Google Earnings Edition: Crealytics CEO and Cofounder Andreas Reiffen tells WIT Strategy Partner Bill Brazell that when Google reports its earnings after the market closes on Thursday, we should learn that Cost-Per-Click, or CPC, has dropped even as Google itself has continued to grow. In explaining how Google pulls off that trick, Reiffen expands on… Continue reading »
By Amanda Fiore and Oliver Nelson Competitive paid search campaigns should always be a cornerstone consideration for your SEM campaign. While many industries understand the advantages of bidding against competitive terms we find healthcare and pharmaceuticals, in particular, continue to lag behind in their employment of these campaigns; we’re shocked each time we transition existing… Continue reading »
By: Oliver J. Nelson Over the weekend Google announced a reduction of ad positions available within the search engine results page (SERP) on desktop devices. Essentially, Google’s recent change eliminates the ads that once appeared to the right of the organic listings and below the Knowledge Graph have been eliminated. Google suggests this makes for a… Continue reading »
Reporting is as integral to a media campaign’s performance as planning and buying. Because of this, the responsibility for reporting and analyzing media campaign performance should not fall to professionals outside the media department. The job of reporting on campaign performance is more than just stating the obvious through bar charts and graphs, it is… Continue reading »
Google’s Q3 earnings release, coupled with a report from Adobe, suggest that Google’s US search business is slowing, and as a result, Google is increasing margins by raising its prices and cutting its search partner network. This has significant implications for advertisers as well as the digital advertising ecosystem at large. As users transition to lower-priced… Continue reading »
