Ginny Marvin on November 20, 2017 With the rise of mobile usage, brands have been challenged to figure out how to do more with less screen real estate and shorter attention spans. Thanks to a combination of new technologies, more powerful mobile devices and a drive to blast through banner blindness, a new level … Continue reading The state of interactive advertising: New formats are infusing digital ads with creativity that gets results
Everywhere you look, it’s become more challenging to separate ads from content. Columnist David Rodnitzky discusses the most common methods marketers are using and why they’re effective. David Rodnitzky on November 14, 2017 Roger Federer sells watches. Peyton Manning sells pizza. Matthew McConaughey sells cars. Does anyone who watches these ads truly believe that … Continue reading The best ads aren’t ads
Michael Ullman — November 2, 2017 Follow @ecomresults — November 2, 2017 Image: PEXELS When Google launched Adwords back in 2000, it was a virtual cash machine, seemingly able to generate sales on demand. The pay-per-click model was an entirely new paradigm: any business could target any individual question, phrase, or keyword search with an … Continue reading How To Achieve Ever-Improving Ad Results – Even If You Don’t Know What You’re Doing
There’s good news and there’s bad news in the local service-area business space. Contributor Joy Hawkins brings us up to date. Joy Hawkins on October 13, 2017 After my column about Home Service Ads came out last week, I got a message from Google with some great news. They told me two things: Google … Continue reading Markets with home service ads: Service-area businesses are coming back to the local results
Solving Advertising’s Trust Problem by Dave Morgan , Featured Contributor, September 28, 2017 When the choices of where to advertise were few — local radio, local newspapers, local broadcast TV, magazines and Yellow Pages — the issue of trust in your media partners was pretty straightforward: Did my ad run as promised? Was the copy … Continue reading Solving Advertising’s Trust Problem
User Intent Impacts Revenue From Advertising More Than Most Marketers Think by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, September 25, 2017 Visitor behavior on a brand’s website impacts revenue, and a series of studies has found that user intent may have a much greater impact on ad revenue than traditional user experience metrics. Through the … Continue reading User Intent Impacts Revenue From Advertising More Than Most Marketers Think
As programmatic TV continues its inexorable march forward, columnist Grace Kaye explains how you can get in on the game and optimize your programmatic TV advertising. Grace Kaye on September 22, 2017 The tide is turning: traditional TV advertising is slowing down, programmatic TV is rapidly expanding, and tech platforms and broadcasters are in … Continue reading Programmatic TV is the future: Here’s how to capitalize on the opportunity
Allen Finn — September 12, 2017 — September 12, 2017 I’ve got good news and bad news. In traditional fashion, let’s start with the bad news. By almost every metric, businesses with big budgets are doing better in Google AdWords than lower spenders. Maybe not surprising, but it still hurts. The rich get richer while … Continue reading How to Compete with Big Spenders in AdWords (Without Spending More $)
Next year, the search giant will roll out a Chrome browser version with built-in blocking of annoying and intrusive ads. Columnist Sherry Bonelli explains why and provides tips for getting your site ready. Sherry Bonelli on August 29, 2017 Well, it’s official. Google doesn’t like overly intrusive ads like pop-ups on websites. This sounds … Continue reading Google hates obnoxious pop-up ads: Here’s why you need to look at the ads on your site
Muhammad Rafiq — August 24, 2017 Follow @tahir_raf — August 24, 2017 The growing popularity of live streaming TV among movie lovers and other stakeholders has led to the debate: has live streaming become a formidable replacement for cable TV? An unbiased stance about the potential of live streaming to serve as a worthy replacement … Continue reading Has Live Streaming TV Come to Replace Cable TV for Good?
