How B2B content marketing grew in 2016
Content

How B2B content marketing grew in 2016

9y Tereza Litsa

How B2B content marketing grew in 2016

From the most popular tactics during 2016, to the new strategies we need to apply in 2017. Read More...

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10 mistakes businesses and brands make with social media
Media

10 mistakes businesses and brands make with social media

9y Bob Cargill

10 mistakes businesses and brands make with social...

With social media reach and engagement rates having dipped so precipitously over the last year or so, paying to play is the only option for most brand...

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2017: The Year of Machine Learning, Intelligent Content and Experiences
Media

2017: The Year of Machine Learning, Intelligent Content and Experiences

9y Jim Yu

2017: The Year of Machine Learning, Intelligent Co...

Digital (and in our case search and content) data holds the keys to marketing success. Read More...

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The 5 marketing trends top brands are tracking for 2017
Insights

The 5 marketing trends top brands are tracking for 2017

9y Nick Gregg

The 5 marketing trends top brands are tracking for...

As marketers plan for the year ahead, we’re highlighting the top trends for marketers for 2017, with intelligence tracked by Catalyst Alerts. Read Mor...

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A motivational message for retail email marketers (and everyone else, too)
Ecommerce

A motivational message for retail email marketers (and everyone else, too)

9y Ryan Phelan

A motivational message for retail email marketers ...

With Halloween, the US presidential election and Thanksgiving in the rear-view mirror, we're now headlong into the all-holiday-all-the-time stream. An...

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5 Proven List Building Strategies to Employ in 2017
Media

5 Proven List Building Strategies to Employ in 2017

9y John Stevens

5 Proven List Building Strategies to Employ in 201...

Here are five proven list building strategies that you can employ in 2017 -- each backed up with case studies and research: Read More...

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Three things we learnt from Black Friday 2016
Ecommerce

Three things we learnt from Black Friday 2016

9y Jonathan Attwood

Three things we learnt from Black Friday 2016

The figures are in, and all in all, Brits spent £2.9 billion this Black Friday. But beyond the figures, what lessons can retailers learn from the busi...

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Cyber Monday breaks record for biggest online sales day in history
Data insights

Cyber Monday breaks record for biggest online sales day in history

9y Al Roberts

Cyber Monday breaks record for biggest online sale...

It probably won't come as a surprise that 2016's Cyber Monday has earned the distinction of being the biggest online sales day in US history. Read Mor...

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Nine mobile trends to help you stand out in 2017 and beyond
Mobile

Nine mobile trends to help you stand out in 2017 and beyond

9y Gerald Murphy

Nine mobile trends to help you stand out in 2017 a...

The way we ask for information is changing. The way we optimise must change too. Read More...

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How to maximise the potential of video ads
Media

How to maximise the potential of video ads

9y Mark Rosner

How to maximise the potential of video ads

Early mobile video ads were ugly, glitchy and impractical. They were slow-to-load, pushing 3G network technology to the max. Read More...

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How to target the ‘missing audience’ in your data-driven marketing
Analytics

How to target the ‘missing audience’ in your data-driven marketing

9y Rebecca Sentance

How to target the ‘missing audience’ in your data-...

What’s behind a successful data-driven marketing strategy? Read More...

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Mobile advertising accounts for nearly half of digital spend, but it comes at a price: ad fraud
Display Advertising

Mobile advertising accounts for nearly half of digital spend, but it comes ...

9y Andy Favell

Mobile advertising accounts for nearly half of dig...

US Advertisers are spending US $2.6 billion on mobile ads each month, $0.4 billion in the UK, they understandably want to know that their ads are seen...

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Digital Leaders Q&A: Paulo Cunha, CEO of ShiftForward
Insights

Digital Leaders Q&A: Paulo Cunha, CEO of ShiftForward

9y Graham Charlton

Digital Leaders Q&A: Paulo Cunha, CEO of Shift...

Paulo Cunha is an entrepreneur and ad tech expert with a 14 year mixed background of Computing, Web Marketing and Advertising technologies. Read More...

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Keep these five points in mind to nail the customer journey
Customer behaviour

Keep these five points in mind to nail the customer journey

9y Jonathan Attwood

Keep these five points in mind to nail the custome...

Sometimes underestimated, the form that appears at the end of the customer's online journey can offer remarkable insight on customer behaviour. Get it...

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Walgreens turns to Pinterest video ads to promote "small gifting"
Acquisition

Walgreens turns to Pinterest video ads to promote "small gifting"

9y Al Roberts

Walgreens turns to Pinterest video ads to promote ...

While it typically conjures up images of consumers clamoring for deals on big ticket items, American retailer Walgreens is hoping that this year it ca...

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Inclusive marketing: the need to remove binary data
Data insights

Inclusive marketing: the need to remove binary data

9y Janet Bastiman

Inclusive marketing: the need to remove binary dat...

Earlier this week Metro Bank became the first financial institution to offer a gender neutral option for both its staff and customers. Read More...

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Four supplemental marketing strategies for holiday ecommerce growth
Ecommerce

Four supplemental marketing strategies for holiday ecommerce growth

9y Evan Magliocca

Four supplemental marketing strategies for holiday...

The most wonderful time of the year usually means heartburn for retailers trying to squeeze every dollar from the holidays. Read More...

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How martech companies are changing their approaches to lead generation and prospecting
Analytics

How martech companies are changing their approaches to lead generation and ...

9y Graham Charlton

How martech companies are changing their approache...

One of the major challenges in the martech industry is getting the attention of prospects in a world where they are bombarded by content and emails on...

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How brands can make the most of header bidding
Display Advertising

How brands can make the most of header bidding

9y Rory Edwards

How brands can make the most of header bidding

Publishers are rushing head on into header bidding - the popular new technique sweeping ad tech by storm. Read More...

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LinkedIn Sponsored InMail goes self-serve
Email

LinkedIn Sponsored InMail goes self-serve

9y Al Roberts

LinkedIn Sponsored InMail goes self-serve

In March, LinkedIn launched Sponsored InMail, an ad solution that allows marketers to send promotional messages to the InMail inboxes of LinkedIn user...

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How Black Friday can lead to valuable organic search opportunities
Paid Search

How Black Friday can lead to valuable organic search opportunities

9y Tereza Litsa

How Black Friday can lead to valuable organic sear...

Black Friday can be a great commercial opportunity for brands, but how can you create a successful strategy for the big day? Black Friday is a perfect...

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Instagram Stories become more interesting with Mentions, Links and Boomerang
Social

Instagram Stories become more interesting with Mentions, Links and Boomeran...

9y Tereza Litsa

Instagram Stories become more interesting with Men...

Instagram makes Stories more efficient with the addition of mentions, links, and Boomerang. Will these make them more appealing to marketers? Instagra...

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Insurers starting to get to grips with online conversion and complex forms
Acquisition

Insurers starting to get to grips with online conversion and complex forms

9y Jonathan Attwood

Insurers starting to get to grips with online conv...

Insurers went online a long time ago, but one of the major challenges has been creating an online experience that can handle the relatively complex in...

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10 useful tools for writing compelling content for SEO
Content

10 useful tools for writing compelling content for SEO

9y Guest Writer

10 useful tools for writing compelling content for...

Almost 93% of all online experiences begin with a search engine and 70% of the links that people click are organic.* Do you need more evidence that SE...

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Google Home Services ads come to mobile search (then disappear again)
Paid Search

Google Home Services ads come to mobile search (then disappear again)

9y Andy Favell

Google Home Services ads come to mobile search (th...

A trial of Google Home Services (GHS) ads on mobile is the clearest sign yet that Google intends to roll the GHS beta program out to the mobile platfo...

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Email: creating a low effort experience
Advanced Email Marketing

Email: creating a low effort experience

9y Derek Harding

Email: creating a low effort experience

Why creating a low effort experience is important in email marketing. Read More...

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The future of mobile local search part three: tradesmen, home services, verification and guarantees
Mobile

The future of mobile local search part three: tradesmen, home services, ver...

9y Andy Favell

The future of mobile local search part three: trad...

The third part of our of mobile local search series examines searches for tradesmen (paid and unpaid results) and the various trials and betas Google ...

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Do ad blockers hold the clue to the future of advertising?
Ad Industry Metrics

Do ad blockers hold the clue to the future of advertising?

9y Tim Flagg

Do ad blockers hold the clue to the future of adve...

Has 2016 been the year of the ad blocker? The numbers of worldwide users has soared driven by mobile uptake. Ad blocking is high on the agenda for bot...

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