establish your brand in people’s mind so that you are present in people’s mindset for their future demand.
Read MoreWith all the new possibilities constantly emerging in digital (online, mobile, gaming…) marketing and advertising, it’s easy for marketers to get a little lost, distracted and even focus on what’s really important, what should come first, and next and so on…
This is my effort to weed through everything and to put it in an order which I believe makes sense and is logical. Should you have additions or other ideas, please do not hesitate to share them with me in the comment box below. This may be the first edition of my “Digital Marketing Priorities” on this blog, but I’ve published two prior versions (additionally to this one) on my French blog (https://titaninteractif.com) over the past couple years.
Real Time Bidding is all the rage around the world and Canada is no different. eMarketer recently published a report on the explosive growth or RTB around the world quoting new data from Forrester, IDC and Accordant Media. While some agencies have been using RTB to some extent in the last year or two, most are still grasping at the very concept of what this is, how it works and what it can really do for them. At the same time, publishers are worried this is just another way to commoditize their inventory, further driving down CPMs. Ad networks however are quick to catch on to the potential this represents to them and they are jumping in with both feet.
Read MoreThe rest of the session compared ad spend with total marketing spend which in a study I’d seen 5 years ago in Quebec identified advertising as 50% of total marketing spend. Borrell suggests that where local specifically is concerned, across the country, non-ad marketing spending is 2.5x bigger than total local ad spend. The bulk (85%) of those dollars is being spent in promotions. Online promotions represent only 5% and ad production accounts for 9% of total marketing spend.
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Increasing advertising budgets in digital platforms don’t come out of thin air. While it’s true advertisers spend a little more overall each year, the bulk of the growth in digital platforms comes directly from another media’s prior years’ budgets.
Read MoreI thought I’d come out and say it clearly. Some clicks actually matter, some really mean something – they are not all from the same window shoppers who act on impulse alone.
Read MoreSimilar in methodology to retargeting, behavioral targeting and intent-to-buy targeting, past purchase targeting seeks to enable displaying an ad to a user that had recently (usually in the last 7 days but that would depend on the type of purchase) made a particular purchase. This type of targeting is not good for all campaigns or even all brands. However there are numerous cases where a follow up sale is more than likely.
Read MoreEvery year I publish a round up of the various blog posts that crop up on the web predicting what next year will be like – I stick to interactive marketing and relevant topics as this would never end.
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