Adblockers! A new threat?

Adblockers! A new threat?

Are adblockers a threat or just a tired hype? It’s a debate that has been making the rounds for some time. The reasons for blocking are various: privacy, speed, annoyance but despite all that, advertising remains the primary supporter and revenue to many websites, without which they will cease to exist. In an effort to be more relevant and competitive, these ads have become increasingly full with

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Why Real-Time Marketing should matter to Marketers?

What is Real-Time Marketing? Real-Time Marketing is a marketing strategy that is focused on up-to-date events, current trends and customer feedback to connect consumers with the products and services they could use. With the rise of social media and easy access to information on the target audience, real-time marketing grew in popularity since the marketers were able to transform this information into messages and be a part

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Celebrity Endorsements on Social Media!

With digital marketing taking the lead, brands are launching profitable social media campaigns with the help of celebrities and influencers. Marketers do acknowledge the power of celebrities in influencing brand awareness and consumer-purchasing decisions. Though capitalizing on a celebrity’s fame and the fan base is not a new marketing concept, what has changed over time is how brands are using celebrity endorsements. With Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, etc

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Content Shock! – Is it real? How to respond to this?

Yes, we all know that content marketing plays a great role in brand awareness, audience engagement, targeting the right set of customers, so on and so forth.  But we have also heard about terms like content glut or content fatigue. Mark Schaefer with his blog post on “Why content marketing is not a sustainable strategy”, coined the term “Content Shock”. The key focus of his thesis was

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Big Data & Social Media – Are they going hand in hand?

Big Data and Social Media – You might have heard the terms. Do these two phenomena go hand-in-hand? Yes, of course, they do. Social media – A generator of user opinions and conversations creates big data. With a number of social networks and channels, social media is a huge mine of information for marketers as it’s filled with data related to user locations, conversations, and opinions. What

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A Marketer’s Dilemma!

Marketing Ecosystem: Digital developments are transforming and re-configuring the overall marketing ecosystem. Today, brands operate in an environment that is completely different from traditional advertising in terms of technology, content, user experiences, etc. So in a world full of choices, where exactly do the marketers focus their time, energy and resources so that they can engage their target users most efficiently and effectively? A Marketer’s Dilemma: Present

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360 Panorama Posts

Have you stumbled across a photo, while checking your FB feed that started to move as you moved your hand over it? These are Facebook 360 photos. These photos can be captured using your phone’s panorama function. Having introduced it a few months back, FB is improving upon its photos feature and innovating ways so that people can share more immersive views of their world to their

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Twitter launches Customer Service ‘Bots’ for Direct Messages

Last week, Twitter launched new features to its Direct Messages (DM) channel. These features aim at creating a better conversational experience between the brands and its customers. Welcome Messages: It’s an automated message which sets the expectation with the customers as they enter a DM conversation Quick Replies: These will prompt customers with the best reply to a DM. These replies are useful for chat-bots because they

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