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- Forbes
- Jessica Hawthorne-Castro
It's pretty common to see marketing agencies focus on a singular dollars-and-cents approach to explaining the effectiveness of a marketing strategy to their clients. The vital misstep in this approach comes from assuming that clients are solely interested in the cost-to-return ratio of a policy. In many cases, businesses are less concerned about the spend and more worried about the value it generates, whether that is in returns or less-tangible metrics like customer loyalty.
- ChiefMarketer
- Christian Jones
Millennials and Generation Zers are both notorious for shaking up the status quo in more ways than one. They’ve both broken out of a shell that generations prior were determined to mold themselves to. This fact, along with their closeness in age, have led many to believe that they have a lot of commonalities that can accommodate similar generational marketing strategies.
- AdAge
- Jessica Hawthorne-Castro
Video is one of today's most popular forms of content marketing. Engaging visuals are often more effective than the written word, so it’s no surprise that brands are using video to attract consumers. It can also yield a major ROI for a business -- as long as it’s done right.
- AdAge
- Jessica Hawthorne-Castro
Video is one of today's most popular forms of content marketing. Engaging visuals are often more effective than the written word, so it’s no surprise that brands are using video to attract consumers. It can also yield a major ROI for a business -- as long as it’s done right.
- TargetMarketing
- Hanna Anderson
Millennials and Generation Zers are both notorious for shaking up the status quo in more ways than one. They’ve both broken out of a shell that generations prior were determined to mold themselves to. This fact, along with their closeness in age, have led many to believe that they have a lot of commonalities that can accommodate similar generational marketing strategies.
- Forbes
- Jessica Hawthorne-Castro
Ever since innovations on the web made the embedded video a viable strategy, marketers have realized how vital this visual medium is to get consumers' attention. As companies started to utilize this new technology, and it became more democratized, the popularity of video as a communication medium exploded.
- AdAge
- Jessica Hawthorne-Castro
It’s a new year and decade, and experts across all industries are waiting to see if their predictions for 2020 trends will come to fruition. The digital publishing landscape is no exception -- professionals in advertising and media have a lot of ideas about what's coming this year. What's more, these predicted trends have the potential to leave a significant impact on marketers and content creators.
- Forbes
- Jessica Hawthorne-Castro
Ever since innovations on the web made the embedded video a viable strategy, marketers have realized how vital this visual medium is to get consumers' attention. As companies started to utilize this new technology, and it became more democratized, the popularity of video as a communication medium exploded.
- Forbes
- Jessica Hawthorne-Castro
The creative content process can take a long time, and each agency has a different approach to it. There’s no standardized method of producing content, and what one agency provides will be vastly different from another because of how they go about developing it.
- Forbes
- Forbes Agency Council
Over the last decade, the number of channels for marketing products has more than doubled. As expected, the amount of spending has matched the increased number of channels, with businesses in any industry striving to make the most of their advertising budgets so as to take advantage of as many marketing channels as possible.
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