Research: Marketing Tech Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It
The CMO Survey
JULY 3, 2025
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The CMO Survey
JUNE 30, 2025
The Chartered Institute of Marketing The Conference Board The Drum The Financial Brand The Hindu BusinessLine The Message The Pinnacle Gazette The Pittsburgh 100 The Press The Wise Marketer Toolbox Trade Only Today Twitter Business ValueWalk Vital Wall Street Journal WARC Westcher Magazine Which-50 WRAL Tech Wire WWD Yahoo Finance Youtube ZDNET
The CMO Survey
JUNE 18, 2025
The Chartered Institute of Marketing The Conference Board The Drum The Financial Brand The Hindu BusinessLine The Message The Pinnacle Gazette The Pittsburgh 100 The Press The Wise Marketer Toolbox Trade Only Today Twitter Business ValueWalk Vital Wall Street Journal WARC Westcher Magazine Which-50 WRAL Tech Wire WWD Yahoo Finance Youtube ZDNET
The CMO Survey
JUNE 16, 2025
The Chartered Institute of Marketing The Conference Board The Drum The Financial Brand The Hindu BusinessLine The Message The Pinnacle Gazette The Pittsburgh 100 The Press The Wise Marketer Toolbox Trade Only Today Twitter Business ValueWalk Vital Wall Street Journal WARC Westcher Magazine Which-50 WRAL Tech Wire WWD Yahoo Finance Youtube ZDNET
The CMO Survey
MAY 9, 2025
The Chartered Institute of Marketing The Conference Board The Drum The Financial Brand The Hindu BusinessLine The Message The Pinnacle Gazette The Pittsburgh 100 The Press The Wise Marketer Toolbox Trade Only Today Twitter Business ValueWalk Vital Wall Street Journal WARC Westcher Magazine Which-50 WRAL Tech Wire WWD Yahoo Finance Youtube ZDNET
Search Engine Land
JULY 22, 2024
Christmas and Hannukah are on Wednesdays, eliminating the ease of shopping retail over the weekend for last-minute gifts. The beauty of PPC and social media advertising is that you can target where they are using inclusions, exclusions and geographically. On top of that: Hanukkah starts on Christmas, and Kwanzaa is on the day after.
Martech
APRIL 24, 2025
When Minifie talks about brand safety, he’s not spinning PR. ChatGPT is your PR intern. Retail sales lifted significantly in the Columbus market afterward. Put simply, they don’t rent attention through ads. They help brands own the conversation. Email: Business email address Sign me up! Processing. The result?
Search Engine Land
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
While SEO and PPC are well-known strategies for enhancing online visibility, it’s essential to explore emerging and overlooked opportunities like retail media and social media, including social search. Retail and social: Why should you care? Social engagement informs product listings and ads on retail media.
Hubspot Marketing
APRIL 9, 2024
Advertising is an ever-changing beast — with those on ad and marketing teams working hard to stay ahead of trends. As a seasoned content marketer working in tech, I’ve noticed that advertising trends in 2024 seem to respond to the trends we saw in 2023. Check out this blog on AI in Digital Marketing for more information.
Hubspot Marketing
JANUARY 22, 2025
Read : How to Create an Email Newsletter [+ Expert Tips & Checklist] Public Relations/Media Relations With Public Relations (PR) , were discussing media coverage you didnt pay or ask for. The beauty brand encourages UGC by offering chances to be featured and creating fun, interactive experiences in its retail spaces.
Zumvu
JUNE 17, 2025
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Hubspot Marketing
APRIL 8, 2025
Ecommerce & Retail, Education, Marketing & Advertising, and Finance & Investing rounded out the top seven. Even though most of my focus here has been on engagement, since Reddit does allow ads, I also wanted to get a sense of how Reddit users feel about advertising content. Reddit users prefer positive ads.
Hubspot Marketing
APRIL 8, 2025
Ecommerce & Retail, Education, Marketing & Advertising, and Finance & Investing rounded out the top seven. Even though most of my focus here has been on engagement, since Reddit does allow ads, I also wanted to get a sense of how Reddit users feel about advertising content. Reddit users prefer positive ads.
Litmus
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Marketing, PR, & advertising agency: 42:1. Retail, ecommerce, & consumer goods: 45:1. For every $1 marketers spend on email marketing, they receive $36 in return. ROI by industry. Media, publishing, events, sports, & entertainment: 32:1. Software & technology: 36:1. Ways to increase email ROI.
Neil Patel
JUNE 10, 2025
Deeper Brand Connection and Recall Experiences stick with people more than even the best advertising campaign. Good for retail, beauty, or food brands that want to offer hands-on interaction. Key Benefits of Experiential Marketing If boosting sales isn’t the main goal, what makes experiential marketing worthwhile? Workshop or class?
Neil Patel
MARCH 15, 2021
Pull a PR Stunt. If you want that first sale fast, pulling a PR stunt could do the trick. Much like viral videos, a PR stunt has the potential to propel your brand into fame. A PR stunt consists of doing something unusual, outrageous, hilarious, or remarkable enough to be worthy of media attention.
Hubspot Marketing
JUNE 1, 2017
9) Advertising Salespeople. Why: As advertising shifts away from print and TV and towards web and social media landscapes, people simply don't need to be managing those sales for marketers who want to buy ad space. 10) Retail Salespeople. Likelihood: 54%. Likelihood: 92%. 4) Public Relations Managers. Likelihood: 1.5%.
Sprout Social
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
US retail social commerce sales are projected to exceed $56 billion by 2023 , marking an opportunity businesses can’t afford to miss out on. Social commerce seems to be inspiring people to indulge in retail therapy, as 71% of consumers are most likely to shop for themselves when buying directly from social. The top 0.5%
Neil Patel
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
How does this fit with paid advertising? Sales promotions aren’t useful unless you promote them, and one of the most effective ways to do this is through paid advertising. Whether you advertise on Google, Facebook, Amazon, LinkedIn, or any other platform, you need to attract people’s attention. It’s in the name!
Sprout Social
MAY 11, 2023
Brand safety has traditionally been relegated to just protecting brands from advertising on or near inappropriate content online. Factor them into your social media advertising strategy to minimize risk and maximize the impact of your campaigns. The retailer used TikTok to highlight its partnership with basketball star Candace Parker.
Sprout Social
JUNE 24, 2019
B Squared Media is a boutique digital marketing agency specializing in “done-for-you” social media marketing and advertising. SSPR is an award-winning Digital PR Agency that pushes the boundaries of conventional public relations. Check out its participation in our digital #SproutSessions series. B Squared Media. Fifty & Five.
Buffer Marketing
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Buzzstream: PR relationship management Source: Buzzstream In the five years I spent managing partnerships at Tortuga , I can't recommend using a CRM for partnerships enough. It's been a go-to email marketing tool for online retail stores for years. That's where paid advertising tools come in handy.
Hootsuite
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Bestseller is the best retail chatbot example for customer service in bulk. The Dufresne Group, a premier Canadian home furnishing retailer, didn’t want to miss out on the sales opportunity. Domino’s promotional PR stunt. It: automated of 67% of customer service chats, answered frequently asked questions. Source: GetJenny.
Power Digital Marketing
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
With more than 1 million brick-and-mortar stores in the US alone and innumerable storefronts cropping up online – standing out from the crowd isn’t just for retailers. Even so, the marketing tactics that work for digital-only brands won’t necessarily propel retailers forward. What makes retail marketing unique? .
Customers.ai
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Online spending has skyrocketed and with online retail revenue predicted to hit $1.1 For ecommerce retailers, this opens up a huge opportunity. Ecommerce Tool #24 – AdScale AI Advertising Platform AdScale is an AI advertising platform designed to help digital marketers optimize advertising performance.
Sprout Social
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
On a broader scale, they connect you to an unparalleled level of expertise that can extend beyond social—23% and 13% of agencies in our agency pricing and packaging of social media report offered SEO and PR services, respectively. Agencies that offer paid social as a service can guide, optimize and track paid advertising campaigns.
Litmus
APRIL 18, 2019
Marketing, PR, & advertising agency: 42:1. Retail, ecommerce, & consumer goods or services: 45:1. Brands in the travel, tourism, and hospitality industry report the highest email marketing returns. Average: 42:1. Software & technology: 40:1. Media, publishing, events, sports, & entertainment: 45:1.
Martech
JUNE 3, 2022
Agencies in marketing, PR and advertising see a return of $42 for every $1 they spend on email, and businesses in retail, e-commerce and consumer goods are rewarded with $45 in revenue for each dollar spent. Email is especially valuable to e-commerce, direct-to-consumer and multichannel retailers. E-commerce capabilities.
Marketing Insider Group
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Wallaroo) Social media advertising spending is expected to surpass $300 billion in 2024. OrbitMedia) 70% of consumers prefer learning about a company through articles over advertisements. of their advertising budget to branding. Demand Sage) Image Source: Demand Sage 84% of podcast advertisements are dynamic.
Duct Tape Marketing
JULY 8, 2016
PR & eCommerce: A Match Made in Heaven and How to Leverage It to Help Your Business Grow written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. For instance, many believe PR is separate from affiliate marketing. In short, PR is the ideal tool not only to inform and guide buyers but also to engage them in the best possible ways.
Hootsuite
MAY 10, 2021
For business-to-business (B2B) companies , social media can provide a means to boost brand visibility and advertise solutions to potential partners and customers. Social media has become a primary channel for big companies to broadcast comms and PR messages. View this post on Instagram. A post shared by Norwegian (@flynorwegian).
Hootsuite
JUNE 2, 2022
That would be a PR miracle. corperateslavery #retail #dobetter #storemanagerlife #storemanagerlife. ? But if the company hadn’t been keeping an eye on social sentiment, it may have never realized just how offensive the advertisement was. . — Burger King (@BurgerKingUK) March 8, 2021. alwaysmrsgundel. Try it free today!
Sprout Social
MARCH 22, 2021
In fact, recent statistics note that social advertising is practiced by a staggering 83% of B2B marketers and is second only to search engines in terms of success. ” Also consider that a B2B social media strategy is apples and oranges versus retail or ecommerce. Reality check: B2B social media is here to stay.
Sprout Social
JANUARY 4, 2017
According to Adobe , an estimated $41 million will be spent on social media advertising in 2017. Even though Twitter’s possible sale in 2016 worried some marketers, VentureBeat showed Q3 advertising revenue grew from $513 in 2015 to $545 million in 2016. On the other hand, paid content is growing faster each quarter. Moving Forward.
Search Engine Land
MAY 30, 2023
The advertising team may refer to audiences for remarketing. SEO, social, content or digital PR teams might say that audiences refer to a segment of users from their site who have generated similar behavioral data, share demographic data, or are important to the brand in other ways. Who are our company or client’s target audiences?
Search Engine Land
OCTOBER 16, 2023
After attending Pubcon last month, I was a bit surprised that most SEOs I spoke with weren’t aware of this and even more surprised at the number of vendors openly advertising their ability to source thousands of links per month from their network of bloggers. Are you an online fashion retailer?
Marketing Insider Group
JUNE 15, 2020
Retail Information Technology – Software. Advertising/Marketing/PR. After reviewing all of our 2019 data, here are the 10 industries and sub-industries that consume content most actively: Information Technology. Manufacturing. Financial Services. Medical – Medical, Pharma, Biotech. Hospitals – Hospital, Clinic, Doctor Offices.
CXL
OCTOBER 16, 2022
Get it right: Good vs. bad customer acquisition examples Scenario 1: The D2C haircare brand Scenario 2: The online fashion retailer What separates these business examples? Scenario 2: The online fashion retailer. The online fashion retailer pulled in fewer customers and generated a fraction of the revenue. Data-driven targeting.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 8, 2015
For over 65 years, stickers have been helping politicians get elected, building companies, establishing brands, advertising, starting conversations and increasing exposure. Anti-Advertising / Personal Endorsements. Advertising/marketing has shifted to more permission and connection based models. This is an obvious mistake.
Moz
JANUARY 14, 2020
Online PR and display deliver conversions. The only advertising that performed better than search was remarketing, which inched the advertising closer and closer to that precious purchase moment. Now in 2020, these essential elements of the marketing mix are operating at maximum capacity for any advertiser worth their salt.
Marketing Insider Group
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Hopefully most of these marketing stats will help you to prove that your content marketing strategy , digital and advertising campaigns are on-trend, relevant, and effective. Approximately 59% of consumers surveyed say that being able to shop on a mobile phone is vital when choosing which brand or retailer to purchase from. Statista ).
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