Audience Targeting in Paid Search Campaigns: What You Need to Know

For a long time, paid search advertising with Google Ads has centered almost exclusively on keywords. You created keyword lists, ads that matched the search intent of those keyword lists and then set up bids based on what clicks from people searching for those keywords were worth.

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Veritonic

World-renowned brands, agencies, publishers, and platforms rely on Veritonic’s comprehensive audio analytics and research platform to research, test, and measure the ROI of their audio assets and campaigns pre-market, in-market, and post-campaign. The resulting insight enables clients to gain confidence in their audio investment, mitigate risk through optimization, and increase their return as they engage consumers with compelling audio experiences.

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4 Ways to Create Engaging Video Content For Advertising

Article | August 2, 2022

Video content is more important than ever from a marketing perspective, but the high profile status it has attained also brings challenges with it. The main hurdle to overcome is that of creating compelling clips that outshine the competition in a marketplace that is already overflowing with attention-grabbing content. With all that in mind, here are just a handful of strategies that will empower you when making promotional video content for your business or brand. Use the right software tools The video editing tools you choose will form the foundation of your content creation strategy, so it pays to give this plenty of thought and not to just stick with the same old package you have been using for years. For example, leveraging collaborative video editing software could take your projects to the next level, not only in terms of creativity but also when it comes to compressing cycles of work. If you can have multiple team members collaborating on the same project in unison, you can hit deadlines and capture the zeitgeist with your content, rather than seeing viral trends pass you by. Choose types of content that serve your advertising aims The extent to which your video content is able to engage and connect with your target audience will partly be determined by the format it takes. As such you have to choose wisely and avoid producing clips that don’t gel with your marketing goals. For example, if your business makes a product that has practical applications, you could gain views and shares by making tutorial content that explains how best to use it. On the other hand, if your business offers services within a particular industry, then you may earn more traction with videos that explain a particular aspect of the niche you occupy. Both of these types of content provide value to viewers as well as being promotional, and can also remain relevant for long periods. The more evergreen your video content, the bigger the potential ROI. Extrapolate ideas from your existing content Working out what video content will hit home with your ideal demographic can feel like it involves a lot of guesswork, and a lot of risk-taking as a result. However, you don’t have to go all-in on a concept for a video without knowing if it will hold water, because it is more than likely that you already have tried-and-tested ideas that have proven themselves and are ripe for video adaptation.

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Social Media Advertising

Useful Advertising Tips That Will Boost Your eCommerce Business

Article | July 13, 2022

E-Commerce is a great boon for entrepreneurs who have a small business and the means to set up their website. Selling online allows you to reach a wider audience, gain valuable experience in running a business, and even make a profit. One of the most important things you will need to know about e-commerce marketing is that there are many different ways to advertise your product or brand. Here are some advertising tips to keep in mind to increase your sales and attract more customers. Social Media Marketing Find the best social media sites for your business and use them to market yourself in creative ways. For example, Facebook has the popular “like” button which you can use to target potential consumers specifically. Also, consider getting an endorsement from someone famous on Twitter or marketing your product via sponsored tweets with larger companies who have millions of followers! As indicated in this eCommerce advertising guide, never underestimate the power of social media in today’s world because it is so accessible to anyone. If done correctly, this tactic can gain you a lot of exposure in a short amount of time. You just have to be smart about it. Pay Per Click (PPC) PPC is an effective way to get your website noticed immediately. It’s no wonder that so many e-commerce businesses use this advertising tip. When you see a PPC advertisement, it sticks out like a sore thumb and piques the curiosity of Internet users who are searching for products similar to yours. It’s an easy and clever way to get noticed. The best part about these ads is that you only pay when someone clicks on your ad, as opposed to paying for advertisements in traditional print media which remain visible regardless of whether or not anyone sees them. This way you know your money is being well-spent on ads that are generating sales.

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Dominate with Branding and Advertising in Your Business in 2021

Article | September 1, 2023

So, you have created a great product or service but still it’s not giving back the result you were expecting. The point here is, no matter how much you publicize the greatness of your product or service, that alone won’t guarantee success. In the consumer marketplace, you must also establish a unique, memorable, trustworthy profile by capturing consumers’ attention. The key to accomplishing this is Branding and Advertising. The advertising industry is made of companies that advertise, agencies that create the advertisements, media that carries the ads, and a host of people like copy editors, visualizers, brand managers, researchers, creative heads and designers who take it the last mile to the customer or receiver. Let’s see the difference between Branding and Advertising, and then, we’ll see what is Brand Advertising.

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YouTube, auditor spar over transparency of ads

Article | April 19, 2020

Google wants to substantially limit the information a key auditor of YouTube can share about the risks of advertising on the video service, according to people familiar with the situation, highlighting tensions between the tech giant and Madison Avenue. The auditor, New York-based OpenSlate, is refusing to sign a contract that would prevent it from reporting to clients when ads have run in videos with sensitive subject matter, including hate speech, adult content, children's content, profanity, violence and illegal substances, according to an email the firm sent this weekend to ad agencies.

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Veritonic

World-renowned brands, agencies, publishers, and platforms rely on Veritonic’s comprehensive audio analytics and research platform to research, test, and measure the ROI of their audio assets and campaigns pre-market, in-market, and post-campaign. The resulting insight enables clients to gain confidence in their audio investment, mitigate risk through optimization, and increase their return as they engage consumers with compelling audio experiences.

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AiAdvertising Uncovers ChatGPT’s Commercial Applications

AiAdvertising | February 16, 2023

AiAdvertising, an AdTech company, announced being the first to uncover ChatGPT's commercial applications in the AdTech industry, focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) utilization for the marketing industry. The automated ChatGPT solution is making signals and insights of AiAdvertising's PersonalAI more informative and targeted. The signals and insights of PersonalAI provide detailed information about behavioral information, psychographics, demographics, and triggers for the consumer adaptive curve. With its solutions and insights, ChatGPT is enhancing the diversity, scalability, and persona-driven content of AiAdvertising's PersonalAI. Through this leverage, AiAdvertising is making clients' paid advertising campaigns and landing pages more engaging at the psychographic level and customizing them as per the personas' needs based on user experiences, needs, behaviors and goals. ChatGPT's commercial applications have the potential to automate and enhance complex communications like email sales campaigns, computer code, and customer support. It can generate personalized automated responses to customer inquiries, content for social media marketing campaigns and assistance throughout the customer cycle. CEO of AiAdvertising, Jerry Hug, said, "What is remarkable is that all of this is done without any type of unconscious bias. Even as marketers, we insert our own opinions into the words and language we use to think about a brand or product. ChatGPT allows us to remove that predisposition and focus on a more customer-based solution leveraging data and science rather than opinions and assumptions." He added, "We are now taking our PersonaAI ChatGPT approach to market with our clients and are already generating buzz about the anticipated increased performance of personalized campaigns." (Source – CSM Wire) About AiAdvertising AiAdvertising, an advertising technology-based solutions provider, has been using artificial intelligence and machine learning and building software for marketing companies since 1998. Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, it provides services based on digital marketing, data analytics, creativity, content strategy, digital media, e-commerce, and big data, worldwide. It eliminates digital waste and increases the return on digital ad spend. Its flagship product, the Campaign Performance Platform, offers a subscription-based end-to-end Ad Management solution, utilizing artificial intelligence to improve the advertisements' performance, efficiency, and productivity. It assists advertising agencies and brands in measuring, scaling, creating, predicting, and targeting personalized campaigns.

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J&L Selected for Volkswagen Service & Parts Digital Advertising Program

J&L Marketing, Volkswagen | May 02, 2022

J&L Marketing has been chosen for the certified Service & Parts Digital Advertising Program with Volkswagen of America as part of the Dealer Digital Program. This partnership will enable participating Volkswagen Dealers to use advanced digital marketing strategies to retain a higher level of customers along with attracting new customers to their service departments. As the only 2022 Google Premier Partner participating in the program, J&L Marketing offers the industry's most refined after-market digital marketing program that includes paid search, display and paid social advertising. As a Volkswagen Certified Service & Parts Digital Advertising Provider, J&L Marketing enables dealers to beat their competition by capturing more service appointments. J&L Marketing’s usage of data, landing page technology, and campaign management have proven to engage and convert more customers. “We are proud to be selected as a Certified VW provider. Dealers need a marketing partner that will do the hard work required to innovate and outperform their competitors,” said Jamil Zabaneh, President of J&L Marketing. “We are proud to be selected as a Certified VW provider. Dealers need a marketing partner that will do the hard work required to innovate and outperform their competitors,” said Jamil Zabaneh, President of J&L Marketing. One of the key features that will propel dealer’s success is J&L Marketing’s code injected landing pages. This technology enables service landing pages to load faster, convert better, and deliver exceptional results. J&L Marketing provides search, display, discovery and social advertising services in conjunction with several proprietary solutions developed for automotive service departments. Explore the full range of offerings on their website: www.jandlmarketing.com

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GumGum Introduces Mindset Matrix - A Framework For the Future of Digital Advertising Without Personal Data

GumGum | March 04, 2022

GumGum, a contextual-first advertising technology company, introduces The Mindset Matrix, a framework for the future of digital advertising outlining how advertisers can deliver engaging and effective ad campaigns, in current and emerging environments, without the need of the cookie or personal data. The industry is moving into a new era, one that requires a shift in how advertisers think about reaching and connecting with people in digital environments. Rather than base their targeting efforts off past behaviors - the future of digital advertising will rely on meeting people in the moment and aligning advertisements with someone’s present frame of mind. “The truth is we don’t need to know who you are in order to deliver relevant and effective advertising. As human beings we naturally move in micro-moments, floating from one topic to another. We believe that digital advertising should be able to move with us and be something, helps us find what we need or didn’t even know we needed, and that adds to the overall experience. The Mindset Matrix is a framework that helps advertisers make that shift, while being just as effective and doesn’t require the use of personal data,” said GumGum’s, CEO, Phil Schraeder. The Mindset Matrix framework, defined as the environment in which ad effectiveness develops, is made up of three components: True Contextual Understanding: Uses all the signals within an environment (text, image, video, audio) to understand the entire digital environment, allowing advertisers the ability to put the right ad in the right context (place, time, near a related topic etc.), and increases ad relevance with more precision. Smart Ad Creatives: Creative can be smarter now with the support of contextual and attention. These smart ads create a cohesive experience between content and advertisement that enhance the audience's experience rather than detract from it. Attention Measurement & Optimization: Measuring the actual attention an ad drives is a human centric, quality metric that captures a person’s relative interest (or not) in that ad at that moment. As such, it’s a remarkable feedback loop on ad relevance and proof that we’ve found the match between the right creative and the right context. “Each of these components are individually important aspects of any ad campaign but when tied together have the opportunity to influence and inform the other, creating a powerful understanding of a person's frame of mind in each unique digital environment. This model allows advertisers to meet people when they are in an active frame of mind — the right headspace to pay attention and take action – and do so in a way that is cookieless, identity free and future proof,” Schraeder goes on to say. Through robust company development and strategic acquisitions, GumGum has demonstrated a clear understanding of the importance of the Mindset Matrix in advertising. The Mindset Matrix should be used as a foundation by advertisers as a marketing playbook of the future. About GumGum GumGum is a global technology and media company specializing in contextual intelligence. For over a decade, we have applied our proven machine learning expertise to extract value from digital content for the advertising and sports industries. Our proprietary contextual intelligence engine uses computer vision and natural language processing technologies to scan text, images and videos when evaluating digital content. Combining our contextual advertising intelligence with proprietary high-impact ad formats, GumGum’s advertising solutions deliver industry leading efficiency, accuracy and performance.

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AiAdvertising Uncovers ChatGPT’s Commercial Applications

AiAdvertising | February 16, 2023

AiAdvertising, an AdTech company, announced being the first to uncover ChatGPT's commercial applications in the AdTech industry, focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) utilization for the marketing industry. The automated ChatGPT solution is making signals and insights of AiAdvertising's PersonalAI more informative and targeted. The signals and insights of PersonalAI provide detailed information about behavioral information, psychographics, demographics, and triggers for the consumer adaptive curve. With its solutions and insights, ChatGPT is enhancing the diversity, scalability, and persona-driven content of AiAdvertising's PersonalAI. Through this leverage, AiAdvertising is making clients' paid advertising campaigns and landing pages more engaging at the psychographic level and customizing them as per the personas' needs based on user experiences, needs, behaviors and goals. ChatGPT's commercial applications have the potential to automate and enhance complex communications like email sales campaigns, computer code, and customer support. It can generate personalized automated responses to customer inquiries, content for social media marketing campaigns and assistance throughout the customer cycle. CEO of AiAdvertising, Jerry Hug, said, "What is remarkable is that all of this is done without any type of unconscious bias. Even as marketers, we insert our own opinions into the words and language we use to think about a brand or product. ChatGPT allows us to remove that predisposition and focus on a more customer-based solution leveraging data and science rather than opinions and assumptions." He added, "We are now taking our PersonaAI ChatGPT approach to market with our clients and are already generating buzz about the anticipated increased performance of personalized campaigns." (Source – CSM Wire) About AiAdvertising AiAdvertising, an advertising technology-based solutions provider, has been using artificial intelligence and machine learning and building software for marketing companies since 1998. Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, it provides services based on digital marketing, data analytics, creativity, content strategy, digital media, e-commerce, and big data, worldwide. It eliminates digital waste and increases the return on digital ad spend. Its flagship product, the Campaign Performance Platform, offers a subscription-based end-to-end Ad Management solution, utilizing artificial intelligence to improve the advertisements' performance, efficiency, and productivity. It assists advertising agencies and brands in measuring, scaling, creating, predicting, and targeting personalized campaigns.

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Display Advertising

J&L Selected for Volkswagen Service & Parts Digital Advertising Program

J&L Marketing, Volkswagen | May 02, 2022

J&L Marketing has been chosen for the certified Service & Parts Digital Advertising Program with Volkswagen of America as part of the Dealer Digital Program. This partnership will enable participating Volkswagen Dealers to use advanced digital marketing strategies to retain a higher level of customers along with attracting new customers to their service departments. As the only 2022 Google Premier Partner participating in the program, J&L Marketing offers the industry's most refined after-market digital marketing program that includes paid search, display and paid social advertising. As a Volkswagen Certified Service & Parts Digital Advertising Provider, J&L Marketing enables dealers to beat their competition by capturing more service appointments. J&L Marketing’s usage of data, landing page technology, and campaign management have proven to engage and convert more customers. “We are proud to be selected as a Certified VW provider. Dealers need a marketing partner that will do the hard work required to innovate and outperform their competitors,” said Jamil Zabaneh, President of J&L Marketing. “We are proud to be selected as a Certified VW provider. Dealers need a marketing partner that will do the hard work required to innovate and outperform their competitors,” said Jamil Zabaneh, President of J&L Marketing. One of the key features that will propel dealer’s success is J&L Marketing’s code injected landing pages. This technology enables service landing pages to load faster, convert better, and deliver exceptional results. J&L Marketing provides search, display, discovery and social advertising services in conjunction with several proprietary solutions developed for automotive service departments. Explore the full range of offerings on their website: www.jandlmarketing.com

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Advertiser Platforms

GumGum Introduces Mindset Matrix - A Framework For the Future of Digital Advertising Without Personal Data

GumGum | March 04, 2022

GumGum, a contextual-first advertising technology company, introduces The Mindset Matrix, a framework for the future of digital advertising outlining how advertisers can deliver engaging and effective ad campaigns, in current and emerging environments, without the need of the cookie or personal data. The industry is moving into a new era, one that requires a shift in how advertisers think about reaching and connecting with people in digital environments. Rather than base their targeting efforts off past behaviors - the future of digital advertising will rely on meeting people in the moment and aligning advertisements with someone’s present frame of mind. “The truth is we don’t need to know who you are in order to deliver relevant and effective advertising. As human beings we naturally move in micro-moments, floating from one topic to another. We believe that digital advertising should be able to move with us and be something, helps us find what we need or didn’t even know we needed, and that adds to the overall experience. The Mindset Matrix is a framework that helps advertisers make that shift, while being just as effective and doesn’t require the use of personal data,” said GumGum’s, CEO, Phil Schraeder. The Mindset Matrix framework, defined as the environment in which ad effectiveness develops, is made up of three components: True Contextual Understanding: Uses all the signals within an environment (text, image, video, audio) to understand the entire digital environment, allowing advertisers the ability to put the right ad in the right context (place, time, near a related topic etc.), and increases ad relevance with more precision. Smart Ad Creatives: Creative can be smarter now with the support of contextual and attention. These smart ads create a cohesive experience between content and advertisement that enhance the audience's experience rather than detract from it. Attention Measurement & Optimization: Measuring the actual attention an ad drives is a human centric, quality metric that captures a person’s relative interest (or not) in that ad at that moment. As such, it’s a remarkable feedback loop on ad relevance and proof that we’ve found the match between the right creative and the right context. “Each of these components are individually important aspects of any ad campaign but when tied together have the opportunity to influence and inform the other, creating a powerful understanding of a person's frame of mind in each unique digital environment. This model allows advertisers to meet people when they are in an active frame of mind — the right headspace to pay attention and take action – and do so in a way that is cookieless, identity free and future proof,” Schraeder goes on to say. Through robust company development and strategic acquisitions, GumGum has demonstrated a clear understanding of the importance of the Mindset Matrix in advertising. The Mindset Matrix should be used as a foundation by advertisers as a marketing playbook of the future. About GumGum GumGum is a global technology and media company specializing in contextual intelligence. For over a decade, we have applied our proven machine learning expertise to extract value from digital content for the advertising and sports industries. Our proprietary contextual intelligence engine uses computer vision and natural language processing technologies to scan text, images and videos when evaluating digital content. Combining our contextual advertising intelligence with proprietary high-impact ad formats, GumGum’s advertising solutions deliver industry leading efficiency, accuracy and performance.

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