How to Use YouTube’s New Audio Ad Formats
Last week, YouTube announced the launch of new audio advertising formats as part of their slate of audio investments in 2020. Other announcements have included new sales capabilities in AdsManager and better optimisation opportunities in DV360. With more than 50% of logged-in users listening to…
Programmatic Audio – What’s New and What’s Next
Nielsen has reported an overall 9.4% increase in total audio activity for H1 2020 compared to the previous year, with on-demand audio streaming seeing the biggest rise of 16.2%. It has also been projected that 46% of marketers would use ‘Digital Audio’ as a media…
Three Weeks Into A Global Pandemic: Planning for The Future
It’s been three weeks since W.H.O. declared COVID-19 a worldwide pandemic and a lot has changed. We don’t want to repeat the details of everything that has happened, but instead help you plan for the future. Consumer Behaviour Changes by Channel PPC: Search demands (and…
Bing Intent Ads
Whenever you’re performing an online search, Bing is often overlooked next to its juggernaut rival, Google. We all know the latter is the world’s number one search engine, but Bing Ads with 918 million monthly searches, a market share of 25.1%, and ads appearing on…
For the AdWords geeks
You may not have heard it through all the fake news, but rejoice, for this week the new AdWords interface is now available to all advertisers! They say a good worker never blames his tools. Although undeniably, with better tools you can do a better…
What Makes a Standout Programmatic Campaign?
With our session on how to use inspired creative across programmatic campaigns to really engage with audiences fast approaching, what better time to discuss my favourite campaign of all time. The rollout for Narcos Season 3 is the one campaign that really stands out for…
New IAB rules signal lean times for bad ads
The IAB’s New Ad Portfolio guidelines, released at the end of the July, aren’t intended for consumer reading, with their talk of ad sizes, subloads, render-blocking elements and gzip utilities. But buried in the detail are two new recommendations that would surely raise a cheer…
Google’s eternal love towards mobile is changing the AdWords core products
As everyone expected from the Google’s Performance Summit, Google is yelling more and more about Mobile (at this rate mobile will rule the world very soon according to Google). Interestingly the starting point of most of our decisions in a day to day life that…
BT Sport Go For Power and Placement
BT Sport unexpectedly decided to live stream both the recent Europa League final and the upcoming Champions League final on Youtube for free. This may be a small victory for fans, who regularly enjoyed the annual event on terrestrial TV until BT shook up the…
Google Announces Addressable TV Solution
With the meteoric rise of programmatic advertising in the last 10 years, it was inevitable that TV would finally get the treatment. With an increasing number of devices being used to watch television and advertisers no longer happy with purchasing placements based on wide ranging…