Martech

APRIL 24, 2025

It’ll scrape Reddit threads, old Glassdoor reviews and that tweet you wish you’d deleted in 2016. If you’re not actively telling your brand’s story online, AI will fill in the blanks for better or worse. “Where’s the only place people always tell the truth? The search bar,” Minifie said.

Branding

SmartBrief - Marketing

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In 2016, $1 billion was spent on retail media in the US, eMarketer reports. These channels provide more opportunities to unlock full-funnel advertising, particularly upper-funnel brand marketing efforts, unlocking the bigger budgets held by national brand marketing teams that RMNs are looking to win, Logan tells Forbes.

Retail

Sprout Social

AUGUST 4, 2025

TikTok has evolved substantially since it burst onto the socials scene in 2016. These position your products or services, through breakdowns, advertisements or other content types. Yet, there’s a misconception of sorts that TikTok is only for entertainment, or for creating content that appeals directly to consumers.

Gen Z

Hubspot Marketing

MARCH 26, 2025

Blazer EV SS | Chevrolet Advertised as the quickest Super Sport model ever produced by Chevy , the Blazer EV SS features in an equally quick 30-second spot posted on Facebook on February 14, 2025. Editor's note: This post was originally published in April 2016 and has been updated for comprehensiveness.

Video Marketing

Martech

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The owner also owned a magazine; I was operations director there, did a lot of graphic design, but was also in charge of selling advertising. Ali moved into marketing consulting under the name Schwanke Marketing, then in 2016 launched her current business, Simple Strat. That led me to an agency.

CMO

Exposure Ninja

APRIL 25, 2025

Google first introduced Smart Bidding back in 2016, and Meta launched Advantage+ campaigns in 2022. Just look at Microsoft’s search and advertising revenue, which has experienced 21% YoY growth. Google’s ad costs are increasing each year, and Microsoft offers businesses a more affordable advertising alternative.

User-Generated

Animalz blog

JULY 8, 2025

Lane Scott Jones [00:03:21]: And this was back in 2016, but I was working with companies that were doing things like machine learning and so I even back then I was at the water cooler talking and thinking a lot about AI and well that was also the year Westworld came out. Except we coined it return on content spend Rocks.

Thought Leadership

SocialPilot

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

It’s a known fact that 92% of consumers trust recommendations from friends and family over any other form of advertising. Something we're not ready for: The cost to get a customer through sales and marketing is up: 108.9%! And it's going to get worse.

Social Media Marketing

illumin

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

As elections heat up, so does the presence of social media in political advertising. Among those tools seeing a lot of traction in political advertising: social media. Today, we’ll look at how social media usage in political advertising in the modern age is consistently growing and what marketers can learn from this phenomenon.

Gen Z

Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

2015-2016: Optimizing for satisfaction In 2015, YouTube began measuring viewer satisfaction directly with user surveys. In 2016, YouTube released a whitepaper describing some of the inner workings of its AI: Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations. Soon, YouTube changed tack again.

Analytics

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Last week I ran my own content marketing prediction : A Correction In The Advertising Market. The leading marketing trend of 2016 will be the maturing of the age of ad blocking. I think we’ll see a massive correction in the advertising market. Joe Pulizzi – 2016 will be the year for content marketing M&A.

Content Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Social media marketing is one of the fastest growing marketing niches, and 2016 brought about much-improved search functionality. Here are a few brands that nailed it this year: During the 2016 Super Bowl, Gatorade created a Snapchat filter that allowed users to share a Super Bowl tradition—dumping Gatorade on the coach—with their friends.

Digital Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 5, 2017

Here are seven of the best email marketing campaigns we saw in 2016. Social proof is just the latest iteration of word-of-mouth advertising. There are lots of “how to” resources out there, and lists of tips for email marketing—and many are great resources. Grammarly: Leveraging Third Party Endorsements.

Email Marketing

Hubspot Marketing

MARCH 30, 2021

Advertising is the process of creating messages that raise awareness of your brand. Most advertisements center around one business, but a unique type, called comparative advertising, centers around two. Given this, using comparative advertising requires care and attention. Comparative Advertising Examples.

Advertisers

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 24, 2019

But with more people fleeing traditional TV and radio for ad-free streaming services like Netflix and Spotify Premium, advertising on those once-powerful mediums has lost much of its luster. In 2016, SocialFlow observed a 42% drop in organic Facebook posts over a three-month period.

Advertisers

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Put another way, 2018’s martech landscape contains more software products than those of 2011 through 2016 combined. […]. The post Classic Advertising and Consulting Models Are Shifting — To Clients’ Benefit appeared first on Marketing Insider Group. Today, it reports around 7,000.

Advertisers

Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The sale was unsuccessful because Apple had concerns about Bing’s search quality, advertising unit and monetization capabilities, according to a document in Google’s antitrust case against the U.S. And their advertising organization and how they monetize was not very good either.” Justice Department.

Advertisers

Bannerflow

AUGUST 17, 2021

E-commerce and its advertising campaigns are booming! It’s why some of the biggest brands on the planet are levelling up their e-commerce marketing campaigns and doubling-down on online e-commerce advertising. Including: The current state of online e-commerce advertising. Essential strategies for e-commerce advertising.

Advertisers

Martech

JUNE 13, 2024

In Q4, we decided to exit the advertising business, which had declined to about $300 million in revenue in fiscal year ’24,” Catz said. Eventually, Oracle Advertising was born. In 2016, for example, Oracle acquired social sharing widget AddThis as a way to add data to its Data Cloud and help inform ad buys.

Advertisers

Martech

JANUARY 19, 2022

“We connect all the different places where they’re running advertising to our system. We started doing global work in advertising in 2015, a result of me having the privilege of being the second jury president for the Glass Lions.” Among the findings: Although 55% of ads featured women, men were 1.5X

Advertisers

Bannerflow

MARCH 29, 2021

Yet – a lot of marketers have still not tried gaming advertising. This article will go through what advertising in gaming is, why you should try it, and how to get started in this new and exciting channel. What is advertising in gaming? What is advertising in esports? What is advertising in gaming?

Advertisers

Hubspot Marketing

JANUARY 13, 2017

In this blog post, we’ll dive into what happened in 2016 , what we think social media managers should expect in 2017, and how to plan for these changes. In its 2016 annual recap, Periscope noted that users watched 110 years of live video every day using the app. Instagram introduced its Stories feature in August 2016.

Millennials

Search Engine Land

APRIL 12, 2024

Vertical video has become the mainstream format for advertisers, proving its value across various industries and categories. However, the emergence of mobile-first social media and evolving user behaviors and engagement patterns have ushered in a new era of vertical video advertising. Business email address Subscribe Processing.

Advertisers

Hootsuite

AUGUST 18, 2020

YouTube usually isn’t known for being super transparent with creators or advertisers about how the proverbial sausage is made. 2016: Machine learning (a.k.a. In 2016, YouTube released a whitepaper that made some waves. Source: Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations , 2016). the algorithm).

Whitepaper

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 19, 2017

As a marketer, Quora may or may not be a channel on your radar, but it should be because, in 2016, they decided to release an advertising platform. The truth is that even though there are so many different ways to advertise nowadays, it’s getting harder and harder to cut through the noise, no matter which platform you choose.

Thought Leadership

Adams & Knight Marketing

APRIL 16, 2023

The Adrian Awards recognizes the outstanding work of hospitality brands and agencies for creativity and innovation in advertising, digital, public relations/communications, and integrated campaigns. ” Since 2016, Adams & Knight has won more than 40 awards for various travel/tourism marketing campaigns. Avon, Conn.,

PR

Adams & Knight Marketing

MARCH 23, 2023

The Adrian Awards is the world’s largest and most prestigious travel marketing competition, recognizing the outstanding work of hospitality brands and agencies for creativity and innovation in advertising, digital, public relations/communications, and integrated campaigns.

PR

Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Consider this -- in 2016, I began using JetBlue for my flights to and from college in North Carolina. Best of all, their content rarely resembles an advertisement, and is typically focused on providing an audience with fun or helpful information on various travel destinations. Need further convincing?

Food

Search Engine Land

JANUARY 28, 2023

24: Google Takes Action On More Link Networks In Poland Also on this day Facebook testing brand safety topic exclusions for advertisers 2021: Citing advertisers’ brand safety concerns, Facebook said the feature would allow marketers to choose whether to show their ads alongside potentially sensitive content.

Search Marketers

Hubspot Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2019

Instagram has proven a viable advertising option for businesses today, and shows no signs of slowing down -- in fact, eMarketer estimates worldwide Instagram ad revenues will exceed $10 billion by 2019 , an exponential increase from 1.86 billion in 2016.

Advertisers

Search Engine Land

MARCH 17, 2023

Google Image Search launches colored filter buttons 2016: After testing various combinations, Google launched new filter buttons in the image search results. Bing Ads testing Social Extensions: Link search ads to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr 2016: The ad extension was in beta in the U.S.

Search Marketers

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

Though agencies loudly tout the importance of transparency , ongoing federal probes show that clients—and the public—still struggle to trust advertising agencies. The report sent shockwaves through the advertising community, and our continued conversation is a testament to the pervasiveness of the transparency issue.

Thought Leadership

Hubspot Marketing

MARCH 19, 2019

will spend over 350 million dollars on email advertising in 2019. will spend over 350 million dollars on email advertising in 2019. Adestra , 2016). Active email accounts are expected to hit 5.6 billion by 2019. 83 percent of B2B companies use e-newsletters as part of their content marketing program. It's estimated that the U.S.

Email Marketing

Hubspot Marketing

JULY 23, 2019

Aside from Facebook and Snapchat, we've also been watching platforms like Reddit and Pinterest aim to improve on advertising and marketing features. These platforms were either launched or completely rebranded in 2016 or later. Year Launched: 2017 (Founded in 2016). Year Launched: Founded in 2016 and unveiled in 2018.

Gen Z

Search Engine Land

JANUARY 13, 2023

2016: Amit Singhal, Google’s senior vice president of search, did almost all of his searches for more than a year on mobile devices. 2016: “It felt like the right time to freshen things up,” said Microsoft spokesperson. 2016: Google documented the attraction with tiny Street View cars as though it were a real place.

Search Marketers

Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

2015-2016: Satisfaction & personalization. In 2016, YouTube released a paper on its algorithm for its recommendation systems. 2016-present: Demonetization & policy updates. Ads were running alongside videos that promoted offensive or violent content, leading many major companies to pull their advertising.

Analytics

Martech

JULY 27, 2021

What this means is that behind the scenes, advertisers have been experiencing a more streamlined and up-to-date adtech process that was previously unavailable for advertisers of Olympics programming on the web. Better UX for advertisers. And Ricola broke ground earlier this year by becoming a first-time Super Bowl advertiser.

Tentpole