Marketing

Few forms of advertising are as powerful as online ads. With more people shopping online than ever, you want to allocate a good portion of your marketing and advertising budget to this endeavor. The key is to work smart and make the most of the effort. Here are four strategies that will help you get the most from your campaigns.

Recognize That Ad Buying Has Changed

Online marketing is not a static process. Over the years, approaches that once worked fine are no longer effective. That means the strategy and even the resources you were using five or ten years ago may no longer be the best way to proceed.

Today Cloud IQ, the effortless commerce platform, unveils its latest research report, Me, Myself & I: The Individualization Imperative. The report identifies customer experience pain-points and attitudes to data sharing and how brands are faring in the UK, US and Australia. This research explores how personalization is not cutting it with consumers and as such how individualization is emerging to benefit both consumers and brands. Consumers are sending a strong message to brands with 69% of consumers wanting an individualized experience, and two-thirds expecting it, and yet only 40% of brands actually offer one today.

Celebrus, the leading provider of real-time enterprise Customer Data Platform (CDP) technology, has revealed the findings of its research into cross-channel customer tracking in the US and Europe. The October 2017-commissioned study, conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Celebrus, identifies that despite 90% of surveyed firms saying that tracking customers is good for business, almost two-thirds are struggling to recognize customers across their digital touchpoints.

13 October 2017, London: When it comes to buying home and kitchen appliances, British consumers admit that the right reward is just as important to them as quality of product. The independent study of 2,000 British adults, commissioned by 360insights, found that 17 percent of consumers said their purchase decision was driven by a promotion, the same amount that identified product quality as the reason for their purchase.

London, U.K., September 28, 2017 - With Google now agreeing to concede to the EU’s antitrust action by creating a standalone unit for its shopping services and allowing rivals to bid for ads shown there, a new study examines whether Google Shopping did in fact gain an illegal advantage over other price comparison sites. And does the search company have a legitimate case in appealing the EU decision?