How to Decrease Ad Spend Without Decreasing Results

Paid search ads are a great way to bring in new clients and customers, but there’s one downside: actually paying for all of those clicks. If only there was a way to spend less on ads without simultaneously cutting back on performance

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Colling Media Lands Five New Advertising Clients in March and April

Article | July 19, 2022

Colling Media, a top-ranked national digital advertising and marketing agency, continues its recent, impressive growth by adding five new businesses to its prestigious roster of clients. ScriptSave WellRx an innovative prescription medication discount program that closes the gaps in prescription benefit coverage. Diamond Kitchen & Bath the leading retailer of kitchen and bathroom cabinetry and countertops in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Radix Law a business law firm based in Scottsdale. Soul Surgery a renowned integrative medicine addiction and rehab center in Scottsdale, featuring a holistic approach to drug and alcohol treatment. Premier Criminal Defense based in San Diego and serving all of Southern California, the firm offers skilled counsel to help clients accused of Misdemeanors, Felony and Federal Offenses.

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Social Media Advertising

Plunge in digital ad prices opens spending opportunity for start-ups in gaming, e-commerce and online education

Article | July 13, 2022

The coronavirus epidemic has so ravaged travel, live entertainment and physical retail that companies across those industries have frozen their marketing, causing ad prices to plunge. Meanwhile, online beauty brand Insert Name Here is generating so much business that it’s snapping up ad space at a discount. Based in Los Angeles, Insert Name Here sells hair extensions and wigs, which are in high demand now that women are unable to visit their hairstylists. To reach all those consumers who are stuck at home, Insert Name Here is working with social media influencers to create do-it-yourself styling videos for Instagram as well as Facebook, Tik Tok, Snapchat and YouTube.

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Ad Networks

Netflix Opens Doors to Ads After Subscriber Count Takes a Nosedive

Article | September 1, 2023

Netflix Takes an Unexpected Route Popular streaming giant Netflix’s subscriber count plummeted for the first time in a decade. After it announced the loss of 200K subscribers in Q1 of 2022, its stocks dipped more than 35%. In addition, a shareholder recently sued the platform for violating securities law after its subscriber growth reached an all-time low and the stock value crashed, making the picture bleaker. It’s not surprising that the platform had a change of heart about bringing advertising to its platform. The decision puts the platform in the same category as its competitors, HBO Max, Amazon’s Freevee, and Disney+, who want to offer cheaper, ad-enabled content to consumers. It also addresses the company’s issue of slow revenue growth. “Those who have followed Netflix know that I’ve been against the complexity of advertising and a big fan of the simplicity of subscription, But as much as I’m a fan of that, I’m a bigger fan of consumer choice.” co-CEO Reed Hastings What Do Advertisers Think? The advertising community had mixed reactions to the announcement. Long commercials are not an option on streaming platforms like Netflix. The ads run only for a few minutes every hour to retain the viewer experience. Despite this, advertisers are excited to target Netflix’s rich audience of over 200 million. There is no clarity on who will sell the ads and how the campaigns will be managed. Only time will tell how Netflix’s move will affect its subscribers and the advertising market. The company will keep ad-free tiers for subscribers who wish to enjoy high-quality ad-free content. It may change its subscription plans to offer low-cost plans with ads and minimize password sharing. There is no set timeline or regions decided for implementing these plans. The company hopes that this “consumer choice” to choose a cheaper plan will revive its subscriber growth graph. What Comes Next? Though Netflix has done the unexpected, it is giving well-established ad-funded broadcasters and streaming platforms a reason to worry. As of now, the potential for a low-cost VOD service equipped with ads is huge for advertisers. Once the plans are introduced, new audience profiles will emerge. Advertisers will want to understand and target them. As an ad platform, Netflix’s performance will only be understood through testing and learning.

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How to Advertise Your Etsy Shop: Free & Low-Cost Methods

Article | December 11, 2021

Just like with any small business, advertising an Etsy shop can seem like an overwhelming task. There are so many options, learning marketing strategies on your own is time-consuming, and many advertising methods can get expensive fast. But don’t worry! This article is a complete guide that will break down all of the different ways you can start advertising or promoting your Etsy Shop cheaply or for free. How Does Etsy Marketing Work? Advertising an Etsy shop can be very different from advertising other online businesses. For example, you don’t need to have your own website to run an Etsy shop. This is convenient in many ways, but it also limits your ability to use traditional advertising methods. Ad platforms like Facebook Ads Manager are a great way to get exposure, but without a custom domain, you’re advertising Etsy instead of your shop.

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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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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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