When Marketing Through Social Media, Legal Risks Can Go Viral

The exponential rise in popularity of social networking websites and other social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and individual blogs, is due in large part to their viral nature. Social networking sites are essentially self-promoting, in that users spread the word for the sites. The more quickly social networking sites grow, the more quickly they spread. The viral quality of social media makes it an appealing way for businesses to market products and services, and marketers have long recognized and tapped the potential of social media outlets.

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Mapp Digital is one of the largest independent digital marketing technology companies in the world. Built by marketers for marketers, Mapp provides a comprehensive family of software and customer-centric services including a sophisticated data management platform; tools that optimise email, mobile, app, social and web marketing; and campaign management and strategy consulting.Mapp Digital was created by the combination of BlueHornet and the digital-marketing related applications business purchased from Teradata Corporation in July 2016. Mapp Digital brings the most sophisticated and specially engineered technology to customers as part of its mission to “simplify complexity.”The company is headquartered in San Diego, with European Operations in Munich, and R&D and sales/customer support centers in Paris, London, San Francisco, Raleigh, N.C., Kraków, Tel Aviv, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Milan, Madrid, Peking, Ontario and Sydney. Mapp has more than 3,000 customers including some of the top br

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Deciphering the digital political ad databases

whitePaper | December 2, 2019

One of the ways that Russian agents interfered in the 2016 election was by using online advertising to spread disinformation. In 2018, Facebook, Google, and Twitter created new resources to help the public track political ads on their platforms, bringing more transparency to the sponsors of digital ads. Snapchat followed suit in September 2019. But these databases of political ads are woefully inadequate, as Issue One has detailed in a major report. They lack uniform standards, display uneven amounts of information, and are difcult to use. Here’s what you need to know about them.

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Finding Success with In-Game Advertising

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.

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Trend in Health Advertising

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.

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Great ROAS, Terrible Results: The Case for CLV-Centric Advertising

whitePaper | October 10, 2022

Few retailers doubt the effectiveness of performance advertising. From humble origins to something more complex, it remains a preferred tactic for advertisers the world over. The reasons why remain simple. Retailers can target shoppers better. And they can measure their campaigns more accurately. But as campaign expectations have evolved, so have the metrics which determine success.

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Reimagining marketing in the next normal

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.

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How Brands Like Denny’s, Goodwill and Walmart are Using Audience Targeting to Increase Store Visitation

whitePaper | December 20, 2019

Mobile has changed the way we think about digital audiences. Before the advent of the ubiquitous mobile phone, traditional marketing and advertisement strategies that were “location based” had a very different meaning than “locationbased marketing” does today. Options for location-based mobile audiences have expanded far beyond the simple geo-fence campaign, and offer both sophisticated targeting options and insights on reaching the consumer on their mobile device with the right message at the right time.

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Mapp Digital

Mapp Digital is one of the largest independent digital marketing technology companies in the world. Built by marketers for marketers, Mapp provides a comprehensive family of software and customer-centric services including a sophisticated data management platform; tools that optimise email, mobile, app, social and web marketing; and campaign management and strategy consulting.Mapp Digital was created by the combination of BlueHornet and the digital-marketing related applications business purchased from Teradata Corporation in July 2016. Mapp Digital brings the most sophisticated and specially engineered technology to customers as part of its mission to “simplify complexity.”The company is headquartered in San Diego, with European Operations in Munich, and R&D and sales/customer support centers in Paris, London, San Francisco, Raleigh, N.C., Kraków, Tel Aviv, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Milan, Madrid, Peking, Ontario and Sydney. Mapp has more than 3,000 customers including some of the top br

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