Harness Digital Insights to Grow Your Entire Enterprise

whitePaper | February 3, 2020

How much are you giving away to clients because of the omissions and guesstimates of time spent on the project? Do you question what can be charged back to the client, write off an hour spent on a project because you like your client or don't want to be seen as a penny pincher? Would you like to stop subsidizing clients at a personal expense to your quality of life? This month we discuss what classifies as billable and non-billable and how you can bill for more of your time.

whitePaper | September 23, 2022

You have quality content and a highly engaged audience on your site. You are a line item on every Fortune 100’s marketing plan. You opened up your site to programmatic demand because of what the technology promised to offer: “target the right user, at the right time, for the right price.” And it has delivered on that promise for both you and your advertisers. But your CPMs have been declining for a decade. Your display ads have become almost worthless, you’ve tried adding new units like video and native to the mix. Now your site is bloated, load times are unbearable, and your core audience is noticing. You feel helpless to turn it around.

whitePaper | December 18, 2019

Over the course of a year, the digital audio industry has experienced unprecedented change. This year’s analysis reveals how perceptions of digital audio have developed in the past 12 months and takes a definitive look at the factors driving the industry forward. This year, 86% of advertising agencies and 66% of brand advertisers said that they now see digital audio as a key part of their integrated media strategies.

whitePaper | December 29, 2019

Branding has become one of the most important aspects of business strategy. Yet it is also one of the most misunderstood. Branding is sometimes considered to be merely an advertising function. And many managers and business writers hold the view that branding is about the management of product image, a supplementary task that can be isolated from the main business of product management. This note provides an alternative perspective, arguing that: Branding is a strategic point of view, not a select set of activities.

whitePaper | June 2, 2022

The media industry is entering a new phase of evolution yet again as the world begins to reopen, thanks to increasing COVID-19 vaccination coverage. Global advertising spend rose by 24% in 2021, the strongest year-over-year growth on record in 40 years, according to the World Advertising Research Center (WARC). Ad spend is expected to grow by another 12.5% in 2022. This is positive news for publishers. However, new opportunities bring new challenges.

whitePaper | April 26, 2022

Apple’s introduction of App Tracking Transparency (“ATT”) has drawn substantial commentary. Some see ATT as disruptive and self-serving, while others view it as a privacy-preserving tool that is ushering in a new era of advertising. However, the commentary often betrays a lack of understanding of what ATT is and what it is not, and draws speculative conclusions about its impact.