Influencing the five-plus decision-makers responsible for a major business-to-business purchase decision can feel like an impossibility. B2B Marketing, in conjunction with leading full-service global B2B agency gyro, set out to find the truths about today’s group dynamics.
While it is easy for marketers to be distracted by the power of data and technology, a new report reminds us what really drives business decisions: feelings. A new study conducted by the Financial Times Commercial Insight Group and gyro asked more than 300 FT readers across the globe to express what feelings are crucial for creating successful business relationships.
Although humor is featured in many of the most memorable ads of all time, it is still seldom seen in the world of business-to-business. Why? B-to-B professionals are afraid humorous ads may fall flat or — worse — damage brand image. In the first study of its kind, gyro and Research Now SSI have discovered that humor can be a powerful tactic for capturing attention and even prompting purchase consideration.
Published By: Marketo
Published Date: Feb 11, 2019
Advertising has evolved. No longer is it restricted to print publications, static billboards, radio, and television. Modern technologies have opened the door to a whole new era of advertising–digital advertising. Digital advertising allows marketers and advertisers to reach and appeal to their core audiences in new ways and with more precision.
The challenge of meeting the modern buyer's expectation of a continuous, cross-channel, and personal experience is met with new ad technology and innovations that continue to advance at break-neck speeds. New ad technology platforms, types of ads, methods of tracking, dynamic ad content, and advances such as the Internet of Things now provide endless opportunities for marketers and advertisers to engage their customers personally and across channels.
In this comprehensive, 110+ page guide, we cover topics from the evolution of digital advertising, to how to structure your digital marketing team, to testing and optimization. Loaded with checkli
Published By: QuantumMethod
Published Date: Jul 28, 2011
There's growing recognition that marketers can no longer afford to wait for specific guidelines from the FDA. Jump on the social media bandwagon or be left blow'n in the wind. Are you prepared? b
With content plentiful and audience attention hard to attract—let alone retain—advertising has to go beyond simple personalization. Discover how HERE is bridging the gap, adding context to our view of the consumer using location-based insights that span the digital and physical worlds. So, you can learn not only who the audience is, but precisely where they are—and why.
Learn more in the HERE eBook.
Audience segmentation is key for successful ad campaigns. Without it, a brand is flying blind – wasting spend and resources.
However, the good news is that increasingly sophisticated technology makes it possible for brands to gain a deeper understanding of their target audiences – and how to reach them. This is especially true of location intelligence-driven advertising which can give more timely and complete insights into audiences than ever before.
As one of the world’s leading location platforms in 2018, HERE Technologies shares insights and solutions to buying location data for better audience segmentation.
Find out about the challenges and questions to ask when buying location data and download the Buyers Guide for Marketers.
Download this asset to learn the volume and variety of data available today is creating new opportunities to improve your customers’ lives – from personalized recommendations to targeted advertising and intelligent services.
Sponsored by: HPE and Intel®
Advertisers are beginning to invest in location insights which give them data on how and why transactions are made in specific places. U.S. marketers are poised to double their spend on location-targeted mobile ads between 2017 and 2021 to $32 billion, according to research firm BIA/Kelsey. Understanding location is key to gaining insights and making change.
HERE offers data sets and services that advertisers can use to contextualize consumer movements and habits in the world around them. This gives them well-timed and relevant advertising.
Advertisers have made great strides in understanding consumers’ digital journeys. But in order to truly map the steps of the consumer – including bridging the journeys between digital and physical worlds – you need advanced location-enabled intelligence. Find out how precise real-world geometry gives you the context you require to create personalized consumer experiences with the HERE and Location-Based Marketing Association (LBMA) white paper.
HERE Technologies gives you the location context you need to make sense of your dynamic user data. Mapping consumer movements to real-world elements such as points of interest, retailers and their building shapes allows you to observe consumer journeys to within meters, and deliver more timely, accurate campaign messages.
How can brands make the most of the growing opportunities offered by location data? Understanding location and its connection to customer behavior is key to gaining full and reliable insights and making efficient change.
HERE is building and sharing real-time location intelligence which reveals why customers make transactions in specific places. HERE’s Open Location Platform contextualizes consumer motivations in the world around them. As the world’s leading location platform in 2018 (Source: Ovum and Counterpoint Research annual indexes) HERE also shares its own insights into the future of reaching customers on their mobile devices as they travel, including in-car advertising.
"Read the guide to learn five ways to overcome challenges to programmatic ads, including how to:
· Bring marketers, creatives, IT, and data analysts together to ensure success
· Save money and time while improving engagement and conversion
· Customize multiple versions of one campaign and serve ads with strong creative in real time"
Read Forrester's inaugural Wave for Omnichannel Demand-Side Platforms to learn why Adobe is a leader. Adobe Advertising Cloud received top scores in product strategy and digital ecosystem footprint, and achieved the highest scores in 14 criteria.
On the surface, the connection between fractals and
programmatic advertising isn’t obvious, but right
down to the melding of art and math, programmatic
advertising has a lot in common with this
unconventional geometry. And those similarities pave
the way for some serious implications for the way you
approach creative assets.
Vendors from advertising, marketing automation and analytics are racing to
deliver personalized digital marketing at scale. Marketing leaders need a
system that can integrate and coordinate data and activities across
channels, devices and contexts, continuously and in real time.
See the 2017 retail holiday recap for learnings you can use while planning for Holiday 2018.
Why the target audience should care: Get the trends from last year’s holiday season so you can predict your results this year. Find out why Black Friday online sales are expected to surpass Cyber Monday’s, why bigger retailers are stealing online share from smaller retailers, and why search advertising and mobile optimization should be your top priorities this season.
Adobe sits at the nexus of content, media, and marketing.
Adobe provides an EMSS offering spanning marketing, advertising, analytics, and content management capabilities. Of the vendors included this study, Adobe maintains the highest degree of overall strategic focus on marketing and consumer engagement. Adobe is investing heavily in its platform’s core services to unify data, content, and shared functionality across products. Adobe stands out for its digital intelligence, content handling, and aggressive rollout of AI features. Reference clients praise Adobe for their application usability and account management.
In the increasingly competitive OTT market, competition for viewers is high. Providers must find ways to not just deliver compelling content, but to deliver compelling viewing experiences. In this whitepaper, you’ll learn about the critical challenges facing OTT providers today and how they can be overcome to provide the broadcast quality experiences viewers expect, regardless of the device in use or the viewers location in the world.
Are you ready to keep your subscribers happy and away from your competition?
Download this free white paper OTT 3.0: How to Build a Better Mousetrap and learn:
Why personalized content discovery is so important to viewers – and to the success of your business
How to avoid internet congestion by leveraging technologies like a CDN
The importance of global network scale to meet spikes in consumer traffic
The impact of advertising on viewer abandonment
Although humor is featured in many of the most memorable ads of all time, it is still seldom seen in the world of business-to-business. Why? B-to-B professionals are afraid humorous ads may fall flat or — worse — damage brand image. In the first study of its kind, gyro and Research Now SSI have discovered that humor can be a powerful tactic for capturing attention and even prompting purchase consideration.
Published By: MediaRadar
Published Date: Nov 21, 2018
Learn how the biggest brands are leveraging TV advertising to reach their target audiences. Find out what’s happening in the TV advertising landscape in our most up-to-date trend report.
Download the report to learn about:
the latest TV ad trends, including the types of ads Volvo and Burger King ran that creatively pushed the limits of what’s possible in TV advertising
what brands are spending the most on tv advertising and which categories spend the most overall
which new ad formats brands are using to build the biggest buzz
how the World Cup affected brands’ ad spend and placement
Published By: MediaRadar
Published Date: Nov 21, 2018
What are the latest native trends, which are the product categories spending the most? How can you successfully implement native advertising and fully leverage this high-cpm ad format? Find out in our latest trend report.
You’ll Learn:
Which product categories are spending the most on native
The major challenges with and benefits of native advertising
Ways in which you can successfully implement native advertising
What’s next for native advertising
If you are responsible for online advertising, this report is going to change the way you look at your banner ads forever. It did for us. But, step one on the road to this transformation was deciding exactly what to measure. Download this whitepaper to learn about a new measurement approach that proves banner ads boost offline sales.
Published By: Sitecore
Published Date: Feb 26, 2016
Cart abandonment, digital advertising (especially when faced with ad-blocking software), and discrete digital stores are relics of the past when it comes to e-commerce. Consider this: How much revenue do you think $1 spent on digital advertising will generate in commerce sales? The answer: A bit more than twice the investment—an abysmally unprofitable equation for any company carrying physical inventory.
The UK is recognised around the world for its unique character and the strength of its creative industries. We’re renowned for great storytellers, from Shakespeare to Dickens, Orwell to J.K Rowling; for our world-famous musicians, from Coldplay to Queen, The Beatles to Adele; for our fantastic actors; our striking modern architecture; our leadership in fashion and design, matched by high quality craftsmanship; our witty and effective advertising, genre-defining publishing; and our globally important digital games industry.
One of the key objectives of Adobe’s current advertising campaign is to explode the myth that ‘managing websites is hell’. We believe that in this day and age, the idea that website management is a nightmare should be a thing of the past.