Bridging the GAP: Optimization Strategy for Affiliate Marketers

The art of optimization is a combination of things: one part gut feeling, one part data, and an overall familiarity with how your campaign tends to fluctuate. As an RTX Platform Account Manager, I see firsthand how advertisers struggle to optimize their affiliate marketing campaigns, often times neglecting to optimize… Continued

12 Acronyms Affiliate Marketers Need to Know

Do you know the CTR to your LP? Does it have a good CR%? To somebody new to the affiliate space, reading that sentence could be like reading a foreign language. Acronyms, while often helpful, can sometimes lead to confused communication (and a Google search on the sly). That’s why… Continued

Instagram releases advertising API

Brands everywhere are enthusiastically double-tapping Instagram’s latest announcement. This is because the picture-sharing social media platform announced on Tuesday that it has opened its advertising API to a select group of marketing partners. Many agree with CEO of Brand Networks Jamie Tedford’s reaction to the announcement: “This is one the… Continued

Google Derives Most of its Search Traffic from Mobile

At a recent digital advertising conference, Google announced that the Internet giant now gets more search queries from mobile devices than desktops in ten key markets, including the United States and Japan. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google executive Jerry Dischler chose not to identify the other eight countries… Continued

Digital Video Spend is Up, but is ROI?

A recent study shows that, while brands are now willing to spend more money on original digital video, they remain worried about ROI, quality, and measurement.

Mobile Ad Spend Will Trump the Digital Market in 2016

In their new worldwide ad spending report, eMarketer estimates that mobile ad spend will surpass $100 billion dollars globally in 2016. That means, for the first time ever, the global mobile advertising market will constitute over 50% of all digital ad spending.