May, 2019

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Ad Agencies: The Two Things Prospects Want to Buy

Fuel Lines

You should stop selling your services, that’s not what prospects are buying. Agency business development programs are often sales focused. They’re built around outbound, interruptive sales tactics that are designed to start engagements with prospective clients. The prospects have little, if any, awareness of the agency or how they’re different from their competitors.

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Archie Heaton: why brands need to be heard as well as seen

More About Advertising

Branding is often misunderstood as a name and a logo. It isn’t. At its core, branding is all about the stories that companies are made of and the feelings that telling them evokes. Its why most of us pay £20 more to run in a pair of Nike trainers; not because they make us run.

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The Saturday Morning Marcom Mashup

AdPulp

I call Adpulp, “The Chronicle of Bright Ideas,” because I’m a collector and admirer of smart thinking and elegant doing. After a long week with my head inside a strategy deck, I’m now choosing to unwind on Saturday morning by reflecting more deeply on three articles in my cue. 1- “Brand First” Is the Wrong […].

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We’ve done that already.

Advertising to Baby Boomers

I keep hearing that the internet is ruining our attention spans. I’m starting to believe it. I can easily get through a book, a TV show, a movie - but web pages bore me within nanoseconds and I’m constantly clicking. ( Something tells me this isn’t good for advertising.) Or maybe it’s the content. I’ve seen it all before. I say to myself, “We’ve done that already.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Can something good, even very good, still be overrated?

Gods of Advertising

Recently, I had a debate with my teen-aged daughter regarding the concept of a thing being overrated. She’d used the term to describe a TV show that was awful (in her opinion) but very popular, calling it “overrated.” I offered the opinion that something good can also be overrated. I used the movie, Avengers: End Game as an example. Fine movie.

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Help Moms Get the Attention They Deserve This Mother’s Day

illumin

Mother’s Day is no doubt a special event for families and advertisers alike as we communally show our appreciation for perhaps the most important person in many peoples’ lives. With the event just around the corner, brands everywhere have been capitalizing on the holiday in order to create a lasting connections with moms. Here is a recap of effective strategies by advertisers who stole our hearts last year to help inform your campaigns for the upcoming holiday: A Mother’s Love.

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Dam Digital’s Nadia Turan: why it’s time to breathe some life into marketing to over 50s

More About Advertising

BBC Breakfast literally stopped me in my tracks one morning last week. You would be forgiven for thinking that it was a breaking news story that caused me to spin around and stare at the screen, but no – the broadcaster was running a segment on the menopause – at breakfast time. A floor manager.

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Betabrand Is Using Its Retail Space to Elevate the Spoken Word, a.k.a. Storytelling

AdPulp

Betabrand, the San Francisco-based clothing retailer has begun a new experiment to increase its brand awareness: making their store into the Bay Area’s premiere live podcasting venue. On Thursdays the Betabrand store becomes a showplace for popular podcasters, some of whom have traveled from as far away as New York to take the stage […].

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All Marketing Challenges Stem From This One Thing

InMobi

Talk to any CMO or other marketing leader today, and you’ll likely hear them discuss any number of marketing challenges they now face. One may focus on a skills gap, while another may focus on lead generation or social media. But, whether they know it or not, all of today’s marketing activities and strategies hinge on one thing: delighting consumers in an ever-connected, multi-screen world.

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InMobi in-app inventory: 4 ad formats now available in Admixer.DSP

Admixer

In the mobile-first world mobile phones alone generate 52% of the total internet traffic. To engage smartphone audience advertisers need to “catch” their audiences with compelling and non-obtrusive in-app ads. InMobi, an in-app inventory provider with the coverage of 1.6 billion+ unique user profiles globally, is a reasonably good solution to leverage.

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Retail media advertising: How e-commerce is becoming AdTech’s next frontier

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Advertising Campaign Testing: Why Lowest Budgets Never Yield Best Results?

Smarty Ads

We are all looking for ways to save money. Advertisers and small business owners are not exceptions: some of them are not ready to spend more than $50, $10, or even $5 to test their ad campaigns. But is it the right solution to set the lowest possible budget.

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#DES2019 Recap - The power of CRM

AdGlow

On Wednesday, 22nd May we headed to Madrid's IFEMA for this year's Digital Enterprise Show. The event, currently on its 4th edition is currently the world's leading trade show dedicated to Digital Transformation and its relationship with business.

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Advertising badly needs its own Extinction Rebellion moment

More About Advertising

David Ogilvy said the role of advertising is to sell, and that nothing should distract us from this sole purpose – but he never had to contend with the prospect of an existential climate emergency. Last month, Extinction Rebellion provided a potent example of grass roots, youth-led people power when they hijacked London, met with.

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How Not Giving A F**k Makes All the Difference in the World

AdPulp

Agency positioning is a lost art, along with long copy. Thankfully, both are currently being restored by Fallow Fields agency. Fallow Fields, unlike every other agency under the sun, has no more f s to give. Let’s dive into some of the best self-promo copy I’ve read in A LONG TIME… When you’re over 50, you […]. The post How Not Giving A F**k Makes All the Difference in the World appeared first on Adpulp.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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52 In-App Advertising Statistics You Should Know

InMobi

To do digital marketing right today, you need smart insights on mobile marketing specifically. To help, here are 52 in-app advertising statistics you definitely need to know. Statistics on Mobile Devices Total time spent on mobile devices per day: 215 minutes , or three hours and 35 minutes. It’s expected to reach three hours and 49 minutes by 2020.

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Attend DigiTech Day Berlin with Admixer

Admixer

Admixer is excited to join DigiTech Day Berlin 2019. The meetup is devoted to best practices of reaching target audiences within GDPR regulations. With the continued growth in programmatic from one side and GDPR coming into force from the other, advertisers and publishers experience new challenges in using data for building effective communication with their […].

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Google Marketing Live 2019

Toronto AdOps

GML conference took place May 13-16, 219 in San Francisco, California. The latest and the greatest Google Marketing products were announced, showcased and demonstrated to thousands of Google’s marketing partners. Below we have gathered some goodies for anyone who wasn’t in attendance, including YouTube links to some of the unpublished video content from the event, as well as the official summary of some of the new Google Ads products, and 100 photos form the event (taken by Toronto A

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#DES2019 Recap - The power of CRM

AdGlow

On Wednesday, 22nd May we headed to Madrid's IFEMA for this year's Digital Enterprise Show. The event, currently on its 4th edition is currently the world's leading trade show dedicated to Digital Transformation and its relationship with business.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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Asleep at your desk? No, a Wunderman Thompson power nap

More About Advertising

Working for Wunderman Thompson must be stressful at times (more so its two constituent agencies just before the WPP merger) and so the newly-minted UK agency is introducing 15-minute “wellbeing” breaks. As ever with these things there’s a programme to go with it, courtesy of an internal internal ‘well: mind’ team, made up of eight.

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Need to Convince People? Stop Talking and Reach Consensus

AdPulp

When you work in a creative field, you traffic in ideas. For a creative person in advertising, ideas are currency and like cash, fluid and hard to capture. Ideas are also something that people in advertising fight for, steal, glorify, and covet. The thing to know about ideas is they do not accrue value when […]. The post Need to Convince People?

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InMobi Named as One of the 50 Most Disruptive Companies in the World - AGAIN!

InMobi

For the second year in a row, CNBC has named InMobi to its Disruptor 50 list. We are proud, honored and humbled to be recognized in this manner for two years running. Over the past six years, CNBC has announced the Disruptor 50, an annual list of private companies that are shaking up the landscape and threatening the status quo in their respective industries.

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Transparency and Brand Safety: What Keeps Advertisers Up at Night

Admixer

Here’s a scary fact: just in 6 years, by 2025 ad fraud may cost the global industry $50 billion, according to WFA prediction. There are many ways to eliminate the risk of fraud, like adopting ads.txt (a solution for increasing transparency across ad serving process), clearing up the supply list, filtering out unsavory platforms, and […].

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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Most Viewed Video Ads: May / Week 2

illumin

Week 2 of May puts Hulu on the top spot for the Most Viewed Video Ads chart. The campaign, for Hulu’s ad-free subscription, begins as one of the classic Old Spice ads with Isaiah Mustafa. However, in a comedic twist, it turns out that it is actually “a Hulu ad to tell you that you should get Hulu with no ads.” This is Hulu’s 10th spot on the chart in 2019, and their first time in the top spot since October 2018.

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New Day. New Website. Let’s go to work!

Gods of Advertising

steffanpostaer.com. File this under long overdue: I finally redid my website portfolio, making it much easier to review and (hopefully) appreciate. Please take a look. If you’re looking for an exceptional copywriter and/or creative director for a project or pitch, or simply have a special writing assignment requiring a true professional, I’m your guy.

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Dark Horses and Fuse win official FA mental health campaign

More About Advertising

Sports specialist Dark Horses and Omnicom marketing agency Fuse have been appointed by The Football Association (FA) and young people’s charity Heads Together to design and deliver Heads Up, a new initiative using the influence and popularity of football to highlight mental health issues. Heir to the throne and FA president the Duke of Cambridge.

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Just Google It: 7 Questions Every CMO Wants To Know

AdPulp

Google-owned YouTube is a wasteland, but like all wastelands, when you brush aside the layers of dirt and debris, you’re in the position to discover a gem or two. The video that follows may not meet gem status, but it is a find worth noting here. Tara Walpert Levy is VP of Agency and Brand […]. The post Just Google It: 7 Questions Every CMO Wants To Know appeared first on Adpulp.

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Solving the Biggest Tech Challenges in RevOps

In this eBook, we’ll run through real-world examples that show how RevOps teams can benefit from modern solutions for the access, management, and activation of their GTM data. Whether you need to improve lead response times, boost adoption of core tools, improve lead qualification, or target and automate your GTM motions, you’ll find examples of how revenue teams are solving some of the toughest problems in modern business.

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Ad Quality: The Other Side of the Fence

InMobi

One of the hottest topics in the advertising ecosystem today is Supply Quality. Advertisers have a legitimate concern regarding fraud more specifically: the credibility of supply and where their ads are displayed. However, on the flip side there is another prominent quality issue affecting the advertising ecosystem: the quality of the ads served by Demand Partners.

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Gagging Gag Clauses under the Consumer Review Fairness Act

All About Advertising Law

For the first time since the Consumer Review Fairness Act (CRFA) went into effect in March of 2017, the FTC has brought three separate actions enforcing the CRFA to halt the use of “gag clauses” – i.e., contract provisions that prohibit consumers from writing or posting negative reviews. The CRFA bans these types of non-disparagement clauses in consumer form contracts when the clauses are imposed on individuals without giving them a meaningful opportunity to negotiate.

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IDSD Breakout Session: Building Brands in the Age of AI

illumin

AcuityAds sponsored IDSD (SDX Interactive Day San Diego) last week to connect with brands, agencies and entrepreneurs in the marketing and advertising community. Leading trailblazers in brand, marketing, tech, and digital shared their inspiring stories that are shaping the future of our industry. We sat in with Michael D. Andrew, VP of Strategy & Growth at Salesforce, for his session “Building Brands in the Age of AI”.

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5 Ways to Keep Your Ad Network Fill Rate Close to 100

Smarty Ads

No matter how good is your CPM, a poor ad network fill rate is a drag on your website monetization. If you send 5M ad requests but receive only 2.5M of impressions in return, you don’t use your inventory to the fullest. This is like driving a.

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Drive GTM Efficiency with Tech Stack Consolidation

Consolidating your tech stack is an effective cost-saving measure that drives GTM efficiency and adds value to your enterprise. With a cohesive, integrated tech stack, your revenue teams can deliver an excellent customer experience that sets you up to win faster than your competitors.