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State of Social Q4 2017: Snapchat Snaps Back

Shift Communications

Snapchat’s revenue saw the traditional fourth quarter bounce that all established social networks see: Fourth quarter earnings almost always are strongly positive as advertisers pour money into social networks for the holidays. Vice President, Marketing Technology. Christopher S.

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Marketing Budgets, Planning and Benchmarks for 2017 [UML]

Sword and the Script

Businesses will increase investments in marketing for the third year in a row according to the Gartner CMO Spend Survey for 2016- 2017. The survey showed the top three categories in 2016 marketing spend were web, digital commerce and digital advertising. at companies with more than $250 million in annual revenue.

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Bits, Bytes and the Ethics of Data

PRSay

Analyzing this tension in an October 2017 article on Forbes.com, Kalev H. companies that have web presences in Europe or market products there. As PR professionals, we often use social media advertising in our campaigns, and we rely on data and analytics to strategically develop campaigns.

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Paid Media Woes Create Ripe Opportunity for Earned Media

Cision

percent in 2017, hitting $83 billion.” As the Wall Street Journal reported , many of these wasteful ads ended up on sites with fake web traffic and views from bots that pumped up conversion metrics. The result was an all-boats-rise in the advertising market. “It’s time to grow up. Far from it.

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Letter from Middlesbrough: 13 lessons from Mary Meeker’s 2019 report

Stephen Waddington

Instagram and YouTube are growing fastest, up from 13% and 22% in 2017 respectively. The internet ad market #3 Mobile and telly ad and viewing parity The time spent on media versus advertising revenue is in sync for desktop (18% vs 18%), TV (33%) and mobile (34%). Technology is also enabling a remote workforce.

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13 media, marketing and PR insights from Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends 2018 report

Stephen Waddington

1 Internet growth slows down The growth of internet adoption has slowed from 12% in 2016, to 7% in 2017. 7 Ad mismatch The cost of performance advertising is rising and its effectiveness is decreasing. Google removed 8 million videos in Q4 2017. The US market grew 16% in 2017 to more than $450 million. No surprises.

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How Digital PR Pros Can Cope with Recent Google Search Updates

Cision

The updates mainly affect web traffic, conversions and content, leading to SEO and PR professionals scurrying for changing their existing strategies. This includes tracking minor changes in keyword rankings and web traffic. The core algorithm linked to quality appeared around March 8, 2017.

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