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Find your audience on YouTube

Posted in advertising, Attribution, Campaigns, Consumers, Demographics, digital media, Google, interactive advertising, online marketing, Uncategorized, YouTube with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 29, 2019 by gadler

Another cool tool from Google.

Use the Find My Audience tool to discover audiences on YouTube and learn how to reach the ones most relevant to you.
Read on www.thinkwithgoogle.com/feature/findmyaudience/

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Instagram just took advantage of Amazon’s biggest weakness

Posted in Apps, Consumers, interactive advertising, internet, online marketing, Retail, social media, Uncategorized, world wide web with tags , , , , on March 20, 2019 by gadler

Instagram took a big step on Tuesday in its evolution into an online shopping destination, and for once, Amazon finds itself looking up from a position of weakness.

Instagram announced that users of the photo-sharing app will for the first time be able to start making purchases of some products directly within the app, capping off the social network’s multi-year flirtation with becoming a real player in online shopping. Big-name retailers like Nike and Zara, as well as younger brands like Outdoor Voices and Warby Parker, are among the 20-plus companies participating in the initial rollout.

Instagram has already proven to be a platform — thanks in large part to its visual nature — where the best consumer brands can do what they do best: get new people to discover their products and inspire shoppers to covet their wares.

— Read on www.recode.net/2019/3/20/18271386/instagram-shopping-discovery-amazon-weakness-checkout

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YouTube’s 30-second ad ban not exactly working | Digital – Ad Age

Posted in advertising, Google, interactive advertising, Uncategorized, video, YouTube with tags , , , , on March 31, 2018 by gadler

YouTube viewers have to sit through 30-second ads on videos from the site’s biggest partners despite the ban on the long-form commercials.
YouTube video clips in shows from NBCUniversal, Viacom, Turner and other networks still run some 30-second pre-roll ads, even though the Google-owned site said it would stop serving them. Brands, including Time Warner, Verizon and GMC have been among the big ad spenders still running the longer spots.
— Read on adage.com/article/digital/30-video-ads-sneaking-youtube-ban/312876/

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In a programmatic media world, it’s easy to lose sight of context as advertisers chase audiences wherever they are. But heightened brand-safety fears among advertisers, triggered by ad fraud and other bad practices highlighted throughout the year, are slowly but surely swinging the pendulum away from reach-driven, audience-only targeting, toward valuing the context of the environments.

Posted in Ad Fraud, advertising, Analytics, Attribution, digital media, Internet Activity & Sites, online marketing, Research, Uncategorized, video with tags , , , , , , , , on November 27, 2017 by gadler

https://digiday.com/media/shift-back-advertising-quality-publishing-environments-5-charts/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&utm_source=facebook&utm_term=organic_digidayfeed&utm_medium=social

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The FCC’s reasons for axing net neutrality make no sense for consumers

Posted in Uncategorized on November 25, 2017 by gadler

https://thenextweb.com/us/2017/11/22/the-fccs-reasons-for-repealing-net-neutrality-make-no-sense-for-consumers/

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Internet mysteries: Why does last-touch attribution persist? Digiday

Posted in advertising, Analytics, Attribution, digital media, interactive advertising, online marketing, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , on August 17, 2017 by gadler

“…“By [using last-touch], they (advertisers) spend too much on customers who were going to buy anyway and not enough on customers in the decision-making process…”

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Google rolls out similar audiences for Search and Shopping.

Posted in advertising, Google, interactive advertising, search engines, SEM, Uncategorized with tags , , , , on May 1, 2017 by gadler

Now out of beta, similar audiences for Search enables advertisers to target users searching for the same kinds of things as recent site visitors.

http://searchengineland.com/google-rolls-similar-audiences-search-shopping-274210

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