StackCommerce CEO and Founder Josh Payne tells WIT Strategy Partner Bill Brazell that publishers seeking to monetize their sites ought to consider options like ‘native commerce,’ a white-label shop that offers inventory relevant to their audience. Music: “Morning Rays” by Jim Duffy. Used with permission.
By: Jess Carson I know, it seems like every two seconds the “all-powerful” Google is updating its algorithm to further enhance user experience (which is the holy grail because, let’s face it, users are difficult). Back in August of 2016, Google announced that it would start “cracking down” on “intrusive interstitials” (say that three times… Continue reading »
Did social listening lead political pundits down the wrong path during the election? A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece on the marketing lessons we can all learn from the 2016 U.S. general election, knowing that there were many more to come. One of the biggest lessons since learned concerns social listening, its current… Continue reading »
How can a new app, in less than a week, beat out Twitter in daily usage? If you’re into mobile marketing, that’s a nagging question in a world when countless apps launch each week and a scant few attract any sort of notice. A lot has been written about Pokemon Go this week, mostly about… Continue reading »
By: Amanda Fiore Has your local hospital merged or been acquired recently? For an increasing number of us in the U.S., the answer is yes. There has undoubtedly been a surge in hospital transactions over the past few years. Not only has the number of transactions increased, but also the variety of deals. From mergers… Continue reading »
By John Weisgerber, SVP Sales, GumGum Your color choices can have a huge impact on campaign performance because 85 percent of people cite color as the main reason why they buy a particular product. There are longstanding theories in advertising and branding that specific colors connote universal feelings and emotions, and elicit specific behaviors. When… Continue reading »
Brian Solis, a principal analyst at Altimeter Group and an award-winning author, tells WIT Strategy Partner Bill Brazell about his new book, “X: The Experience When Business Meets Design.” Solis argues that businesses have entered a new era, in which your brand is defined by those who experience it. (Bill suggests that Disney may understand… Continue reading »
Pypestream Founder and CEO Richard Smullen tells WIT Strategy Partner Bill Brazell that he wondered why he couldn’t instant-message his airline as easily as he could IM his sister. So after finding someone to replace him at Genesis Media, he launched Pypestream, the market’s first purpose-built B2C messenger — a step toward what Richard sees… Continue reading »
I’m not one for petty blamestorming when it comes to the collapse of the implied contract, but this definitely set off my irony meter. Let me get this straight… The APAC head of a major programmatic agency is blaming ad blocking on millennial attitudes? This strike anyone else as the pot calling the kettle black?… Continue reading »
SocialCode Chief Marketing Officer Max Kalehoff tells WIT Strategy‘s Bill Brazell that today’s smartest marketers are ‘digital first’ — that is, they use the fast learning and data of online advertising to guide marketing decisions in other media. Max explains how controlling waste may be the fastest path to ROI, and notes that the finely… Continue reading »
