Zillow has one of the most sophisticated messaging platforms for interacting daily and in real-time with in-market home shopper. Explore how the company leverages data, email and careful storytelling to stay relevant to their users, through all things home.
Five challenges you must deal with as a F2P designerShayan Amiri
As a game designer, there are some challenges you would always face working on F2P games no matter what genre, which target audience group or the size of the project.
Fast Break: The Pistons Bring Real-Time To EmailMediaPost
The Detroit Pistons reimagined their messaging programs to fans to bring dynamic, real-time content into email delivery before, during and after games. Suddenly fan in-boxes became live platforms for delivering current game stats, key traffic data around the arena, live ticket availability and member rewards stats. Emarketing Director Jason Scott explores turning in-boxes into real-time publishing channels with direct ROI benefits.
Cognitive Technology: The End of Marketers and Marketing As We Know It?MediaPost
The future of marketing is clearly going to be driven by data, analytics and artificial intelligence and machine learning. Cognitive technologies like IBM's Watson are poised to dramatically alter industries from healthcare to banking to automotive. But what about the historical right-brain function of marketing? Will computers and AI soon replace marketers, or enable marketers to make smarter decisions, produce better content and results and be more efficient?
Building A Better Mousetrap, While Avoiding Getting TrappedMediaPost
We all share similar visions and struggles when creating our own Utopia. With email at the center, today's rapidly changing technology landscape strives for a cross-functional environment to succeed through connecting disparate tools, navigating department politics, and overall breaking down the barriers to building your brand's own tech stack. Critical decision making, securing funding and resources, providing data security and governance, and overall building with the future in mind can only complicate the long and winding road from ideation to reality.
Lifecycle Emailing: Charting The Post-Conversion OpportunitiesMediaPost
Flexing email’s influence beyond immediate concert ticket sales, LiveNation is exploring how messaging can increase incremental purchases in its many owned venues. By targeting everything from seat locations to ticket spend, they can literally map nearby opportunities during the experience. As EVP of Marketing Matt Annerino explains, this requires new levels of personalization and triggering as well as revising email benchmarks to reflect broader, post-conversion influence.
Common Day-to-Day Marketing Problems: SOLVEDMediaPost
What throws you and your team off-course? A lot of times, it’s the day-to-day, common platform usage and capability frustrations that we stumble on, no matter our role. In this session, Kristin Pirazzini will share ways to alleviate many of these issues and walk you through ‘a day in the life’ of utilizing Yesmail360i to solve many common marketing problems that your teams run into throughout the year.
The Clear Advantage to Competitive Intelligence ApplicationsMediaPost
No question, email deliverability and marketing analytics is a data-driven decision-making process.
But how quickly your teams can make decisions with that data plays a crucial role in the revenue generated from your email programs. Does it take hours? days? or is it real-time? As the leading provider of accurate, real-time, presentable email intelligence, we will demonstrate why real-time actionable data, presented in an easy-to-use manner, has been proven to increase your monthly email marketing revenue by more than 3x. Join us as we become email “spies” for the morning and explore the tangible benefits of (the) CIA.
Five challenges you must deal with as a F2P designerShayan Amiri
As a game designer, there are some challenges you would always face working on F2P games no matter what genre, which target audience group or the size of the project.
Fast Break: The Pistons Bring Real-Time To EmailMediaPost
The Detroit Pistons reimagined their messaging programs to fans to bring dynamic, real-time content into email delivery before, during and after games. Suddenly fan in-boxes became live platforms for delivering current game stats, key traffic data around the arena, live ticket availability and member rewards stats. Emarketing Director Jason Scott explores turning in-boxes into real-time publishing channels with direct ROI benefits.
Cognitive Technology: The End of Marketers and Marketing As We Know It?MediaPost
The future of marketing is clearly going to be driven by data, analytics and artificial intelligence and machine learning. Cognitive technologies like IBM's Watson are poised to dramatically alter industries from healthcare to banking to automotive. But what about the historical right-brain function of marketing? Will computers and AI soon replace marketers, or enable marketers to make smarter decisions, produce better content and results and be more efficient?
Building A Better Mousetrap, While Avoiding Getting TrappedMediaPost
We all share similar visions and struggles when creating our own Utopia. With email at the center, today's rapidly changing technology landscape strives for a cross-functional environment to succeed through connecting disparate tools, navigating department politics, and overall breaking down the barriers to building your brand's own tech stack. Critical decision making, securing funding and resources, providing data security and governance, and overall building with the future in mind can only complicate the long and winding road from ideation to reality.
Lifecycle Emailing: Charting The Post-Conversion OpportunitiesMediaPost
Flexing email’s influence beyond immediate concert ticket sales, LiveNation is exploring how messaging can increase incremental purchases in its many owned venues. By targeting everything from seat locations to ticket spend, they can literally map nearby opportunities during the experience. As EVP of Marketing Matt Annerino explains, this requires new levels of personalization and triggering as well as revising email benchmarks to reflect broader, post-conversion influence.
Common Day-to-Day Marketing Problems: SOLVEDMediaPost
What throws you and your team off-course? A lot of times, it’s the day-to-day, common platform usage and capability frustrations that we stumble on, no matter our role. In this session, Kristin Pirazzini will share ways to alleviate many of these issues and walk you through ‘a day in the life’ of utilizing Yesmail360i to solve many common marketing problems that your teams run into throughout the year.
The Clear Advantage to Competitive Intelligence ApplicationsMediaPost
No question, email deliverability and marketing analytics is a data-driven decision-making process.
But how quickly your teams can make decisions with that data plays a crucial role in the revenue generated from your email programs. Does it take hours? days? or is it real-time? As the leading provider of accurate, real-time, presentable email intelligence, we will demonstrate why real-time actionable data, presented in an easy-to-use manner, has been proven to increase your monthly email marketing revenue by more than 3x. Join us as we become email “spies” for the morning and explore the tangible benefits of (the) CIA.
Putting Email At The Center Of A Cross-Channel ConversationMediaPost
As Marriott’s guests move through various consumer lifecycles, interacting every day with its hotels, brands and people the company is learning to react in real time to what they want – not what marketing wants to push to them. But with so many touchpoints now available – email, social, push, apps, etc. – this requires careful coordination across external channels and internal silos. Marc Sheinkin explores the unified customer communication platform Marriott has built and the organizational changes needed to power it.
Keeping A Brand Fresh In Its Third CenturyMediaPost
The Atlantic has succeeded in keeping its brand relevant since covering American culture and politics during the American Civil War in the mid 19th Century. Publisher Hayley Romer explores how the company has met the 21st Century and its bifurcated market with new strategies for monetizing a brand not just a magazine.
McClatchy had been struggling with 29 different newsrooms trying to figure out their own path forward with video. The centralization efforts that began two years ago could have felt like a corporate overreach, but instead, developed into a diverse line of business that reached profitability in roughly 18 months and continues to grow exponentially. We'll walk through how we tackled the issues and what we learned along the way.
Social Reflects The Health of Your Cross-Channel StrategyMediaPost
Social is not just a channel. It is a barometer. Here is where marketers can understand how their brand is resonating with prospective and existing customers in terms of messaging relevance, market geography, engagement. The VP of Marketing for innovative healthy frozen food maker Luvo shares how she optimizes social to serve as a gauge and a guide to her cross-channel strategy.
The Good, The Bad and The Relative: Marketing RevisitedMediaPost
It takes a village to plan and execute effective interactions with the fragmented consumer across her purchasing journey. And yet genuine cross-channel marketing is at odds with even the smallest organizations and their fiefdoms. We ask our panel of marketers how they are at least starting to dissolve internal discord around budgets, KPIs, goals, or just inertia and tradition. Shared incentives, goal-setting, collaboration, communication, targeting, responsibility all become critical but frustrating to achieve. Where do you start?
The future of cross-channel marketing is one where marketers must develop an integrated ecosystem that delivers contextual, consistent communication across all channels. Enabling the delivery of these individualized communications to customers wherever, and whenever, customers expect it, is, by definition, Customerization. With a customerized ecosystem, brands are able to build, define, activate, and motivate their audiences across multiple channels. Attend this session to see how you can have a single view of your customers to start turning “big data” into actionable insights, which customerize your brand and deliver results to your business.
Nissan and College Sports: Connecting to PassionMediaPost
Nissan recently penned the widest-reaching sponsorship deal in the history of collegiate sports, the "Nissan College 100." Learn how Nissan leveraged the latest mobile tech and an omni-channel strategy to create the Diehard Fan App — allowing college sports fans to unleash their inner fanatic and connect to the brand with meaningful actions beyond the usual KPIs.
8…7…6… : Marketing in the Age of the Hyper-Connected ConsumerMediaPost
Hyper-connected consumers are transforming the customer-brand relationship. Customer journeys are no longer linear; they are a collection of fragmented micro-moments. And the battle for consumer attention has never been fiercer (You’ve got 8 seconds!). For brands to remain relevant (and respected), marketers must deliver value in every customer interaction. Join Selligent Chief Strategy Office Dave Frankland for a lively discussion on how marketers can adopt a Consumer-First Marketing approach to thrive in this new reality.
Can You Hear Us Now?: Is Podcasting A Business Yet? MediaPost
Over a decade after its launch, the podcast medium continues to attract more users than advertisers. But with over a dozen shows reaching more than 3.5 million monthly listeners, HowStuffWorks built a profitable portfolio of audio content by learning through doing over a number of years. Chief Content Officer Jason Hoch explains how the company is using the channel as an extension of both its business and its brand. He will demonstrate what an advanced podcast strategy looks like.
How Video Is Getting Millennials More Engaged With ContentMediaPost
Greatist has built its audience of 11 million uniques organically in short order by leveraging millennial’s social media habits and taste for video. Founder Derek Flanzraich explores how video drives greater engagement for this generation of users and how to target the issues and content they really care about.
HP is first to test many of Bing's and Google's innovative advertising features such as Purchases On Google, which uses mobile product listing ads to allow consumers to buy HP products through Google. Tools like this one requires internal collaboration to justify even a gradual move in budget for mobile media. An uptick in the average order size on mobile helps, but how do you get there? Morgan Chemij, director of marketing North America at HP.com, serves up guidance to help brands better understanding their options.
Cracking The Code for the Next Phase Of Organic SearchMediaPost
How should marketers think about the future of organic search as bots, voice search and artificial intelligence complicate traditional strategies? Consumer behavior, along with changes in search engine algorithms can force marketers to quickly refocus just to keep up, forcing the readjustment of voice; local; and torso and long-tail keywords search strategies. Join Freeman Setrana, digital marketing manager of paid media at The Home Depot to hear how SEO fits into the future of search.
Transforming the Customer Experience Through SearchMediaPost
Search is becoming less of a query and more of a conversation. Why people search hasn't changed, but how they search has. Predictive search, Google Post, and Facebook M will become some of the biggest drivers of change in 2017, which brings to the forefront the importance of how consumers experience interactions with brands. Join David Schoonover, senior manager and head of digital, social, CRM and .com at Kia Motors America, as he steps through how the next phase of search will transform the relationship between brands and consumers.
Putting Cross-Channel Campaigns Into ActionMediaPost
In the wake of the ANA’s blockbuster report/expose on less-than-transparent agency practices in digital media buying, what is the state of client/agency relations moving forward? One we get beyond the finger pointing and rebuttals what new practices need to be put in place – for contracts, full disclosures, properly valuing services?
Folks, when Google send its algorithm changes, they’re not always sending the best. They’re bringing bugs, they’re bringing spline. They’re matrix, and some, I assume, are graph theory. And yet, when those changes come tumbling down, in Jersey City, thousands and thousands of people are cheering. And the guy who writes these algorithms… His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to him being shot. Maybe we should call for a total and complete shutdown of algorithms entering the search space until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on?
Discover the truth about what’s really happening in search from industry pioneer Mike Grehan. Everything in this presentation appeared on the internet. So you can be assured that it is completely fact checked and indisputably correct.
Activating Consumer Intent to Deliver SalesMediaPost
If you want to understand people’s needs and interests look at their intent. You no longer have to guess what they want, they will tell you. This session will focus on the growing importance of how machine learning is revolutionizing marketing from a demographic-based targeting endeavor to one rooted in the more effective method of mining consumer intent in real-time. And how delivering the most relevant and resonant ads to consumers converts sales at a greater frequency than with traditional methods.
Distribution is elemental to success for publishers in today's modern media landscape. Those publishers who fail to realize the potential of the various social platforms and do not program specifically and individually for each platform are destined for trouble. Having the appropriate strategy in place to post to each platform requires understanding the audience you want to reach, how they use a given social platform and what type of content works. It's true for NatGeo and WSJ on Snapchat, Buzzfeed and NowThis on Facebook, and AJ+ on Twitter. In this talk, Rahul Chopra, CEO of Storyful and Global Head of Video for News Corp, will discuss why you need a channel strategy and touches on proven strategies for success.
Visible Wireless: Grass Roots Branding and Media PlanningMediaPost
Visible Wireless, a retail brand of Verizon, doubled down on social channels to find and cultivate communities that wanted an alternative telecom model. And in turn those communities have informed everything about how the brand grew – from product development even to media planning. What does a grass roots media strategy look like?
Putting Email At The Center Of A Cross-Channel ConversationMediaPost
As Marriott’s guests move through various consumer lifecycles, interacting every day with its hotels, brands and people the company is learning to react in real time to what they want – not what marketing wants to push to them. But with so many touchpoints now available – email, social, push, apps, etc. – this requires careful coordination across external channels and internal silos. Marc Sheinkin explores the unified customer communication platform Marriott has built and the organizational changes needed to power it.
Keeping A Brand Fresh In Its Third CenturyMediaPost
The Atlantic has succeeded in keeping its brand relevant since covering American culture and politics during the American Civil War in the mid 19th Century. Publisher Hayley Romer explores how the company has met the 21st Century and its bifurcated market with new strategies for monetizing a brand not just a magazine.
McClatchy had been struggling with 29 different newsrooms trying to figure out their own path forward with video. The centralization efforts that began two years ago could have felt like a corporate overreach, but instead, developed into a diverse line of business that reached profitability in roughly 18 months and continues to grow exponentially. We'll walk through how we tackled the issues and what we learned along the way.
Social Reflects The Health of Your Cross-Channel StrategyMediaPost
Social is not just a channel. It is a barometer. Here is where marketers can understand how their brand is resonating with prospective and existing customers in terms of messaging relevance, market geography, engagement. The VP of Marketing for innovative healthy frozen food maker Luvo shares how she optimizes social to serve as a gauge and a guide to her cross-channel strategy.
The Good, The Bad and The Relative: Marketing RevisitedMediaPost
It takes a village to plan and execute effective interactions with the fragmented consumer across her purchasing journey. And yet genuine cross-channel marketing is at odds with even the smallest organizations and their fiefdoms. We ask our panel of marketers how they are at least starting to dissolve internal discord around budgets, KPIs, goals, or just inertia and tradition. Shared incentives, goal-setting, collaboration, communication, targeting, responsibility all become critical but frustrating to achieve. Where do you start?
The future of cross-channel marketing is one where marketers must develop an integrated ecosystem that delivers contextual, consistent communication across all channels. Enabling the delivery of these individualized communications to customers wherever, and whenever, customers expect it, is, by definition, Customerization. With a customerized ecosystem, brands are able to build, define, activate, and motivate their audiences across multiple channels. Attend this session to see how you can have a single view of your customers to start turning “big data” into actionable insights, which customerize your brand and deliver results to your business.
Nissan and College Sports: Connecting to PassionMediaPost
Nissan recently penned the widest-reaching sponsorship deal in the history of collegiate sports, the "Nissan College 100." Learn how Nissan leveraged the latest mobile tech and an omni-channel strategy to create the Diehard Fan App — allowing college sports fans to unleash their inner fanatic and connect to the brand with meaningful actions beyond the usual KPIs.
8…7…6… : Marketing in the Age of the Hyper-Connected ConsumerMediaPost
Hyper-connected consumers are transforming the customer-brand relationship. Customer journeys are no longer linear; they are a collection of fragmented micro-moments. And the battle for consumer attention has never been fiercer (You’ve got 8 seconds!). For brands to remain relevant (and respected), marketers must deliver value in every customer interaction. Join Selligent Chief Strategy Office Dave Frankland for a lively discussion on how marketers can adopt a Consumer-First Marketing approach to thrive in this new reality.
Can You Hear Us Now?: Is Podcasting A Business Yet? MediaPost
Over a decade after its launch, the podcast medium continues to attract more users than advertisers. But with over a dozen shows reaching more than 3.5 million monthly listeners, HowStuffWorks built a profitable portfolio of audio content by learning through doing over a number of years. Chief Content Officer Jason Hoch explains how the company is using the channel as an extension of both its business and its brand. He will demonstrate what an advanced podcast strategy looks like.
How Video Is Getting Millennials More Engaged With ContentMediaPost
Greatist has built its audience of 11 million uniques organically in short order by leveraging millennial’s social media habits and taste for video. Founder Derek Flanzraich explores how video drives greater engagement for this generation of users and how to target the issues and content they really care about.
HP is first to test many of Bing's and Google's innovative advertising features such as Purchases On Google, which uses mobile product listing ads to allow consumers to buy HP products through Google. Tools like this one requires internal collaboration to justify even a gradual move in budget for mobile media. An uptick in the average order size on mobile helps, but how do you get there? Morgan Chemij, director of marketing North America at HP.com, serves up guidance to help brands better understanding their options.
Cracking The Code for the Next Phase Of Organic SearchMediaPost
How should marketers think about the future of organic search as bots, voice search and artificial intelligence complicate traditional strategies? Consumer behavior, along with changes in search engine algorithms can force marketers to quickly refocus just to keep up, forcing the readjustment of voice; local; and torso and long-tail keywords search strategies. Join Freeman Setrana, digital marketing manager of paid media at The Home Depot to hear how SEO fits into the future of search.
Transforming the Customer Experience Through SearchMediaPost
Search is becoming less of a query and more of a conversation. Why people search hasn't changed, but how they search has. Predictive search, Google Post, and Facebook M will become some of the biggest drivers of change in 2017, which brings to the forefront the importance of how consumers experience interactions with brands. Join David Schoonover, senior manager and head of digital, social, CRM and .com at Kia Motors America, as he steps through how the next phase of search will transform the relationship between brands and consumers.
Putting Cross-Channel Campaigns Into ActionMediaPost
In the wake of the ANA’s blockbuster report/expose on less-than-transparent agency practices in digital media buying, what is the state of client/agency relations moving forward? One we get beyond the finger pointing and rebuttals what new practices need to be put in place – for contracts, full disclosures, properly valuing services?
Folks, when Google send its algorithm changes, they’re not always sending the best. They’re bringing bugs, they’re bringing spline. They’re matrix, and some, I assume, are graph theory. And yet, when those changes come tumbling down, in Jersey City, thousands and thousands of people are cheering. And the guy who writes these algorithms… His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to him being shot. Maybe we should call for a total and complete shutdown of algorithms entering the search space until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on?
Discover the truth about what’s really happening in search from industry pioneer Mike Grehan. Everything in this presentation appeared on the internet. So you can be assured that it is completely fact checked and indisputably correct.
Activating Consumer Intent to Deliver SalesMediaPost
If you want to understand people’s needs and interests look at their intent. You no longer have to guess what they want, they will tell you. This session will focus on the growing importance of how machine learning is revolutionizing marketing from a demographic-based targeting endeavor to one rooted in the more effective method of mining consumer intent in real-time. And how delivering the most relevant and resonant ads to consumers converts sales at a greater frequency than with traditional methods.
Distribution is elemental to success for publishers in today's modern media landscape. Those publishers who fail to realize the potential of the various social platforms and do not program specifically and individually for each platform are destined for trouble. Having the appropriate strategy in place to post to each platform requires understanding the audience you want to reach, how they use a given social platform and what type of content works. It's true for NatGeo and WSJ on Snapchat, Buzzfeed and NowThis on Facebook, and AJ+ on Twitter. In this talk, Rahul Chopra, CEO of Storyful and Global Head of Video for News Corp, will discuss why you need a channel strategy and touches on proven strategies for success.
Visible Wireless: Grass Roots Branding and Media PlanningMediaPost
Visible Wireless, a retail brand of Verizon, doubled down on social channels to find and cultivate communities that wanted an alternative telecom model. And in turn those communities have informed everything about how the brand grew – from product development even to media planning. What does a grass roots media strategy look like?
Looking back on the migration to real-time programmatic from traditional media direct sales and ad network models, one can see parallels in the evolution of connected tv media buys today. However, there are powerful voices and a complicit media machine swimming against the current of change in how television content is valued, bought and sold. Are recurring programmatic inventory buying & selling patterns that preceded CTV likely to repeat themselves?
First-Party Data Takes The Cake In A Post-Cookie WorldMediaPost
Shopper behavior has been disrupted and now, more than ever, consumers are in the driver’s seat. As third-party cookies go away and data privacy regulations increase, consumer trust is paramount and should be earned through value exchange. Discover how the power of Kroger Precision Marketing’s first party data and advanced targeting capabilities has changed the media advertising ecosystem by holding media accountable for driving real business outcomes.
Real-time buying for real-time events: Leveraging Programmatic TV for Live Ev...MediaPost
Be memorable in the streaming space and learn how to best leverage real-time events on Live OTT with highly engaged, leaned forward audiences no matter your budget. Hear from one of the largest vMVPDs the value of executing live events programmatically and bring your strategy to the next level.
The Right Audience for the Job: Cadillac’s First Party Data Engine MediaPost
The Cadillac brand has been designing a new model (for consumer data, that is), which is aerodynamically suited to the next generation of information highway. It is powered by a single point of truth first party data engine that makes the company’s use of third party data more accurate and efficient and even finds new affinity audiences that work within a people-based marketing framework. Let’s take a test drive with Cadillac CRM, Audience and Personalization Manager Kate Wonsul.
Sustained Innovation Through Creativity, Technology & DataMediaPost
Avocados From Mexico has built one of the most successful digital practices in the industry in terms of both creativity and performance. Ivonne Kinser, AFM's head of digital marketing & ecommerce, will share the brand's approach to combine creativity, technology and data to develop stronger customer relationships that significantly increased the performance of their campaigns.
Consumers demand privacy and digital marketing is evolving. Advertisers need a future-proof targeting solution that doesn't rely on third-party cookies or mobile identifiers. Hyper-relevant contextual targeting is a privacy-safe solution that goes beyond the keyword or category level to offer unparalleled relevance and reach in brand suitable environments, which means you can reach your target buyers at the moment they're most likely to engage - without cookies.
There's a lot of uncertainty and concern around the upcoming changes restricting 3rd party cookie based targeting. Marketers are scurrying to pivot against these changes with very little concrete guidance on what parameters will be in place.
The acceleration of streaming this past year has made video even more critical to a brand's growth strategy. Lexmark’s director of marketing operations, Mike Dattilo, shares how he’s successfully targeting SMB users to expand their audience, brand awareness and increase conversions through performance video.
When Less is More: Building a Successful Advertising Business from a Subscrip...MediaPost
In 2020, The New York Times added a record 2.3 million digital-only subscriptions, bringing its subscriptions to digital products and print newspaper to more than 7.5 million. By focusing on improving the reader experience, the Times has built stronger relationships with its subscribers and knows what type of information and storytelling resonates with their influential audience. Hear how The Times is focusing on fewer, higher quality ads and using its first-party data to offer targeting based on emotional states and reader motivations to provide more powerful ad experiences.
What Do First Party Data and Golf Have In Common? MediaPost
As it turns out, two major strategies. Join Omeda leaders Tony Napoleone, VP Client Experience, and James Capo, COO, to discuss market changes and the two winning strategies you need with your audience data.
Turning Customers Into Fans: Church’s New Social Media PlaybookMediaPost
As social platforms fragment, brands need to remain flexible in their paid and organic strategies. Church’s Chicken reimagined its social media playbook for changed times. Alan Magee explains how they sought to encourage more than engagement but engender true brand fan love. With campaigns that broke through the clutter Church’s is growing its social footprint and engagement in ways that serve the core business and not just Follows and Likes.
Restaurant Customer Engagement: The Path to PersonalizationMediaPost
Driven by necessity and rising customer expectations, the digital transformation of restaurants is well underway. Your customers now engage with you through multiple channels across various devices, yet still expect you to seamlessly deliver highly personalized experiences. Join us to learn how restaurants can orchestrate these personalized customer journeys at scale.
Delivery & Streaming, the Ultimate Experience with RokuMediaPost
Dig into the secular shift to streaming. Join Jeff Katz, Head of Sales in the Central Region at Roku, as he shares 3 key updates for QSR Marketers from America’s #1 TV Streaming Platform:
- Foursquare QSR Insights
- Roku Platform Updates
- Beta Measurement Opportunity
Brand licensing is more than an incremental revenue opportunity for QSRs. It is a branding play that can have multiple benefits for branding, sales and even expansion. Using Cinnabon as an example, Focus explores how putting its legendary buns on grocery shelves and into pizza orders.
Three Tips to Maximize Creative Asset EfficiencyMediaPost
Advertising campaigns for quick service restaurants are a constant. You’re never NOT trying to get feet in the door. In an effort for brands and franchisees to meet audiences wherever they are with exciting promotions, marketers need to create exponential amounts of content, quickly. But quickly doesn't always mean efficiently. Join this session to learn three ways to get the most out of your ad creative and maximize the value of your assets.
The QSR Media Dispersion: Pre, Mid & Post Pandemic – By the NumbersMediaPost
The QSR media mix’s future was pulled forward by three years in April 2020. This was a necessary change and one that has helped the strong survive and grow. In this session, Senior Director of Sales for Simpli.fi, Casey Squier will review foot traffic trends, both nationally and locally, and the shift in ad spend across mobile, display, video, and CTV. He will also discuss a case study with a national QSR who did it right and is thriving in a post-Covid world.
A.I. (artificial intelligence) platforms are popping up all the time, and many of them can and should be used to help grow your brand, increase your sales and decrease your marketing costs.In this presentation:We will review some of the best AI platforms that are available for you to use.We will interact with some of the platforms in real-time, so attendees can see how they work.We will also look at some current brands that are using AI to help them create marketing messages, saving them time and money in the process. Lastly, we will discuss the pros and cons of using AI in marketing & branding and have a lively conversation that includes comments from the audience.
Key Takeaways:
Attendees will learn about LLM platforms, like ChatGPT, and how they work, with preset examples and real time interactions with the platform. Attendees will learn about other AI platforms that are creating graphic design elements at the push of a button...pre-set examples and real-time interactions.Attendees will discuss the pros & cons of AI in marketing + branding and share their perspectives with one another. Attendees will learn about the cost savings and the time savings associated with using AI, should they choose to.
Most small businesses struggle to see marketing results. In this session, we will eliminate any confusion about what to do next, solving your marketing problems so your business can thrive. You’ll learn how to create a foundational marketing OS (operating system) based on neuroscience and backed by real-world results. You’ll be taught how to develop deep customer connections, and how to have your CRM dynamically segment and sell at any stage in the customer’s journey. By the end of the session, you’ll remove confusion and chaos and replace it with clarity and confidence for long-term marketing success.
Key Takeaways:
• Uncover the power of a foundational marketing system that dynamically communicates with prospects and customers on autopilot.
• Harness neuroscience and Tribal Alignment to transform your communication strategies, turning potential clients into fans and those fans into loyal customers.
• Discover the art of automated segmentation, pinpointing your most lucrative customers and identifying the optimal moments for successful conversions.
• Streamline your business with a content production plan that eliminates guesswork, wasted time, and money.
Mastering Multi-Touchpoint Content Strategy: Navigate Fragmented User JourneysSearch Engine Journal
Digital platforms are constantly multiplying, and with that, user engagement is becoming more intricate and fragmented.
So how do you effectively navigate distributing and tailoring your content across these various touchpoints?
Watch this webinar as we dive into the evolving landscape of content strategy tailored for today's fragmented user journeys. Understanding how to deliver your content to your users is more crucial than ever, and we’ll provide actionable tips for navigating these intricate challenges.
You’ll learn:
- How today’s users engage with content across various channels and devices.
- The latest methodologies for identifying and addressing content gaps to keep your content strategy proactive and relevant.
- What digital shelf space is and how your content strategy needs to pivot.
With Wayne Cichanski, we’ll explore innovative strategies to map out and meet the diverse needs of your audience, ensuring every piece of content resonates and connects, regardless of where or how it is consumed.
Short video marketing has sweeped the nation and is the fastest way to build an online brand on social media in 2024. In this session you will learn:- What is short video marketing- Which platforms work best for your business- Content strategies that are on brand for your business- How to sell organically without paying for ads.
How to Run Landing Page Tests On and Off Paid Social PlatformsVWO
Join us for an exclusive webinar featuring Mariate, Alexandra and Nima where we will unveil a comprehensive blueprint for crafting a successful paid media strategy focused on landing page testing.With escalating costs in paid advertising, understanding how to maximize each visitor’s experience is crucial for retention and conversion.
This session will dive into the methodologies for executing and analyzing landing page tests within paid social channels, offering a blend of theoretical knowledge and practical insights.
The Pearmill team will guide you through the nuances of setting up and managing landing page experiments on paid social platforms. You will learn about the critical rules to follow, the structure of effective tests, optimal conversion duration and budget allocation.
The session will also cover data analysis techniques and criteria for graduating landing pages.
In the second part of the webinar, Pearmill will explore the use of A/B testing platforms. Discover common pitfalls to avoid in A/B testing and gain insights into analyzing A/B tests results effectively.
AI-Powered Personalization: Principles, Use Cases, and Its Impact on CROVWO
In today’s era of AI, personalization is more than just a trend—it’s a fundamental strategy that unlocks numerous opportunities.
When done effectively, personalization builds trust, loyalty, and satisfaction among your users—key factors for business success. However, relying solely on AI capabilities isn’t enough. You need to anchor your approach in solid principles, understand your users’ context, and master the art of persuasion.
Join us as Sarjak Patel and Naitry Saggu from 3rd Eye Consulting unveil a transformative framework. This approach seamlessly integrates your unique context, consumer insights, and conversion goals, paving the way for unparalleled success in personalization.
The digital marketing industry is changing faster than ever and those who don’t adapt with the times are losing market share. Where should marketers be focusing their efforts? What strategies are the experts seeing get the best results? Get up-to-speed with the latest industry insights, trends and predictions for the future in this panel discussion with some leading digital marketing experts.
When most people in the industry talk about online or digital reputation management, what they're really saying is Google search and PPC. And it's usually reactive, left dealing with the aftermath of negative information published somewhere online. That's outdated. It leaves executives, organizations and other high-profile individuals at a high risk of a digital reputation attack that spans channels and tactics. But the tools needed to safeguard against an attack are more cybersecurity-oriented than most marketing and communications professionals can manage. Business leaders Leaders grasp the importance; 83% of executives place reputation in their top five areas of risk, yet only 23% are confident in their ability to address it. To succeed in 2024 and beyond, you need to turn online reputation on its axis and think like an attacker.\
Key Takeaways:
- New framework for examining and safeguarding an online reputation
- Tools and techniques to keep you a step ahead
- Practical examples that demonstrate when to act, how to act and how to recover
Videos are more engaging, more memorable, and more popular than any other type of content out there. That’s why it’s estimated that 82% of consumer traffic will come from videos by 2025.
And with videos evolving from landscape to portrait and experts promoting shorter clips, one thing remains constant – our brains LOVE videos.
So is there science behind what makes people absolutely irresistible on camera?
The answer: definitely yes.
In this jam-packed session with Stephanie Garcia, you’ll get your hands on a steal-worthy guide that uncovers the art and science to being irresistible on camera. From body language to words that convert, she’ll show you how to captivate on command so that viewers are excited and ready to take action.
Digital Commerce Lecture for Advanced Digital & Social Media Strategy at UCLA...Valters Lauzums
E-commerce in 2024 is characterized by a dynamic blend of opportunities and significant challenges. Supply chain disruptions and inventory shortages are critical issues, leading to increased shipping delays and rising costs, which impact timely delivery and squeeze profit margins. Efficient logistics management is essential, yet it is often hampered by these external factors. Payment processing, while needing to ensure security and user convenience, grapples with preventing fraud and integrating diverse payment methods, adding another layer of complexity. Furthermore, fulfillment operations require a streamlined approach to handle volume spikes and maintain accuracy in order picking, packing, and shipping, all while meeting customers' heightened expectations for faster delivery times.
Amid these operational challenges, customer data has emerged as an important strategy. By focusing on personalization and enhancing customer experience from historical behavior, businesses can deliver improved website and brand experienced, better product recommendations, optimal promotions, and content to meet individual preferences. Better data analytics can also help in effectively creating marketing campaigns, improving customer retention, and driving product development and inventory management.
Innovative formats such as social commerce and live shopping are beginning to impact the digital commerce landscape, offering new ways to engage with customers and drive sales, and may provide opportunity for brands that have been priced out or seen a downturn with post-pandemic shopping behavior. Social commerce integrates shopping experiences directly into social media platforms, tapping into the massive user bases of these networks to increase reach and engagement. Live shopping, on the other hand, combines entertainment and real-time interaction, providing a dynamic platform for showcasing products and encouraging immediate purchases. These innovations not only enhance customer engagement but also provide valuable data for businesses to refine their strategies and deliver superior shopping experiences.
The e-commerce sector is evolving rapidly, and businesses that effectively manage operational challenges and implement innovative strategies are best positioned for long-term success.
Monthly Social Media News Update May 2024Andy Lambert
TL;DR. These are the three themes that stood out to us over the course of last month.
1️⃣ Social media is becoming increasingly significant for brand discovery. Marketers are now understanding the impact of social and budgets are shifting accordingly.
2️⃣ Instagram’s new algorithm and latest guidance will help us maintain organic growth. Instagram continues to evolve, but Reels remains the most crucial tool for growth.
3️⃣ Collaboration will help us unlock growth. Who we work with will define how fast we grow. Meta continues to evolve their Creator Marketplace and now TikTok are beginning to push ‘collabs’ more too.
Most small businesses struggle to see marketing results. In this session, we will eliminate any confusion about what to do next, solving your marketing problems so your business can thrive. You’ll learn how to create a foundational marketing OS (operating system) based on neuroscience and backed by real-world results. You’ll be taught how to develop deep customer connections, and how to have your CRM dynamically segment and sell at any stage in the customer’s journey. By the end of the session, you’ll remove confusion and chaos and replace it with clarity and confidence for long-term marketing success.
Key Takeaways:
• Uncover the power of a foundational marketing system that dynamically communicates with prospects and customers on autopilot.
• Harness neuroscience and Tribal Alignment to transform your communication strategies, turning potential clients into fans and those fans into loyal customers.
• Discover the art of automated segmentation, pinpointing your most lucrative customers and identifying the optimal moments for successful conversions.
• Streamline your business with a content production plan that eliminates guesswork, wasted time, and money.
Is AI-Generated Content the Future of Content Creation?Cut-the-SaaS
Discover the transformative power of AI in content creation with our presentation, "Is AI-Generated Content the Future of Content Creation?" by Puran Parsani, CEO & Editor of Cut-The-SaaS. Learn how AI-generated content is revolutionizing marketing, publishing, education, healthcare, and finance by offering unprecedented efficiency, creativity, and scalability.
Understanding
AI-Generated Content:
AI-generated content includes text, images, videos, and audio produced by AI without direct human involvement. This technology leverages large datasets to create contextually relevant and coherent material, streamlining content production.
Key Benefits:
Content Creation: Rapidly generate high-quality content for blogs, articles, and social media.
Brainstorming: AI simulates conversations to inspire creative ideas.
Research Assistance: Efficiently summarize and research information.
Market Insights:
The content marketing industry is projected to grow to $17.6 billion by 2032, with AI-generated content expected to dominate over 55% of the market.
Case Study: CNET’s AI Content Controversy:
CNET’s use of AI for news articles led to public scrutiny due to factual inaccuracies, highlighting the need for transparency and human oversight.
Benefits Across Industries:
Marketing: Personalize content at scale and optimize engagement with predictive analytics.
Publishing: Automate content creation for faster publication cycles.
Education: Efficiently generate educational materials.
Healthcare: Create accurate content for patients and professionals.
Finance: Produce timely financial content for decision-making.
Challenges and Ethical Considerations:
Transparency: Disclose AI use to maintain trust.
Bias: Address potential AI biases with diverse datasets.
SEO: Ensure AI content meets SEO standards.
Quality: Maintain high standards to prevent misinformation.
Conclusion:
AI-generated content offers significant benefits in efficiency, personalization, and scalability. However, ethical considerations and quality assurance are crucial for responsible use. Explore the future of content creation with us and see how AI is transforming various industries.
Connect with Us:
Follow Cut-The-SaaS on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and Medium. Visit cut-the-saas.com for more insights and resources.
The digital marketing industry is changing faster than ever and those who don’t adapt with the times are losing market share. Where should marketers be focusing their efforts? What strategies are the experts seeing get the best results? Get up-to-speed with the latest industry insights, trends and predictions for the future in this panel discussion with some leading digital marketing experts.
The Forgotten Secret Weapon of Digital Marketing: Email
Digital marketing is a rapidly changing, ever evolving industry--Influencers, Threads, X, AI, etc. But one of the most effective digital marketing tools is also one of the oldest: Email. Find out from two Houston-based digital experts how to maximize your results from email.
Key Takeaways:
Email has the best ROI of any digital tactic
It can be used at any stage of the customer journey
It is increasingly important as the cookie-less future gets closer and closer
5 big bets to drive growth in 2024 without one additional marketing dollar AND how to adapt to the biggest shifting eCommerce trend- AI.
1) Romance Your Customers - Retention
2) ‘Alternative’ Lead Gen - Advocacy
3) The Beautiful Basics - Conversion Rate Optimization
4) Land that Bottom Line - Profitability
5) Roll the Dice - New Business Models
14. 1414
Z Email Basics
• Fail fast
• COPE – Create once,
publish everywhere
• Always be testing (but
disciplined testing)
• Thoughtful personalization
• Get more out of less
• Be scrappy (WYOE)
• Be engineer-ish
Editor's Notes
Outline for us core customers like me and how email is part of a constant communication loop during their lifecycle of house shopping.
Outline for us core customers like me and how email is part of a constant communication loop during their lifecycle of house shopping.
Give us a few examples of how advanced the email triggering mechanism is at Zillow. You have developed some intricate behavioral models for what triggers different kinds of appeals and content.
Reengagement = list cleanliness and cross-sell opportunities that help us target.
How do we know who sellers are? Or those thinking about selling?
Give us a few examples of how advanced the email triggering mechanism is at Zillow. You have developed some intricate behavioral models for what triggers different kinds of appeals and content.
Owner dashboard, inferred mortgage and homes
Beyond the shopping experience- what can we offer?
Tactical for sellers – how is your listing doing?
Tactical for renter – how can you be more prepared?
Content marketing for targeted groups is harder – what do they need?
Do we understand you correctly?
Info for prepping – when to list, what to price your home at?
Helps you, helps us
Selling content – do you need more info?
Renters – beyond tactical – what is useful?
Data stories, niche stories, how to “be” a renter?
Do people aspire to not be renters, or are they lifetime renters?
Have a 10 month “drip” cycle all about warming up to use Z again for next rental.
Budget vs. aspirational
Owner content:
But ultimately this is not a technical problem but a content problem? the nature of the product for this seller-customer is quite different from the shopper products.
What is the main content challenge here?
Resourcing!
Main content challenge for anything other than shopping or mortgage, which have clearly defined steps is that we don’t always know what people need or how serious they are
And it is more complicated for renters than for home sellers?
More complicated for renters, more complicated for sellers, even more complicating for owners who are happy and not planning on moving
Pre-seller content
But ultimately this is not a technical problem but a content problem? the nature of the product for this seller-customer is quite different from the shopper products.
What is the main content challenge here?
Resourcing!
Main content challenge for anything other than shopping or mortgage, which have clearly defined steps is that we don’t always know what people need or how serious they are
And it is more complicated for renters than for home sellers?
More complicated for renters, more complicated for sellers, even more complicating for owners who are happy and not planning on moving
Thoughtful personalization – don’t use first name just b/c you have it
Get more out of less – clean lists are your friends
Be scrappy – write your own emails – solve the resourcing problem