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How to Use Engagement Marketing to Acquire More Customers

Single Grain

Customer acquisition is a major goal for most businesses, and there are plenty of ways that brands go about finding, connecting with, and gaining new customers. Some customer acquisition methods are more effective than others. For example, referral marketing – a strategy in which brands incentivize loyal customers to promote their products or services via personal referrals (similar to word of mouth, except that WOM is organic) – will have significantly higher rates of success than cold calling

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It’s the Perfect Time for A New Humility

AdPulp

Humble. That’s for the other guy. Marketing communications is about making bold moves and persuasive creative that builds brand value. Marcom is about shining a bright light on the one reason why the product or service in question matters. For years, the best brand communicators deftly approached the problem with wit and charm. The worst […].

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Coronavirus creativity from Ocean, Kinetic and AKQA

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Ocean Outdoor is combining good works with business in a new long term deal with Artisan Drinks, which makes craft mixers. The digital Out of Home campaign incorporates messages aimed to inspire and promote creative ways of social distancing including UNIFIED – at home but together, INSPIRE -keep your spirits up and MIXITUP – creative.

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Are Gift Cards the War Bonds of the COVID-19 Era? Maybe So, but Issuers Still Need to Consider the Consumer Protection Laws

All About Advertising Law

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many small businesses and restaurants have been forced to close or to provide only limited services to customers. To ensure a sustained income stream, some businesses have been emphasizing the sale of gift cards or gift certificates—and the media have been encouraging consumers to support their favorites by pitching gift cards as the “war bonds” of the coronavirus pandemic.

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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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9 Tips for Creating Instagram Video Ads that Actually Generate Sales

Single Grain

If you want to get the most out of Instagram these days, you need to go beyond just publishing photos. Videos drive the highest engagement on this network – 21.2% more interactions than images, according to one study: The same thing applies to ads: According to another study, video ads generally generate 7.5X more clicks than display ads. But again, just publishing any video won’t automatically get you sales.

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A Cash Positive Place for Emerging Advertising Voices

AdPulp

To help develop new writers and broaden our coverage, Adpulp.com is now accepting pitches from high achieving undergrads, grad students, and recent graduates. If you study or studied journalism, advertising, or marketing and you want to work with a copywriter/creative director and the editor of this website, here’s your chance. For what it’s worth, I […].

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Living and Working from Home — Tips for Quarantine

Smarty Ads

Today, we are all facing an exceptional challenge — ?OVID-19 and the way we react to it can define many things both in our lives and the lives of our loved ones. At SmartyAds, we believe that steady support and care for both our employees and our clients can help.

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76 Tech/Marketing Companies that Are Giving Away Free Stuff During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

Single Grain

We are in the midst of COVID-19, a global infectious disease pandemic also called Coronavirus, which has affected not just people’s health, but the social distancing mandate has affected the majority of businesses, too. I live in California where Governor Gavin Newsom has issued a mandatory, state-wide stay-at-home order except for essential jobs, errands and outdoor exercise.

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The Adpulp Interview: Ian Sohn

AdPulp

Ian Sohn is a global client lead at WPP. Formerly, Sohn was CEO, Wunderman Thompson (Central Region), and before that Managing Director at SapientRazorfish. He is also one of the advertising professionals who I most want to hear from on Twitter each day. This is the case because I value calm, patient people with an […]. The post The Adpulp Interview: Ian Sohn appeared first on Adpulp.

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Kevin delivers the bacon in EE NHS ad

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When you’re enduring yet another Saatchi & Saatchi Kevin Bacon EE ad (the fairly recent effort with cook Delia Smith was unendurable) you wish the boy would calm down a bit. Well he has in this well-timed offer of free data until October for NHS workers in the UK – clapping once week is appreciated.

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

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The Locker (5)

Gods of Advertising

You carry in the latest load, one piece at a time, careful not to strain your back. Even with all the work you’ve done in the gym, lifting and hauling boxes was perilous. The only thing worse than doing this task would be hurting your back while doing it. You place a stuffed reindeer on top of the highest ornament box, a mighty stag overlooking his domain!

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Impact of COVID-19 on the Consumer Behavior in India

InMobi

Amidst the outbreak of COVID-19 in India, we delved into our InMobi platform insights and conducted mobile consumer surveys to understand the following factors: 1. Awareness levels on the pandemic in India 2. Changes in consumer lifestyle, shopping habits and preferences 3. The top stress busters for people at home The Need of the Hour is to be Aware Survey results state that most Indians are not aware of the cause, symptoms and the preventive measures that can be taken to avoid COVID-19.

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Reader Support Needed

AdPulp

“The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.” – A. J. Liebling Howard Saltz is Knight Innovator-in-Residence in the journalism faculty at Florida International University in Miami. The professor and journalism practitioner thinks it is a serious mistake for newspapers to drop their paywalls in […].

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MAA blast from the past: Dudley Moore at Tesco

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In the 1990s Tesco set about transforming itself (yes business transformation was around even then) from its former ‘pile it high, sell it cheap’ Green Shield stamps days. Leading the charge was this campaign from Lowe Howard-Spink featuring Dudley Moore chasing around the world in search of French free range chickens. Later came another famous.

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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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The Locker (3)

Gods of Advertising

Another man struggles to unload an ugly dresser from the back of a brown van. Inside the vehicle, pushing the dresser, his wife. She swears at him. He yells back at her. Like a birth, you think. It’s a junk piece, better left to Goodwill, or the empty lot up the street. How many of these lockers were filled with s**t like that? Surely, not yours! Thump.

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Gen Z Consumer Insights: What Our Data Reveals [New Report]

InMobi

In our latest mobile research report, we highlight select Gen Z consumer insights and show what this generation of consumers really cares about when it comes to their purchasing decisions and brand preferences. We’ve called out some key findings from our report below but for all of the insights, be sure to download the full report here: Gen Z Consumer Habits: What You Should Know DOWNLOAD NOW Understanding Gen Z Consumers: Report Highlights What do members of Gen Z from the United States care ab

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Big Brands Make Creative Adjustments During COVID-19 Pandemic

AdPulp

The COVID-19 pandemic is altering the business landscape in dramatic ways. The retail sector is CLOSED, except for grocery stores, and restaurants that offer takeout or delivery. Airlines and hotels are operating on the thinnest of ice with next to no revenue. Millions of people are now working from home, and so on. Brand advertising […]. The post Big Brands Make Creative Adjustments During COVID-19 Pandemic appeared first on Adpulp.

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Becky McOwen-Banks, ECD of VaynerMedia, picks her Desert Island Ads

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My ads would be to remind me be about the joy of what we do and need for storytelling and craft – not only to entertain but (in the Donate Life example) to change behaviour on mass. You’ll also spot that I have gone for a healthy dose of humour and some cracking soundtracks (if.

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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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The Storage Locker (2)

Gods of Advertising

Every day you brought another load, chipping away at the boxes in your soon-to-be-former home’s crawlspace, from the jammed shelves in the garage, from your wife’s endless wardrobes. Every day you filled the car with possessions. Public Storage Works was off the 101, skirting the freeway in a dilapidated neighborhood of San Rafael. It loosely resembles the fabled production lots where you once made TV commercials, but drearier.

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The Renaissance of Advertising Networks

Admixer

Non-futuristic look for a programmatic market – what could be expected as the next effective model. Programmatic, called a few years ago as “the apex of advertising technologies,” is a rapidly growing market expanding 20% a year on average. According to eMarketer, in 2020, more than 82% of U.S. display ads will be purchased using […]. The post The Renaissance of Advertising Networks appeared first on Admixer.Blog.

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I Hear Advertising Voices. Do You Hear Them Too?

AdPulp

The waves of change are here. Consequently, people are searching for their sea legs. Ad people are also painting pictures of dark and/or dreamy futures. Here’s one picture that is not pleasing to my senses… McKinney CEO Joe Maglio, writing in Ad Age, believes there’s a compelling need for trophies, no matter what: Many of […].

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DDB’s Wendy Clark quits for surprise switch to Dentsu

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The ad business still has the capacity to surprise now and then and here’s one: Wendy Clark is quitting as boss of Omnicom’s DDB to be global CEO of Dentsu Aegis Network, Jerry Buhlmann’s old job. She’ll report to executive chairman Tim Andree who’s just returned from sick leave. But it would be another surprise.

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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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Customer Reviews: The Dos and Donts

All About Advertising Law

Customer reviews can be used to promote or protect a brand. Reviews are relied upon by consumers when making any purchase. On March 26, Alexandra Megaris and Deborah Bessner hosted a webinar on “Customer Reviews: The Dos and Donts.” The webinar focused on a number of pressing topics surrounding customer reviews, including endorsements and testimonials, FTC and NAD enforcement and the Consumer Review Fairness Act.

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Digital Ad Network: How to Choose the Right Tech Partner? [Updated in 2020]

Admixer

A digital ad network had been an effective business venture until programmatic disrupted traditional model of direct media buying and put ad network viability in question. Yet, the quantity of ad networks is still growing. Thalamus Advertising Database has more than 2,600 companies registered as Ad Network, which is 10% more than a year ago. […].

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Digitally Divided We Fall

AdPulp

There has never been a time when we’ve relied more on digital tools to enable communications between people and teams. All the hype about how “working from home” is a great new answer is annoying in its shortsightedness. But that’s not what concerns me. I am more concerned about who is left out of this […]. The post Digitally Divided We Fall appeared first on Adpulp.

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Sarah Glover of Leagas Delaney: my MAA blast from the past – Nike’s ‘The Morning After’

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Living this new way of life, my blast from the past is the Y2K spot from Nike, ‘The Morning After.’ A man wakes up hungover on 1 Jan, 2000 and goes for a run as the world around him unravels. A brazen joke about Y2K, that aired 2 months before the potential scare. Back in.

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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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Mobile Native Ads Make 88.3% of All Native Advertising. What’s Next?

Smarty Ads

Native advertising on mobile looks like a rare chance of mutual benefit: more ROI-driving for advertisers, more suitable for publishers, and more than acceptable for the viewers. Given the fact, that users are increasingly consuming content using tablets and mobile devices, the highest increase in native advertising is.

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The Advertiser’s Planning Horizon for COVID-19

illumin

What does the collapse of the speculative dot-com bubble from the early 2000s have in common with the housing crisis from 2007 to 2009? Seraj Bharwani, our Chief Strategy Officer, escaped both unscathed. If you thought the answer had something to do with their similarities to the Coronavirus, you would also be correct. However, the […]. The post The Advertiser’s Planning Horizon for COVID-19 appeared first on AcuityAds Inc.

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COVID-19 Impact on Mobile User Behavior [App Install Insights]

InMobi

The world is in the midst of an unprecedented global pandemic, as the novel coronavirus spreads rapidly. In the U.S., many state, county and city authorities have issued shelter in place orders to try to “flatten the curve” and prevent the number of new COVID-19 cases from spiking. For most Americans, the most dramatic and noticeable effect of COVID-19 has been social distancing.

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MullenLowe axes ten per cent of US staff amid virus

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Interpublic’s MullenLowe has become the most high profile agency to announce Covid-19 lay-offs with ten per cent of the agency’s US staff out. They’re being offered three months’ healthcare. The timing’s a touch sneaky, just before Easter. It won’t be the last of course, Anomaly is cutting staff as are many other shops mostly beneath.

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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.