Fuel Lines

APRIL 12, 2017

Social media is a primary force that is redefining the role of the men and women who oversee the world’s largest companies. The importance of social media on business has dramatically escalated. We have moved through the “hype phase of social media when businesses felt compelled to participate because it was such a fad. We have entered a productive phase where companies are starting to crack social’s code to turn it into a genuine marketing advantage.

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Ad Espresso

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

It’s no secret that Facebook’s organic reach- to put it delicately- sucks. Thanks to the ever-changing algorithm, it’s been becoming increasingly difficult for Pages to have their content showing up in newsfeeds for the past few years. As a result, businesses and marketers are looking for every hack and strategy they can think of to Read more.

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More About Advertising

JUNE 22, 2017

By Anthony Svirskis As a case study in how a brand turned around its financial fortunes by wholeheartedly embracing the power of social media, Lego is a pretty difficult one to beat. At the turn of the millennium, the family-owned Lego was suffering from crippling losses – in 2003 it faced a budget deficit equivalent.

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Gods of Advertising

JUNE 23, 2017

One Lion is apparently enough. The great irony from the Cannes International Festival of Advertising is that by far the biggest story coming from this famously bloated bacchanal is that the new leader of Publicis Group, Arthur Sadoun decreed in the forthcoming year zero euros will be spent on advertising award shows! Instead, Publicis has introduced a Siri-like App called Marcel (named after Publicis’ founder), which will unite the holding company’s agencies into a “Power of One.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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AdPulp

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

Cindy Gallop takes names and zero s**t. For the sexual harassers in the ad industry, you best run and hide. For everyone else, here’s compelling documentation about just how degrading it is to be objectified at work, and then asked to objectify women in ads. “The biggest issue facing our industry today is not diversity,” […].

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Adacado

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Google recently announced that on February 15, 2018, Chrome will stop showing all ads on websites that display “non-compliant” ads through their built-in ad-blocker. We’re happy to assure you that this announcement will have no impact on Adacado provided creative. Based on Google’s guidelines, Adacado ads will be considered compliant and thus not susceptible to Chrome’s ad blocking.

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Advertising to Baby Boomers

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

I blogged this book already – without reading it. Now I’ve read it. Good one, recommended if you don’t mind getting sick to your stomach. Stay away if you’re prone to paranoia. As for me, it just got me all itchy and queasy. So far, this might not seem to be a positive review. It is one. But like most of what’s on the web nowadays, how do you know if it’s fact, advertising, fiction, advertising, drivel, advertising, truth, advertising?

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InMobi

DECEMBER 28, 2017

As mobile technology evolves to create value for advertisers with advanced targeting capabilities, high customization and precise measurement, the mobile ecosystem continues to be threatened by an ever-expanding and evolving web of ad fraud. Estimated to cost growth marketers approximately $350 million in 2017, ad fraud has left advertisers scrutinizing the authenticity of each impression and every subsequent user interaction.

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All About Advertising Law

MARCH 29, 2017

Legal history is replete with stories of persons or companies turning a manageable legal problem into a more serious one by trying to hide or destroy evidence, see Watergate and Arthur Anderson/Enron for two notable examples. A recent case involving a bus company executive provides a good case study in what not to do when facing a government investigation and the consequences of trying to hide or destroy evidence in an investigation.

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MediaFuse

AUGUST 21, 2017

Header bidding technology has greatly improved the online advertising world and continues to grow in popularity. Having significantly improved older processes, the benefits of header bidding are obvious. Not only does header bidding increase revenue by simplifying the bidding process, it also improves user experience by ensuring access to all available inventory.

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Fuel Lines

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Having a written marketing plan makes new business easier and much more consistent. I wanted to share, from my personal experience, one of the typical challenges of small to midsize advertising, digital, media and PR agencies. They are often described as the cobbler’s children who have no shoes. The most common positive trait among these agencies is that they know how to take care of their clients.

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Ad Espresso

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Let’s talk about the call to action. Want more email subscribers? Contest entries? Conversions? You won’t get them without the right call to action. Almost all of your marketing content should have well-crafted call to actions designed to drive action. It’s an essential part of copywriting that doesn’t always get the attention that it deserves.

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More About Advertising

APRIL 25, 2017

It’s the D&AD Awards on Thursday and the charity has released the top performing countries and agencies so far (judging is still going on) although not the nature of the Pencils it’s awarded (the somewhat absurd wooden ones used to be a mention in the D&AD Annual, much more stylish). D&AD is international these days.

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Gods of Advertising

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The “geeter stick” Coach Grapera has the class doing laps, twenty-five, no stopping. He marks time with a sawed off pool cue, hitting the cold, white tiles with its tip. Whack! Whack! Whack! And you can’t make it. Maybe the water’s too warm, the chlorine too strong. Maybe you’re just too fat. You slow down, trying not to take in water. Your arms burn and so do your eyes.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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.

Marketing

AdPulp

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Usually when you hear about ad agency veterans opening up their own shop, the principals consist of someone with a copywriting background, someone with an art direction background, and someone with an account management background. But Seattle’s PB& isn’t structured that way — and that’s proving to be an effective move. Founded in 2016 by […].

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What Runs Where

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

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Single Grain

MARCH 10, 2017

Today I'm going to be talking about my favorite marketing tools. These are the top 7 that I use on a regular basis and I couldn't live without them. 1) Google Analytics. This is the simplest tool and everyone should know about it, but most people use it wrong and that's what I hate about it. I log in five times a day – and that's on the low end. Ten, fifteen times a day on the high end.

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Advertising to Baby Boomers

AUGUST 30, 2017

Harry (Rick) Moody , former Vice President and Director of Academic Affairs for AARP, tackles disillusionment in an engrossing piece for The American Society on Aging. He opens with a humorous, self-deprecating story about not giving a presentation on the subject: Baby Boomers: From Great Expectations to a Crisis of Meaning … I had given many presentations at conferences on aging, but this session turned out to be unique: I sat on a chair at my poster session for two hours and not a single perso

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Food Marketing Advertising 67

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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InMobi

DECEMBER 14, 2017

InMobi regularly hosts, participates in and contributes to a series of events, meet-ups, webinars, sharing best practices with partners and thought leaders, across the globe. In this edition of the InMobi Event Diary, we are looking at the highlights and developments from “Data Hack Summit 2017,” an event organized by Analytics Vidhya in Bangalore, India.

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All About Advertising Law

JUNE 16, 2017

And the big “winner” is (drumroll) … the Italian Competition Authority. A multinational electronics company was a most recent victim of the stringent Italian prize promotion regulations — to the tune of € 3.1 million (or roughly US$3.37 million). The costly sanctions were imposed on the company by Italian authorities for, among other issues, unfair commercial practices.

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MediaFuse

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

While programmatic advertising may offer publishers the opportunity for increased revenue and faster growth, not all publishers are maximizing ROI according to the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) report titled “The Programmatic Path to Profit for Publishers.” Their research may be used to evaluate why working with a programmatic consultant can help publishers strengthen their positions in the marketplace, focus on value-creating activities and improve the value of their online assets.

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Fuel Lines

MARCH 16, 2017

Stop selling your services, that’s not what prospects are buying. Agency business development programs are too often sales focused. They’re built around outbound, interruptive sales tactics 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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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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.

Marketing

Ad Espresso

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Have you ever asked yourself, “Why are my facebook ads not getting impressions?” After months of strategizing, late night copywriting, and hard work; your campaign is finally ready to go. You’ve got your target audience, you’ve checked for delivery issues, and all that’s really left is to click publish and watch the results come in.

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More About Advertising

APRIL 20, 2017

When did you last see a good mobile network ad? We asked the same of car ads recently in noting Droga5’s splendid debut effort for Seat. Well another newish London agency has fronted up in mobile, Who Wot Why for Telefonica’s GiffGaff, hymning its no-contract offer. Held together by the brilliant choice of an epic.

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Gods of Advertising

APRIL 6, 2017

“Awesome strategy, Ted! Next week’s meeting is gonna be killer.” Recently, I read an essay from an anonymous source in our industry that stuck with me. (I did not save the link. My bad.) But the gist of his argument was that within marketing services companies far too many big talkers achieve more success than they deserve and, moreover, are exponentially degrading the profession.

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AdPulp

MARCH 17, 2017

Do you get tired of reading about how the ad agency business sucks, and how no one wants to work in advertising any longer due to the long hours, low pay and lack of prestige? Personally, I see many of these sour takes on the industry as little more than ill-informed attempts to fill space. […]. The post Nay Say All Day To Keep Ad People At Bay appeared first on AdPulp.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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.

What Runs Where

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

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Fuel Lines

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Creating and maintaining agency new business is often harder than it should be because one key ingredient is often lacking. Positioning is the foundation of any agency’s new business program. It is also the area that many agencies have not addressed because of either procrastination or, more likely, their unwillingness to make the difficult business decisions.

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Fuel Lines

MARCH 10, 2017

Why is content such a valuable strategy to help agencies drum up new business? I thought I would share a recent interview conducted by content marketer, Andy Baldacci. Andy hosts Hubstaff’s Agency Advantage Podcast where he helps agency owners grow their business. If you’re skeptical of the value of content marketing for your agency or are worried that it will take too long to get results, this is the episode for you.

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Fuel Lines

JUNE 29, 2017

Here’s a challenge for advertising, digital, media and PR agencies. Let’s take it one step further … Can you describe your agency in six words “without” using these 10 Things Ad Agencies “usually” Say About Themselves? Ten things agencies are most likely to say about themselves: Full service. Comprehensive solutions. Great ideas. Results oriented.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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.