With dropping footfall how will the Outdoor be affected? As China is coming out of the pandemic shut down, we are bracing ourselves in the UK for what may come. Poland, Spain and Italy opted for maximum isolation in a bid to contain the spread of the virus. Restaurants, Theatres and Museums have shut its…Read More
In the old days, when setting up your business, you would consider location based on the audience it was likely to attract. This is still true to some extent for bricks and mortar retail – be it luxurious or high value items. However, it could be argued that we are coming full circle. The days…Read More
…and What’s the difference? Automation means understanding the process so well it can be taken over by a simple yes/no and if/then algorithm. Artificial Intelligence means giving a system access to an extensive source of knowledge and allow it to pick the answer on the flight. The application in customer support is great. Bots are…Read More
Users are always asking us, what makes the creative work. I wish that question could be answered in a single blog post. It takes a great product or offer and a super talented team to produce good artwork. What I can share though, are some basic points on what to avoid to diminish the value…Read More
Outdoor has always been an exclusive club. Traditionally only brands with big budgets and bold ambition were using the medium. Second perhaps only to TV. Most things start as niche or exclusive only to find that growing demand eats into exiting barriers; making the exclusive available to the masses. Outdoor is following this trend….Read More
Real-time bidding refers to the buying and selling of online ad impressions through real-time auctions that occur in the time it takes to load the page. Advertisers use various tools to place their bids for the given impression. The system then chooses the highest bidder. This process means that the pricing for online impressions is…Read More
I meet with an old friend and colleague recently. During our Saturday catch up in her beautiful garden, we talked about the digital spilling onto ATL and the pollution. 2 topics supposingly unrelated but intertwined: marketing & environment. Both subjects are close to our hearts, but it seemed there is an unexpected connection. She is a…Read More
There is a lot of talk about preparing to launch a business and getting a sufficient war chest to do that. In Silicon Valley, where businesses operate in stealth until they are ready to launch, apart from the engineering costs, most of the capital goes into the marketing spend – burning tens of thousands or…Read More
For the past decade the role of the context has been talked about by online publishers arguing, that their impression and “click” is not worth the same across the web. Yet the advertisers managed to somehow drive the value of the impression down in favor of the “click”. It’s a highly flawed model and has…Read More
Attribution is one of the hot topics in Marketing. Any Marketch industry event is now filled with the tech helping you to test more, test quicker and test better than your competition. Most of the tech is directed at online sector targeting specifically CMOs and CROs. CRO’s (Chief Revenue Officers) whose job is to grow…Read More