Category: Branding

New YouTube

If you missed the earlier announcement, YouTube on Tuesday, November 17, launched a new audio ads platform for advertisers, the latest Digital offering in the audio marketplace. This offering will now compete with Pandora, Spotify, iHeart, and all other audio streaming platforms, giving advertisers even more choices to deliver targeted messages to prospective customers. Digital […]

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Facebook to Face Audit on Brand Safety Controls

All advertisers, no matter what media is chosen for the ad campaign, are concerned about the environment in which their ads run in terms of where the ads appear and if there can be any implied link between the content of what is posted versus the ad itself. No advertiser wants to be labeled, libeled, […]

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How to Select an Advertising Agency

Introduction Below are tips on what to look for when choosing an advertising agency. Checklist Most everyone is familiar with checklists. We use them for all aspects of our lives. The best use of checklists is to be sure we don’t leave an important task undone that could end up costing us a lot of […]

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Hashtags Are Leaving Spot TV

Brands are more concerned than ever about better control over the dialogue of their brands. This is why the hashtag is fading fast from commercials. Details here from AdAge Magazine. […]

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How PANDORA Is Changing Audio Advertising

From the Mark Ramsey Media Blog: Lizzie Widhelm is Pandora’s Senior Vice President of Ad Product Sales & Strategy where she spearheads the team that brings advertising products to life and to market. At this Q&A from hivio, the audio future festival, Lizzie talks about the evolving Pandora platform and how it’s changing its sales strategy to meet […]

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Facebook Is Becoming the Next Television Screen

Soon you will be able to buy TV commercials in LIVE feeds on Facebook! Ad Age Magazine reports the details here. The ads are eligible to appear five minutes into a broadcast, and they last up to 15 seconds or shorter, according to one agency executive, who has discussed the ads with Facebook. […]

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NBA Teams to Sell Ad Space on Jerseys

Advertisers are always trying to find another way to expose their messages, and vendors are always trying to figure out ways to capture new advertising markets. Now, according to Ad Age Magazine, the NBA is getting ready to do just that. In a move that is expected to generate millions of dollars in ancillary revenue, […]

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Is PANDORA Beginning to Slip to the Competition?

AdAge reports Pandora had 81.1 million users at the end of 2015, a decline of 400,000 from the year before. On-demand streaming services Spotify and Apple Music both added millions of customers over that span.” Is PANDORA beginning to have some serious retention problems in light of new competition? Details here. […]

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Color Meaning and Symbolism: How To Use The Power of Color in Your Branding

From DesignSchool.canva.com. See how important the choice of color is in your branding and advertising. “A brand’s logo and visual identity will comprise a number of visual cues, such as shapes, symbols, number, and words. But the number one visual component that people remember most is color…” Details here. […]

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