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10 Trends That Defined Digital Marketing in 2016

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Social media marketing is one of the fastest growing marketing niches, and 2016 brought about much-improved search functionality. Here are a few brands that nailed it this year: During the 2016 Super Bowl, Gatorade created a Snapchat filter that allowed users to share a Super Bowl tradition—dumping Gatorade on the coach—with their friends.

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What is Comparative Advertising? [+ Examples]

Hubspot Marketing

Advertising is the process of creating messages that raise awareness of your brand. Most advertisements center around one business, but a unique type, called comparative advertising, centers around two. Given this, using comparative advertising requires care and attention. Comparative Advertising Examples.

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How to Advertise on Social Media—A Marketer’s Quick-Start Guide

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

But with more people fleeing traditional TV and radio for ad-free streaming services like Netflix and Spotify Premium, advertising on those once-powerful mediums has lost much of its luster. In 2016, SocialFlow observed a 42% drop in organic Facebook posts over a three-month period.

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Google: Apple rejected Microsoft Bing deal over quality and advertising worries

Search Engine Land

The sale was unsuccessful because Apple had concerns about Bing’s search quality, advertising unit and monetization capabilities, according to a document in Google’s antitrust case against the U.S. And their advertising organization and how they monetize was not very good either.” Justice Department.

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Join the Big League: 7 Reasons to Go Digital with Your Advertising

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Digital advertising is now the new norm—it’s the fastest growing marketing channel with no signs of slowing down, according to Strategy Analytics. In fact, most companies spent more on digital marketing in 2015 than they did in 2014, and plan to increase spending in 2016. Digital advertising has a lot to offer today’s marketers.

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Oracle says goodbye to the adtech business

Martech

In Q4, we decided to exit the advertising business, which had declined to about $300 million in revenue in fiscal year ’24,” Catz said. Eventually, Oracle Advertising was born. In 2016, for example, Oracle acquired social sharing widget AddThis as a way to add data to its Data Cloud and help inform ad buys.

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Join the Big League: 7 Reasons to Go Digital with Your Advertising

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Digital advertising is now the new norm—it’s the fastest growing marketing channel with no signs of slowing down, according to Strategy Analytics. In fact, most companies spent more on digital marketing in 2015 than they did in 2014, and plan to increase spending in 2016. Digital advertising has a lot to offer today’s marketers.