Greggs makes cheeky advertising decision, Facebook delays its political ads tool, Female voices favoured by under 35s and LinkedIn updating more of its Campaign Manager
As well as numerous Christmas campaigns launching over the last week, there have been changes to social media platforms, more research commissioned that could affect online advertisers and research that could change how you target audiences in videos and via podcasts. A popular sausage roll company also made headlines with a cheeky stunt to make the most of a famous Christmas window.
Here are six news stories from this week that could help you come up with some marketing campaign ideas and inform your future strategies, as well as keep you up-to-date on the digital industry.
UK government looking into online personalized pricing
The UK government is set to look into how personal data…
Chart of the Day: Snapchat and Instagram dominate teens' favourite social media platform
Piper Jaffrey has released the results from its twice-annual survey of US teens into their favourite brands, websites, and social media platforms. The results show that Snapchat and Instagram have been pulled away from their competitors in the minds of the American youth.
Snapchat has held the top spot since the Spring 2016 survey, and now has a dominant 46% of people stating it's their favourite platform. Instagram has seen a major upswing from the Spring 2018 survey, moving from 26% to 32%.
Interestingly, Instagram's growth in popularity hasn't encroached on Snapchat, but it seems to have made a huge impact on Twitter. Facebook's status as 'most popular social platform' has more than halved from 12% (in Spring 2015) to 5%, while Twitter has plummeted from 21%…
How to know if you should be selling on Amazon, or if a third-party seller would suit you better
For businesses wishing to reach a wider market with their products, selling online can seem intimidating. Selling with an established company like Amazon can make things easier, but knowing who to sell with can be difficult. So to help you be sure you're putting your product where it will do the best, here's a quick and dirty guide to third-party selling.
The Benefits of Amazon
Above all else, Amazon has a big share of the market. As of 2015, Amazon had a base of over 300 million active customers. They count a customer as active if they have a profile on Amazon, and have made a purchase in the last 12 months. That means that Amazon has accumulated-and kept-a number of customers roughly equal…
MTA and MMM are powerful when used separately, but when used together, they can be transformative for marketers
Modern customer journeys are long, with myriad touchpoints between initial awareness and the ultimate decision. One shopper might end up on your website by way of an organic search but won’t make a purchase until reading a recommendation on a social platform. Another might come to you via email, return after conducting a little research on a referral site, visit again following a click on a banner ad and then finally buy your product after reading a recommendation on that same social platform.
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A single tool can centralize efforts, simplify complex processes, and ensure the effective utilization of data
Regardless of new digital opportunities, companies still struggle with their brand development. A recent survey suggests that some of the most common brand management hurdles include putting data to efficient use, possessing a compelling vision, achieving integrated marketing communication and training employees to deliver a consistent message every single time.
These challenges are commonplace and dozens of companies are attempting to identify the right solution. Specifically designed to address the above-mentioned challenges, brand management software can be just the thing. A single tool can centralize efforts, simplify complex processes and ensure the effective utilization of data.
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How do you know who isn't converting and how can you make the most of the data to bring them back to your site?
Have you ever looked at your website analytics in real-time and watched as people entered the site? To your excitement, some of them filled out a form and converted into a lead. I have, and it’s awesome seeing the 5-6% of people that make it through your website funnel pop out the other end.
But what about the 94-95% of people who don’t convert? Most likely you’ve got a remarketing campaign setup, which is bringing some of them back. But is there anything else you can do?
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To prevent further revenue drop, linear television will have to change advertising practices completely
For many years, advertising budgets were gravitating towards the Internet because only this medium could offer media buyers precise targeting and efficiency metrics for campaign analysis. The experts predict that by the end of 2018, the Internet advertising budgets will outweigh linear TV by a whopping $40 billion.
A couple of years ago, the ad market was close to the point of no return and the industry players predicted nothing but a slow demise of TV advertising. In order to prevent further revenue drop, linear television will have to change advertising practices completely.
Let’s find out how the market adapts to the new programmatic-driven addressable TV reality.
What is addressable TV and how it’s different?
Technically, all…
The growing demands of the online visitor
As reported by Internet Retailer, the projected online global consumer spending by 2019 will more than double the $3.551 trillion of the global spending in 2015, accounting for 12.4% of the total retail sales. It is also forecast that retail giants Amazon, Alibaba and eBay will by 2023 account for 40% of retail sales.
These numbers show that consumer inclination toward online shopping is increasing. However, the gap between what consumers want and what they get is also widening.
Online retailers are having to think outside of the box to differentiate and meet the expectations of their online customers. What was deemed a ‘point of difference’ and ‘cutting edge’ three years ago is now the expected norm. What was once seen as a retailer going the extra mile is now taken for granted. With the emerging new technologies being adopted by businesses Amazon has…
Leverage the power of user-generated content to drive traffic and increase conversions
User-generated content (UGC) has become an important part of the content marketing strategy in the current era where customers are ready to rave about your products or services online. UGC refers to the content that is created by the users of a brand. It can be anything from comments, reviews, and images to social media posts.
According to the Nielsen Consumer Trust Index, 92% of consumers trust organic, user-generated content more than they trust traditional advertising. This is because brands don’t pay for UGC, it is unbiased and created by users because they like the offerings of a business. As a result, UGC is perceived as more authentic and honest.
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How to optimize your content for Google’s ever-changing search results
Google’s search results are constantly being updated. With new features being tested and added on a regular basis, it can be hard to keep up with the rate of change. In order to gain as much visibility as possible on Google for your business or brand, you need to keep on top of these changes and work out how best to optimize your website for the ever-expanding opportunities (and challenges) that Google Search presents.
As Dave Chaffey pointed out in his Chart of the Day from July on the incredible shrinking organic SERPs, these updates and additions of features to the search results can often mean that the standard organic listings that as marketers and SEO professionals we have always focused on are pushed further and further down the page.
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