Marketers’ jobs have never been more complex. They have to juggle vendors, evaluate complicated technology, and draw insights from reams of data, all while meeting skyrocketing customer expectations. But artificial intelligence is changing the equation, helping marketers make sense of a deluge of information and effortlessly execute more effective campaigns. Watson Marketing’s suite of AI-powered…
An out-of-home ad for XITE. part of a multichannel programmatic campaign. Two recent integrations of digital-out-of-home (DOOH) advertising show not only that such ads are rapidly becoming a full-fledged member of the digital ad ecosystem, but that they are creating new kinds of DOOH-enhanced, cross-channel marketing. Adelphic, a demand-side platform (DSP) acquired last year by…
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Grammarly tops YouTube’s TrueView for Action 2018 leaderboard Dec 7, 2018 by Amy Gesenhues The ranking algorithm factored total reach, clicks and engagement for the direct response ads. Facebook missteps highlight…
A close friend in online marketing approached me for advice because their son had been arrested for possession of marijuana and mugshots had begun ranking for his name in search engines. When arrest photos like this appear online, they can be fixed relatively easily, as online reputation management issues go. Read on, and I’ll explain….
A San Francisco-based startup is launching a new platform on Thursday that marries the contextual targeting of mobile to digital-out-of-home (DOOH) signs. ‘Situationally aware’ outdoor mobile signs. Firefly has installed digital signs atop hundreds of taxis and other rent-on-demand vehicles like Lyft or Uber during its months-long beta phase in Los Angeles and San Francisco….
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Google now allows its Chrome browser to remove all ads from ‘abusive’ sites Dec 5, 2018 by Barry Levine Announced last month, the capabilities of the now-released Version 71 could become…
Amazon reported Cyber Monday was its biggest shopping day in history, beating out this year’s Prime Day sales results and representing nearly 30 percent of the online sales market for the day. Not only was it a big day for sales, but Amazon also saw its biggest single day of ad investments on Cyber Monday,…
Two weeks after Nike’s campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick debuted, the company’s online sales had risen a whopping 31 percent and its stock had climbed more than 6 percent to an all-time high. With Kaepernick, Nike clearly tapped into something powerful—but it didn’t come without risk. Immediately after the ad debuted, it was widely reported that…
While they comprise half of the U.S. workforce, women still hold less than 20 percent of all tech jobs. By comparison, women will represent 23 percent of the incoming 116th Congress. Let’s let that sink in for a moment. Congress, by the numbers, is now more progressive and less of a “boys’ club” than the…
Adobe is fine-tuning its data management platform (DMP) Audience Manager on Monday with two new features. Trait Exclusion. One is the ability to subtract a common trait when creating a lookalike user model. Lookalike models are often developed from the attributes of a group of users a brand wants to find more of. A model…
