DoubleVerify CEO Mark Zagorski explains how verification must evolve “beyond basic quality standards to enable advertisers to better understand and achieve performance given new obstacles.”
Lotame CEO Andy Monfried explores the potential downsides and what the ad industry can do now that Google is postponing its phase out of third-party Chrome cookies.
Hindsight CEO Hersh Patel explains how contextual targeting is getting smarter, more creative and adaptive, resulting in “a landscape where the interests of publishers, advertisers and users exist in harmony.”
VDX.tv CEO Dilip DaSilva describes how connected TV helps brands provide addressability, relevancy, interaction and household influence in their marketing.
Omlet’s Ricardo Diaz writes about how digital creativity will be reborn as cookies are sunset, offering creative examples of how marketers created experiences in which consumers opted to share their information.
Marshall Communications’ Nancy Marshall offers advice on how to keep our digital presence from becoming impersonal, along with four ways for PR practitioners to grow their love of their profession.
Amid all the privacy and identity issues, the digital ad ecosystem is in crisis. To counter this, connected TV has the potential to be a more effective channel for marketers, giving them the opportunity to get ahead of measurement and address identity.
While data-driving marketing has become important as technology has advanced, Do Supply’s Hanna Marcus cautions that empathetic marketing always "will stand the test of time."
Sarah Evans of Sevans Digital PR writes about why voice localization is vital in international marketing and how you can ensure your next campaign sounds right. Evans also offers four ideas to improve your customers’ content experience.
With the rise in privacy regulation and removal of audience identifiers, advertisers are forced to shake up their strategies and mindset. Quintesse CEO Doug Stevenson shares 5 operational, creative and privacy-safe tactics leading the way in this new era.
AudioEye’s Dominic Varacalli explores findings of a website accessibility survey his firm conducted -- and how you can avoid a lawsuit to make your site more accessible to everyone.
Advertising industry veteran Ron Owens says the industry’s diversity must echo that of American consumers it’s trying to reach, calling DEI “an economic necessity.”
SmartBrief’s Kelly Bragg and Sara Brigagliano detail four takeaways from the recent ASAE’s Marketing Membership and Communications Conference: creativity, experimentation, inclusivity and grace.
Most small-business owners see the need for digital marketing, but finding the time to develop, implement and maintain them consistently can be challenging. NetBlaze’s CEO Steven Clayton offers five reasons why outsourcing these tasks can be beneficial.
Some of the biggest advertising agencies gathered at Best of the West to discuss how they’re dealing with changing consumer media habits, technology trends and privacy laws.
Nancy Marshall uses inspiration from Maya Angelou to talk about the importance of empathy and how that can empower your brand ambassadors -- and grow your business.
The Glew’s Dylan Duke goes over not only why you should be making more of your influencer marketing strategy but also how. Using these three actionable tips, brand can make better use of influencer marketing for greater success and ROI.
There are always the go-to marketing hacks that professionals tend to preach, but, although they are useful in helping businesses grow, there are other tips that aren’t always shared that can boost your brand’s reputation. Here are four of them.
Amobee’s Kara Puccinelli says the consumer privacy issues of today are little different than what the industry faced more than 20 years ago. She offers four areas that marketers should focus on without relying on an adtech “silver bullet.”
StrawberryFrog’s Scott Goodson and Chip Walker, co-authors of “Activate Brand Purpose,” detail what it takes for an organziation to create a successful culture-change movement.
EGC Group’s Nicole Penn details why businesses of all sizes, especially those that rely on online businesses listings from Google and other sources, to counter “zero-click search.”
Semcasting CEO Ray Kingman looks at how employee-based targeting can help B2B marketers fill the top of their sales funnel with qualified prospects to dramatically improve the quality and scale of engagement.
Nancy Marshall of Marshall Communications writes about the importance of relationships, and offers six ways to build trusted, valuable business relationships.
Antronix's Joe Palermo discusses broadband as a necessity and how the company's Inverse Fiber Amplifier helps cable operators clear last-mile connectivity hurdles.
Refersion’s Raj Nijjer looks at an often overlooked aspect of influencer marketing: brand ambassadors. Nijjer looks at the value brand ambassadors offer brands and how your brand can work with them.
MacGillivray Freeman Films’ Shaun MacGillivray shares the importance of using long-form storytelling practices like documentaries in advertising and marketing campaigns to leverage a brand’s connection with consumers around social movements.
Ty Heath of the B2B Institute at LinkedIn looks at how marketers can move beyond “hashtag activism” and use their abilities to take an active stance on social issues and transform norms and influence culture.
Klarn DePalma of MNI Targeted Media offers best practices from the 2019-20 election cycle that marketers can use to help brands engage customers across channels, and with meaningful, personalized messaging.
Sway Group’s Tiffany Romero offers her first-hand experience of using audio app Clubhouse, and the possibilities the audio-only social network offers for influencer marketing.
While marketers face a complex world in 2021, Amobee’s Caity Noonan offers advice on how they can navigate that complexity by first putting their house in order in terms of privacy, identity, customer and prospect data and unified measurement solutions.
Walmart recently dipped its toes into livestream e-commerce, already a popular trend in China. Azoya’s Franklin Chu explores this trend and how brands use influencers to grow sales and connect with their consumers.
Influencers and affiliates are great tools to promote your brand in an authentic way, but they only work if they have faith in your brand to begin with, writes Refersion’s Raj Niijer.
Open rates are a key metric for gauging the success of email marketing campaigns. To increase open rates marketers should pay particular attention to personalization, content, subject line and design.
Shane Barker, a digital marketing consultant, writes about how artificial intelligence can play a major role in helping you monitor your Facebook ads campaigns.