Cadbury’s #CremeEggBake on Google+ Boosts Organic Reach
Social

Cadbury’s #CremeEggBake on Google+ Boosts Organic Reach

10y Lisa Lacy

Cadbury’s #CremeEggBake on Google+ Boosts Organic ...

Cadbury created a Google+ community asking consumers to submit recipes using its Crème Egg product. The campaign resulted in a fivefold increase in or...

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Display Ad Revenue Modest in Yahoo Q1 2014 Earnings
Paid Search

Display Ad Revenue Modest in Yahoo Q1 2014 Earnings

10y Jennifer Slegg

Display Ad Revenue Modest in Yahoo Q1 2014 Earning...

Search revenue increased by 5 percent in the first quarter of 2014, while display ad revenue saw a modest uptick of 2 percent. Read More...

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Smirnoff’s "The Party" Video Series Showcases Accessibility
Media

Smirnoff’s "The Party" Video Series Showcases Accessibility

10y Lisa Lacy

Smirnoff’s "The Party" Video Series Showcases Acce...

A video series from Smirnoff, "The Party," embraces inclusiveness and seeks to appeal to 21- to 29-year-old drinkers with fun, lighthearted content. R...

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U.S. Internet Ad Revenues Soar to a Record $42.8 Billion
Ad Industry Metrics

U.S. Internet Ad Revenues Soar to a Record $42.8 Billion

10y Yuyu Chen

U.S. Internet Ad Revenues Soar to a Record $42.8 B...

An new report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau reveals a record high for U.S. Internet ad revenues in 2013. Read More...

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Facebook Rolls Out Bigger Ads in Right-Hand Column
Display Advertising

Facebook Rolls Out Bigger Ads in Right-Hand Column

10y Yuyu Chen

Facebook Rolls Out Bigger Ads in Right-Hand Column

Facebook will display fewer ads in its right-hand column, but the ads will be larger than before. Read More...

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Why a Full-Service Agency Shouldn’t Manage Your Real-Time Bidding Campaigns
Display Advertising

Why a Full-Service Agency Shouldn’t Manage Your Real-Time Bidding Campaigns

10y Team ClickZ

Why a Full-Service Agency Shouldn’t Manage Your Re...

Full-service agencies aren't set up to effectively manage real-time bidding (RTB) technology. To get the most out of RTB, you need a specialist agency...

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A New Era in Advertising Metrics Begins With MRC's Viewability Standards
Display Advertising

A New Era in Advertising Metrics Begins With MRC's Viewability Standards

10y Michael Parkes

A New Era in Advertising Metrics Begins With MRC's...

The Media Rating Council's adoption of viewability standards for display advertising ushers in a new era of advertising metrics. It's a fundamental sh...

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#CZLNY: 5 Spying Strategies You Can Use Today to Dominate Your Competition
Competition

#CZLNY: 5 Spying Strategies You Can Use Today to Dominate Your Competition

10y Lisa Lacy

#CZLNY: 5 Spying Strategies You Can Use Today to D...

According to panelists at ClickZ Live New York this week, brands must start with keywords first before implementing competitive monitoring. Brands mus...

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Media Rating Council Sets New Standards for Viewable Display Impressions
Display Advertising

Media Rating Council Sets New Standards for Viewable Display Impressions

10y Yuyu Chen

Media Rating Council Sets New Standards for Viewab...

The Media Rating Council (MRC) has lifted its Viewable Impression Advisory. Now marketers can purchase display ads based on new viewability metrics. R...

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Display Media Bots? (5 Ways to Double Down on Search)
Paid Search

Display Media Bots? (5 Ways to Double Down on Search)

10y Kevin Lee

Display Media Bots? (5 Ways to Double Down on Sear...

Here are five great ways to deploy budgets to PPC search that are currently allocated to display advertising and may be victim to the bot impression a...

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Pandora Brings Branded Radio Stations In-Store
Marketing

Pandora Brings Branded Radio Stations In-Store

10y Yuyu Chen

Pandora Brings Branded Radio Stations In-Store

Pandora has partnered with Peet's Coffee & Tea. The music-streaming service will showcase branded content stations in a brick-and-mortar business ...

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IAB Releases In-Image Advertising Primer
Display Advertising

IAB Releases In-Image Advertising Primer

10y Lisa Lacy

IAB Releases In-Image Advertising Primer

The paper helps illustrate the effectiveness of in-image advertising through case studies and research, the IAB says. Read More...

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Move Over TV – Brands Are Tuning Into Digital Video Ads
Media

Move Over TV – Brands Are Tuning Into Digital Video Ads

10y Tessa Wegert

Move Over TV – Brands Are Tuning Into Digital Vide...

Over the past year, the digital marketing industry has seen several major video developments that stand to drastically alter the way we think about re...

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New Time-Spent Metric Seeks to Move Marketers Away From Clicks
Display Advertising

New Time-Spent Metric Seeks to Move Marketers Away From Clicks

10y Mary Lisbeth D'Amico

New Time-Spent Metric Seeks to Move Marketers Away...

The online ad industry has been slow to move away from click-throughs and impressions as a standard. Ad exchange WebSpectator claims its newly MRC-acc...

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Top 6 Twitter Redesign Concepts for Brands and Marketers
Social

Top 6 Twitter Redesign Concepts for Brands and Marketers

10y Liva Judic

Top 6 Twitter Redesign Concepts for Brands and Mar...

After the Twitter redesign concept reports, ClickZ went around the Internet to find the top six Twitter concept suggestions for brands and marketers. ...

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The Future Is Content Marketing Through Photos
Analytics

The Future Is Content Marketing Through Photos

10y Rey Flemings

The Future Is Content Marketing Through Photos

Content marketing through photos is a win-win-win (for consumers, advertisers, and publishers) model that delivers tremendous value to the entire mark...

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Is Our Future Programmatic?
Automation

Is Our Future Programmatic?

10y Stephanie Miller

Is Our Future Programmatic?

Programmatic marketing will likely be a big driver of display and other digital spending in the coming year, as the programmatic approach benefits all...

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Search Shouldn’t Live in a Vacuum: How to Align It With Other Channels
Search

Search Shouldn’t Live in a Vacuum: How to Align It With Other Channels

10y Jeremy Hull

Search Shouldn’t Live in a Vacuum: How to Align It...

Here is a list of easy-to-implement opportunities to connect strategies from other channels to search marketing initiatives, and vice versa. Read More...

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Pandora Simplifies Open Music Submission as It Launches Ad-Powered Growth
Marketing

Pandora Simplifies Open Music Submission as It Launches Ad-Powered Growth

10y Liva Judic

Pandora Simplifies Open Music Submission as It Lau...

Pandora is giving a boost to its discovery experience with a streamlined open music submission process. It's all about user acquisitions, as its ad-ce...

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Clear Channel and Horizon Media in Ambitious $100 Million U.S. Cross-Marketing Deal
Data insights

Clear Channel and Horizon Media in Ambitious $100 Million U.S. Cross-Market...

10y Liva Judic

Clear Channel and Horizon Media in Ambitious $100 ...

Cross-channel mass media conglomerate Clear Channel, and Horizon Media, the media services agency, have partnered in the U.S. in a $100 million deal t...

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Facebook's Rumored Flipboard Competitor Paper to Launch February 3
Social

Facebook's Rumored Flipboard Competitor Paper to Launch February 3

10y Liva Judic

Facebook's Rumored Flipboard Competitor Paper to L...

Confirming earlier reports that it is ready to take on Flipboard, Facebook announced it is launching its visual storytelling app, Paper, next week, Fe...

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Yahoo's Ad Business Struggles as Traffic Spikes
Display Advertising

Yahoo's Ad Business Struggles as Traffic Spikes

10y Matt Kapko

Yahoo's Ad Business Struggles as Traffic Spikes

Yahoo failed to turn around its display advertising business in the last quarter, sending stock down more than 7 percent. Read More...

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Nielsen: TV Leads Ad Spend While Display Internet Advertising Soars
Data insights

Nielsen: TV Leads Ad Spend While Display Internet Advertising Soars

10y Yuyu Chen

Nielsen: TV Leads Ad Spend While Display Internet ...

Nielsen's report reveals that display Internet advertising spend increased rapidly in Q3 2013, but TV still dominated global ad spend. Read More...

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AOL Plays Catch-Up on Ad, Content Targeting with $90.7 Million Gravity Buy
Display Advertising

AOL Plays Catch-Up on Ad, Content Targeting with $90.7 Million Gravity Buy

10y Liva Judic

AOL Plays Catch-Up on Ad, Content Targeting with $...

AOL's $90.7 million acquisition of Gravity to personalize ads and editorial is good news. But is it good enough to enable it to compete with the likes...

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2014 Digital Marketing Winners & Losers
Social

2014 Digital Marketing Winners & Losers

10y Aaron Kahlow

2014 Digital Marketing Winners & Losers

These 5 key factors will separate those that make big gains in their digital & social media marketing efforts from those that will not in the pivo...

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2014 Local Marketing Checklist
Local

2014 Local Marketing Checklist

10y Gregg Stewart

2014 Local Marketing Checklist

2014 will be a breakout year for integration across all aspects of the consumer engagement path to purchase. Are you ready? Read More...

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A Digital Resolution for 2014: Break Bad Habits in Ad Tech
Display Advertising

A Digital Resolution for 2014: Break Bad Habits in Ad Tech

10y Larry Allen

A Digital Resolution for 2014: Break Bad Habits in...

In 2013, the ad tech industry formed some bad habits and developed a tolerance for behavior that is destructive to the entire ecosystem. Read More...

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