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Second quarter saw slowing ad spend on most platforms

Martech

On the pricing front, advertisers experienced some relief as the cost-per-click (CPC) growth rate slowed to 12% year-over-year, following four quarters of accelerating CPC growth. This marks the fifth consecutive quarter of slowing click growth for Google’s search ads, with Q2 seeing only a 3% increase.

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How To Choose the Right Data Feed & Optimize for High-Performance

Martech Series

Data plays a key role in ecommerce. There are many places to send this data, but the struggle is real for many ecommerce marketers who don’t know how to tell if Amazon or Google is the best data feed. With over $500 billion in global sales, the king of ecommerce is Amazon, accounting for over 40% of the U.S. for display.

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PPC for Ecommerce: 8 Effective Best Practices

Single Grain

From planning a solid advertising strategy to creating attention-grabbing ads that your target audience won’t be able to resist, this post will address everything you need to know to build, execute and manage an ecommerce PPC campaign. Work With Us What Is PPC for Ecommerce? Because it’s effective, that’s why.

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To Meet Retailer Demand, SourceKnowledge Expands Influencer Network

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They can easily generate monetizable links for their favorite retailers and can earn a premium cost-per-click (CPC) rate. However, it can be a drain on resources for large eCommerce brands and direct-to-consumer (DTC) businesses to identify and directly solidify agreements with micro-influencers who reach their target audiences.

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58. Jeff Hirsch – all the -Clicks in SoCal lead to AudienceScience

Paleo AdTech

ValueClick was an ad network that sold excess (so-called “remnant”) inventory from publishers using a CPC model. CPC seemed more accountable than CPM, but it put a burden on the network to get the math right (buying CPM, paying CPC – it’s complicated). This is a formula Advertising.com later mastered.

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Pinterest Goes “All In” On Bridging The Gap Between Discovery and Purchase

AdExchanger

At CES in Las Vegas, companies are placing their bets on what trends will drive growth throughout the rest of the year. Pinterest, for one, is putting its chips on shoppable ad formats. Were all in on checkout, Bill Watkins, CRO at Pinterest, told AdExchanger in a sit-down chat at CES.

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B2B SaaS Lead Generation: How We Improved Axure’s Lead Quality Overnight

Single Grain

For SaaS companies, one of the best customer acquisition tools is Google Ads, even though it can initially be expensive with CPC bids for software-related keywords as high as $100. Check out more of our case study content: Ecommerce Advertising Strategy: How We Doubled PPC Sales for ThinSlim Foods (with a 3X+ ROAS). We can help. .