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Choose the audience, placements, and experience your campaign needs.

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2021 5 articles

How to Advertise in a World of Ad Blockers

This guide explains why marketers should create advertising strategies that don't compete with ad blockers. Plus, 3 tactics to reach ad blocking audiences.

  • Melina Panitsidis
  • 6 min read

2020 8 articles

How to Advertise to Tech Audiences

Tech consumers are everywhere. This post breaks down what marketers should know about creating a successful tech consumer targeted advertising campaign.

  • Melina Panitsidis
  • 4 min read

How to Reach Designers with Sponsored Content

This guide shares how to create sponsored content campaigns that reach designers and provide them valuable industry insights as it relates to your brand.

  • Melina Panitsidis
  • 7 min read

2019 18 articles

How to Reach Designers with Native Advertising

What is native advertising, why has it become so popular, and how can you apply it to improve your marketing funnel when targeting designers? Find out here.

  • Jasmine Williams
  • 11 min read

How to Advertise to Designers

In this guide, we break down how to use contextual targeting to appeal to the group of passionate creatives and fuel your sales funnel.

  • Jasmine Williams
  • 11 min read

How to Reach Early Adopters

We break down why early adopters are such a valuable target for marketers as well as the most effective contextual targeting strategies for reaching them.

  • Kimberlee Meier
  • 13 min read

Measuring the Success of Contextual Advertising Placements

If you're not measuring your contextual advertising placements you're in for a world of hurt. Here are a few ways you can track new leads through your entire marketing funnel without breaking the bank.

  • Matthew Kammerer
  • 4 min read

Great Brands Were Built By Contextual Advertising

If you're looking to build brand recognition like Slack, Moo, and Hubspot, you're going to want to consider the power of contextual advertising. That is, placing your ads in front of relevant, targeted audiences, without using creepy third party technologies that kill user privacy.

  • Matthew Kammerer
  • 4 min read

How to Create a Product Launch Plan for Paid Marketing

The initial launch of a product comes with lots of organic buzz. But after that dies down, you need a paid marketing strategy to continue growing and reaching your audience. Here's how to do it.

  • Jasmine Williams
  • 8 min read

2018 12 articles

B2B Demand Generation Strategies for Marketing Growth

Stop selling your product and start selling what it empowers customers to do. Learn the core components of a successful B2B demand generation marketing strategy including identifying pain points, finding the right marketing channels, respecting users, and writing clear messaging.

  • Ted Vrountas
  • 8 min read

Here's How Ad Tech Got Its Stripes

Ad tech is an absurdly over-complicated, jargon juggernaut of an industry. It’s also often said that if you can’t explain a concept to a kid, it’s probably BS. In this series, we attempt to explain ad tech in terms even a ten year-old would understand.

  • Joshua Schnell
  • 6 min read

How to Build a Full-Funnel Advertising Strategy

Aligning marketing with customer lifecycle stages will drive more leads at a reduced cost. Learn which channels to use in your full-funnel advertising strategy.

  • Vanessa King
  • 9 min read

Simple Customer Retention Strategies For Sustainable Growth

Most growth strategies are centered around getting more customers. But it's time marketers put more resources into retention. Learn why customer retention strategies are so impactful to revenue, and eight easy retention tactics you can get started with today.

  • Ted Vrountas
  • 8 min read

Getting Started with Demand Generation Strategies

Demand generation strategies help marketers find high-quality leads and align with sales. But how do you start building a strategy? This article provides the beginner blocks to understanding demand generation, picking goals, and identifying tactics.

  • Vanessa King
  • 6 min read

Battle of the Generations: Demand Generation vs Lead Generation

Wondering how demand generation compares to lead generation and inbound marketing? Although similar, there are key differences that marketers need to understand before creating a demand generation strategy. Learn the nuances in this article.

  • Vanessa King
  • 4 min read

2017 10 articles

The Top Ad Tech News of 2017

Ad tech makes the world go round. Read the most important ad tech news of 2017 and how it will affect 2018 and beyond.

  • Joshua Schnell
  • 8 min read

5 Benefits of Performance Marketing

These are five key benefits of performance marketing and why these campaign types are so valuable for marketers to take advantage of.

  • Vanessa King
  • 4 min read

Audio to Action: Driving Leads through Podcast Ads

Looking to reach people in new formats? Look no further than audio. This article explains why podcast ads work and gives tips for writing sponsored messages that lead to sales. Recommendations include writing for the podcast host, explaining value simply, and tracking audio conversions.

  • Matthew Kammerer
  • 7 min read

2016 2 articles

What is Automated Guaranteed?

Automated guaranteed is an ad sales platform that helps you sell inventory directly to advertisers. Learn more about how it benefits publishers.

  • Duane Kinsey
  • 8 min read

2011 3 articles

Wordplay: The Language of Advertising

The language that’s used in advertising is deliberate in its attempt to create a positive impression of the product or service.

  • Todd Garland
  • 1 min read

Anatomy of the Perfect Banner Ad

Does the perfect banner ad exist? This infographic explains the essential qualities of great banner ads.

  • Todd Garland
  • 1 min read

The Sneaky Psychology Of Advertising

Marketers have turned to the latest psychological research to stand out. Our infographic explains how marketers use psychology in advertising.

  • Todd Garland
  • 1 min read