Let's cut right to the chase here, kids. The answer to the question posed in the title is "largely yes" according to Alicia Hatch, CMO of Deloitte Digital. She cites the 2016 Gartner Spend Survey which found that CMOs had one of the highest technology spends of any C-suite member and is on track to overtake CIOs in 2017. To further support her belief […]

 Instagram Stories is widening its lead over Snapchat and rolling out new features to keep everyone shooting video. Instagram Stories now has 250 million daily active users. That compares to Snapchat’s total 166 million daily actives for its entire app and Instagram’s total 700 million monthly users. Read More Build your free WordPress website with […]

Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report 2017, one of the most-anticipated annual events in the world of digital, was released a few weeks ago.  The 355-slide report covers the major shifts we are currently seeing in the internet and the digital economy, and is considered something of a barometer for the state of digital across the globe, […]

This is a guest contribution from Shane Barker. If you’ve been blogging for awhile, you’re probably familiar with landing pages, and may have even used a few of them for different campaigns. Whether you’re trying to drive people to sign up for your mailing list, or to purchase a product/service you’re promoting, landing pages can […]

In today’s modern landscape, humans have become fixated on experiences. Everything from foregoing homeownership for traveling around the world, to their experience in a restaurant are all shared online for the world to see. The experience that a consumer has (before and after purchase) can be the difference from a long-time customer, or online adversary.  […]

Enterprise Call Analytics Platforms: A Marketer’s Guide from Martech Today is your source for the latest call analytics information as seen by industry leaders, vendors and their customers. Included in this 39-page report are profiles of 12 leading call analytics vendors, pricing charts,… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article. Build your free WordPress website with […]

It happens to every AdWords practitioner at some point. We launch our campaigns, split out exact match and broad match, mine for queries, work on expansions, test different initiatives, run betas, etc. – and then we hit a wall. What do we do next? How do we continue to push forward and scale our paid […]

Steve Jobs wore one thing. Zuckerberg started doing it. And even Obama caught the bug. But why? (Beyond, you know, an apparent lack of fashion sense.) One less decision to make for these powerful decision makers. More time for everything else, according to the Zuck himself in a Q&A session. Outfit dilemma hit former Saatchi […]

One billion hours of video. That’s how much content is viewed each and every day on YouTube! That translates to 46,000 years of content annually. Another amazing thing about YouTube is the amount of time users spend on it. Believe it or not, the average YouTube session is 40 minutes. That dwarfs the amount of time people […]

Anheiser Busch In-Bev is a Dutch company that owns amongst other things Budweiser. Beer drinkers fall into two categories in general: those who love Bud and Coors and all those “lite” beers, and people who like craft beers. I’ll get back to that in a second. The most recent ad campaign on TV for Budweiser […]