June, 2019

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Social Media is now Pay to Play for Ad Agency New Business

Fuel Lines

Paid social advertising can accelerate the process of attracting qualified traffic and leads. Since 2007, I’ve preached that there was a new model for new business that made the existing model obsolete. Agencies needed a new approach to new business. During the past decade, technology and the rise of social media changed how people communicated.

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7 Easy Ways to Optimize Your Facebook Ads

Single Grain

Facebook is one of the most popular social media platforms among people and brands – as of Q1 2019, it has 2.38 billion monthly active users – which means that it has a lot of potential to promote your brand: With Facebook ads , which are not expensive, brands can post content to promote their services or products which helps them widen their reach, drive high-quality traffic to their website and boost conversion rates.

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FCB resigns Nivea as creative agencies begin to stand up to even big clients

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FCB has resigned Beiersdorf’s global Nivea account, after working on it for over 100 years. The split allegedly follows a client remark that “we don’t do gay” on viewing submitted creative work. FCB and Nivea are staying schtum although FCB CEO Carter Murray confirmed the split in an internal memo. Nivea is set to call.

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Silence the Drama of Pain with Voltaren’s Pain Relief Gel

AdPulp

There’s not much great or even good work being done in the pharma category. The category is full of tepid commercials that offer a weak afterglow of what life might be like following a doctor’s office visit. Over-the-counter remedies like Voltaren’s pain relief gel from GSK, on the other hand, can skip the line and […]. The post Silence the Drama of Pain with Voltaren’s Pain Relief Gel appeared first on Adpulp.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Most Viewed Video Ads: Hulu Leads With Sports Streaming

illumin

This week on the MVVA chart, streaming service Hulu gains enough views to take the first and second spots! Their chart-topping campaign is new to the MVVA list, featuring the United States Women’s National Soccer Team. Retail vacuum company Dyson grabbed a spot and new to the chart this week in the fourth spot is GEICO, with an ad featuring the winner of their “Best Of” sweepstakes.

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Our Mission

Toronto AdOps

Anyone who has worked in Ad Ops has heard at one point in their career that “Ad Ops is a thankless job”. We are finally getting to a place where the misconceptions on lack of growth and career path in this field can be put to bed. Ad Ops teams are gaining more recognition within their companies being viewed as a valuable asset and knowledge source. Ad Ops professionals are constantly in the trenches with the ever changing digital space and their nuances.

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How to Create CTAs that Actually Cause Action

Single Grain

You can write an eye-catching headline, compelling copy and include awesome graphics, but if you do not include the perfect call to action, your readers will remain just that: readers. Calls to action are the final stage in your sales letter, ad, blog post or landing page. They capitalize on the attention you’ve hooked and the strong feelings of need you’ve built and then seamlessly lead readers to do what you’d like them to do.

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Global adspend to hit $600bn this year says IPG’s Magna

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There may be a trade war between the US and China and the prospect of a shooting one in the Gulf but advertising – as a whole – seems to motor along. Interpublic’s Magna is forecasting that global ad revenue will increase for the tenth consecutive year in 2019, up five per cent to reach.

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The Stones Want Their Fans To Do Some Financial Planning

AdPulp

Gimme shelter from economic doom. It’s just a shout away. According to Rolling Stone, when fans arrive at each venue for the Rolling Stones’ upcoming U.S. tour, a bus manned by the Alliance for Lifetime Income will greet them outside the stadium. The Alliance is the sole sponsor of the Stones’ “No Filter” tour, which […]. The post The Stones Want Their Fans To Do Some Financial Planning appeared first on Adpulp.

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Just Asking For a Friend: Acuity Live Audiences

illumin

It’s time to say goodbye to manual audience segmentation. For starters, it sets buyers up for inefficient and ineffective campaign management. Buyers need to cherry-pick from innumerable audience attributes, across many data sources, to build segments. They also need to manually track and analyze performance (an incredibly slow process), then make manual adjustments.

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Retail media advertising: How e-commerce is becoming AdTech’s next frontier

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What Brands Can Learn From the Best Mobile Game Marketing Plans: What Mobile Games Get Right About App Marketing

InMobi

Brands can learn quite a lot from the best mobile game marketing plans. Mobile gaming companies have mastered mobile marketing, and brands have a lot to learn from them. Game developers and publishers have become pros at in-app marketing and advertising, and as major brands begin releasing their own mobile apps, they have much to learn from the mobile gaming space.

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Admixer.Network Launches Header Bidding

Admixer

Now ad networks owners can target approved Header Bidding DSPs partners and bring more efficiency in programmatic trading. We’re glad to announce the rollout of a new feature for Admixer.Network owners – Header Bidding demand. With this update ad network owners now have a new opportunity to leverage the full potential of Header Bidding to […].

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How to Target Your Mobile Users with Push Notifications

Single Grain

Smartphones have emerged as a bright spot in the global market of booming mobile communication and are growing in an unprecedented way nowadays. Such emergence and trends are visible across the world with the rise of mobile engagement among consumers. Your customers are using their mobile devices to browse your website, interact with apps, read messages and participate in sell/buy interactions, so you need to incorporate push notifications to engage these mobile users with valid content at the r

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Samir Patel: does purpose-driven advertising do good causes more harm than good?

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This year at Cannes we saw the expected deluge of purpose-focused winners, from the massive Dream Crazy ad from Nike to the less well-known Carling’s Address the Future initiative. Each year, it seems that more Lions are awarded to campaigns with a purpose — marketing that puts a cause front and centre. Cause-related marketing isn’t.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Young Americans Can No Longer Afford The American Way of Life

AdPulp

Advertising is not created in a vacuum. For advertising to work, a campaign must fit into the larger context of the customer’s life. Say you want to sell designer jeans to 20-somethings…the customers’ ability to pay the inflated prices will impact the results, thus the economy’s health is always a factor in a campaign’s success, […].

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2019 FIFA Women's World Cup: the biggest social media trends for brands

AdGlow

The Financial Times called 2019 ‘a pinnacle moment for women’s football’, and rightly so. With increasingly large sponsorship deals, bigger audiences, more media attention and higher commercial backing, women's football is on the path to become as successful as its male counterpart. This means it’s a great opportunity for brands to take advantage of – and unlike men’s football, the space isn’t as crowded with content from brands and publishers.

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How App Publishers Can Boost Both Ad Fill Rates and Average eCPMs

InMobi

Many app publishers today struggle to improve the average eCPMs (effective cost per thousand impressions) and ad fill rates they receive from the ads served to their users. This puts them in a bind, as revenues stagnate and impact the overall business model. In-app mobile ad spend is growing; around 25% of all digital media budgets are now going towards apps , according to a recent survey commissioned by Forrester.

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Find your best way to effective video monetization

Admixer

According to numerous surveys, customer engagement into video content is totally outnumbered compared to any other content type. Here are several recent stats proving that, and encouraging publishers who’re already on the curve with video content: Sure thing, what you want is not just being aware how profitable the opportunity is, but rather know how […].

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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How to Target Effectively on LinkedIn

Single Grain

For B2B brands, LinkedIn can be an advertising goldmine. With over 630 million members , it’s the largest professional network on the Internet. LinkedIn Ads can be an effective tool for generating leads, driving traffic or increasing engagement…if you get the targeting right. If you’ve never used the platform before, there are seven basic types of LinkedIn Ads: Sponsored Content : These are boosted posts, similar to Facebook’s sponsored posts.

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Jane Austin from Cannes: this year it’s girls on top – nearly

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Chrissy Teigen is one of the funniest, sarkiest people on Twitter. The celebrity wit, author, and wife of John Legend, once tweeted: “I always have a note in my pocket that says “John did it” just in case I’m murdered because I don’t want him to remarry.” Teigen is at Cannes this year but sadly.

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Bud Light Introduces A New Generation To A Classic Strain of Comedy

AdPulp

Serial content is the best content. Satirical serial content that resurrects a classic ad campaign from the 90s whilst skewering social media? Even better. Case in point, Bud Light has introduced seven new “Internet Heroes of Genius” spots on their YouTube channel. Bud Light has long had a well-honed sense of humor. What’s changed is […].

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2019 FIFA Women's World Cup: the biggest social media trends for brands

AdGlow

The Financial Times called 2019 ‘a pinnacle moment for women’s football’, and rightly so. With increasingly large sponsorship deals, bigger audiences, more media attention and higher commercial backing, women's football is on the path to become as successful as its male counterpart. This means it’s a great opportunity for brands to take advantage of – and unlike men’s football, the space isn’t as crowded with content from brands and publishers.

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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Implementing App-ads.txt: Avoid these Common Mistakes

InMobi

In March of 2019, the IAB released app-ads.txt , Authorized Digital Sellers for Mobile Apps. App-ads.txt is a repository of authorized sellers that publisher hosts in their developer website to prevent unauthorized selling of their inventory. If you haven’t implemented app-ads.txt yet, read our blog to find out more about how app-ads.txt works.

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What is “Incidental”? Ninth Circuit Provides Guidance on How to Determine if a Fax is an “Advertisement” Under the TCPA’s Junk Fax Provisions

All About Advertising Law

On May 17, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would not hear an appeal in Supply Pro Sorbents, LLC v. RingCentral, Inc. , apparently satisfied with a Ninth Circuit ruling that the inclusion of a one-line company identifier on a fax cover page was not in violation of the TCPA’s bar on unsolicited advertisements. In Supply Pro , the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of a Junk Fax Prevention Act (“JFPA”) claim, holding that an unsolicited fax that

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5 Ways SMB Business Owners Can Revamp Their Digital Marketing Strategy

Single Grain

The Internet has become the great leveler when it comes to marketing. No matter how large or small your business is, there are a wide variety of ways that you can get a big impact from a well-planned and well-executed digital marketing strategy. You don’t have to be an internationally recognized brand to make your presence felt on the Web, and with the use of online purchasing and improved audience connections, you could be competing with those big brands much more easily than you think.

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Responsible drinking is given an eco-twist in Iceland Tourism’s new campaign

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We all drink more bottled water when we’re abroad, which might be advisable in some countries, but it’s really not necessary in Iceland, and it’s never good for the planet. Brooklyn Brothers has come up with a clever way to encourage tourists in Iceland to drink eco-responsibly by creating a premium brand for the country’s.

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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When You Are On Spotify, You’re In Your Own World

AdPulp

Spotify is a streaming media powerhouse. According to BusinessofApps, Spotify accounts for 30% of the total revenue generated by the recorded music industry, and 42% of the streaming market. The service was founded in Sweden in 2006. Today, Spotify has 217 monthly active users—100 million of these are Spotify Premium subscribers. Music lovers of every […].

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Rising Trends in Programmatic Digital Marketing

MediaFuse

Rising Trends in Programmatic Digital Marketing. Programmatic has been shaping the landscape of the advertising industry for the last ten years. It wasn’t, however, until late 2017 when marketers noticed its growth and new potential. This year you should be staying on your toes as new trends are constantly emerging and the old ones are strengthening their position in digital marketing.

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Understanding the difference between Ads.txt vs Sellers.json

InMobi

A few months ago, the Interactive Advertising Bureau released two new standards, Sellers.json, and the OpenRTB Supply Chain Object, as a part of its continued efforts in building a more transparent ad tech ecosystem. Having released the ads.txt file with a similar goal in 2017, a question that naturally arises is what makes sellers.json different from ads.txt?

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Federal Court to FTC: Show the Receipts When Seeking Disgorgement

All About Advertising Law

A new decision out of the Middle District of Florida may signal further erosion of the FTC’s authority to seek monetary relief as it sets forth a heightened standard of proof the FTC must satisfy to support its disgorgement calculation. In FTC v. Vylah Tech LLC , the court found Vylah Tech, a small tech company, liable for disseminating false and misleading information regarding its computers.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.