Reinvent Advertising with a Single View of the Customer

Riddle us this, marketers: How does Marketo get the most out of their own search and social advertising campaigns? Watch Scott Minor, Online Marketing Program Manager, and Favian Castillo, Digital Marketing Specialist, as they spill the beans on their paid strategy at Marketo.

Contextual advertising tailors ads to the environment in which a user is browsing. Since ads are served based on the interest of the user, they are hyper-relevant, tapping into that user’s current frame of mind. Contextual targeting does this by using algorithms to select the advertisements based on keywords, website content, and other metadata.

Almost 70% of all digital ad spending in the US will go to ads delivered on mobile devices this year. That’s no surprise since consumers spend more time in apps, and engage with them more often. In fact, a wider variety of mobile apps are finding audiences and new ways of making money. Grocery, shopping, and navigation apps are all seeing increases in users, who are spending more in-app on subscriptions and virtual goods. In this Meet the Analyst Webinar, Yory Wurmser, our principal analyst, shared new monetization opportunities for advertisers, including how to benefit from apps with quality ads and strong first-party data stores.

Traditional media models have been turned upside down as new digital options move into the mainstream. Consumer behavior has followed suit, and brands need to revamp their advertising models to take full advantage of the new media market. But what kind of ad experiences will resonate best?