In Q4 2018, paid search continued its upward trend, growing 10% YoY. As inventory gets more expensive, however, more spend doesn’t necessarily mean more clicks—there was a modest 10% increase year-over-year in Retail, less than the search spend for the vertical. Instagram Stories and Dynamic Product Ads ruled, however—Instagram received 18% of total Facebook spend, […]
As we jump headlong into 2019, the digital advertising industry continues its exciting journey through new ad formats, breaking news, and shifting ad budgets. To dive deep into the state of the industry and anticipate what the New Year will bring, we dove into industry data and the Marin Advertising Index—which represents billions of dollars […]
Okay, social advertisers—have you laid out your goals for 2019? To help you with strategic planning, we put together a New Year’s resolutions list especially for you. I will fine-tune my attribution to better understand my biddable performance. Most advertisers still rely on last-click attribution when evaluating their biddable channel performance. This attribution model has […]
The holidays are here—meaning a busy time for brands. To help you usher in the next round of shopping sprees, we’ve made a list (and checked it twice) of recommendations to boost campaign performance of your social holiday ads. Be Careful Not to Limit Ad Delivery ‘Tis the season for free shipping—and refining your ad […]
The holiday season is upon us and it’s always fun to analyze the aggregate performance of our advertisers on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Each year when we “read the tea leaves”, some existing trends are reinforced while a new pattern jumps out at us. 2018 is no exception. More Clicks, Higher Spend As expected, […]
Instagram Stories are a huge success for Facebook. The format rolled out in August 2016 to the general Instagram public, and then to advertisers in March 2017. Now, Instagram can boast of 400 million people using Stories every day. This is more than double the 191 million Snapchat users, the platform where stories were first […]
If you’ve been in online marketing for a while, you know the importance of having good creative for social advertising. These days, social media advertising has become so advanced, that in order to get ahead of the competition, manual or automated bid optimization aren’t enough anymore. In fact, 55% of social media advertising optimization now […]
The Marin Marketing team stays busy not only striving to deliver compelling, educational, and relevant content—we also spend time following the most interesting industry news. In this series, we list the stories that are grabbing our team’s attention. Google and Facebook want half The “duopoly” are marching toward making up half of the U.S. ad […]
Although Instagram Stories is the fastest-growing Facebook product, and more and more consumers are shifting to the stories format, most businesses are still lagging behind. If you haven’t adopted the Stories ad format on Instagram yet, now’s a perfect time. This ad format is an easy, great way to stay ahead of the competition. In […]
The Marin Marketing team stays busy not only striving to deliver compelling, educational, and relevant content—we also spend time following the most interesting industry news. In this weekly series, we list the stories that are grabbing our team’s attention. Instagram expands shopping features To make it easier for people to buy products they see on […]
Our Q4 2018 Digital #Advertising Benchmark Report featured in @sejournal reveals key findings in paid #search & social, incl. global search spend grew 10% YoY goo.gl/oQ5BtE via @mattgsouthern
Speaking at The Drum’s Big Bang conference, in partnership with Marin Software, Ian Carrington, managing director of Search Advertising at Google for EMEA talked about how the search giant has been at the forefront of innovation in technology. ow.ly/WNK630nIuTe
Shopping Ads are only heating up---our latest research found that monthly eCommerce spend increased 5x in 2018. @GinnyMarvin writes in her latest @sengineland piece that it's critical for advertisers to have an optimized product feed to remain competitive. selnd.com/2N2FZXK
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