This is How You Sell an Ad
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We talk a lot about the need for publishers to take an active role in educating advertisers about the value of print. We used to almost take it granted that our ad partners understood the “why” behind their ad choices....
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Shoppable Images are Ramping Up the Fashionista Funnel
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It’s a trend we first started talking about in 2014, and the bold new paradigm for fashion mags seems to be growing. I’m talking about shoppable images in magazines, where tech narrows the gap between seeing a product in print...
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Direct Mail – 8 Reasons Why the Cool Kids are Doing It
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All the cool kids are doing it. Google uses direct mail to send promos for Ad Words. Amazon’s doing it; even Facebook is turning to direct mail, hoping it will help get them out of hot water caused by all...
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Your Audience is Into Print Ads. Are You?
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When deciding where to spend your ad dollars, do you stop to consider your audience’s point of view? If you did, you might join the growing chorus saying pffft to digital ads. According to Kantar Millward Brown’s latest Ad Reaction...
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Science Says: Print Advertising Works for 2018
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For Jenna Bruce, singing the praises of print comes naturally. She makes her living through print advertising, so of course, she’s a big fan. But as Bruce points out in Media Space Solutions, “sometimes, in order to convince people of...
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And the Digital Pendulum Takes a Big Swing Back
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Talk about a pendulum swing. Wow.It wasn’t all that long ago we saw stories everywhere about how digital was killing off print. I’ll admit we got a bit tired of the hysterics; in fact, we were already rolling our eyes...
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Digital’s No Good Horrible Rotten Year … and What It Could Mean for Print
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The print industry is facing a strange paradox. “Print is a proven important component of any media plan, effective on its own – and as part of a wider media plan, whereby it actively enhances the ROI of TV or...
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Apple Slamming the Lid Down on the Cookie Jar
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For consumers who use Apple’s Safari browser, expect to see a lot fewer ads this fall when the new version is released. According to George Slefo in AdAge, “Apple will purge all their [cookie] data after 24 hours. Previously, marketers...
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Social Ads Not Really Driving Conversions
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For the most part, those social ads that brands are paying for on social media aren’t moving the needle on sales revenue. A recent survey of U.S. internet users found that Snapchat and Twitter, in particular, had single digit response...
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How to Protect a Brand from Social Media Flare-ups
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When it comes to the food niche, brand preference is weakening. “One of the big issues facing brands today is finding advertising context that will affirm their credibility in the eyes of the consumer instead of damaging it, whilst also...
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