Starting your first online marketing campaign is a serious challenge. Alongside e-mail marketing and search engine optimization (SEO), display advertising is a key component of any good online marketing plan. When it comes to running your first Google AdWords campaign, you’ll need a great strategy, sensible planning, and expert know-how to give yourself the best possible chance of success. Here’s...
Unlike traditional online advertisements, native ads are designed with both their target groups as well as the context in which they are to appear in mind. Native advertising is most commonly implemented within editorial contexts. Here, it’s important for ads to blend in with their natural surroundings as much as possible. And while this type of advertising needs to be labeled as such, it...
Ads.txt is meant to help fight a scam in programmatic buying: the scam of domain spoofing. The underlying concept is as simple as it is efficient: publishers are given more control over who can trade their ad space, and control this via a simple text file. We explain what this file is all about, how you can easily create an ads.txt file yourself, and how you can make sure that it’s working as...
Display marketing is among the best-performing advertising channels in online marketing. Those who immediately think of irritating banner advertisements and obnoxious pop-ups have fallen behind the times. This is because display advertising has experienced some changes in recent years. In order to adapt to recent developments, like banner blindness, new strategies for gaining viewers’ attention...
Advertising banners are an elementary component of online marketing. Well-designed advertisements invite the viewer to take advantage of your offer. Therefore, well-made graphics can generate attention, clicks, and ultimately sales. However, many things can go wrong when it comes to banner design. We explain to you in a step-by-step guide what constitutes good banner advertising and which mistakes...
‘What you’re about to read in this article has never been discussed before!’ This may not be entirely true, because the topic of clickbaiting is already commonplace in the world of social media. But by using sensational titles and descriptions like we just did, marketers and publishers aim to generate clicks to boost their ad revenue. And for the most part, it works. So how is this tactic so...
Malvertising is a growing problem for webmasters, online marketers and, last but not least, the millions of people who are affected every year. Behind this term is a sneaky method in which advertising banners are used to spread malicious software. No website is safe from this deceit – even well-known websites with millions of visitors have been compromised by these viruses. There are, however,...
What is affinity marketing? This form of online marketing is relevant to all of us, whether we want it to be or not. The techniques of affinity-based advertising are particularly successful in e-commerce. This article defines the term affinity marketing, and provides information about the methods and relevance of this marketing technique.
Native advertising is the new buzzword in marketing. But not everyone correctly understands how advertorials and other native advertising work. Advertorials should not be confused with flat advertisements: As an advertiser, you have to stick to certain game rules. An advertorial should not only fit in with its editorial environment, but also needs to lay all its cards on the table – Two words:...
Banner ads and other forms of display marketing have been proven to be effective marketing strategies for products and services online. The new practice in this field is real-time advertising (RTA) and its real-time bidding (RTB) approach. This new strategy carries out an automated bidding war in milliseconds to decide which ad will be displayed. But how does it differ from traditional display...
