Taking you through setting up Facebook’s new Canvas ads The Facebook advertising juggernaut moves on with yet another huge product roll out. This time it’s Canvas Ads. As with Instant Articles for mobile, the idea is to provide an “immersive” experience with a rich media combination of images, videos, gifs, text, products, carousels and more…
Desperate times call for desperate measures. In attempts to fight back against the growing adoption of ad-blockers, many publishers and ad-dependent websites adopt all kinds of techniques from introducing “light” paywalls to limiting access to the site to fully blocking ad-blocker users from accessing the content altogether. It seems a bit ironic that a website…
How to increase loading times and keep web visitors happy Loading Times: Are They THAT big of a deal? Web performance optimisation, or WPO, is a term that relates to the various techniques IT specialists use in order to increase the speed in which websites are downloaded and displayed on a user’s web browser. You…
Key PPC budgeting lessons for modelling AdWords investment for B2B companies At any one time, there are only a finite number of potential clients searching for your product or service that you could convert to an enquiry. Above this point, throwing more money at Pay Per Click or AdWords advertising will simply buy more traffic…
If you are going to optimise your digital campaigns you need to measure them accurately How do you measure the effectiveness of your digital campaigns? In this video, Dave Chaffey of Smart Insights talks to Grant LeBoff, founder of the Sticky Marketing Club about tools and key metrics to use for digital campaign tracking monitoring…
Use these pointers as a checklist when creating your digital marketing plan Digital campaign planning is the art of developing the perfect strategy to reach and engage your audience using targeted, measured and interactive marketing of your products or services via paid vs owned vs owned digital media, content and technologies. In this day and…
Location-based services are growing in popularity every day, and beacon-based services are tipped to be the advertising goldmine of 2016. You may already be using location data and beacons to enhance your users’ experience with your websites, apps and wearables. However, the use of location data is not without limits. Developers must become aware of…
Check you’re using these 12 simple techniques before launching any Google AdWords campaign Free, organic options to drive visitors to your site such as SEO and Social Media are appealing, but often this approach can take a long time to generate significant amounts of traffic. Using Pay per Click search ads to advertise specific products…
How to create a digital marketing plan using PR Smith’s SOSTAC® Planning model SOSTAC is a widely used tool for marketing and business planning which is rated in the top 3 most popular marketing models in the Smart Insights review of Marketing Models that have stood the test of time. In this post I give…
The 5Is model from Forrester can help to structure your digital marketing Forrester is a well-established market research company focusing on business applications of digital technology and media and over the years, the team from Forrester have developed a number of models that we can apply to digital marketing. Occasionally they extract insights from their…
