Campaign of the Week: Dinner Time – 50 Years of Food of Thought Source: TIME Why we like it: This paid post by in TIME, presented by Netflix, features their new series Cooked by digging up some old food stories in the TIME’s archive. Netflix keeps setting a good example of how to work with the publisher to create valuable and relevant nartive content. Continue reading
Today Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) rolled out to the masses, you will start to see them in searches, indicated by this green thunderbolt. The beauty of this, is that Google is taking the initiative to help clean up the rest of the web, they are abstracting this layer on top. AMP is for content, what Business Listings are for the about pages on small business webpages. People want the information now. So, that’s great, why do advertisers care? Well, more… Continue reading
You’re here as you want to find out more about how to measure brand awareness and the associated metrics. Brand Awareness is: the extent to which consumers are familiar with the distinctive qualities or image of a particular brand of goods or services.” Source: Wikipedia The intent of using this is to understand a baseline level of awareness of your brand and then a post exposure awareness to identify how effective a communications and marketing campaign… Continue reading
Campaign of the Week: Scotch & Other Stories to Savor Source: Travel + Leisure Why we like it: This masterfully crafted custom feature in Travel + Leisure invites you into an alluring world of the finest single malts, with delightful facts and the stories behind them. Quote of the Week People come back because of the attachment that they have… Continue reading
Native content advertising is where you use native ad formats to distribute your content. Our post The Best Native Ads of 2015 has some great examples of best in class executions, further we have compiled a list of native advertising tools you can leverage. You might be wondering, how does native content complement my content marketing initiatives, native content is a great way to extend those efforts. It’s like the icing on the cake, it helps draw people in. You… Continue reading
Native advertising analytics enables advertisers to see what impact their ad campaigns are having. There are specialist tools which focus on each part of the journey. Upper funnel tools help see how long the ad was in view, and the frequency and CTR. Then down funnel, looking at the post-click engagement, like scroll, attention and conversion rate. Nudge as a platform has specialized in this use case of distributed native content, you are either buying native content across multiple sites… Continue reading
Campaign of the Week: 11 Perfect Valentine’s Day Gifts For The Jet-Setting Couple Source: Bustle Why we like it: It’s February, the month when nothing seems to happen and you’re dreaming of warmer places and adventurous summer getaways. You scroll through your social feed and envy the couples that seem to have the perfect jet-set life, so why not create one on your… Continue reading
Content retargeting is a new tool in the content marketers toolkit, recently I covered how to retarget your content and thought worthwhile to share which platforms allow you to retarget content. OutBrain recently announced with their platform you can. Utilizing their recommendation widgets to get more eyeballs on your content. RevContent also allows you to do this. Yahoo Gemini, also lets you leverage in-feed as well as recommendation units with their platform. Further, most… Continue reading
You’re here to find out what is content retargeting Content retargeting is using retargeting advertising to show groups of content to people who have already read or engaged with your other content. It allows you to manage your content funnel a lot more effectively. For example: Someone reads your thought leadership piece. You then retarget a summary of your industry research. For those that read that research you retarget some of your latest case studies or customer interviews. The intention… Continue reading
Campaign of the Week: It’s Not Too Late to Host an Effortless Game Day Party Source: Serious Eats Why we like it: Hyped about the upcoming Super Bowl 50-Party? Want to make it perfect but afraid you don’t have the time? No worries, this sponsored piece on Serious Eats by Boxed has got you covered. It’s a Super Bowl guide including a checklist and… Continue reading