Influencer marketing is alive and thriving. The usual suspects–YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram–have long dominated the influencer marketing industry. Yet the recent surge in popularity of the application TikTok shows it can challenge the established elite – and marketers need to take note. So how can marketers navigate this amorphous, ever-changing industry and … [Read more...]
How Deceptive User Interface Design Increases E-Commerce Sales
A fascinating Princeton study found hundreds of examples of deceptive "dark patterns" on e-commerce websites. Dark patterns are user interface features that, often deceptively, steer customers into making unintended decisions. The report has a great run-down of the various tricks that marketers are employing together with a list of various software vendors that enable … [Read more...]
Performance Advertisers Are Still Being Ripped Off
Fraud was once the weak link of the performance marketing industry but has since become a major selling point. After all, why should advertisers be worried about fraud when they only pay when they get a confirmed sale or app install? It is a great sales pitch for networks, but is under threat by continuing app install, attribution and click fraud. The problem is that bad … [Read more...]
AI To Power 75% Of Ad Impressions By 2023
Juniper Research has a new report out titled Future Digital Advertising focused on the anticipated impact of AI and advertising fraud over the next four years. Top-line findings include the expectation that Amazon will take an 8% share of digital ad spend by 2023, out of a total market of $520 billion. As we reported here two weeks ago, Amazon's purchase of Sizmek's ad server … [Read more...]
Amazon Buys Sizmek Ad Server
Amazon's acquisition of the biggest independent ad server outside of Google's Doubleclick and Ad Manager products will allow them to provide deep attribution data showing exactly which ads drive sales on Amazon. Kolin Kleveno, svp and head of programmatic at 360i: “This Sizmek acquisition is going to really help them to attribute back everything that runs on their … [Read more...]
Firefox Turns On Enhanced Tracking Protection By Default
In a move that will make tracking users and attribution significantly harder, Firefox announced a slew of new privacy features, including an upgraded Facebook Container. Firefox claim this will affect thousands of companies who use tracking. Firefox's announcement: Enhanced Tracking Protection will automatically be set on by default as part of the ‘Standard’ setting in … [Read more...]
Direct-To-Consumer Brands Look To Performance
DTC brands are beginning to hit a wall in terms of growth. In an effort to find more scale they are moving more budgets towards performance marketing, direct mail and catalogs. As Digiday put it in a recent article: When a marketing mix is 50% Facebook, 50% Google, it’s easy to tell how money is being spent and to what effect. But eventually, those channels get tapped … [Read more...]
Top Pay-Per-Call Verticals For 2019
Updated: May 29th, 2019 As the #1 rated Pay-Per-Call network, Aragon has made it a priority to provide their affiliates and advertisers with a clear path to ROI in mobile marketing, especially in Pay Per Call. Pay-Per-Call works across a wide range of verticals. Here are the top three verticals that have shown the strongest growth and deliver the highest … [Read more...]
An Advertiser Tracking Platform For Professionals
MaxBounty’s new advertiser tracking platform is fast, scalable and ready for the enterprise MaxBounty, a leading CPA network in performance marketing, recently launched their first advertiser tracking platform. This represents a major technology investment driven by a desire to provide class-leading client services and maintain industry leadership in the face of increased … [Read more...]
Google Clamps Down On Tracking & Fingerprinting
Google has announced new privacy controls in Chrome that will aggressively restrict device fingerprinting and the utility of third-party cookies across the web. They're selling these plans as providing increased protection for end-users, but it is also clearly a way to cement Google's industry dominance while handicapping other networks. Google tracks everything through … [Read more...]
Optimizing Pay Per Call Between the Margins
Pay Per Call campaigns have rapidly gained in popularity in recent years, as both advertisers and affiliates alike have come to recognize just how incredibly valuable they can be. Advertisers are willing to pay more for conversions, because someone who calls into a phone number is a much warmer lead than someone who clicks on a casual Internet banner. Affiliates are … [Read more...]
Mundo Media Shuts Down
Well-known CPA network Mundo Media effectively closed down last week, going into receivership by order of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (the Receiver says they will be "continuing certain critical operations"). Court documents show that Mundo owes Royal Bank of Canada over $25 million, with a further $6.5 million owed to a variety of other creditors. This represents a … [Read more...]
3 Big Takeways On Publicis Buying Epsilon/CJ
Publicis Groupe this week agreed to purchase Commission Junction's parent company Epsilon. The $4.4 billion deal emphasizes once again the importance of affiliate marketing in the age of big data. Major consumer-facing advertisers are desperate for ways to compete against Amazon and the key to that is first-party data. Affiliate networks are fantastic vehicles for gathering … [Read more...]
Affiliate Marketing’s Biggest Transparency Issues and How Admitad Addresses Them for Their Advertisers
By Elizaveta Ventsel, head of the Advertisers’ International Group in the EU and US at Admitad The predicted future of advertising going digital has already arrived. With the number of internet users surpassing the 4 billion mark in 2018, advertisers have firmly set their sights on the new age of marketing to the masses. While this trend has presented its fair share of … [Read more...]
Top 4 Affiliate Digital Marketing Tech Predictions
By Kateryna Khalus, Team Lead / Publisher’s Department /Admitad International Team Over the years, affiliate marketing has been establishing itself as a driving force in the advertising industry. In the U.S. alone, budget spending on affiliate marketing is predicted to increase at 10.1% compound annual growth rate (CAGR). By 2020, it is set to become a $6.8 billion … [Read more...]