The coronavirus pandemic has caused a major disruption to the U.S. advertising market with billions of dollars being wiped off the table. Spending on digital ads for March/April is down 38%, linear TV is off 41%, terrestrial radio has fallen 45%, print has dropped 43%, and traditional outdoor is off 51%, according to a recent report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), an online-ad industry … Read the...

Today’s automated retargeting solutions make it very easy to use a “set it and forget it” approach to retargeting. While these solutions are very sophisticated and can streamline workflow, it is difficult to reach optimum KPIs without ongoing human guidance based on our experience buying tens of millions of retargeting and other programmatic online ads around the world for exhibitions and events. We share five … Read the...

As exhibitions and events spend more and more money on digital marketing to drive attendance, there is increasing pressure to justify the spend with metrics. Attribution is complex so many marketers choose the easiest, quickest and most common way to do this, last-click attribution (LCA), which gives 100% of the credit for a ticket purchase to the last click a visitor made before completing that … Read the...

Cookie-based retargeting is a very effective visitor marketing tool but it is much less effective in the mobile environment. Here’s why… (1) a cookie is tied to a single browser on a single device, (2) cookie functionality varies by device/OS, and (3) cookies don’t work across mobile environments (a cookie in an app can’t share data with another app or a web browser on same … Read the...

Based on our experience running tens of millions of retargeting ads around the world for exhibitions and events, we share some common issues that can negatively impact your results.  Plus we offer some tips to maximize success. Overkill frequency.  Blasting as many ads as you can to as many people as possible that you have “cookied” can waste ad spend, accelerate ad fatigue and annoy … Read the...

Online advertising generates oceans of data. This data can help you better allocate ad spend and deploy more effective campaigns to drive attendance but you will only be able to achieve these benefits if you capture, analyze and act on the data. We recently analyzed a group of over 100 million online ads that we purchased using traditional and programmatic tools across the world for … Read the...