When I first started working in digital marketing, part of my training process was learning about best practices, campaign structure, and all kinds of additional tools provided by publishers and third party vendors to drive success for brands. As discussed in my previous posts, it’s important to know your brand and your customers, and to […]
Audience targeting is much like cooking—with the right ingredients, a few adjustments, and seasoning to taste, you can create something hearty and enticing. Like any good online recipe, we’ll start broad and dive into the details, and cover the options you have for building an excellent mixture of audience-enabled advertising campaigns. And, while you can […]
Omnichannel marketing causes many brands to look at their programs as a set of disparate disciplines—SEM, SEO, content marketing, social marketing, email marketing, etc. And, each discipline often has its own department, budget, and strategy, even though customers only see a single brand. Advertisers are increasingly coming to understand that a good way to tackle […]
The “big three” publishers—Google, Facebook, and Amazon—operate as walled gardens by design. Sadly, they have zero incentive to share data across channels. This siloed approach is totally at odds with your goals as an advertiser—you need a single view of performance to run effective cross-channel ad campaigns. There’s an answer—our next-generation advertising solution, MarinOne, unifies […]
This is a guest post from Ashley Aptt, Account Director at 3Q Digital. A marketer’s data is as good as gold. Certainly, there are number of ways to collect data via internal and external sources. The most common data sources are first party and third party—first party data is essentially your data. It’s the information […]
Lookalike audiences are the Facebook feature when it comes to audience targeting. If you’re looking to scale your campaigns and more, it’s a must-consider option. The Basics: What Is It and How Does It Work? You can use lookalike targeting to find similar users to your core audience based on interests, click behavior, and conversion […]
Although it’s a great feeling when social ad campaigns are on auto-pilot, functioning automatically, and blasting out to all the audiences we’ve carefully selected, it could happen—we start seeing stunted reach, fewer clicks, and sluggish conversion rates. At these moments, it’s time to roll up our sleeves and investigate the most common culprits for dips […]
In the previous article in our Marketing on Facebook series, we looked at how to build a robust A/B scope of test framework to help uncover optimal relevance and ROAS. In our third and final post, we analyze the results of our test and formulate an action plan. (Be sure to refer back to the […]
Like all algorithms, Facebook’s collects a certain amount of data and analyzes it before stabilizing performance and delivering the best results. So, while your ad sets are in this “learning phase,” you may see fluctuations in performance, which might make it tempting to stop your ads before they’ve had a chance to work most effectively. […]
If your Facebook ads aren’t quite reaching all the people you’re looking to influence, there are several things you can analyze to solve the problem. Here are a few tactics to ensure your ads are delivering the way you want them to. Is your bid too low? In order to run competitive campaigns in an […]
TV ad spending has peaked, will be less than 25% of total pie by 2022 — forecast mklnd.com/2Ko2ZjI via @Marketingland pic.twitter.com/JLzg9oXE5W
Google’s average position sunset: Are you set up for the transition? via @sewatch ow.ly/3uGr50x9kyo pic.twitter.com/uMdG8oW8xC
What are the top 10 PPC trends that marketers should be aware of in 2020? If you ask our SVP of Marketing, Wes MacLaggan, it's identifying and appealing to your target audience across all channels and platforms. Read more from @MrDannyGoodwin in @sejournal bit.ly/2O490TO pic.twitter.com/lqx3r6Gz2k
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