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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Apple has been making a slow, but not so subtle move into the ad industry over the past year. When Apple released iOS 14.5 in April 2021, their App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature rattled the industry as iPhone users began opting out of tracking across other apps and websites. What Apple deems a privacy-centered move…
Google announced they are changing the format of their search ads on the Search Engine Results Page (SERP). Say “so long” to the ads label and get ready for the new sponsored label at the top left of the ads. But wait…there’s more! Google wants to also add the business name and logo to the…
Many organizations love to tout their shiny objects and solutions that guarantee success and wild profit. Once you have been promised the world and sign on the line, the realization sets in that you may have missed some fine print on how successful that tool would make you. This is a story we often hear from…
This may sound biased coming from a decade-long marketer, but here is why you should continue strategically marketing during a recession. During times of recession, many advertisers tend to decrease marketing budgets and consumers become more strict with their spending. As sales begin to drop, businesses will often cut costs, drop prices, and put new…
The rebound continues! Like many businesses, out-of-home advertising overall took a hit during the pandemic as many consumers sheltered at home and restricted their travel. 2022 continues to show a bounce back with out-of-home advertising, but the rising star is digital out-of-home (DOOH) ushering in a new normal. Consumers are reemerging, traveling, attending events, and…