Our social marketing clients use Marin’s Message Booster to automatically promote organic posts with high engagement metrics as paid advertisements. The reality is that organic content on social media is still very important, with its unique ability to help brands create a community of loyal followers and customers. Despite their reach shrinking on social, organic […]
Before you begin to investigate tactics for implementing an effective cross-channel advertising strategy, it’s important to take a broad view of your goals, data, and business. In this article, we look at the necessary elements you should have in place before getting tactical with your cross-channel ad campaigns. Understand Your Goals What are your digital […]
We called time on The Big Bang 2019 recently in London’s Science Museum, but plenty of good memories abound from the conference. The agenda included several big themes swirling around the digital advertising world, including artificial intelligence, feed management, big data, and the future of search. Our opening session was a lively slam down debate […]
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 […]
Instagram recently announced its new checkout feature, making it easier and more convenient to buy from some of your favorite brands. How exactly does it work and what does it mean for retail advertisers? #Instagram #shopping #digitalads ow.ly/qQi950qOejk pic.twitter.com/KD5NFMllhZ
Marin’s Offline Connect lets advertisers upload transaction data into their Marin application, and then tie those users back to an online event that took place on the advertiser’s website. ow.ly/CVBv50oUufl #retailadvertising #shoppingads pic.twitter.com/lRi7XaIzlI
How do you coordinate your Facebook, Google, and eCommerce campaigns to deliver growth? Download our Search, Social, and eCommerce Guidebook to learn everything you need to know to create revenue-boosting digital ad campaigns. ow.ly/WKdP50qucYj pic.twitter.com/hRD6TgvvCN
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