Tag: digital marketing

August 13, 2019

Today, the digital marketer has at-hand a veritable arsenal of tools to reach potential customers. There is email, organic search, paid search, and display advertising, all on a dizzying array of platforms. Each platform is busily competing for the marketer’s […]

July 22, 2019

Facebook News Feed ads will change on Aug. 19, to benefit mobile users and advertisers who are trying to reach those consumers. The most important update for marketers is that visible text will drop from seven lines to three. As […]

July 10, 2019

Keyword stuffing is one of those things left over from the earliest days of digital marketing that refuses to go away. You have already seen in it in action if you have come across blogs full of phrases like “best […]

May 14, 2019

Marketing is far different now than it was in 2005. The impact of creative disruption and the challenges of channel multiplication and of increased fragmentation of ad placements requires advertisers to rethink the way they build their brand assets and […]

March 28, 2019

Direct mail has been around for a very long time and it is easy to continue to send mail the same way it was done 20 years ago, but this is much less effective now. Direct mail marketing in 2019 […]

March 25, 2019

Once considered a complement to digital marketing portfolios, influencer marketing has morphed from a nice-to-have into a must-have. At inception, influencer marketing success relied entirely on vanity metrics. Big brands would reach out to influencers (primarily celebrities at the time), […]

March 15, 2019

Alcohol has always been a sensitive category for advertisers to walk the straight and narrow—and for good reason. Organizations such as the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS) have been self-regulating and working with the Federal Trade Commission […]

March 7, 2019

At first glance, the marketing industry appears strong as ever heading into 2019. Digital marketing roles have doubled in 2012, and ad agency jobs are nearing an all-time high for the first time in nearly 20 years. But despite the […]

February 25, 2019

CPG powerhouse Unilever is increasing its investments in digital channels and people to power them to increase its focus on real-time campaigns. Digital now accounts for 40 percent of Unilever’s media investment, MarketingWeek reports. “We are investing in people capability […]

February 20, 2019

While the way that businesses have used marketing campaigns over the years has changed, the reasons have not. Every business wants to reach its ideal customer just when that customer needs it. With the constant flux of new technologies, the […]