A website without great navigation can be like the clearance rack at Urban Outfitters. It is full of hidden gems, but sizes and types of apparel are all mixed up. You’re often left wondering if the effort of sorting through the options is even worth scoring that great deal. Navigation is crucial for both users […]
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Chart of the day: Benchmarks for Facebook news feed placement ads Q1 2018 Even though Facebook may have recently been on the receiving end of continuous flack and scrutiny, data shows that Facebook ads continue to do well in the world of paid media. Business are still witnessing the fruits of Facebook as a marketing
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This year’s World Cup is just a few weeks away. In this post, we’ll look at a heap of social media stats around football in general, and the 2018 World Cup – from the players to the national teams and sponsors – in order to give you a better idea of what to expect from
Chart of the Day: How perceptions of the applications of AI differ between agencies and brands In our infographic reviewing the applications of AI in marketing, we explore 15 different applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across the customer lifecycle from media buying to marketing automation and chatbots. It’s around a year now since we developed
Journalists are renowned for sniffing out a good story; they instinctively know how to get to the crux of a matter, asking the right sort of questions to get to the truth, and can decipher complicated subject matters succinctly for everyone to understand. Pick up any newspaper or magazine and you’ll find it packed with
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Why qualitative App Analytics is like finding money in your old jeans We’ve all been there. You wake up one morning, all of your go-to jeans are dirty so you reach out to one of the older bunch. And then… JACKPOT! You find a well-forgotten $100 bill in your jeans’ back pocket. Ah, that feeling.
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Chart of the Day: Use for benchmarking your ad clickthrough rates (Ecommerce focus) With the rapid adoption of smartphones by consumers, both Facebook and Google had to move fast to transition their desktop-based revenue model over to smartphone. This involved developing new ad placements for mobile which encouraged clickthrough to maintain their CPCs. This benchmarking report from
Chart of the Day: A summary of trends in managing influencer marketing activities 2018 has been dubbed the year of Influencer Marketing by many including MarketingLand and AdWeek who report on research that: “67 percent of marketers think influencer marketing campaigns helped them reach a more targeted audience, thus leading to more impactful results”. Of course, Influencer marketing
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How many times have you heard, “according to [consumer insights firm name], millennials live in an experience culture” or some other fact about a huge demographic of the world with broad blanket statements? Having worked in the ad agency world for years I saw a lot of this type of research presented to clients to
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Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! J T. Ramsay is digital media manager at Ford Motor Company. We met at the 2016 North American International Auto Show, when Ford sponsored my trip to Detroit for the event. I invited J T. to Marketing Smarts to discuss Ford’s
