As a digital marketing expert, you know that Facebook marketing is important. But do you know which elements of Facebook marketing are the most valuable for your business? Do you know which ad types are working best for your vertical, or how to make the most of all those audience options? If you have questions - we have answers. In this webinar, Omri Erel from Socialbakers, … [Read more...] about Facebook Ads: Ask Us Anything
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Competitor Analysis & CRO with SEMrush
Competitor analyses are an important piece of the conversion rate optimization puzzle. Understanding your competitor’s entire user journey can add a deeper understanding of your own site’s strengths and weaknesses, and just like your own site you should take into account the complete pre-click to post-click user journey. So how do you find your competitor’s ads? Doing a simple … [Read more...] about Competitor Analysis & CRO with SEMrush
[Hero Academy Video] How to Turn Ad Copy Brainstorming Into a Science
Writing ad copy isn’t the most thrilling thing to do. While almost any ad copy you write will be ok and do ok, that’s not what you want to settle for. Great ad copy will not only help you stand out amongst your competitors, but will get you the performance you’re looking for out of your paid search campaigns. In this new, short video on Hero Academy, the Senior Manager … [Read more...] about [Hero Academy Video] How to Turn Ad Copy Brainstorming Into a Science
Microsoft Audience Ads: Auto Enabled Via Image Extensions
Did you know that your search ad on Microsoft Ads can potentially show on non-search placements? No? Me neither. Microsoft Audience Ads are ads that appear on the Microsoft Audience Network, which includes places like MSN, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Edge as seen below. There are two different ways in which you can have ads appear on the Audience Network, by using an … [Read more...] about Microsoft Audience Ads: Auto Enabled Via Image Extensions
August Updates to Paid Advertising Platforms
In this monthly post, we bring you the latest from all of the major platforms. Google Ads What: Google Ads releases phrase match and broad match modifiers Details: Last year, Google Ads started allowing exact match keywords to match to close variants. To keep advertisers from needing to build exhaustive keyword lists, Google Ads is extending close variant matching to phrase … [Read more...] about August Updates to Paid Advertising Platforms
Connected TV: 3 reasons you should be using it
As digital marketers, we are often siloed into our own teams, with our own objectives. Drive clicks, serve impressions, highly target customers, drive attributable conversions. We have been left out of the conversation for the traditional buys, the print, the billboards, the radio, AND TV. However, the industry continues to evolve, so does the customer, their habits, and … [Read more...] about Connected TV: 3 reasons you should be using it
Frequency Capping in Digital Advertising
At one point or another, we all have browsed the internet, Facebook, or any other online source and have been pelted with digital advertisements whether we wanted them or not. Most of us have been hit with certain ads so many times that we become numb to the company serving those ads. Currently, I see this the worst on Hulu, where I have seen the same 4 ads on rotation for … [Read more...] about Frequency Capping in Digital Advertising
Data Studio Showdown: Dashboards vs Reports
You work hard all month to get your clients great paid search results. What’s the best way to help them understand - and appreciate - the performance you’re driving? Whether you need a “hands-off” automated dashboard solution, or a curated, high-impact report, you can build it with Data Studio, Google’s data visualization platform. While Data Studio does not distinguish … [Read more...] about Data Studio Showdown: Dashboards vs Reports
The Future of Paid Social: Is Your Marketing Team Ready?
If you're planning your 2020 marketing budget, there are a lot of trends you should be considering. As a paid media agency, we're already planning our marketing budgets for 2020. We're also starting those conversations with our clients. It's a time-intensive process for all of us. The cycle of making projections, pitching, and deliberating can take months before a final … [Read more...] about The Future of Paid Social: Is Your Marketing Team Ready?
New Releases on Hero Academy! Starting Pinterest & Apple Search Ads
Hero Academy is Hanapin's newest initiative featuring short and basic how-tos on paid advertising in a variety of platforms. Current topics include the basics of Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Facebook, Quora, Excel, + more. AND NOW, we've released 2 BRAND NEW videos! Along with videos that show you the basics of getting started in different platforms, Hero Academy will … [Read more...] about New Releases on Hero Academy! Starting Pinterest & Apple Search Ads
Close Variants Diluting Match Types – What You Should Know
The timing of this post is by no means “hot off the press”, but for those that missed the update, here it is. At the end of July, Google announced that in the coming weeks they’ll begin rolling out close variants for phrase match and broad match modified. This is right in line with last year’s update that caused some unrest in the Search marketing world – when Google made … [Read more...] about Close Variants Diluting Match Types – What You Should Know
3 Killer Strategies for Custom Affinity Audience Campaigns
Below we dig into 3 killer strategies for using custom affinity audience targeting, performance results and key lessons learned from managing custom affinity targeting. Affinity audience targeting is not new. Facebook, Google, and Amazon have been using them for some time and have seen huge success. Affinity Audiences are TV-style audiences that are designed to help connect … [Read more...] about 3 Killer Strategies for Custom Affinity Audience Campaigns