Most Small Businesses Are Prioritizing Advertising This Year and Will Increase Spending on Social Media Advertising (56%) and Other Online Advertising Mediums Such as Google Search and Banner Ads (41%) Nearly all small businesses (91%) plan to invest more in advertising in 2019, according to a new survey from The Manifest, a business news and how-to website. Annually, more than half of small businesses (57%) spend less than $50,000 on advertising, the survey found. Increased spending on advertising will help small…

Most Small Businesses Are Prioritizing Advertising This Year and Will Increase Spending on Social Media Advertising (56%) and Other Online Advertising Mediums Such as Google Search and Banner Ads (41%) Nearly all small businesses (91%) plan to invest more in advertising in 2019, according to a new survey from The Manifest, a business news and how-to website. Annually, more than half of small businesses (57%) spend less than $50,000 on advertising, the survey found. Increased spending on advertising will help small…

Dosh, the fastest growing fintech app, announced it has closed a $40 million Series B financing round, including $20 million in equity and $20 million in venture debt. The financing was led by Goodwater Capital and Western Technology Investment (WTI), with participation from investors PayPal, BAM Capital and Anthem Venture Partners. In 2019, much of the $231 billion advertising spend will be wasted due to no attribution. Dosh brings a dramatic shift in how merchants spend advertising dollars by giving them a new way to…

Data from the Leading Global Ad Sales Platform Helps Media Companies Improve Bottom Line with Actionable Insights into Advertising Spend Matrix Solutions, the only global ad sales platform built for media, has announced its first annual Advertising Spend Report – providing insights derived from the activity of more than 10,000 active users within media ad sales teams from 2016 to 2017. Having managed more than $12.5 billion in media ad revenue in 2016, alone, Matrix Solutions is the only company exclusively focused on…

Analysis from the UK's largest native advertising platform ADYOULIKE for the period March to mid-April reveals key ad spend trends during the COVID-19 crisis. The first in a regular series of COVID-19 Advertising Barometer data reports to be published by ADYOULIKE looking at the state of the UK ad market during the crisis. ADYOULIKE, which integrates directly with the UK's leading news publishers, including titles such as The Guardian, The Independent, The Mirror, The Sun, Daily Mail, The Telegraph & more – and has…

Pixalate, a global ad fraud intelligence and marketing compliance platform, today announced the release of its latest report, Programmatic Ad Spend in the Age of COVID-19: Mobile App Advertising, an analysis of how U.S. programmatic advertisers reallocated investments in March 2020 in response to the crisis. Marketing Technology News: Help Stop the Spread of COVID-19 at TrackMyTemp Key Findings: Programmatic mobile in-app ad spend drops 14% in March 2020 Mobile ad spend: Mobile in-app ad spend decreased 14% in March…

Video advertising platform Unruly today released a study that investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting consumer interests and behaviors. Unruly, which is part of Tremor International, surveyed a total of 2,556 consumers globally in late March 2020 for this study. Results revealed that overall time spent online has dramatically increased in the US -- with consumers spending a lot more time than before on their mobile phones (50%), connected TVs (42%) and laptops (35%). Additionally, consumers are spending more time…

Dynamic Audiences Enables Marketers to Automate Advertising and Marketing Campaigns, Saving Time and Money Demandbase, the leader in Account-Based Marketing (ABM), announced the availability of Dynamic Audiences feature to its flagship ABM Platform, enabling B2B marketers to automate their advertising and marketing campaigns. Dynamic Audiences empowers marketers to optimize their ABM strategy by automatically updating campaign audiences with the most relevant target accounts, based on CRM updates, recent offsite intent…

The Outlook for Data Driven Advertising & Marketing 2020 Sees “High Probability for Solid Growth”; Research Reviews the Trends Shaping the Landscape This Year Winterberry Group, a specialist management consultancy that supports growth initiatives in advertising, marketing, media, information and technology, today released new research: “The Outlook for Data Driven Advertising & Marketing 2020.” The annual research led by Bruce Biegel, senior managing partner of Winterberry Group, provides the spending forecasts…

New Technology Uses Multi-Touch Attribution to Predict and Maximize Conversions G5, the leader in real estate marketing optimization, is launching Cross-Channel Spend Optimizer that improves digital advertising performance up to 25% and reduces cost-per-click by as much as 15%. An integral part of G5 Smart Digital Advertising, Cross-Channel Spend Optimizer uses advanced multi-touch attribution (MTA) to predict best advertising outcomes and automatically allocate daily ad investments across the campaigns, networks and…

Smartphone Accounts for More Than Half of All Digital Ad Spend IAB UK, the trade association for digital advertising, has announced the results of the latest IAB UK and PwC Digital Adspend study, which reveals UK advertisers spent £13.44billion on digital advertising in 2018. The total ad spend figure is a 15 percent year-on-year increase and demonstrates continued confidence in the power of digital advertising. For the first time ever, ad spend on smartphones has exceeded desktop accounting for 51 percent of the…

Hulu (+44%), Sling TV (+30%) among notable app risers; All major device types see ad spend bump, including Roku (+44%) and Apple (+41%) Pixalate, a global ad fraud intelligence and marketing compliance platform, today released an update to its COVID-19 benchmarks: Programmatic Ad Spend in the Age of COVID-19: Connected TV/OTT Advertising Report, examining how U.S. programmatic advertisers have shifted budgets during the ongoing pandemic. The latest report details programmatic OTT/CTV ad spend patterns from April…

Your first-party CRM data is one of your most valuable assets for driving leads and lowering your cost per marketing qualified lead (MQL)and sales qualified lead (SQL), but unlocking its full potential can be difficult. According to Forrester Research and Adweek, B2B marketers face a data management problem. 74% consider the accuracy of marketing data a critical weakness, and 32% of B2B marketers have cited “siloed or inaccessible customer data” as a major obstacle in their marketing efforts. It makes sense, considering…

Stevie winners will be celebrated during virtual awards ceremony on August 5 CitizenNet, Condé Nast's in-house social advertising agency and platform, has been named the winner of three Gold and one Silver Stevie® Awards in The 18th Annual American Business Awards. CitizenNet won Gold Stevie Awards in the New Product or Service Introduction of the Year, Marketing Campaign of the Year - Healthcare - Rx - Devices, and Health & Pharmaceuticals - Product categories. Additionally, they won a Silver Stevie Award in the…

Today’s AdTech Roundup covers the latest in Native and Programmatic Advertising, Technology, TV Advertising, Audience Data announcements from GroundTruth, SpotX, Tinuiti, Centro, and AdInMo. GroundTruth and Yext Integration Offers Marketers Ability to Create Location-Based Mobile Advertising Campaigns GroundTruth, the leading location technology company, today announced a new partnership and integration with Yext, Inc. , the Search Experience Cloud company, to create customized location-based mobile advertising campaigns…

SpotX leads among SSPs, collaborating with 11 measurement companies including Comscore, Kantar, and Nielsen SpotX, the leading global video advertising platform, announced the expansion of its comprehensive Measurement and Attribution Suite. The extensive offering provides advertisers the ability to accurately attribute ad spend across video channels including connected TV (CTV) and is the most robust in-market for video. By uncovering valuable audience reach metrics like brand lift, incremental reach and frequency, and…

VAB’s Keep Calm and Advertise On: How to Successfully Navigate Your Brand Through An Economic Downturn, is a new, comprehensive analysis of data spanning the 1920s through present day, identifying the correlation between advertising investment and business outcomes during periods of economic upheaval due to global health crises and recession. The investigative study summarizes nearly a century of data from sources including the International Monetary Fund, academic marketing scholars, Fortune 100 companies and financial…

Today’s AdTech Roundup covers the latest in Native and Programmatic Advertising, Technology, TV Advertising, Audience Data announcements from Magellan AI, ViacomCBS, Mintegral, MediaCrossing, and Intentwise. Magellan AI: How Coronavirus Has Impacted Podcast Advertising Magellan AI, the podcast industry’s leading provider of ad level data, has released a whitepaper outlining the impact coronavirus is having on the podcast industry’s advertising landscape. While many analytics companies have addressed the change in podcast…

MXEdge Will Ensure Small & Medium-Sized Businesses Survive in 2020 and Beyond MediaCrossing Inc., founded in 2012, is a leading digital media firm dedicated to bringing tools and solutions normally reserved for the world's largest brands to emerging growth companies. The firm works with companies nationwide to plan and execute strategic digital advertising strategies that distinguish brands from competitors. MXEdge, the company's newest offering, ensures small and mid-sized firms have access to the same, effective…

Leading mobile interactive advertising platform Mintegral announced that its self-service platform has just received a significant set of upgrades that will help advertisers tackle present-day challenges. Top media channels have become the main source of user acquisition for mobile advertisers. With the biggest players on the market, essentially creating a UA monopoly, small and medium-sized gaming advertisers are feeling the pressure. Marketing Technology News: Fuel Cycle Releases Qualitative Analysis Feature…