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Want Google To Feature Your Job Posting For Free On Search Results Pages?
I’m guessing the answer is yes? Have you noticed that Google has started featuring job listings in the organic section of the search engine results page when you put in keywords related to a job? For example, if you searched “digital media jobs Elmira NY” you could get a results page like this:The listings at the top aren’t paid search ads.  They are organic (free listings) that appear because those companies have added something called Job Posting Structured Data to their job listing on their website – a GREAT Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tactic that you can do too!Finding qualified candidates is always a struggle
Katie Pray
March 8, 2021
OTT/Video Pre-Roll/Linear TV…What’s The Difference?
Video ads keeping getting more popular with advertisers and brands are seeing the value. 85% of brands use video marketing in 2020, which is up from 63% in 2017
Dana Bojcic
March 3, 2021
How To Have A Successful Virtual Client Meeting
It has been almost a year since Covid-19 hit and it has turned our workdays heck…every day upside down. “Normal” workdays in the office and being on the go are a thing of the past
Allison Gibson
February 19, 2021
Are You Reaching Consumers While they are Using Apps?
How many times have you been trying to hang a picture on a wall and you want to see if it’s level, but you’re too lazy to go out to the garage or basement and get a level? Well, now you don’t have to because there’s an app for that! There is also an app that you can use if you are trying to lose weight and want to count your calories for the day. If you can’t find your car in a parking lot, there’s an app that will tell you where you parked, and it will read it to you in a pirate voice (for inquiring minds, the name of that app is Carr Matey)
Katie Pray
February 9, 2021
How Can Auto Dealers Use Advanced Digital Advertising?
Before we go full throttle into all the different ways in which auto dealers can utilize digital ads to drive traffic into their dealerships and increase sales, I couldn’t resist throwing in some fun puns to start us off. There is no denying that the automotive vertical is one that is fueling the advertising industry
Katie Pray
January 25, 2021
Cannabis Digital Ad Spending Is Blooming!
What do you call money that grows on trees? Marijuana. Sorry for my bluntness, that's just how I roll
Allison Gibson
January 19, 2021
What to expect for advertising budgets and products in 2021?
2020 has come to end.  How can we possibly know what to expect to happen in 2021?!   I’m no psychic and don’t claim to be
Greg Swiszcz
January 7, 2021
What Are Universal IDs Or Unified IDs And What Happens When Cookies Go Away?
Cookies, line of code used to track users across the internet and target ads to them, are going away.  Apple’s Safari browser already uses Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) to limit companies’ abilities to track users by blocking third-party cookies that collect this type of data
Leslye Schumacher
December 18, 2020
Is OTT Part of Your Marketing Mix?
If the terms “Ew, David” or “Carole Baskin” or “Strike First, Strike Hard, No Mercy”, mean anything to you, you have most likely watched Over The Top (OTT) programming. OTT is video programming that a user is watching through the Internet, instead of watching through traditional cable or broadcast
Katie Pray
December 15, 2020
Are Social Mirror Ads Working for Businesses?
The answer to that is a resounding YES! If you are not familiar with what Social Mirror Ads are, first have a look at my last blog and explore more details here. In a nutshell, Social Mirror ads mimic the look and feel of top social media platforms
Dana Bojcic
December 9, 2020
How does Google My Business Help My Business during the holidays?
There are so many digital terms floating around water coolers and company meetings.  One of those terms is “Google My Business Listing
Greg Swiszcz
December 2, 2020
Need New Business Leads? Let’s Talk Facebook Lead Ads.
With the state of our world and everything going online business leads become more and more important daily. Most businesses would tell you however, getting consumers to do what we want them to do online, can be challenging
Allison Gibson
November 24, 2020
Vici Ranked Number 404 Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2020 Technology Fast 500™
We are thrilled to announce we made the list two years in a row for Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2020 Technology Fast 500™.Philadelphia PA, November 18, 2020 — Vici, headquartered in Philadelphia PA today announced it ranked 404 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America now in its 25th year
Allison Gibson
November 18, 2020
What Are Facebook Offer Ads?
Updated 1-6-22: Facebook Offer Ads were deprecated in October of 2021My mom is the person that gives the best gifts. Every year she nails it and gets the most creative, most comfortable, practical gifts and every time I ask where she got it, she replies with “it was a QVC special!” I have been gifted the most amazing bed sheets, the most spectacular scissors (weird, right? They are lifechanging) and my personal favorite, a portable car jumper
Katie Pray
November 13, 2020
What are Social Mirror Ads?
Social Mirror ads mimic the look and feel of top social media platforms however, the ads appear not on the social platforms, but on thousands of other websites and apps and run across all devices.Each ad links back to the social platform it is mirroring and, has a second call to action button that links to the advertiser’s website!  Ads contain unique social actions related back to the originating social platform (for example, the like icon, the heart icon, the pinning icon)  These ads can integrate with all the major social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram, X, Linked In, Pinterest, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube
Leslye Schumacher
November 10, 2020
How Do You Target Your Advertising During the Holidays?
Oh Quaren-tree, Oh Quaran-tree… what will this holiday season be?Pivot left. Pivot right
Greg Swiszcz
November 3, 2020
How Are You Reaching Consumers Impacted by the Pandemic?
I was at the grocery store the other day and as I was waiting to check out (six feet behind the person in front of me of course) I caught myself staring at the cashier. I was thinking that he looked familiar, but I could not put my finger on who it was or how I knew him
Katie Pray
October 16, 2020
Are your digital political ads ready to go?
If you are talking to any clients or prospects about running digital ads for political, especially on Facebook or Instagram, it is time to close the sale and start executing.Facebook has released some new information about political advertising, and the restrictions are tighter than ever
Dana Bojcic
October 11, 2020
What is Cross Platform Targeting and How Does it Work?
In order to understand Cross Platform Advertising, it’s important to first understand its foundation, Mobile Conquesting™, one of our most popular products. It’s also one of the more advanced and sophisticated products we offer
Greg Swiszcz
October 7, 2020
Vici's Very Own - Women of Achievement
September is National Woman of Achievement Month and when I hear this I immediately want to proclaim, “I am woman hear me ROAR!”. I am proud to be a woman and I am very fortunate to have encountered some amazing women throughout my lifetime
Allison Gibson
September 29, 2020
Are You Taking Advantage of Digital Advertising for the Holidays?
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Schools are back in session (somewhat), the nights and mornings are getting cooler, and the sun is setting earlier. Personally, I like to get every last bit out of summer that I can and consider summer to begin on Memorial Day weekend and go until midnight of the first day of Fall, but once September 22nd rolls around, we are officially into Fall
Katie Pray
September 22, 2020
What Types of Businesses Are and Are Not Allowed to Digitally Advertise?
Update: Facebook shuttered Jobs on Facebook (February 2023) and Instant Articles (April 2023)One of my favorite games to play when I was a kid was “Red Light, Green Light”. This is a game where one person is “it” and stands a good distance away from the other players with their back to rest of the group; this person is considered the traffic light
Katie Pray
August 31, 2020
How Does Mobile Targeted Advertising Work?
Let’s face it…people love their smart phones. Really! And…they can’t really live without them
Greg Swiszcz
August 28, 2020