The Social Media Marketing Maturity model

whitePaper | August 10, 2022

It’s critical for marketers to know if their campaigns are influencing behavior in response to an ad. But to really know if a campaign actually works, consumer response must be compared with those who hadn’t been exposed to the ad. This new study demonstrates the dramatic power of “ghost bidding” in revealing true campaign effectiveness. A large U.S.-based apparel company ran an extended ad campaign to a targeted audience. The difference? The company used demand-side platform technology to simultaneously expose and exclude identical user groups from viewing the ad. This A/B study used “ghost bidding”—withdrawing bids from the excluded group at the last moment—to plot the true effectiveness of display, video and audio ads, and demonstrated a powerful validation of marketing effectiveness.

whitePaper | July 27, 2020

As governments gradually remove pandemic induced restrictions and businesses begin to reopen, there’s a sense that we might be on the verge of returning to “normal.” That is unlikely. During the months of lockdown and self-isolation, we have been, in fact, writing a new future.

whitePaper | November 30, 2021

The IAB Data Center of Excellence is an independently funded and staffed unit within the IAB. Founded to enhance existing IAB resources and to drive the “data agenda” for the digital media, marketing, and advertising industry, the Data Center’s mission is to define boundaries, reduce friction, and increase value along the data chain, for consumers, marketers, and the ecosystem that supports them. IAB Data Center of Excellence is focused on

whitePaper | December 29, 2019

Facebook in particular stands out in some cases, 7x cheaper than the next most affordable social media ads channel (Twitter). You can spend as little as $5 per day on Facebook advertising and see significant results. Sounds great, right! We’d love to make it easy for you to get up and running with Facebook Ads. This guide features the exact steps and lessons we’ve been taking to build up our own paid ads campaigns, and we’ll be keeping this post up-to-date with the latest news and learnings.

whitePaper | February 4, 2020

W&V is the decisive information platform in the communications industry and speaks to anyone interested in marketing, agencies and media. With our expansive product portfolio, we offer you the best opportunity to reach your target group across various media.

whitePaper | February 3, 2023

2022 has seen widespread change on both fronts. With this whitepaper, we hope to shed some light on this change, as well as giving you some tools to help you effectively tackle your paid digital advertising throughout 2023.