There's growing recognition that marketers can no longer afford to wait for specific guidelines from the FDA. Jump on the social media bandwagon or be left blow'n in the wind. Are you prepared? b

Cart abandonment, digital advertising (especially when faced with ad-blocking software), and discrete digital stores are relics of the past when it comes to e-commerce. Consider this: How much revenue do you think $1 spent on digital advertising will generate in commerce sales? The answer: A bit more than twice the investment—an abysmally unprofitable equation for any company carrying physical inventory.

This Benchmark report evaluates digital advertising activity, predicts trends of Social Media and Online Advertising.

This Benchmark report evaluates digital advertising activity, predicts trends of Social Media and Online Advertising.

A case study on the business challenge experienced by Brightroll and the success they experienced through Equinix.

A case study on the business challenge experienced by Brightroll and the success they experienced through Equinix.

A case study on the business challenge experienced by Brightroll and the success they experienced through Equinix.

According to eMarketer, digital marketers have a “love affair with data,” and are planning to increase spending and usage in data-driven marketing strategies. Data helps marketers make more informed decisions about their most receptive audiences, so it should come as no surprise that 75% of B2B marketers currently leverage data to inform their digital advertising strategy, according to a new study.

The Sojern Traveler Platform offers hotels of all sizes access to over 350 million traveler profiles that allow you to precisely target prospects at all stages of the marketing funnel. You can also manage campaigns across multiple channels and devices, maintain brand awareness, increase purchase consideration, and turn site visitors into hotel room bookers.

Digital technology has completely changed how we discover products, engage with brands and share our experiences with others. Amazon revolutionized customer feedback and product reviews. Social media transformed the way people share word-of-mouth recommendations, connecting shoppers to off-the-cuff opinions, compelling visual content and real-life experiences from peers and influencers they follow and admire. Sure, TV, radio and print ads are still part of the mix but they hardly carry the same weight as they did in years passed. This statistic speaks volumes: 92% of consumers trust peer recommendations over branded advertising. With the advent of social media and digital technology, brands have a powerful new tool at their disposal that brings word-of-mouth to the masses: usergenerated content (UGC).

even West Media (SWM) is Australia’s leading multiple platform media company with a market-leading presence in broadcast television, magazine and newspaper publishing, and online. To support its unprecedented broadcast of the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games, SWM integrated the world’s first production implementation of the Teradata Database running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) into its existing data ecosystem. This enabled the delivery of critical insights during the event and helped directly drive audience engagement with SWM’s digital products, resulting in the creation of a powerful audience asset that that now informs their broadcasting, marketing, and advertising plans. Find out how with in this case study.

This paper summarises the main observations extracted from the Interconnected Commerce: A Revolution in Value Creation whitepaper.

Technology is blurring geographic boundaries, bringing cultures together and connecting brands with consumers across the globe. But for brands trying to serve a global customer base, that can pose a real challenge. Fortunately, something as (seemingly) simple as fonts can help. This eBook highlights a few ways type can transform your global brand, as well as a few guidelines to help you get the conversation started.

Read a case study on Empyr’s CPR platform: • Reach 175+ consumers • 100% attribution from an online consumer to an in-store sale • No upfront cost or minimum ad spend “The Empyr CPR campaign has been one of our best performing digital marketing campaigns because of the one-hundred percent attribution of the digital marketing spend to in-store sales. We finally are buying revenue and not ads. One of the biggest challenges for advertisers today is the gap between online advertising spend and in-store sales. Empyr has truly solved this challenge with their card-linked offers platform.”

Increasing your non-interest revenues without increasing customer fees that ultimately drive customers away can be a challenge. The digital economy is opening up new ways to drive additional revenue from existing customers. The same technical innovations are also opening up new ways to communicate with customers about both digital and traditional offerings. But that results in customers becoming overwhelmed with advertising and marketing messages. They are forced to decide upfront who is providing relevant information and who to completely ignore. Ultimately, it comes down to trust. Customers consider generic messages to be spam and learn to filter them out, even if they come from a known vendor. Over the long run, these types of marketing campaigns not only see diminishing returns, they can even damage your long-term relationship with customers and decrease revenues. Micro-marketing overcomes the noise that traditional spam-marketing creates and establishes news levels of trust betwee

The world of digital advertising is changing—HTML5 has replaced Flash as the industry standard for digital ads. Find out how this change benefits your workflow, branding, and—most importantly—your customers. In this eBook, you’ll learn what HTML5 is and how it differs from Flash, how you can use HTML5 to make better ads, and why you need to get on board with HTML5 now.

Executing a data-driven digital advertising campaign, with a clear understanding of your target, provides you with marketing that is accountable based on revenue. And this data-driven approach is better for your prospects and customers due to relevance. Relationships thrive when you’re communicating in context on a oneto- one basis. Marketing has the opportunity to reinvent itself as a core part of a company’s revenue engine.

The Definitive Guide to Digital Advertising will teach you how to create strategic and dynamic digital advertising.

Over the past several years, we’ve seen a huge change in how brands communicate, market, and relate to their customers. Maintaining good brand health and a strong visual identity is essential to developing trust with your customers, meeting them where they are, and keeping up with their expectations. // In our latest eBook, we've highlighted areas you can’t ignore if you want to deliver the experience consumers expect. You’ll find out what’s most important to today’s customers, ways you can prepare for the future, and how type ties it all together. // You'll learn: Why it’s essential to establish a cohesive brand identity across all touchpoints, in whatever region or language your customers demand How customer expectations have evolved and how you can to adapt Why type is an essential tool in responding to these changes and preparing for the future

Jerry Nichols breaks down the five crucial steps marketing teams must take to digital transformation. As the Global Head of Marketing Performance Management at SAP, Jerry speaks from his experience in creating accountability within SAP’S marketing team and how that has benefited the business.

75% of today’s S&P 500 companies will be replaced by 2027. It’s a tenuous time to be a marketing leader - many of the strategies that have worked in the past are no longer relevant. Learn how companies like Microsoft, LVMH, and IBM are approaching digital transformation.

75% of today’s S&P 500 companies will be replaced by 2027. It’s a tenuous time to be a marketing leader - many of the strategies that have worked in the past are no longer relevant. Learn how companies like Microsoft, LVMH, and IBM are approaching digital transformation.

B2B purchasing in a Web 2.0 world has become an interactive process driven by customers. Learn how using clickstream data to target buyers' motivations allows marketers to trigger automated processes like lead scoring and nurturing to drive better leads for sales.

Download this report to learn about the Digital Elite, the world's most valuable audience.

Download this report to learn more about where and when to find the Digital Elite.