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People love watching videos, and YouTube is the internet's home for this visual format. If your brand isn't already on the video hosting platform, you’re missing out on invaluable consumer attention. The YouTube trends report revealed that channels trying to build an audience were up by 95% year-on-year on the platform.

It feels like just yesterday we were discussing issues like how to dispute Google Ad disapprovals or the new restrictions for Housing, Employment, and Credit policies.

And on July 20, 2021, we learned that come September, there’s going to be yet another twist in the plot of advertiser versus Google Ads policies, with Google’s new three-strike ad policy system....

One of the best things about digital marketing (over traditional offline marketing) is that you can measure nearly every part of your strategy. Free tools like Google Analytics provide comprehensive information on how your website’s performing, so you’re never uninformed about whether your SEO efforts are bringing in the right results.

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iOS 14 has certainly lived up to the headache that it was predicted to be for several months. Between domain verification and aggregated event management, your average Facebook advertiser will certainly feel lost in the new iteration of the advertising platform. I’ve even seen experienced marketers scratching their heads as the hoops Facebook now makes users jump through appear to be sloppily...

Relying on search keywords to bring in all your paid traffic just doesn't cut it anymore. Luckily, Google is making advancements in audience targeting in light of the future changes to third-party cookie data.

The latest advancement as of July 2021 is optimized targeting. This is a branched-off targeting option automatically applied to advertisers...

Image extensions are one of the most recent types of ad extensions we can use on the Google Ads platform. Unlike most other ad extensions, these don’t rely solely on text to expand your coverage on the SERPs. With Image Extensions, you can use a number of images to accompany your ads to give them a visual component and make them more appealing.

Whether you’re familiar with them or...

Thanks to Apple’s iOS 14 updates, Facebook advertisers who use events for conversion optimization now have to use the new Aggregated Event Measurement. And the kicker is that you’re now limited to only eight events per domain.

Going from unlimited to only eight events really shakes things up, because conversion events can be used for more than just bottom-funnel campaigns. I work in...

Now, before you start frantically searching for a Google announcement that they removed this metric, you can breathe out a sigh of relief because Quality Score still exists within accounts.

But is it still relevant?

Quality Score has always been considered one of the most elusive performance metrics in Google Ads. And with all the changes to more automation from Google, we...

We’re more than halfway through 2021 and by now, most marketing teams are heavily reliant on growth/digital marketing, and for very good reasons. But right now, even that is no longer enough. Just being growth-oriented and data-driven will not cut it anymore.

In order to scale up your marketing results, move fast, and be ready to beat your competitors, you will need to harness...

It’s interesting how quiet the release of Google Ads dynamic exclusion lists was back in April 2021. In my personal experience as a consultant specializing in display, this is a game-changer.

If you’re running a display or video campaign, odds are that at some point, you’re...