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When La Colombe wanted to drive site traffic from new audiences, it turned to video – and predictive AI models.

Consumer expectations have changed, as have the best strategies for reaching them. Across social, search and display, many old tactics no longer fit the bill, writes Steve Wendling, VP of media at MMI.

In the face of persistent economic uncertainty, marketers are simultaneously hustling to satisfy quickly changing consumer appetites and striving to squeeze the value out of every last marketing dollar. Not to mention needing to adopt full-funnel marketing approaches and allocate spend to channels as flexibly as possible.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Behind The Wheel Auto makers aren’t the kingmakers they were in the Mad Men heyday, but it’s a major category and a bellwether for upper-funnel advertisers.  Before 2021, there was little to no advertising for EVs. And Tesla didn’t prompt ad budgets to shift […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Neeva Have I Eeva Paid To Search  The search engine startup Neeva launched its $5 per-month tier on Wednesday, Fast Company reports.  It’s small news – Neeva has some hundreds of thousands of users – but it’s an important marker because at least someone’s […]

Centro said on Wednesday that it’s acquiring search engine marketing platform QuanticMind with plans to integrate the technology into its automated ad management platform called Basis. Although Shawn Riegsecker, Centro’s CEO and founder, declined to say how much Centro paid, he did share that QuanticMind reached $10 million in yearly revenue at its pinnacle and […]

Paid search influences offline conversions, but there’s been no good way to measure that impact. That’s because paid search, a market expected to top $36 billion this year, according to eMarketer, has been primarily used as a direct response channel, said David Shim, CEO and founder of Placed. The Snap-owned location data company released an […]

The redesigned App Store in iOS 11 creates a challenging environment for mid-tail and long-tail app developers. Apple’s primary goal with the redesign, which came along with the release of its new operating system in September, is to “make discovering apps and games easier than ever before,” the company said. The revamped App Store store […]

Mobile search has become a cornerstone of Reckitt Benckiser’s ecommerce strategy. “Mobile commerce is increasing exponentially, which is why it’s so important to reach people when they’re down the funnel and actually trying to buy a product,” said Shubhankar Goel, associate brand manager of ecommerce at Reckitt, which owns household brands like Lysol, Airwick, Mucinex, […]

Programmatic wasn’t to Apple’s taste, but advertising isn’t so bad if you’re the one driving the bus. After killing off iAd in January, Apple on Wednesday shared its plans, notably in advance of its upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference, to completely change the way its App Store operates – namely with the introduction of paid search […]

Adchemy announced today a “SaaS software solution to extract underlying intentions from keyword search terms” for paid search ad targeting purposes. In addition, “Accenture Interactive, a business within Accenture that offers services that cover all aspects of digital consulting, marketing analytics and media management, is teaming with Adchemy to develop industry-specific WordMaps for the telecommunications, […]

John Federman is president and CEO of Searchandise Commerce, an online media network for product manufacturers and their retail channel partners. How did Searchandise Commerce come together? Searchandise Commerce was founded in July 2008 by an executive team with extensive advertising, retail, search and high-tech experience. Our business model is based on the proven technique […]