Why Social Media Users Interact with Organizations

whitePaper | May 30, 2022

Today’s pharma marketers are adapting their advertising strategies and investments in a world of digital choice. By embracing new online video and digital audio channels, advertisers are taking advantage of more precise targeting tactics, more efficiently reaching key patients and HCPs, and improving the overall ROI of their marketing investments.

whitePaper | May 21, 2021

IDC’s survey of senior advertising decision makers in large companies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany found that digital measurement has become table stakes for anyone who wants to run mobile marketing campaigns. There is little wonder why: measurement has proven to significantly increase return on advertising spend (ROAS) and the ability to retain advertisers’ competitiveness. While advertisers in all three countries reported that vendors delivered well on the measurement features they desired, they also felt there was room for improvement in terms of delivering on most privacy protection and compliance features. This likely was not due to vendors falling short but simply because privacy and compliance have become such top-of-mind issues.

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 25, 2023

A deep dive into performance TV advertising and exclusive insights on how to use it as a growth engine. For television advertisers, upfronts and Newfronts season sets the tone for the rest of the year. And in 2023, the big story was Connected TV (CTV). Advertisers plan to allocate 40% of their 2023 budgets to CTV, bringing upfront spend on this channel to $8.14 billion.

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 | March 24, 2023

With over 215 million gamers in the U.S. and with the average gamer being in their early 30s, the term “gamer” now encompasses a broad and diverse demographic spectrum. Two out of every three Americans play video games through various platforms, and gaming is third only to TV and social media in terms of how audiences spend their time—yet gaming captures less than 5% of advertiser budgets.