Available ad impressions on social media are hitting a wall as user growth slows, driving up CPC and CPM prices. As demand increases, it becomes even more important for advertisers to properly optimize campaigns to maximize their return on investment for paid social. According to Merkle’s Q2 2018 Digital Marketing Report, advertiser spend increased 40% year-over-year in Q2, […]
When starting out a digital marketing program, you might not yet have a lot of internal data that helps you understand your target consumer. You might also have smaller budgets that do not allow for a large amount of audience research. So do you start throwing darts with your marketing? No way. It is critical […]
As soon as Facebook launched its Graph Search in 2013, it was only a matter of time before it became a big player in the search engine game. But Graph Search was limited as far as optimization was concerned. The results it returned focused on providing an answer on the relationships between people, places, and things on […]
Among all social channels, Facebook is the one that has the most monthly active users, 2.23 billion. This means more than 20% of the world’s population is active on Facebook every month. Can you guess how many Facebook pages exist? 50 million? 60? 70? Not correct. As of May 2018, there were more than 80 million Facebook business […]
Rising advertising costs means falling profits for the ecommerce advertisers. I have been a long-time fan of the ecommerce industry. As offline retailers were struggling to compete with online retailers, many large chains went out of business, and an increasing amount of consumer buying moved online. For a long time, ecommerce startups were printing money in what felt […]
