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Why Display Ads Are a Waste of Money—And What You Should Do Instead

Contently

According to eMarketer , display ad spending is expected to grow a whopping 24 percent this year to over $80 billion. Because humans almost universally dislike display ads. So why are marketers still pumping nearly $100 million in display ads this year? Because humans almost universally dislike display ads.

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CRM Evolution Conference: Mobile Really Does Change Everything About Marketing

Customer Experience Matrix

I snuck down to Washington DC yesterday for a few hours at the CRM Evolution conference, where a critical mass of industry experts triggered a chain reaction of interesting thoughts. That doesn’t sound too controversial until you realize it means that mobile is no longer a “channel” or a “trend”.

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Marketo Conference: Small Changes, Big Picture

Customer Experience Matrix

Marketo wrapped up its three day Marketing Nation conference yesterday, having once more displayed its own marketing prowess by attracting national media attention (see here and here ) with an appearance by Hillary Clinton. I wasn’t at the conference but Marketo briefed me on their plans.)

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Coupons and Offers Slowly Shifting to Digital: Notes from LEADS Marketing Conference

Customer Experience Matrix

My colleague Michael Darviche covered the LEAD Marketing Conference in Chicago last week. The Shopper Technology Institute's LEAD Marketing Conference offered telling insights to where it all goes next. 1) Advertisers and retailers really want digital offers to replace paper. Here’s his report. It is essential for targeting.

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[X+1] NexTargeting Conference: Cross-Channel Attribution and Online Ad Scalability Remain Hot Topics

Customer Experience Matrix

This reinforced and refined my conclusions from last month’s OMMA Metrics conference , which identified the burning industry issues as: - better understanding of the interactions between online and offline events (both advertising and results), and - better scalability for successful online advertising programs.

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Diversifying marketing through strong brand awareness

Tomorrow People

Research shows that the average time that people actually spend looking at a desktop display ad is 1.3 seconds ; with a mobile ad, it’s about 1.5 These examples are not commissioned advertisements, but the work of creatives responding to requests for concepts from One Minute Briefs on Twitter (@oneminutebriefs). seconds; 1.7

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Top 5 XR and AI marketing trends in 2023

Martech

My recent trip to Augmented World Expo (AWE), the world’s largest extended reality conference, triggered AI-induced anxiety. Those with enough cash can create AI-driven versions of themselves that can stand in on virtual meetings, write and respond to emails, attend virtual conferences, star in social media posts and so much more.