At Media Two we often encounter the question, “Why would I pay for clicks on my brand own name [via paid search ads] when I come up organically in the first position?” For some, this strategy seems like a waste of ad spend that “doubles up” on SEO efforts. In reality, bidding on your brand …
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A constant debate you’ll hear in the world of digital media buying is the debate between the Google Display Network (GDN) and programmatic buying using a demand side platform (DSP). The Google Display Network is just that, a network. Though making up for a large portion of the inventory, DSPs still have a much greater …
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Programmatic advertising has seen exponential growth over the last ten years and is now implemented in most media strategies. Estimations by eMarketer state that by 2021 almost 88%, or $81 billion, of all US digital display ad dollars will transact programmatically. To have a better understanding of how programmatic works and why it’s become increasingly …
Last week, Google hosted its annual Google Marketing Live where marketers from around the globe flock to the search capital of the world at Summit View to hear the latest sales pitch. I don’t call it an announcement because it’s a sales pitch. A pitch to get marketers to hop on the bandwagon and rely …
I was scrolling through the black hole known as my Instagram feed and stumbled across this video: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5f8hjzxmkA&w=560&h=315] It struck a chord. Three professional athletes with decades of experience in the same sport, thousands of practice hours and hundreds of miles ran against 100 kids. Nevermind the volume, it’s certainly cheaper to pay the …
According to a recent survey poll of 150 marketing, media and agency executives by ID Comms, their “Global Media Training Report” finds that 71% or respondents find their firms investment in media training is either “unsatisfactory” or “entirely unsatisfactory”. Those respondents represent a combined media spend north of $20 Billion. Two years ago Media Two …
Some of you may have heard Google’s programmatic offering Google Ad Manager (formerly DBM) is making a move to “simplify their bidding process”. The announcement states that by the end of the year they are looking to move away from Second Price auctions and only execute on First Price auctions. This move only relates to …
What Does Unified First Price Auction Mean to a Marketer? Read More »
• As a brand, do you have an agency managing your AdWords account? • Do you have access to your account? • Are you running Google Display Network campaigns? • Does the monthly spend in the AdWords UI equal the same spend on your agency invoice? If you answered “no” to the second question, …
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Back in 1999, we beta tested for a new site called Google a soon-to-be-released advertising program – the modern day Google AdWords. At the time, it was really just testing brand keywords, product-based keywords, some really broad-based keywords (And I mean broad! think super broad – like “dog” or “moon” when your product was a …
I remember very vividly back in 2013 when I was asked to speak about the next up-and-coming trend in digital media buying at the Internet Summit. We had begun testing programmatic media buying back in 2011, but really – we were using MediaMath’s full service DSP when we started, so I didn’t really count that …
Marketers Should Bring Programmatic Media Buying In-House Read More »
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