3 Powerful Brand Marketing Lessons From The Military

The military is commonly perceived as impersonal, intimidating and even inhuman. Modern militaries are increasingly using social media to win over the hearts and minds of the citizens they serve and, in the process, highlight strategies that smart brands can adopt to make more personal connections with consumers.

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Create Unmissable Ads

How do you ensure consumers see your ads? Create unmissable ads and they may even take them viral. That, at least, is what American insurer Geico did with its smartly designed pre-roll YouTube ads that address two challenges: a tendency to skip pre-roll ads on YouTube and persuading viewers to not only not skip the ads but share them widely and dramatically increase their exposure.

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Ads Designed With Empathy To End The Ad Blocker War

Consumers are at war with brands and publishers. Their weapons are content blockers (the new term for “ad blockers”) and their virtually silent resistance is hurting both brands and publishers so much they are scrambling to find ways to make the pain stop. Ad revenue is falling dramatically and a significant source of the drop is the group once heralded as particularly lucrative: Millennials.

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The Dark Side Of Ad Tracking And What To Do About It

Programmatic advertising offers publishers the opportunity to present more relevant ads to users from a wider variety of advertisers who are paired with publishers through the elements of ad exchanges. The flipside is that publishers’ websites have to track users for their many advertisers and this has an impact on site load times and usability.

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