Strategies To Fight Ad Fraud And Stop The Bleeding

The Association of National Advertisers predicts that advertisers will lose $7.2 billion to bots in 2016, globally. This astounding figure was one of the stunning revelations of the ANA’s joint report with White Ops titled “The Bot Baseline: Fraud in Digital Advertising”. The key findings of the report are the following:

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Why A Call To Action Is Like Dating

The part of your marketing message that invites your audience to do something on or through your website or landing page is referred to as your “call to action” (or  “CTA”). One of the most common calls to action is “Buy now!”. You’ve probably see this and many other CTAs online every day. If you think about it, a call to action is like dating. Does this sound crazy? Keep reading and I’ll explain why it isn’t.

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News Highlights: Super Bowl Edition

The American Super Bowl is just around the corner and I thought I’d focus this week’s News Highlights on this mega advertising event (well, yes, sports too …). Sinead conducted a short case study on 2015’s more successful Super Bowl ads and published it earlier this week in a post titled “The Keys To Successful Super Bowl Ads”. With that, here is our news for this week for you.

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