Monthly Archives: July 2016
End of Google’s Growth, and 6 Online Advertising Issues You Need to Know – Published on Digital Doughnut
Alphabet/Google’s revenue continues to grow. In fact, earlier this year, it briefly surpassed Apple to become the most valuable public company. But, over the years, Google has reported one number that has left the advertising world wanting to know more. Since 2011, the average ‘ad cost’ continues to decline. In simple terms, Google is serving more and more ads every year, but each ad is earning company less and less. To someone in the online advertising world, this should not be news; online ad effectiveness has witnessed slow and steady decline over the years. The industry doesn’t want its customers to know about some underlying issues that are creating an online advertising bubble. Following six issues are a big reason for concern as there would likely be no turning back the moment advertisers get a grip of what is really happening.
1 – Perils of Technology & Automation
Yet, there is a much bigger irony at play – virtues of automation are becoming its own flaws.
Advertising technology has seen tremendous advancement in the past decade. From precise user tracking and matching algorithms to automation and programmatic buying, placing an ad now requires very little human effort. For most part, this has been a big boon for all stakeholders, but some cracks are starting to show. For one – advertisers took industry’s word on ad effectiveness, who in turn totally relied on advanced technology for their argument. If you look at ad performance over the years, it paints a completely different picture – online ad efficiency has been declining, and it has been declining for some of the most advanced online businesses who really know what they are doing. Yet, there is a much bigger irony at play – virtues of automation are becoming its own flaws. Automation has made it extremely cheap to plan and place ads on small/low quality websites, which has encouraged advertisers of all sizes to join in hordes without understanding anything about ad efficiency.
via End of Google’s Growth, and 6 Online Advertising Issues You Need to Know – Digital Doughnut.
Experts Share Tips on How to Streamline Marketing Processes – Published on Docurated
“Given the modern marketing ecosystem, the single most important factor is to…”
Train marketing teams on technical skills. In the work that we do with both large and small clients, traditional marketing teams still rely heavily on IT and Business Technology teams. It ends up affecting all marketing activity since every single marketing process is driven by technology these days. Whether you are doing lead nurturing, social media marketing, content marketing, website optimization, or customer segmentation – if the marketing team doesn’t have the right technical tools and skills, none of the processes will be efficient. Same is true for data analytics, which is also traditionally a CIO responsibility, but never efficiently used if marketing teams don’t know how to work with data.
Modern marketing teams need to acquire these skills if they want to streamline processes and stay ahead of the competition.
via How to Streamline Marketing Processes: Tips from 60 Experts – Docurated.
TIE Digital Marketing Keynote: Strategy to grow your business on a lean budget
Why do so many businesses struggle with digital marketing? Today’s marketing landscape allows a small company, or even an individual, to get attention of millions of digital users. How do you grow your business? Jasmeet Sawhney, CEO of YibLab and a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of digital marketing experience will help you arrive at the answers.
Jasmeet will deconstruct two case studies, real examples of how businesses use growth hacking to engage customers and build a large customer base. You will get insights into the process, mindset, and strategies to figure out unique opportunities available to all businesses. The goal is to provide every attendee with at least a couple of actionable tactics that they can use to scale their business through an analysis of two case studies:
via Digital Marketing: Strategy to grow your business on a lean budget – TiE NJ Philadelphia.
When My Fridge Orders Milk – What Iot Revolution Means for Brand Marketing? – Published on Digital Doughnut
The Internet of Things has arrived
While some continue to write it off as futuristic, they are not acting any different from skeptics we had when mobile technologies were maturing. We all know what happened next – it took only couple of years for smartphones to change our lives. And, if mobile brought ‘change’, IOT will be nothing short of a transformation. Only a couple of years ago, impact of IOT didn’t seem much. But, then, almost instantly, mobile, web 2.0, and connectivity technologies became ubiquitous and inexpensive. Technologies like Wi-Fi, NFC, RFID, and sensor tags now make economic sense for widespread use. These technologies when added to everyday products enable massive data exchanges, and make it possible for brands to deliver dynamic services.
According to Cisco Systems, 15 billion connected devices already exist, and the number will reach 50 billion by 2020. Intel is even more bullish and predicts 200 billion connected devices by 2020. But, another number from Cisco puts things in better perspective, i.e., 98% of all physical devices will be part of the Internet of Things ecosystem. While most people only think about the obvious IOT candidates such as cars, consumer electronics, and appliances, these make up a very small percentage of trillions of consumer products sold every year. The biggest opportunity for marketers is in dumb products that will become part of the IOT ecosystem via smart packaging and software.
via When My Fridge Orders Milk – What Iot Revolution Means for Brand Marketing? – Digital Doughnut.