The Power of Modern Digital Marketing Automation

Modern consumers are Web-savvy, mobile-loving people who typically spend more time online than reading magazines and watching TV. These changes in behavior are fundamentally changing the face of marketing – and in ways that are bringing about the convergence of direct marketing and mass marketing.

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Inspiration Advertising

We’re a small advertising and communications agency in Kenilworth Cape Town set up by an ex big-agency guy 15 years ago to offer a more direct and cost-effective service to clients. In short, we have the experience, 15 years in fact, to do the job, but not the overheads to match. So what you get is savvy, results-driven work at real good value.

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Adobe Primetime Advertising Security Overview

whitePaper | November 11, 2022

At Adobe®, we take the security of your digital experience and assets seriously. Security practices are integrated into our internal software development processes, operations, and tools. Our cross-functional incident response teams are proactive and nimble in preventing, detecting, and responding to incidents. Furthermore, our collaborative work with partners, leading researchers, and other industry organizations helps us stay updated with the latest threats, vulnerabilities, and security best practices; thereby enabling us to continually build security into the products and services we offer and regularly incorporate advanced security techniques into our product and service offerings.

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Online Advertising Programme Market Insights

whitePaper | September 12, 2022

Spark Ninety is a strategy consultancy focused on the digital media and advertising sectors. It helps clients to understand complex markets and emerging business models; to develop strategies and plans; and to assess investments.

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Podcast Advertising Provides Up to 30x Higher Lift vs Other Channels

whitePaper | April 8, 2021

Does it pay off to invest in a podcast marketing campaign? Claritas analyzed the results of over 158 podcast campaigns in multiple industries and found lift significantly exceeding those of other channels. Claritas’ proprietary measurement tools help marketers measure the effectiveness of their podcast and other advertising campaigns, measuring conversions both online and off. Our tools can isolate conversion data by creative, audience, channel and much more.

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Powering a Programmatic Revolution Through APIs

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.

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Paid advertising in a world of rising cost

whitePaper | September 30, 2022

Like gas and groceries, marketing is getting more expensive – and B2B SaaS marketers who rely on paid advertising feel the pain the most. Macroeconomic conditions and changes in B2B buying behavior have made traditional ad playbooks pricier, less effective, and less scalable: Ads are more expensive due to crowding and competition on paid platforms. People have changed the way they research products online, and they are leaving trackable platforms for dark social. If it feels like “people aren’t clicking on ads anymore,” you’re not alone. New privacy regulations make it difficult to target the right customers - and easy to waste ad budgets.

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Ghost Bidding for Causal Advertising Measurement

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.

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Inspiration Advertising

We’re a small advertising and communications agency in Kenilworth Cape Town set up by an ex big-agency guy 15 years ago to offer a more direct and cost-effective service to clients. In short, we have the experience, 15 years in fact, to do the job, but not the overheads to match. So what you get is savvy, results-driven work at real good value.

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