CitrusAd Partners With Dabbl: Deeper Engagement For Retail Media Advertising

CitrusAd partners with Dabbl

Dabbl is joining forces with CitrusAd, the leading, white-label, self-service, ecommerce retail media advertising platform to more deeply engage the online grocery customer. By combining Dabbl’s engagement capabilities with CitrusAd’s retail media technology and relevancy engine, the companies offer a solution that helps brands find and deeply engage their most sought-after and loyal shoppers. Retail […]

Marketing Plant-based Food Brands Amid Category’s 27% Growth

Plant-based food

The market for plant-based foods is growing rapidly. See how large companies like PepsiCo as well as smaller, established brands and fresh, new startups are marketing their plant-based products to consumers. This is marketing for plant-based food brands.

Walmart turns 160 store parking lots into drive-in theaters

Walmart drive-in

Walmart is aiming to help cooped up families have more summer fun with two inventive experiences we think are really great. The best marketing, in our book, are fun, helpful experiences. The first experience turns parking lots into drive-in theaters. They are also launching a celebrity virtual summer camp. Walmart Parking Lots Transform Into Drive-Ins […]

Round Up: Get Inspired by These 9 Digital Shopper Marketing Examples (with Sales Results)

Digital shopper marketing

We’ve rounded up the most inspiring digital shopper marketing case studies from brands and agencies that have boosted sales at in-store and ecommerce retailers. And not just good-looking examples. All examples below have sales results showing how they moved the needle at retailers. If you’re a shopper marketer or integrated marketing pro looking for inspiration […]

It’s a Walkoff! The Digital Impression Enters the Vanity Metrics Fashion Show

Back in the golden days of advertising, an impression started out as a measurement unit for publishers and advertisers to determine the value/success of the ad(s) ability to reaching consumers, calculated as a cost per thousand (CPM). In lieu of no consumer engagement or interaction with this content, this worked fairly well in determining the […]

Machines vs Humans… vs Humans Acting Nicely in Ad Media Planning

Machine learning

How your ad is delivered to consumers can greatly affect ad effectiveness. A new report finds that ads managed using machine learning outperform ads that are managed by humans alone. This begged the question in our minds: how does machine learning-managed ads compare to a third delivery method: ads that bypass the traditional media-interruption process […]

Insight: 71% of Consumers Shop on Amazon Multiple Times a Month

If you sell on Amazon, you want to know how Amazon shoppers shop. We did too. So we surveyed 4,898 predominantly millennial female consumers and 2,472 Amazon Prime members on Dabbl to better understand Prime and Non-Prime Amazon shoppers and their relationships with Amazon. What did we find out? Let’s take a look. How Amazon […]

The Data Behind Effective, Modern Brand-building

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Update: I’ve also added a public Google Slide version with this data that you can copy and edit as you please. See the end of the post for other formats. Update 2: Let us know your thoughts on brand-building in the chat. Many younger generations are not building deep relationships with whole categories of products. […]

Spend the Money Ad Waste Gobbles Up on Consumers Instead

Phone alert

We all hear about waste and fraud in digital advertising. But how much of your ad budget is wasted? Where is the waste coming from? And what can you do about it? We’ll dive into five forms of ad waste and fraud and look at options you can use to reduce or eliminate them in […]

Marketing Budgets Can Support More of People’s Lives Beyond Media Habits

Dinner photo by Kelsey Chance

Brands and their media planners no longer have to limit themselves to the world of consumers’ media consumption to get attention. Crazy, eh? When we think of marketing we think of media content. They just seem to go hand in hand. Either you are paying to inject your brand into someone else’s media content (advertising, […]

Helpful Marketing Campaigns of Cannes 2018

Cannes Lions

We’re big fans of brands’ marketing budgets going toward materially helping improve people’s lives. Ad budgets that directly help people. Even if it’s a little bit. Cannes has its Glass Lion award, for example, within it’s Good category celebrating “culture-shifting creativity” and recognizing work that “addresses issues of gender inequality or prejudice.” Some of these […]

Clean Sheet. How Would You Reinvent Advertising?

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If you could reinvent advertising, what would it look like? A clean sheet. What is your definition of ideal advertising? With radical disruptions in marketing and how people engage and develop trust with brands, modern advertising has found itself in a funk. What would advertising look like that people enjoy rather than avoid? What would […]