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Banner Ads Must Die!!!

Marketing Insider Group

Earlier this week I was asked for my view on which marketing tactic is like “The Walking Dead” of marketing. I was honored to be included on the list of contributors along with amazing thought leaders in marketing like Ann Handley, Joe Pulizzi, Doug Kessler, Neil Patel and more. Your customers ignore them.

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How We Doubled Webinar Leads By Becoming Our Own Biggest Advertiser

Contently

The year is 1994, and people are excited about— checks notes —banner ads. The internet was new at the time, and the media and marketing industries expected websites to be a utopia for advertising. “The rest of advertising had been ruined and dammit, we weren’t going to let that happen this time.”

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9 Tools & Tactics for Effective Paid Content Distribution

Marketing Insider Group

Programmatic Native Advertising: Zemanta Image Source: Zemanta At Marketing Insider Group, we use Zemanta , an Outbrain company, for all our clients. Zemanta revolutionizes programmatic advertising with its comprehensive native advertising platform and Demand Side Platform (DSP). It is advertising for the modern internet.

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A Marketer’s Complete Guide to the Current State of Display Advertising

Digilant

Few tools of the digital age date as far back as display ads, with perhaps the exception of the internet itself. But that’s not to say that the state of display ads, and even the ads themselves, haven’t continued to evolve right alongside the rest of the online and mobile ecosystems. What Is Display Advertising?

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Programmatic Advertising Glossary & Brief History

Digilant

Many factors have contributed to the exorbitant growth of programmatic digital advertising: better technology, a need for better targeting, and the introduction of mobile phones, to name a few. Experts no longer question the validity of programmatic marketing or if advertisers use it. These ads were about reach, not relevance.

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When Did Programmatic Advertising Start: A History Lesson

Rev

Remember those banner ads that you used to see when scrolling through MySpace or talking to your best friend via the antiquated AOL Instant Messenger? Those ads that we would see on our computers after school, or deep in a chat with your best friend, were actually the beginning of what we call Programmatic Advertising today.

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Does Marketing Have A Marketing Problem?

Marketing Insider Group

Ask most people what marketing is and they will describe an ad, tell you a story of a sleazy salesperson, or mention something funny they saw on TikTok. Most people think Marketing is someone trying to sell you something. And to some people, marketing just equates to lying. Marketing has a marketing problem.