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It’s the Strategy, Stupid!

Forgive the aggressive title, but I need your attention. Our job at Brkthru is to do our best to enhance our agency partners’ relationships with their end clients. Great products, on-time and accurate reporting, campaign optimizations and results are extremely important, but what clients really look for from their advertising agencies is strategy! A new study…

Surprising Resurgences: Out-of-Home and QR Codes

Who could have imagined a few years ago that Out-of-Home and the once-maligned QR Code would rise again as viable marketing tools post-pandemic. Increased vaccine rates helped much of the world reopen and begin to venture out of their homes, we adapted to fewer “hands on” information sources, and marketers shifted how they reach key…

Class in Session: Brkthru U Kicks Off in Norfolk

The inaugural class of Brkthru U took place December 5-9 in Norfolk, VA, as our week-long, immersive training program for new team members to learn the Brkthru Mission, Values, Brand, Culture and Operations – the Brkthru Way. Brkthru U, led by Director of Learning & Development Courtney Jones, facilitators Jennifer Bird, Zoe Matthews and Shawn…

2023 Digital Marketing Forecast_ Sunny with a Chance of Storms

Some may say events of the past two years in digital marketing could be characterized as cataclysmic. Together as an industry, we’ve worked to take shelter, secure the windows, prepare our readiness kits, and bolster our communication plans. But what fronts are moving across the marketing Doppler as we look to 2023? More than we…

Making Nonprofits Sparkle this Giving Season

The first “Giving Tuesday” was held in 2012 with the goal to encourage generosity to “unleash the power of the people and organizations to transform their communities and the world.” This November 29th will mark the 10th annual Giving Tuesday. Over the years, hundreds of millions of people have joined the movement to give and…

This Holiday Season, Shoppers ‘Got a Brand New Bag’

If you feel like the holiday season beckons earlier each year, it’s not just the sugar-plums dancing in your head. From a consumer perspective, early shopping has become a habit. Sales events like the Amazon Prime Early Access Sale, Target’s Deal Days, and Walmart’s Rollbacks and More spurred holiday spending in the first half of…

How Content Marketing Can be a Long-Term Play for Marketers

For digital marketers, the last couple of years has been unique and important.  Access to customer data is slowly becoming more and more limited with IOS14 changes and browsers killing the 3rd party cookie. GDPR and other laws are becoming stricter with no signs of this trend slowing.  Turns out this has been for a…

What Recession? Marketers Are Optimistic About 2023 Plans

If you’re experiencing whiplash reading the headlines about a recession (possible) and inflation (real), you’re not alone.  Politicians, economists, and market professionals are engaged in a semantic debate over whether the U.S. economy is in a recession. According to the general definition—a recession is defined by two consecutive quarters of negative gross domestic product (GDP). Others…

Making NonProfits Sparkle this Giving Season

The first “Giving Tuesday” was held in 2012 with the goal to encourage generosity to “unleash the power of the people and organizations to transform their communities and the world.” This November 29th will mark the 10th annual Giving Tuesday. Over the years, hundreds of millions of people have joined the movement to give and…

As Netflix Beats Q3 Expectations, Apple Also Considers Ad-Supported Video

As advertisers await the launch of the streaming giant’s highly anticipated ads-supported tier this week, Netflix is boasting some strong numbers in its quarterly earnings report this month. The platform was expected to add one million subscribers in Q3. Instead, the company gained 2.41 million new subscriptions – more than doubling expectations for new customers…