Sure, fraud has been rampant in digital advertising. But how do marketers know what’s fraud? To help define that answer, the Coalition Against Ad Fraud (CAAF) released Thursday what it says is the first standardized document on the topic, “Definitions of Mobile Fraud Schemes.” Why this document? Founded about a year ago by mobile attribution…
Reasons Your Mobile App Retention Rate Might Be So Low Reasons Your Mobile App Retention Rate Might Be So Low Suzanne Scacca 2018-10-18T14:00:01+02:00 2018-10-18T12:41:47+00:00 In business, there’s a lot of talk about generating customer loyalty and retaining the business of good customers. Mobile apps aren’t all that different when you think about it. While the…
Marketers now have a new generally-available ad type for their campaigns: conversational ads. That’s the result of Google’s launch on Tuesday of its new AdLingo conversational marketing platform, which provides a display ad-like framework into which conversational ads can be placed. Concurrent with the AdLingo announcement, Google said it was working with three providers of…
Graphic provided by InMobi When a brand wants to advertise to telco subscribers, the process can involve many participants. But today mobile marketing platform InMobi took another step toward its vision of a more unified approach, with the announcement that it is buying Sprint’s mobile data and ad company Pinsight Media. Exclusive data access. As…
On Tuesday, Google took action to comply with the European Commission’s (EC’s) antitrust decision requiring it to de-couple Google Play access for smartphone makers from the pre-installation of Google apps such as Chrome and search. Google is appealing the EC’s roughly $5 billion Android antitrust fine, imposed in July. Despite the appeal, Google was compelled…
Live Accessibility And Performance Audits At SmashingConf Toronto Live Accessibility And Performance Audits At SmashingConf Toronto Markus Seyfferth 2018-10-17T13:20:35+02:00 2018-10-17T12:19:27+00:00 Earlier this year, many of your favorite speakers were featured at SmashingConf Toronto, however, things were quite different this time. The speakers had been asked to present without slides. It was interesting to see the…
A screenshot of Autopilot’s new Annotate and Collaborate feature. Since customers’ choices are the key dynamic in modern marketing, the customer journey map has become the central strategic and management document. It depicts the marketing exposures and decisions for a given kind of customer and is used to plot alternatives, responses and followup pitches. To…
Photoshop Workflows And Shortcuts For Digital Artists Photoshop Workflows And Shortcuts For Digital Artists Yoanna Victorova 2018-10-16T15:30:51+02:00 2018-10-17T12:19:27+00:00 Adobe Photoshop plays a role in almost every digital creator’s life. Photoshop is what many digital artists, photographers, graphic designers, and even some web developers have in common. The tool is so flexible that often you can…
YouTube announced it is changing the attribution criteria for TrueView for action video ads. TrueView for action ads are designed for performance advertisers and feature call-to-action banners at the base of the video ads. What’s changing? There are two key attribution points that are changing: YouTube will now count an ‘Engagement’ whenever a user clicks…
If you’re like most marketers, you could name the basic parts of the sales funnel in your sleep: Awareness, Interest, Evaluation, Decision, and Purchase. Of course, businesses have tweaked the model over the years, adding extra steps and so forth, but the basic premise has remained the same. But there is one problem with the…
