2022 Digital Advertising Outlook: Stricter Privacy Rules, Reduced App Data Sharing and the Demise of Cookies
In February 2022, Facebook’s (aka Meta’s) stock price took a nosedive in part to reaction from the news that the number of users to the platform has plateaued. But that’s not Meta’s only problem. Privacy policy and regulatory trends are also impacting ad sales revenue...
Google’s Mobile-First Indexing: What It Means For Your Business
Google has been transitioning site and content indexing to be “mobile-first” since 2018. What this means is that the content displaying on the mobile version of your site will now serve as the basis for Google’s index versus the old desktop-version based index....
To App – or not to App? That is the question…
By Annie Ellicott Many of my clients are asking “shouldn’t we be building a mobile application”? Research from Localytics highlights the high attrition rate of new users for apps. The Localytics survey results showed that 58 percent of users “churn,” or become...
Power to the Consumer: Why User Intent Matters More Than Ever
Do you wonder why social media usage and texting is chewing up smartphone screen time? Why the hottest tech trends are wearables, self-driving cars and virtual reality? Why sales of selfie sticks and hoverboards are on the upswing? Does this look like a pattern to...
Mobile Responsiveness: 5 Best Practices In Mobile Design and User Experience
Since 2015, Google algorithm updates have factored a site's mobile responsiveness into the elements determining search engine ranking position (SERP). While this only affects mobile search results and in effect, rewards sites for large text not requiring...
Building Thriving Online Communities: 5 Best Practices With Proven Results
Having been at the marketing helm during the transition of Women.com from a career women’s site to a mainstream portal for women of all ages and backgrounds, I learned a lot about attracting visitors, creating an audience, engaging segments by interest and developing...
The Evolving Behavior of Consumers Searching Online
I am a huge fan of all research showing how technology is affecting consumer habits, preferences and consumption of content online. Having witnessed how women adapted to the internet at Women.com and later doing research with a client around how different generations...
The Growing Trend Toward Social Search
By Annie Ellicott As the ever-evolving complexity of SEO continues to escalate, one important trend worth noting is the increasing shift of consumer behavior from using search engines for queries to using social networks for search. YouTube is now the second largest...
Advertising Trends Worth Watching : The Latest On The Revolution
By Annie Ellicott Anyone who has been paying attention knows that marketing, as we once knew it, is gone, gone, gone. From the banner to the cookie, from QR codes to the impression, so much has just come – and GONE. Entire social networks...
Why Video WORKS As a Marketing Medium
By Annie Ellicott Everyone recognizes the increasing influence of video in our lives. We have all become avid consumers as YouTube, Vimeo and other platforms for sharing have grown, new formats have evolved (e.g 6 second videos on Vine), video advertising has exploded...