As many marketers are well aware, click-through rates for display ads are typically less than impressive. But is that really a surprise? After all, what kind of results can one expect from placements like this? In all seriousness, though, getting the right people to click on your banner ads is a significant challenge. Now, don’t get […]
The sole predictive factor for the success of Super Bowl ads is the degree to which they tell a complete story. So concluded marketing professors Keith Quesenberry and Michael Coolsen, based on their two-year study published in the “Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice.” While this is a reassuring affirmation of the power of narrative in a
Ad buyers are dissatisfied with publishers’ slower-than-expected adoption of the industry’s anti-fraud initiative, Ads.txt. Now they are nearing an ultimatum: Publishers need to upload a public list of their programmatic sellers and resellers, or they will be left out of brands’ programmatic ad buys. “Some advertisers care a lot about making sure that we’re not
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Data-driven creative is a hot topic these days. Consider the following developments. A brand-new media agency, Omnicom’s Hearts and Sciences, shocked the industry by winning P&G and AT&T accounts based on a promise of better linkage between media data and creative execution. Venerable creative agency Leo Burnett earlier this year launched what it calls “The
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Most of us today can recall a time before the internet, or even the widespread availability of personal computers. Ads embedded in videos and banners sprawling across web pages — holdovers from the print and television era — are familiar, if somewhat obtrusive, accompaniments to content. Aside from the occasional grumbling, we accept these as
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The Trustworthy Accountablity Group (TAG) has named nine companies as the initial recipients of the “Certified Against Malware” seal. AppNexus, DataXu, Google, LKQD, OpenX, Publishers Clearing House, Rocket Fuel, Sovrn, and The Media Trust received the seal for implementing TAG’s anti-malware standards. “You can’t stop fraud without stopping malware because the two are intertwined at nearly
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Today, Adblock and other ad blockers are commonplace and indispensable components of the digital advertising industry. Blockers were created as a response to excessive advertisements on websites; they are specifically designed to prevent intrusive ads from displaying. But ad blockers shouldn’t be viewed as being inherently good or evil. In this article, we look at
Content is now a permanent fixture of the digital enterprise. Whether in-house or through third-party studios, whether as a C-level function or as the job of interns, brands are making content as a matter of course and distributing it to varying degrees of success. In today’s fragmented media environment, the adage “content is king” has
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LiveRamp’s IdentityLink visualization Acxiom’s LiveRamp began as a way to match offline data with online. Last year, it moved into people-based marketing with the launch of IdentityLink, which provides anonymized identities of actual people in their different guises of multiple devices and channels. This week, the San Francisco-based company is launching a version of IdentityLink
Consumers are in open rebellion about how they’re disrespectfully treated by your marketing. Millions now use ad blockers to escape the relentless barrage of online ads, resulting in 32 percent of global page views being impacted by ad blocking. And the rest don’t need an ad blocker because they’re conditioned to ignore the ad. Virtually
