TikTok has come for Google's ad business at its most vulnerable time by allowing advertisers to target its search results page - making keywords the "backbone" of the tool.
Larger companies have been better equipped to harness their advantages in first-party data and technology.
Ad and marketing agencies are split on how to price paid ad and organic services. Many marketers still prioritize optimizing keyword research despite all the technology available to do tasks, a survey
found.
With the economy and consumer sentiment showing major improvement, major jumps in advertising demand and CPM seem probable in Q2, a new report documents..
Marketers of consumable products will have a few challenges this month as searches on Google for information on alternatives to Aspartame surge.
On average, one in five domain-name system requests from a browser ask to load an ad or tracking domain. That means nearly 20% of internet traffic is junk -- mostly ads, according to AdGuard.
Rakuten's marketers believe the company has the data that proves incrementality of its Cash Back program. Here's what they found.
Marketers can't afford to wait to get Amazon and retail media right. Here are three steps they need to take now.
More marketers plan to increase rather than decrease ad and marketing budgets in 2023, according to a study spanning B2C and B2B from NP Digital.
Findings may indicate that Google provides enough information on its search engine results page (SERP) to satisfy the user.
Shoppers who are familiar with fashion brands are most likely to seek out those brands' websites, even when they don't have a product in mind.
Online video is the most popular category of digital media, with 77% of marketers saying they will spend more on the channel.
After surging during the second and third quarters, the price of digital advertising grew more moderately during the final three months of 2021.
Cookie-free data unions will become key components to understanding the complexities of consumer behavior. These permission-based platforms address the challenges and opportunities of the data-hungry
ad and research industries. What is the novel approach of data unions? Consumer ownership and agency over their data, including the ability to monetize it.
The acceleration of streaming this past year has made video even more critical to a brand's growth strategy. Lexmark's director of marketing operations, Mike Dattilo, shares how he's successfully
targeting SMB users to expand their audience and increase brand awareness and conversions through performance video.
Don't underestimate linear television's ability to drive internet searches for advertisers, says ad-tech company EDO.
Visible Wireless, a retail brand of Verizon, doubled down on social channels to find and cultivate communities that wanted an alternative telecom model. And in turn those communities have informed
everything about how the brand grew - from product development even to media planning. Visible's digital marketing lead, Sarah Baker, shows us what a grass roots media strategy looks like?
The best way to predict the future is to look back at the past. Here are the most-read articles and topics for "Inside Performance" and "Search and Performance Marketing Daily" in 2021.
It wasn't a good day for companies that rely on ad revenue. The technology industry lost billions this morning -- especially those focused more heavily on advertising.
Organized by the frequency of accessing their Marketing APIs and size of bandwidth needed to run applications and reports, Facebook, Google, Instagram, Salesforce, Snapchat, TikTok and Twitter are
among the most utilized by advertisers and agencies, and Pinterest, not so much. This unusual view, compiled by "Research Intelligencer" from marketing technology development ops provider Rivery's
just-released "Marketing API Benchmark" report for 2021, is a unique way of visualizing the resources the major digital marketing and technology platforms require of Madison Avenue.
Digital media -- especially social and paid search -- dominate local advertisers' media mix, according to a Borrell survey of 2,811 local advertiser media buyers released today. Those also are the
media local advertisers say they are boosting spending for this year. Local TV advertising, both broadcast and cable TV, remain the largest average annual local ad budgets at $111,300 and $48,000,
respectively (see table at bottom).
For the fourth straight week, intent data shows "search engines" are the most-searched topic among brand marketers, according to Bombora Company Surge.
The most important KPIs, or key performance indicators, used by advertisers to assess the value and effectiveness of their advertising and media aren't necessarily the ones they use most often,
according to the findings of a new report from the Association of National Advertisers.
TV stations must strike out on their own to bolster new sources of revenue, especially with new locally and regionally based OTT operations.
How does a global brand like the Four Seasons Hotel & Resorts oversee media buys for 100+ properties, yet still manage to increase website bookings, boost revenue, and drive incrementality to channels
like SEO and direct for each hotel? Very strategically. Traditionally, the luxury hotel chain's media budgets were fixed and held at property level. That is until their agency, Acronym,
realized it was limiting their advertising reach. Instead, after a successful test pilot, Acronym unified Four Seasons' media buys, and the corporate office essentially gave them what amounts to a
"blank check," which enabled them to provide a more strategic and aggressive media investment.
Some companies believe unless they achieve CX transformation now they won't be around in 10 years -- but most think they're doing fine. Customers don't agree, Merkle reports.
Is it possible to become one of the go-to websites for your industry within a mere 7 months? It is if you're Adobe XD, and you strategically develop an extensive SEO and content strategy prior to its
launch. As a relative unknown in the UX/UI design space, Adobe XD needed to do some investigating before launching Adobe XD Ideas. They conducted in-depth keyword, competitive and content gap research
that enabled them to prioritize the topics that UX/UI design professionals were searching for online.
"DoubleClick Search" saw a significant uptick among brands, signaling rising marketer interest around search marketing overall.
Websites can be built and managed by in-house engineering teams with open-source tools or third-party tools. How are you managing your website? Here are some tips.
First-quarter 2020 showed YoY ad growth, but the COVID-19 pandemic created significant pricing pressure on CPMs, with digital falling 16%. The IAB released its 2019 Internet Ad Revenue Report
Thursday, and included separate insights on Q1 2020 revenue and the second edition of its Coronavirus Impact Report on publishers. "We're seeing in this new CPM study that connected devices are
experiencing the least impact," said Sue Hogan, SVP of research and analytics, IAB.