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Today’s buyers have thousands of options to choose from and hundreds of companies competing for their attention. Running an ad and expecting consumers to go directly to purchase isn’t a viable option. It’s entirely obsolete. A much more effective strategy is to retarget and nurture. The goal is to stay top of mind with your target audience…
A content gap analysis is a valuable type of market research, helping you to discover opportunities you may have missed and improve your content marketing. But what exactly is a content gap analysis, and how do you do it? And more importantly, why should you? What is a content gap analysis? Content gap analysis is…
Reddit has launched two new ad formats within Conversation Placement: Carousel Ads and Product Ads. Conversation Placement sits within a Reddit conversation thread, appearing below the original post and above the first comment. The rollout of the new ad formats within this placement is intended to offer advertisers the opportunity to interact with high-value users…
Google Merchant Center Next will support rules and supplemental feeds early next year. The predecessor version, Google Merchant Center, is still used by some advertisers and already supports these new features. Google Merchant Center Next (GMC Next), a simplified version of Merchant Center, was unveiled in May. Advertisers that haven’t transitioned to GMC Next and…
Meta is reportedly planning to launch Threads in the EU before the end of the year. The news comes after X’s biggest advertisers – including Disney, Paramount and Sony Pictures –boycotted the Elon Musk-owned platform following his endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory Why we care. Although Threads isn’t serving ads just yet, brands can still grow their…
The holiday season brings a surge of searches around gifts, events, recipes and more. Savvy marketers can capture this traffic spike with targeted SEO strategies. Below are nine ways to optimize your website for the holidays and make the most of this high-traffic period. 1. Capitalize on seasonal topics Using tools like Google Trends and…
Google Merchant Center will remove the ability to select four rules-based attribution models when setting up the conversion source in 2024. The models being removed are: First-click. Linear. Time decay. Position-based. Starting in April 2024, any conversion sources still using these models will be switched to data-driven attribution. Marketers not wanting conversions that use data-driven…
Marketing is changing fast: AI is an exciting new tool, but many marketers are struggling to track assets and performance. At the same time, privacy laws are getting more strict, and major players like Apple and Google are eliminating the tracking tools that marketers rely on. Many marketers are dragging their feet on embracing these…
Google has agreed to pay publishers in Canada $73.6 million a year to keep links to news articles in its search results. The search engine had threatened to stop serving news links in response to a new law that forces tech companies to pay for news content. However, Google was able to strike a deal…
The world of PPC management is changing faster now than in years past. New automation, economic shifts and developments in reporting capabilities are changing the role of a PPC agency. When I started out in PPC in 2012, I spent much of my time making manual bid changes. The work of a PPC agency was…