Sales, forward or backward?
Picture this. Back in ‘the good old days’, a salesman would knock door to door displaying the wares of which he sought to sell, chatting with his prospective clients and using every tactic he knew. As a result, he may have hit one in every…
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…
The Skinny on Voice Search
Voice search originated in 2002, with the initial release of Google Voice search. 10 years later, Google released a new Google Search app for iOS, which featured an enhanced Google Voice Search function, aimed to compete with Apple’s voice assistant Siri. Since Apple’s Siri emerged…
Interactive Mobile Advertising
In the past few months Google has been doing more research than ever into mobile advertising. Just months after they released the Mobile App Marketing Insights Guide, Google has launched two new types of mobile app advertisements. This could be because the insight guide revealed…
How Virtual Reality will change the way we do content
Virtual Reality is big right now. Oculus Rift, the headmount that allows you to interact with a computer-simulated reality will become accessible to the public in early 2016 priced at £350 initially. Making the product become more available to the public, will likely change the…
It’s My Data And I’ll Target If I Want To – Or Is Someone Else’s Better?
Earlier today myself and Tug’s Head of Biddable Media Ollie, gave a keynote presentation at the IAB on realising the potential of data enhanced targeting and it got me thinking – is third party data really relevant in the current state of the industry? Especially…
Introduction to Ad Fraud
Ad Fraud is one of the most prevalent problems within programmatic advertising at the moment; and with the use of programmatic only becoming more widespread, it’s becoming more and more of a problem. The Association of National Advertisers in the US predicted that $6.3billion of…
Tis the season….
……for making sure your YOY analytics are working Why now? January is soon to be upon us and 2015 data will start to pour in You may now have almost a whole year to look back on This might show you your seasonal patterns This…
Review Extensions: Top of Mind Awareness in the Generic Ad Space
I often wonder how as humans, more of us don’t spontaneously combust as a result of total sensory overload. When we aren’t subconsciously consuming advertising messages through our surroundings such as our morning breakfast cereal box or our ad-plastered subway commute, we [voluntarily] plug into…