How to Know What Creative to Use for Retargeting

Retargeting, when done correctly, is one of the biggest game-changers in the world of display advertising. The lynchpin of a successful retargeting campaign is showing creative that resonates with your audience as they travel along each stage of the customer journey. Here’s how to know what creative to use for your next retargeting campaign.

CRO vs. CTR: Is Conversion Rate Optimization the New Click-Through Rate?

  While Click-Through Rate (CTR) has long been considered an essential campaign metric, only recently has Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) become a data point that’s getting more and more attention. So why is CRO occupying a more prominent place on digital marketers’ priority lists nowadays? Is it becoming the new CTR? For that matter, how…

Going Native: What Is Native Advertising and Why Is It So Effective?

You’ve probably heard a lot of buzz about native advertising lately, but what exactly is it? Native advertising is a form of paid online advertising that closely mimics the look, feel and format of the surrounding content on the web page, making it virtually indistinguishable from the regular page content. Practically all of the largest…

What is MicroProximity Targeting?

It’s the seventh inning stretch, and after a round of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” fans start pulling out their phones. What are they thinking about as they use their favorite apps and browse the web? Maybe a nearby bar to get drinks with their friends, maybe a restaurant where they can take the kids…

How to Do Retargeting Right the First Time

Numerous studies indicate that well over 95 percent of the people who visit your site will not immediately purchase a product or service, which means they’ve visited your site, seen what you offer and may have even intended on buying something–just not right now. This can be for a number of reasons: They may have…

Your Retargeting Ads are Useless…Unless They Have a Purpose

Running a retargeting campaign makes all the sense in the world – after all, why wouldn’t you go after potential customers who’ve visited your website and left without converting? They’re low-hanging fruit, so the idea is to stay in front of them by serving up display ads as they surf the web, and they’ll eventually…

The IP Impact: Using Geo-Targeting to Zero In on Customers

Regardless of the size and scope of your business, there will be times when you want to market to certain geographical locations. This is true from big, global brands right on down to a mom-and-pop shop that serves a single neighborhood. The good news is that search engines are already in this game – having found…

How to Analyze Retargeting Results

Not all visitors who come to your website will make a purchase. In fact, most of them will leave your site without taking any action. Advancements in digital marketing have made it possible to follow prospective clients around the web through retargeting (or remarketing). When people come to your site, they leave a bit of…

How to Find the Right Mix of Inbound and Outbound Marketing

Inbound and outbound – two marketing methods you may have heard praised as the answer to lead generation for the 21st century marketer or disparaged as out-of-date in the content-driven digital world. One (inbound marketing) involves creating a place on the internet that people want to visit and then provide their contact information for more content.…

From Retargeting to Pretargeting – What is Predictive Advertising?

Rapid advancements in online advertising technology have given rise to a number of sophisticated targeting methods that have proven to be effective in reaching users based on their patterns of online behavior. Advertisers can now serve ads to users who have visited their company’s website or performed a product-related keyword search; this practice is known…