The landscape of advertising and targeting is changing rapidly. Targeting and personalization are becoming more and more critical to how we target audiences online.
Our VP of Product Marketing, Maggie Neuwald recently participated in a webinar “The Future of Data and Media in 2012″ with Chango, the leader in search retargeting, and m6d (Media6Degrees), a marketing technology company that Continue reading
Jim Sterne at the TagMan Booth at eMetrics New York
We recently caught up with Jim Sterne, the Founder of the eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit to talk about what happened at the event in New York and what’s happening in the industry overall.
Q: What were some of the a-ha moments of eMetrics New York for you this year?
A: We are actually maturing as an industry. More Continue reading
We recently posted “The Evolution of Tag Management,” where we took a closer look at the tag management solutions that emerged over time–from pixel piggy backing to a container tag to the universal tag, and finally to Tag Management Systems (TMS).
With the assistance of Ghostery, we’ve put together some data showing that social plug-in adoption among IR500 websites lags far behind adoption among all top sites. While 50% of all sites have a Facebook plug-in and 42.5% have a Twitter plug-in, it turns out that only 31% of the IR500 have any social plug-in at all (see our infographic after the jump).
This despite evidence that shoppers are becoming increasingly social, with 58% of online consumers having “followed” a retailer through Facebook, Twitter or a retailer’s blog.
While e-commerce sites generally feature less shareable content than publishers, we have to wonder if Continue reading
While third-party tags on websites play a crucial rule in analyzing the effectiveness of marketing campaigns, these tags can also negatively effect page-time load and ultimately effect your conversion rates. The slower a page loads, the less likely site visitors are to stick around making website speed and performance optimization just as important as SEO optimization. Continue reading
I will be speaking at ad:tech London on 21 September, presenting the full case study of how TUI Specialist Travel transformed its digital marketing strategy using full path-to-conversion reporting.
As discussion around marketing attribution begins to question its practical application and logistical viability, our seminar session aims to describe precisely how seeing the true and complete path that customers take to a sale is being acted upon by real clients. Continue reading
Shanti Shunn, Director of Online Marketing at Harry and David
Shanti Shunn, director of online marketing at Harry and David, discusses why e-commerce sites need tag management, how tag management has evolved, and how to select a tag management vendor.
When and why did you decide you needed tag management?
At Harry and David we’re in all the multichannel markets, we have a lot of third-party tags on our site that relate to tracking and/or CPA payouts. Continue reading
A SEO brand search features in half of all top-converting user journeys
Attribution matters. Take search, for example. In e-commerce, SEO is the most powerful converter to a sale outside of direct-to-site navigation. Yet marketers direct the bulk of their search efforts – not to mention search spend – into PPC.
“Search is great, but you probably don’t understand what the real story is,” Continue reading
Bryan Eisenberg
Speaker, best-selling author, columnist, digital marketing pioneer and more, Bryan Eisenberg has become something of a legend as a digital marketing pioneer, web metrics guru, and all around advocate of digital marketing best practices.
He’s also is the newest member of TagMan’s advisory board (see seperate press release). We sat down with him to discuss why he feels the tag management issue is an important one now, and what role he’ll play in moving the company forward. Continue reading
With her team, Greenlight director of PPC Hannah Kimuyu has been integrating TagMan path-to-conversion data to understand the true role of paid and organic search in user journeys. Here she outlines some of the amazing insight they are becoming to able to feed into client strategies and tactics.
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