The Media Minute 04.21.2021

Database marketing uses data in the right way. Learn here how to use database marketing strategies to leverage your customer database.

Last year, publishers navigated through reduced ad spend, axed campaigns, and overzealous keyword blocking. However, 2021 brings a new and arguably more significant challenge: the deprecation of third-party cookies and other universal identifiers.

Apple announced subscriptions for its Podcasts app, letting users pay creators directly and giving benefits like ad-free listening experiences, bonus content, and early access. It will launch next month.

A CRM for magazine publishers takes the specific needs of publishers into account and include industry-specific features, like subscription management, ad invoicing, and flat-planning. Here are five platforms worth considering.

The Media Minute 04.15.2021

Digital marketers are always looking for new and innovative ways to streamline and develop strategies that are efficient and effective. The goal of every digital marketing strategy, no matter the industry, is to provide a solution to a customer’s problem.

Privacy regulations and browser updates are restricting the use of personal identifiers and customer data gathered via third-party cookies. Needless to say, this is causing huge disruption to the way the digital advertising industry works today.

In response to an initial coronavirus news, a number of outlets witnessed record traffic to their sites and growth in subscribers. At the same time, however, they had to contend with a major slump in advertising revenues as marketers shut their bank accounts.

One of the easiest ways to streamline these everyday tasks is by implementing a customer relationship management (CRM) software. If you’re in the publishing industry and looking to optimize your processes and boost profitability, read on.

The Media Minute 04.06.2021

Every company focused on selling high-value products and services needs to become familiar with lead generation-based marketing practices, tools, and customer relationship management (CRM) software.

Header bidding is an essential component of most publishers’ ad monetization strategies, enabling better inventory fill rates and higher revenue.

2020 threw a new level of challenges at the advertising industry. A pandemic, politically charged social and cultural unrest, and a pending loss of identity (via third party cookies and IDFA) left media buyers and sellers playing catch-up.

In the third part of our How to Start a Magazine series, we’re giving you tips on marketing a magazine, growing your readership, and retaining existing subscribers.

The Media Minute 03.31.2021

Did you know that nearly 90% of users search for local businesses on the internet? Without a way to identify these visitors, you’re missing out on hundreds of potential customers. Here’s how to make the most of lead identification software.

The World Federation of Advertisers estimated that by 2025, ad fraud will be a nearly $50 billion industry. With that much at stake, fraudsters are constantly evolving to work around measures that publishers have taken to quell their impact.

Prior to the coronavirus outbreak, publishers were already pivoting to subscriptions. At the start of the year, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) found that 50% of digital leaders identified reader revenue as their major income focus for 2020.

In the third part of our How to Start a Magazine series, we’re giving you tips on marketing a magazine, growing your readership, and retaining existing subscribers.