Study: Social Media is Not a Trusted Media Source for PR Pros

In partnership with PR News, Cision polled the PR community on their social media usage to find out how they engage, which platforms they utilize, and where they spend ad dollars. Here are three interesting highlights from the study, which expose exactly how PR pros are using social media.

Why YouTube Pre-Roll Ads Rock & How To Take Advantage of Them

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How powerful is video marketing? Consider these five statistics: Video Advertising Trends: Video was the fastest growing form of ad format in 2012. (source: Insivia) Communication Effectiveness: Viewers retain 95% of a message when they watch it in a video compared to 10% when reading it in text. (source: Insivia) Buying Decision: 52 percent of […]

Don’t Buy Your Programmatic Audience, Build It

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The funnel is dead. Don’t be sad, it had a good, long life and now it will retire to a nice farm where it will live with the CueCat, the three-martini lunch, and other advertising ideas that are past their prime. But, chances are, if you were a direct-response marketer, you probably shut your office […]

Twitter Tailored Audiences: When Does It Make Sense?

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If you pay attention to digital advertising, you’ve probably heard the big news: Twitter is diving headfirst into retargeting with the launch of a new program called Tailored Audiences. With Tailored Audiences, it’s now possible to target Twitter users based on their actions across the Web. Using a technique called cookie-mapping, ad partners anonymously transfer a segment […]

Facebook Unveils the Most Powerful Ads of All Time

If you’ve been thinking Facebook’s Ad Exchange (FBX) as just a source of display, prepare to have your conceptions flipped on their head. Facebook has just integrated Page Post link ads into the News Feed, and the result is the most precisely targeted advertising the marketing world has ever seen. It’s a no-brainer that Facebook […]