Refersion’s Raj Nijjer looks at an often overlooked aspect of influencer marketing: brand ambassadors. Nijjer looks at the value brand ambassadors offer brands and how your brand can work with them.
Anvil Media’s Kent Lewis looks at the growth and value of content marketing and offers strategies for growing your 2021 CM budget.
MacGillivray Freeman Films’ Shaun MacGillivray shares the importance of using long-form storytelling practices like documentaries in advertising and marketing campaigns to leverage a brand’s connection with consumers around social movements.
Ty Heath of the B2B Institute at LinkedIn looks at how marketers can move beyond “hashtag activism” and use their abilities to take an active stance on social issues and transform norms and influence culture.
Klarn DePalma of MNI Targeted Media offers best practices from the 2019-20 election cycle that marketers can use to help brands engage customers across channels, and with meaningful, personalized messaging.
Sway Group’s Tiffany Romero offers her first-hand experience of using audio app Clubhouse, and the possibilities the audio-only social network offers for influencer marketing.
While marketers face a complex world in 2021, Amobee’s Caity Noonan offers advice on how they can navigate that complexity by first putting their house in order in terms of privacy, identity, customer and prospect data and unified measurement solutions.
Walmart recently dipped its toes into livestream e-commerce, already a popular trend in China. Azoya’s Franklin Chu explores this trend and how brands use influencers to grow sales and connect with their consumers.
Influencers and affiliates are great tools to promote your brand in an authentic way, but they only work if they have faith in your brand to begin with, writes Refersion’s Raj Niijer.
Open rates are a key metric for gauging the success of email marketing campaigns. To increase open rates marketers should pay particular attention to personalization, content, subject line and design.
RangeMe’s Brandon Leong looks at retail trends created by the coronavirus pandemic and three key trends we can expect in 2021.
Shane Barker, a digital marketing consultant, writes about how artificial intelligence can play a major role in helping you monitor your Facebook ads campaigns.
Recruiter Sasha Martens makes the case for why marketing creatives should stay put in their current role, even when job-hopping is so common in the advertising industry.
Microsoft’s Rashan Dixon offers tips on increasing the success of your digital marketing efforts in 2021.
VDX.tv’s Jim Johnson looks at the value of marketing through connected TV and OTT streaming services and how the ability to finely target audiences may make CTV and OTT a sure bet.