Over the past few years marketers have attached increasing value to ad viewability as a key metric in measuring the success of digital campaigns. After all, making sure that your online ads are seen by your target audience is clearly important.
At a very basic level, ad viewability for mobile or web ads was first defined back in 2010 by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the Media Rating Council (MRC), as a way of measuring a digital ad's performance and cost-effectiveness.
Generally speaking, display web and mobile ads are counted as viewable impressions when at least half of the ad is in view for at least one second, whereas video ads are counted as viewable when at least half of them are in view and playing for a minimum of two consecutive seconds.
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Ready to launch your brilliant new idea on Kickstarter? If you don't already have a solid marketing strategy and a decent list of leads, then you may not be as ready as you think.
Kickstarter is not a place to market your new product, and it's not a place to introduce your ideas to the world. Kickstarter is a venue for receiving funding from your existing leads and hopefully picking up some additional cash from casual KS browsers.
That means you need to have a marketing plan ready long before you launch your campaign.
You only have 30-60 days to become a Kickstarter legend. Here's how to market your new idea for a successful campaign.
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Digital businesses want to know what information people are searching for online. Better insights about popular keywords, terms and web user demographics can help businesses improve their marketing strategy.
Information about trends of search patterns help businesses to design content that helps users more effectively. It also gives them an opportunity to show how their products and services help people.
Let's take a closer look at how Google Trends can be used to create better content that gets noticed and brings traffic to your website.
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