On Thursday, August 9, 2018, Facebook made a move to increase transparency of where ads are coming from, cracking down in the medical category of addiction treatment centers. This comes after the announcement earlier this year that all digital media buyers managing political campaigns go through an authorization process providing a US driver’s license or US passport, a US-based residential mailing address, and the last 4 digits of their Social Security number
Mobile Marketing is a hot commodity among advertisers around the country, as consumers spend more and more time on their mobile devices daily. Our Mobile Conquesting products have many advanced features, including geo-fencing, behavioral/location/brand targeting, dynamically updated ads, weather triggered ads, geo-retargeting, geo-lookalike targeting, and also the ability to track in-store visits
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Conversions are pretty much the pot of gold for digital marketing. Increasing your conversion rate is fundamental to your client's return on investment and make the most of your digital marketing budget
Digital Advertising is great, we all agree and that’s why you’re reading this. To begin your campaign with ease, we want you to have access to any and all tools that can make your job easier
It is important to make sure to stand out to your clients. According to some recent sales statistics, it takes 8 cold call attempts to reach a prospect and once you get the interest of a prospect, it then takes 5 follow-up calls to take things to the next step
I have always been told "You can't have your cake and eat it too." What does that really mean and how is it relevant to native advertising? The proverb's meaning is similar to the phrases "you can't have it both ways" and "you can't have the best of both worlds
Many companies are increasing their usage of email marketing. One of those industries increasing email marketing is nonprofits, who last year increased their email communication by just over 11%
In today’s fast paced world video is climbing up the marketing ladder, and it is not just for the big dogs anymore, everyone is playing. 87% of online marketers are using video content and it continues to grow! Recent statistics show that one-third of online activity is spent watching video and half of all video content online is viewed on mobile devices
From Russia, with Love? Recently both Facebook and advertisers are scratching their heads on how to handle US political advertising, given the allegations that Russians may have meddled with the previous presidential election with large amounts of paid propaganda sweeping our feeds. Over the last several weeks Facebook has swiftly responded with added security measures for all political advertising to provide transparency into who is exactly paying for the ads you see on their platform
Vici is excited to welcome Megan "Sully" Sullivan and Shay Edwards to the team! They are both based out of the Philadelphia location. Sully’s background is in digital marketing, corporate relations, and promotions, while Shay's expertise is in marketing, communications, and social media management
Vici knows a little bit about Facebook and Instagram campaigns. Looking back over the last year we’ve run a little under a billion impressions, resulting hundreds of thousands of conversions for our partners and their clients
Facebook has been in the news lately, for some not so popular things, mainly the Facebook data breach impacting over 50 million user’s data. They reacted quickly to the news, publicly declaring that starting October 1, they will no longer be offering 3rd party targeting categories to advertisers
According to the English Dictionary, “Keeping up with the Joneses” means to always want to own the same things as your friends or neighbors, because you are worried about seeming less important socially than they are.Does this happen in the advertising world? You bet! In fact, that’s what some advertisers are banking on
Google Analytics is a free measurement tool that measures your website traffic, giving you powerful marketing insights. But the data is only powerful if you understand it
I find this statistic shocking: “Roughly half of the nearly $70 billion allocated to fund co-op advertising programs goes unused every year.” However, according to estimates from LSA, Borrell Associates and others that is exactly what is happening
A recent report on the state of digital advertising as it relates to radio stations selling it, provided some valuable insights into both mediums. The report, “Benchmarking: Local Radio Stations’ Online Revenues” looked at factors such as how much local digital ad dollars are being spent broken out by market and how much of that is with local traditional advertising companies?Here are some of the key stats that jumped out at us as we looked at this report:The report forecasts that local digital ad revenue will increase this year by 14% over last year
Event based targeting is becoming extremely popular among digital marketers, mainly because it gives you an opportunity to have a presence at the event, even without a physically being there. But event targeting is not a one-size fits all strategy
Looking at total ad spend alone; the short answer is “similar to last year.” However, when broken down product by product, we learn that even though half of Small and Medium Businesses are not increasing their overall ad dollars by much, they are adjusting how they are allocating those ad dollars, and more money is moving to digital media
Facebook announced on January 11th that they are doing some further “tinkering” with their algorithm which has implications for businesses that post organically to their Facebook Business Page. While this has made big news in the last week – it really isn’t anything new, it’s a continuation of changes that started two years ago as we talked about in this blog post
2017 saw record growth in Digital Advertising dollars throughout the United States. According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, those dollars are actually $40
