Search Engine Land

AUGUST 14, 2024

Digital advertising has evolved quite a bit since I started working in paid media. Lead generation advertisers today have access to tools like broad match keywords and offline conversions – powerful when used right, but chaotic and expensive if left unchecked. I love the challenge of learning something new. Copy and creative.

Advertisers 116

Advertisers Advertising Branding CRM 116

Vertical Response

AUGUST 19, 2024

Struggling to get noticed with traditional advertising? Alternative advertising breaks the mold with creative strategies that captivate and engage audiences. This article covers the top alternative advertising methods, showing you how to achieve impactful and memorable marketing results.

Advertising 84

Advertising Advertisers Buzz Marketing Marketing 84

Martech

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Choosing the right paid media channels is key to B2B advertising success. Users in-market for jobs in specific industries. Example: A software company selling to Fortune 500 technology firms can target users searching for software-related keywords who also: Work at large companies (10,000+ employees). Company size. Job function.

Advertisers 74

Advertisers Advertising User-Generated Food 74

Hubspot Marketing

JULY 24, 2024

And no marketer gets punched in the mouth quite as often as those who deal with user-generated content. Even when users are trying to promote your brand, these posts can be damaging. Even if the user is a total jerk. Attacking the user personally will never look good for your brand. Need convincing? Yeah, yeah.

Branding 130

Branding PR User-Generated Health 130

Martech

AUGUST 5, 2024

In digital advertising , a hidden threat is silently draining marketing budgets and undermining the value of online content. Made for advertising” or “made for arbitrage” (MFA) sites, designed purely to attract ad dollars rather than serve users, are proliferating at an alarming rate.

User-Generated 115

User-Generated Advertising Advertisers Marketing 115

Martech

JANUARY 10, 2025

The integration of generative AI technologies is poised to further refine these strategies by enabling more nuanced audience targeting and personalized customer journeys. This can erode consumer trust and underscores why digital marketers should cautiously approach delivering excessively personalized advertisements and recommendations.

Manufacturing 123

Manufacturing Advertising Advertisers User-Generated 123

Martech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

One of the most powerful things about generative AI is how quickly you can turn ideas into reality. Keep reading to learn how I used a combination of spreadsheets and generative AI to create fully functioning calculators. The AI understood and fixed the math problem, though I’m unsure exactly why it made the mistake in the first place.

User-Generated 131

User-Generated CRM Marketing Strategy Advertisers 131

Hubspot Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

However, the specifics can differ dramatically based on age and generation. Let’s break down some of each generation’s most prominent content consumption habits based on data and how to shape your strategy with them in mind. Content Consumption Habits By Generation To be real, I don’t like to put anyone in a box.

Gen Z 140

Gen Z Millennials Entertainment User-Generated 140

Martech

JULY 31, 2024

Messenger and Audience Network continue to represent a small portion of total Meta ad spend for most advertisers. Across both Facebook and Instagram, AI-driven Advantage+ campaigns continue to be a major factor in retailer advertising expenditure. Google’s search advertising landscape showed mixed results in Q2 2024.

Advertising 115

Advertising Advertisers Retail eCommerce 115

Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

User-generated content (UGC) has become increasingly important over the past few years. In fact, in a recent HubSpot survey of 500+ marketers who sell content via social shopping features, 92% say user-generated content increases brand awareness of their products.

User-Generated 126

User-Generated Shoppers Manufacturing Promotion 126

Buffer Marketing

JULY 22, 2024

Paid advertising on social media is an immediate way to boost the reach of your content — particularly when it comes to a power platform like Facebook. With over 3 billion monthly active users , it's little wonder that Facebook is the most popular social media platform for running ads.

Advertisers 113

Advertisers Advertising User-Generated Management 113

SmartBrief - Marketing

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

While several new technology trends have taken off over the last two years — generative AI, social commerce and retail media, to name a few — what lies ahead for business leaders is the need to right-size excitement around these areas versus actual impact. Looking ahead, 2025 will be a year of “hype” normalization. trillion by 2032.

User-Generated 120

User-Generated Retail New Technology Customer Journey 120

Martech

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The new offering aims to optimize targeting to Pinterest users and manage campaign budgeting. Some of the new tools have generative AI creative capabilities, allowing brands to create and improve visual assets. These features provide branded shopping recommendations powered by machine learning based on what users search and pin.

Shoppers 116

Shoppers User-Generated Price Promotion 116

Sprout Social

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Branded content on TikTok is a form of advertising where brands collaborate with creators to produce content that seamlessly integrates the brand’s message or product. This is important for building trust with your audience and following advertising rules. TikTok users value authenticity above all else.

Branding 124

Branding Influencer Marketing User-Generated Key Performance Indicator 124

Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

However, it doesn’t matter if you’re promoting a small startup or a well-established brand; online marketing can be overwhelming, and you’ll need a strategy in place to thrive. Linking to related content improves the user experience and helps search engines crawl your site. Content Marketing Checklist 1.

Digital Marketing 121

Digital Marketing User-Generated Marketing Marketers 121

Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

It’s often the first place a customer will look for information about your business. But it’s also the first place they’ll go to ask questions, get help and offer you feedback. These environments are ideal for sharing feedback, generating ideas, and engaging in dialogue, all of which strengthen their loyalty to your brand.

Retail 120

Retail Shoppers User-Generated Customer Journey 120

Martech

JANUARY 13, 2025

CompuServe, Prodigy, Meta and Section 230 In the early 1990s, online platforms like CompuServe and Prodigy faced critical legal challenges over user-generated content. government passed the Communications Decency Act of 1996, including Section 230, which shields platforms from liability for user-generated content.

Law 124

Law User-Generated Email Marketing Education 124

Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

What began as brands sending free products to popular social media users has now evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry, where contracted brand deals are closely aligned with targeted campaigns. Influencer marketing is no longer a novelty—it’s a critical component of advertising strategies.

Influencer Marketing 126

Influencer Marketing Key Performance Indicator Transform Marketing 126

Hubspot Marketing

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

But thankfully, Facebook Advertising has a pretty good reputation for return when handled correctly. With potential access to over 3 billion monthly active users , those numbers are nothing to scoff at. To be totally candid, Facebook Advertising is complex. generating a lead) tend to cost more than impressions or clicks.

Advertisers 123

Advertisers Advertising Price User-Generated 123

Vertical Response

JULY 7, 2024

Key Takeaways Facebook remains the top choice for businesses, offering extensive advertising tools, customer engagement options, and effective community-building through groups. For businesses, it’s a goldmine of opportunities, offering essential tools for customer service, advertising, and community engagement. With over 2.5

Gen Z 101

Gen Z Branding User-Generated Influencer Marketing 101

Jeff Bullas

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Building an interactive engagement experience for users in the metaverse is challenging, but it can also be a great opportunity to capture a future-minded marketplace. The Metaverse can be defined as an online place where people can work, socialize or play as avatars (aka a digital representation of their identity).

User-Generated 272

User-Generated Shipping Advertisers Advertising 272

illumin

JANUARY 7, 2025

With illumins connected journey, you can manage ad creative and ad frequency at every stage, establish alternative pathways, and enhance performance based on user behavior. Agencies are experts in advertising who create brand stories for specific companies or products. What do agencies need in a DSP?

Transform 59

Transform Advertisers Advertising Analytics 59

Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

AI tools can illuminate the dark funnel , where your potential customers might be researching via social media, Reddit, or other typically untraceable places. Image Source HubSpot’s chatbot uses AI to help generate leads. He suggests experimenting with attaching Icon to your paid advertising and seeing how well those ads run.

Analytics 128

Analytics Customer Journey CMO Marketing 128

Martech

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

With a large user base, app hosting capabilities and integrations with many of the 14,000 other tools, the company is the first sharpshooter to ride into town and claim the role of sheriff. Marketing automation platforms are an obvious place to look for a market dominator. Maturity and consolidation will generate losers.

Marketing Automation Platform 105

Marketing Automation Platform CRM User-Generated Price 105

Martech

JANUARY 22, 2025

At The MarTech Conference , Ted Svikas, Amplitude’s field CTO, used the story of Ben & Jerry’s partnership with the Asian food delivery giant Foodpanda to demonstrate how RMNs can revolutionize advertising as we know it. Unilever used The Trade Desk to place ads strategically for the new dessert flavors in the Foodpanda app.

Gen Z 103

Gen Z Retail Food Millennials 103

SocialPilot

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Amid these changes, Bluesky has gained attention as an exciting alternative for businesses and users. Both platforms let users share posts, images, and videos while interacting through replies and likes. However, their different content moderation and user control approaches have stirred debates about their impact on communities.

Gen Z 112

Gen Z User-Generated Advertisers Advertising 112

Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 9, 2023

Examples: McKinsey & Company BCG (Boston Consulting Group) Source: McKinsey Technology consulting firms These firms focus on technology, helping providers and users understand it and what it means for industry and society. As part of their work, management consulting firms conduct research to help executives understand business trends.

Place 140

Place Content Marketing Non-Profit Whitepaper 140

SocialPilot

JULY 12, 2024

Paid Social Media Analytics If you invest in paid social media advertising on social media platforms, this is one critical area you should not overlook. You can track the reach and engagement generated by influencer posts, measure the ROI and conversion rates, and identify the most impactful influencers for your brand.

Analytics 115

Analytics Transform User-Generated PR 115

Sprout Social

JANUARY 22, 2025

Because there’s no better place on social media to position yourself as a leader in your industry. Lead generation Food for thought: nearly one-fourth of all B2B digital advertising happens on Linkedin. Through organic content and ads, generating leads on LinkedIn can become a long-term, consistent channel for your brand.

Marketing Strategy 126

Marketing Strategy Content Marketing Thought Leadership Marketing 126

Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Manufacturing giant Procter & Gamble wanted to separate advertising activities based on who got paid for them. Traditional” advertising costs (aka, TV, radio, OOH) payable to ad agencies made it above the line on the company’s draft budget. Pro tip : I wouldn’t use generative AI to write full drafts.

Direct Mail 125

Direct Mail Marketing Marketers Email Marketing 125

Jeff Bullas

MARCH 15, 2023

Nowadays, it has evolved into a massive social media platform with over a billion active users. Today, Instagram ranks 7 th on the list of the Top 15 Most Popular Social Networking Sites with over 100 million unique monthly users and over 300 million active users posting photos and videos every day.

User-Generated 357

User-Generated Fashion Product Place 357

Sprout Social

OCTOBER 10, 2024

As consumer and advertiser preferences shift, so do social media networks. Feeds and timelines have become entirely unique to the individual, based on user preferences. Users’ primary reasons for scrolling Instagram are to connect with friends and family and alleviate boredom. It’s a broad definition, and intentionally so.

Gen Z 122

Gen Z Branding Millennials Entertainment 122

Hubspot Marketing

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

According to HubSpot’s AI Trends for Marketers survey of 1,062 US marketing and advertising professionals, the biggest concern about adopting AI is that it will replace jobs. Generative AI can help us write content faster. In my opinion, there’s a time and a place for generative AI. The same goes for creating content.

User-Generated 107

User-Generated Price Marketing Marketers 107

Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Case in point: Pinterest users spend twice as much time shopping every month as non-Pinners. Unlike paid social ads, Pinterest content seamlessly blends into user feeds, making it an effective tool for building brand awareness, driving traffic, and boosting conversions. ICYMI: Pinterest is more than a social network. The strategy?

Gen Z 109

Gen Z Affiliate Marketing Fashion Social Media Marketing 109

Hubspot Marketing

JANUARY 22, 2025

While social media channels tend to get the most attention, the best place to spend your time with organic marketing is SEO, as it tends to drive 1000%+ more traffic. Read: How to Create an SEO Strategy for 2025 [Template Included] User-generated Content (UGC) UGC is content your buyers create about your brand, product, or services.

Gen Z 116

Gen Z Social Media Marketing User-Generated Inbound Marketing 116

Hootsuite

OCTOBER 18, 2024

If you’re a social media or marketing manager looking for help with your strategy, you’re in the right place. Unlike traditional marketing and advertising, social marketing fosters two-way communication between brands and social media users. Social media is always changing!

Social Media Marketing 105

Social Media Marketing Marketing Strategy Marketing Marketers 105

Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Coming up with effective lead generation ideas is tough — and I’m the world’s worst at putting off this aspect of my marketing strategy. Sending cold emails and scraping together lists for lead generation can be difficult because — let‘s face it — often, people don’t want to take the time out of their schedules to talk.

User-Generated 81

User-Generated Marketing Marketers Advertisers 81