Topic: performance marketing

  • Agentic PPC: The Future of Performance Marketing in 2030

    Agentic PPC: The Future of Performance Marketing in 2030

    Current AI marketing tools lack human intuition and operate on predefined rules, but future personal AI agents will learn from individual marketers' strategies to replicate their decision-making. These AI agents will collaborate through universal protocols, exchanging specialized knowledge and op...

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  • MMM: Why It Scares Marketers & Why You Need It

    MMM: Why It Scares Marketers & Why You Need It

    Marketing mix modeling (MMM) is a contentious tool in marketing, with enthusiasts seeing it as a solution to attribution issues and skeptics recalling flawed implementations due to conflicts of interest. MMM is regaining relevance due to privacy regulations and tracking restrictions, as it doesn'...

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  • How Zero-Click Search Impacts Small Brands' Online Visibility & Budgets

    How Zero-Click Search Impacts Small Brands' Online Visibility & Budgets

    Zero-click search and AI tools like ChatGPT are reshaping digital visibility, forcing brands to focus on conversational search results rather than traditional keyword rankings. Brands are balancing performance marketing with broader awareness efforts, investing in diverse content formats and cohe...

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  • Reinventing B2B: Ryan Nelsen on Moving Beyond Broken Playbooks

    Reinventing B2B: Ryan Nelsen on Moving Beyond Broken Playbooks

    Ryan Nelsen emphasizes that modern marketing requires abandoning outdated strategies and adopting AI-driven tools and a new mindset for growth. He advocates for blending B2C tactics into B2B strategies and integrating brand building with performance marketing rather than treating them separately....

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  • Ayisha Yousef: Lessons Learned from Black Friday Fails

    Ayisha Yousef: Lessons Learned from Black Friday Fails

    A misinterpreted directive to remove ad scheduling restrictions led to the complete shutdown of key campaigns during Black Friday, causing a significant advertising disruption. Ayisha took full accountability for the error, fostering psychological safety within her team and emphasizing transparen...

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  • TikTok Search Ads Double Purchase Rates

    TikTok Search Ads Double Purchase Rates

    TikTok's Search Ads Campaign is proving highly effective, delivering double the overall purchase lift and significantly higher returns on ad spend compared to non-search ads. The platform's search ads connect with users during active intent, driven by a 40% year-over-year increase in searches and...

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  • How to Reignite Your Brand's Creative Magic

    How to Reignite Your Brand's Creative Magic

    The conversation with Deema Tamimi highlights the evolving role of AI in marketing, where it acts as a co-creator to enhance personalization and efficiency rather than replacing human creativity. Tamimi emphasizes the potential for AI to significantly benefit nonprofit organizations by driving so...

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  • How Complex Queries Are Changing Google Search for Marketers

    How Complex Queries Are Changing Google Search for Marketers

    Google Search is evolving beyond keyword matching to understand complex user intent through AI, enabling more accurate discovery of products and services. AI-powered features like AI Overviews and query fan-out deconstruct detailed queries to provide comprehensive answers and uncover new commerci...

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  • Beyond E-E-A-T: Branding, Survival, and SEO's Future

    Beyond E-E-A-T: Branding, Survival, and SEO's Future

    Branding is essential for digital success as authentic identity strengthens search performance and builds trust with both users and AI systems, moving beyond technical SEO to human-centered approaches. Survey data shows a shift towards brand-focused strategies, with improved visibility and cross-...

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