
Why Every Marketer Should Leverage Retargeting
Website visitors abandon the sales funnel for many reasons: comparison shopping, credit card not handy, “just browsing” and so on....

Getting Online Video Ads Right!
More advertisers are taking advantage of video advertising opportunities. According to the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report for...

How Digital Is Shaping Auto Marketing
Over the last several years, the U.S. auto industry has seen an immense rebound after the recession and bailouts of 2008. According to...

Up Close @ SMX East: Seven Steps To Success In Native Advertising
This week at SMX East in New York, Rebecca Lieb from Altimeter Group presented to a full house on how best to find success in the native...

Advertising Engagement: Past, Present And Future
While talk of “engagement” currently permeates discussions of digital advertising effectiveness, it is by no means a new concept; in...

How To Create Hands-Off Display Campaigns That Deliver Results
There are literally billions of possible combinations an advertiser can choose from to reach a target user, but not every company has the...

Is That Display Ad Unviewable, Or Fraudulent? Consider The Intent
As the debate intensifies about the impact of the digital twin evils of unviewable and fraudulent ads, there is one thing that all sides...

You Really Have No Idea How Your Media Plans Are Being Built!
It is a little before midnight; I am late submitting this article by three days; I am jetlagged beyond belief; I am halfway around the...

Best Practices For Image Ads On The Google Display Network
Creating image ads for the Google Display Network — especially if you’re coming from a search marketing background where images are novel...

Is Your Retargeting Missing The Bullseye?
In my last article, I told you about the retargeting trap — this is where marketers rush to put all their money into retargeting because...

In The Marketing Industry’s Machine Age, Who Do You Trust?
We wondered what this development would do to strategic collaboration between brand, agency and publisher. We worried that it would...

Geeking Out On Digital Ads: A Definitive History Of IAB Standards
The Author Sadly Geeking Out on Ad Standards The astute reader may not be surprised to hear that I collected match book covers in my...

What Did Digital Media Pros Do On Summer Vacation? Business, Of Course!
If you’re like me, the end of the summer is the time when you pack your bag and try and catch a break before the fall arrives — and...

Get With The Programmatic: A Primer On Programmatic Advertising
Chances are you’ve heard the buzz surrounding programmatic advertising and how it is projected to account for 50% of digital ad sales by...

How Hyperlocal Mobile Advertising Changes Everything
One of 2014’s biggest trends is the rise of hyperlocal advertising. Hyperlocal, as it’s called in ad tech circles, allows marketers to...

Predicting And Creating The Media RFP Of 2016
Without question, digital media planning is evolving continuously. In some ways, this evolution is happening too fast for the media...

Viewability Rising As Programmatic Dominates & Fraud Proliferates
The number of companies using programmatic ad buying is increasing by the day. A recent Advertiser Perceptions survey reports that 78% of...

Consumers Reject Lowest Common Denominator Native Ads — And So Should You
Not all native advertising is created equal. There is a wide and growing disparity between high-quality examples — those that are in the...

Marketing Soothsayers: It’s Time To Go ‘Native’ With Your Advertising
Recently, my company, The 614 Group, joined forces with content advertising leader OneSpot to conduct a study in which we surveyed almost...
























