It’s Super Bowl weekend! That means most of the advertising industry is strutting, preening, and fretting in advance of the one event in which ads are at least as anticipated as the game. This time of year the industry’s worries are on full display: are we just making ads so people can see what fancy ads […]
POLITICAL HEAT BRINGS VIEWS TO THE HILL For the coming round of political books, take note of this stat from AdWeek: “The election cycle is already paying off for The Hill. According to comScore’s December 2015 numbers, the politics site garnered nearly 10.6 million visitors, a 175 percent year-over-year increase.” #politics BRINGING ADS TO […]
INSTAGRAM ADS PERFORMING WELL While the minimum spend to work with Instagram directly is still too pricey for book publishers, those larger brands currently working with the platform are reporting highly efficient campaigns. “For now, Instagram is still a premium ad space, according to marketing experts. Salesforce says Instagram ads get almost double the click […]
VIRTUAL REALITY IS COMING TO A WORLD NEAR YOU In terms of potential for book marketers, VR is not “next to now” so much as it is next to next to now. But it’s coming: “So, what’s the SEO and general marketing upheaval linked to augmented and virtual reality? David Amerland, author of Google Semantic […]