With relatives and neighbors friending them on Facebook, young people have started shifting to Twitter. Twitter's more fluid and anonymous setup, teens say, gives them more freedom to avoid friends of friends of friends—not that they're saying anything particularly earth-shattering. They just don't want everyone to see it.
This year will bring about tremendous opportunities for promotional marketers to reach mobile consumers, who are increasingly engaging with mobile offers. Yet, at the same time, there’s a lot of room for improvement.
Targeted advertising is, by and large, terrible. Prime example: Twitter, which despite being one of the great hopes of the social web, keeps getting it wrong.
Brands should get smarter about their retargeting programs as a priority and stop pouring good money after bad. To do so, they need to learn what retargeting really is, how best to use it, and why it can be a valuable tool for both optimization and new customer acquisition.
Who makes up the Super Bowl audience, and what do advertisers spend to reach them? Among the profiles, you'll find sci-fans, golfers, and SUV owners, as well as people looking to buy an Amazon Kindle.
American culture isn't what it used to be, but an evolution of it in which Latinos want to play an influential role. Surprisingly, when it comes to advertising, brands are not necessarily aligned with this expectation.
Small and midsize businesses are looking for new and better ways to do things, to be more innovative, and to be flat-out smarter in everything they do. This underscores the growing opportunity for brands that provide services to SMBs.
IAB EVP and COO Patrick Dolan, along with Winterberry Group analyst Jonathan Margulies, discuss the two groups' new white paper on how ad targeting data is being implemented today across online marketing programs. "If the industry is going to live up to the promise of data as a central corporate asset, it's going to need to put senior-level resources behind its assembly, integration and use," says Margulies.
Seeking to improve conversion and strengthen the relevancy of messaging, marketers are increasing their reliance on behavioral targeting programs. But at what cost?
Marketers must not pin their hopes for the future on a resurgent middle class or a resuscitated middle market. Better for brands to move past the middle with more of high-low approach.