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Why digital brands like Netflix and Wayfair are betting on physical stores

Martech

However, customer demand proved otherwise, and in 2017, Everlane opened its first store in New York City. Everlane initially resisted opening physical stores, with its (former) CEO famously stating he would shut down before going brick-and-mortar. As the company realized, customers still want to touch products before they buy.

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Top Ten Results from the February 2020 CMO Survey

The CMO Survey

One explanation may lie in an increased ability to demonstrate social media impact on company performance, with 30% of marketers now reporting the ability to prove the impact quantitatively—up from 18% in 2017. #5 5 – Mobile Marketing. 7 – Firm Performance. 8 – Marketing Organization.

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Digital Marketing Spending Soars as Marketers’ Roles Reach Higher Echelons

The CMO Survey

Marketing expenses as a percentage of company revenue declined for the first time since 2017, but climbed as a percentage of company budget. Traditional advertising spending projections increased for the first time in a decade with expected growth at 1.4% for the next year.

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Google, NBCUniversal duking it out to be Netflix adtech provider

Martech

NBCUniversal is the exclusive reseller of ads for Apple News and Apple Stocks since 2017 and has recently expanded into the UK. A potential deal with Netflix could mean sharing access to its tech partners and audiences. Google had been providing ad service to the Walt Disney Co. (a

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How to map marketing science to the customer journey

Martech

The neuroeconomist Paul Zak revealed that the “amount of oxytocin recipients produced predicted how trustworthy — that is, how likely to share the money — they would be,” per a 2017 Harvard Business Review article. The issue, then, is how do you get potential customers to trust your brand over competing offerings before purchase?

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This day in search marketing history: January 24

Search Engine Land

Spotted: New Google ad label test with green outline on white background 2017: The new look was seen in the UK on desktop. Merkle: Google Q4 search growth aided by changes other than ETAs 2017: Overall paid search growth remained steady in Q4. Separate device bidding was among the drivers of growth for Google.

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How Inkbox steers customers through its huge online catalog of temporary tattoos

Martech

“We spun off the company in 2017 out of Stanford based on a paper — the concept that we could provide recommendations across many different domains because we could leverage people’s tastes much more thoroughly and thoughtfully than many other solutions. Now I’m going to show you birds with this specific style.”

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