Is YouTube the Future of Video Advertising?

3 Online Advertising Trends to Dominate the 2020s

Article | February 13, 2020

Even though the digital advertising landscape has been evolving exceptionally fast over the past decade, the pace is only getting faster in the next one. The global ad spend is on its sharp ascend, and the mobile ad market is flourishing on the verge of 5G worldwide adoption. Sound logos, podcast advertising, personalized ads in navigation apps all of these are the new digital advertising realities we’re already in, and tomorrow won’t be different. Consider this: reaching the target audience in the right context is easier if your story is palpable with no visuals. More importantly, engaging the audience, suffering from short attention spans on the go is faster with audio than ever before, especially the commuting and driving types.

3 Facebook Ad Ideas to Get Your Content Seen by Your ‘Perfect’ Audience

Article | June 21, 2021

You have countless ways to promote your content online, but one of the most effective is Facebook ads. With over 1.8 billion daily active users, you can almost guarantee your audience is there. You just need to learn how to get your content in front of them. Given a Facebook post’s organic reach is in the single digits, your time is best spent making the advertising side work for your content. In this guide, I detail three of my most effective ways to promote content using Facebook advertising (without ever touching that boost button.) 1. Create a “content bucket” campaign to reach new fans Many content creators are focused on more. They want more fans, more readers/listeners/viewers. With that in mind, focus first on growing your audience by reaching people who are unfamiliar with your brand or your brand’s content – but who would be interested in your topic. My “content bucket” campaign idea works so you don’t have to spend too much time creating big Facebook campaigns for every piece of content you publish. The concept is simple: You create one campaign. Every time you publish a new piece of content, add it to that campaign. Let me walk through how to set this up: Head into your Facebook ads manager and click on “create new campaign.” Pick an objective based on the content. If it’s a Facebook video, pick video views. If it’s a blog, podcast, YouTube video, or other non-Facebook content, select traffic.

Brands need to stop talking and start doing

Article | April 9, 2020

It’s fair to say that 'less talk, more do' is sound advice at the best of times, but it is particularly prescient for brands at the current time with the Covid-19 at it's peak. People aren’t interested in good wishes, they need actions and tangible help. Brands would be well advised to shut up at the moment. Before this piece goes any further there are two important things to acknowledge; the first is that marketing is of miniscule importance at the moment, and of no importance compared to the people on the frontline fighting, and dealing with, the coronavirus. Everything is relative, and for those people that do work in marketing and those that rely on its success for millions of businesses and livelihoods, it is worth exploring for improvement.

ON Advertising acquires Evans Communications

Article | April 2, 2020

ON Advertising, a prominent Phoenix-based full-service advertising firm, has acquired Evans Communications, a leading Valley public relations, marketing and event planning firm. Evans Communications will be merged into the ON Advertising structure, and its principal Tom Evans will join the ON Advertising team as Partner-Public Relations and Event Strategies. Evans’ three other employees will join the ON Advertising team as well. The dollar value of the transaction is to be determined based upon revenues over the next few years. The move significantly expands ON’s public relations and event planning capabilities while providing Evans Communications’ clients with ON’s full spectrum of advertising, creative, digital, social media and marketing services. Evans Communications’ clients include some of the Valley’s most prominent organizations, including Plaza Companies, Valley of the Sun United Way, SkySong, The ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center, The Phoenix Symphony and many more.