Digital Advertising Archives

Black Friday Strategies for Digital Ad Success

November 23, 2020

Did you know that winter holidays, kicked off by Black Friday, are the highest spending season of the year? Here are digital advertising recommendations.

illumin is Advertising Automation

November 16, 2020

For far too long, a gap has existed between the planning and the execution of digital advertising campaigns. Marketers plan their media in three phases: awareness, engagement, and conversion. What happens next? That plan is sent to the digital advertising team who spend dozens of hours setting up line item tactics inside an advertising […]

How many technologies does it take to build a consumer journey?

October 19, 2020

It’s a well known fact in advertising: the consumer journey is highly fragmented. There’s a vast range of opportunities for consumers to learn, compare prices, and make purchase decisions. This reality has created similar fragmentation in the way marketers approach the consumer journey. Massive investments into technology to build, deploy and understand the consumer journey […]

Let’s Get Digital! With Out-Of-Home Media

August 26, 2020

Advertisers may see digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising as reserved for booming metropolitans and utopian societies. While we haven’t achieved Blade Runner status yet, DOOH will eclipse traditional OOH media in just a few years. OOH media is one of the oldest and easiest to recognize forms of advertising. It uses traditional tactics such as billboards, […]

How Do Websites Enable Ad Blocker Detection?

July 27, 2020

Some of the highest trafficked websites in the world rely on ad blocker detection to secure revenue from the advertisements. If you use an ad blocker, you may have seen this before: “Please help us to provide you with free content by disabling your ad blocker on this site”. Larger websites such as Wikipedia and […]

Growing Your Direct to Consumer eCommerce Business

July 8, 2020

eCommerce has jumped from 16% to 27% of total US retail sales in just the past 8 weeks. The coronavirus pandemic accelerated retail eCommerce and direct to consumer growth, and set the stage for a digital gold rush. eCommerce has in fact become the primary shopping channel in the U.S. according to The New York […]

¿Por qué debería el ecommerce mirar directamente al Consumidor? Lo bueno, lo malo y las oportunidades del DTC

July 3, 2020

Durante el confinamiento, el comercio electrónico en los EEUU pasó de tener una penetración del 16,5% al 27%. Diez años le había tomado alcanzar la misma evolución entre 2009 (5,6%) y 2019 (16,5%). Mientras, en Amazon solo el 1% de las marcas que venden allí sus productos es capaz de superar el millón de […]

Ecommerce Pros Talk DTC – The Good, The Bad, And The Opportunity

June 26, 2020

DTC Ecommerce growth is accelerating and so is the process of natural selection. Achieving scale and profitability is limited to under %1 of the brands selling online. In this Virtual Panel, moderated by AcuityAds’ Chief of Strategy, Seraj Bharwani, we discuss the opportunities and challenges associated with launching and growing a DTC eCommerce business. Our […]

6 TRACKING PIXEL TYPES YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR YOUR NEXT AD CAMPAIGN

June 15, 2020

In our recent blog post, we discussed how advertisers use tracking pixels to collect data. However, one question remains unanswered: What are the different types of tracking pixels and how are they used by advertisers? These are 6 tracking pixel types to enable advertisers to optimize campaign performance: 1. Universal Pixel The role […]