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YouTube TrueView vs. Video Preroll – What Will Work Best for You?
YouTube has proven to be fertile soil for digital marketers, hauling in a reported $9 billion worth of advertising revenue in 2015 alone. While the mammoth video sharing site offers a variety of advertising options for marketers, two formats in particular–TrueView and Preroll–are among the most effective in terms of audience targeting and budget-fr…
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Facebook Canvas Ads – Cool Idea or Can They Actually Work for Your Brand?
Facebook has never been one to rest on its laurels when it comes to making mobile more engaging and effective, and for good reason–mobile ad spend was one of the main drivers behind the company’s $17.93 billion in revenue last year. The social network’s latest foray into the world of mobile innovation is an immersive advertising experience known as…
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How Digital Marketing Assists the Path to Purchase
In a perfect world, your target customer would simply view your advertisement, immediately visit your website, rush to the checkout page or store, and whip out their credit card. Unfortunately, the world we’re living in is far from perfect, and the average path to purchase is far from linear in today’s digitally-dominated consumer landscape.
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Radio and Online Advertising “Band” Together for Higher ROI
There’s a great mistake brands make when it comes to advertising. And, it relates back to the word itself: “Advertising.”
Many want to “do” “advertising” without really understanding what they are doing. You’ll hear companies say they “do” radio or they “do” digital. But, when you’re advertising, what are you really doing? You’re communicating. An…
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Gain Clues for How to Set Your Digital Budget with Website Analytics
Deciding on and setting a digital marketing budget can seem like a shot in the dark – how are you supposed to know which digital efforts are going to actually bring in a return on investment and which are completely futile for your business? Maybe you’ve been pumping up your SEO, but is it time to move those resources to PPC or a targeted display c…
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Top 5 Things We’ve Learned After Executing Hundreds of Facebook Contests
When done correctly, Facebook contests are a great way to increase followers, engagement, and leads for businesses and brands. And at 2060 Digital, we’re no strangers when it comes to contesting. Over the years we’ve learned what works and what doesn’t. So before you launch your next Facebook contest, take a look at our top five tips!
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Putting the ‘We’ in Social Media Management
Yes, I know there is no “we” in the phrase “social media management,” but…there should be. Following one of the first times I attended a client recap meeting at 2060 Digital, the Account Executive on the account gave me an unexpected compliment. She thanked me for saying “we” and “our” to the client when referring to their Social Media Management p…
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Watch Your Back: Why Reviews Are So Important
You’ve invested your blood, sweat, tears, and time to get your business where it is today, and the last thing you want is for a handful of bad online reviews to dismantle all your hard work. If you’re not paying attention to online reputation management (ORM), you run the risk of leaving your company’s integrity and good name in the hands of people…
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Avoid These SEO Pitfalls and Watch Your ROI Grow
Search engine optimization (SEO) is a critical staple of digital marketing, and when done right, it can attract a consistent stream of highly targeted visitors to your website. There are dozens of factors that go into a successful SEO campaign, but a large part of achieving high search engine rankings is knowing what practices to avoid. Below are s…
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What Matters Most in Ranking at the Top on YouTube?
With more than 400 hours of video being uploaded every minute and a user base that’s at least 1 billion strong, YouTube is the 800-pound gorilla of video sharing websites. Stories abound of businesses and full-time YouTubers who have found success in leveraging the immensely popular video platform, and marketers who implement YouTube videos into th…
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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.
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How to Navigate the New PPC Structure for Google AdWords
In one of the most dramatic strategy shifts in recent memory, Google is no longer showing AdWords ads in the right sidebar of their search engine results pages for desktop queries. This means that paid ads will now only occupy the slots directly above and below the organic search results, typically following a format of three or four ads on the top…
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