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For the purposes of this report, CTR is calculated as the number of clicks on a tweeted link divided by the number of followers the account had when it tweeted that link. Below is an infographic presenting some of the latest data available about increasing CTRs on Twitter.
Traditional measurement tools handicap marketing managers and force upon them campaign measurment tactics that should have long been abandoned. As advertisers consider new standards for understanding display ad influence, it's important that they recognize ad engagement, and subsequent post-engagement conversions, as a viable metric.
The Boston Consulting Group, which has been following the tablet market for some time, just issued a report indicating that the reality of tablet adoption has far exceeded expectations, which is creating new challenges and opportunities for marketers. At the same time, a study from Adobe Digital Marketing Insights reports that shopping is one of the major activities of tablet owners. Marketers, take heed.
The chance of arriving at a standard set of social media metrics for every brand is small. Similarly, we should be leery of approaches that advocate measuring social like we’ve measured advertising, or any other communications discipline.
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.
New marketing-measurement methods start from the same point: What can digital offer? But no one asked marketers what they needed. And not just from digital media, but from all media. And that would be. . .
Today, we offer up “CMO.com's 2012 Digital Marketing Landscape.” In one eye-catching page, we provide you with a snapshot of the opportunities digital marketers will have this year and into the future, plus give some ideas on how to capitalize on these trends and shifts.
Whether you need to measure the ROI of your social media marketing comes down to more than just a simple yes/no answer. Instead, consider the following 10 questions that will guide if, when, and how you should be undertaking social media measurements.
Looking at one marketing channel at a time provides incomplete insight into performance, yet many businesses split management of channels across multiple teams--leading to internal competition for the same conversions.