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Content Marketing
Why Style Beats Length: Rethinking the “Ideal” for Content, Titles, and More
For years, marketers and creators have obsessed over ideal lengths. We’ve seen precise character counts for subject lines, word counts for blog posts, and minute markers for video drop-off points. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: there’s no magic number. How content is styled, positioned, and consumed matters more than length. A perfectly short subject line that fails to compel is…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Repurpose.io: Automatically Repurpose and Redistribute Your Videos, Livestreams, and Podcasts
Publishing content multiple times is not about spamming your audience but strategically maximizing your content’s reach, impact, and longevity. Publishing content multiple times, as opposed to just once, is a necessary and effective strategy for several reasons: New Audience: Not everyone sees your content the first time you publish it. As your following grows or new users join a platform,…
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Analytics & Testing
Unlocking Business Insights with the Sankey Diagram
As we build highly accurate predictions for creating lookalike audiences for our customers, one powerful visual that we have that shows the transformation of their new customer base from at-risk and churning to loyal, valuable customers is the Sankey Diagram. The Sankey diagram was named after Irish engineer Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey. Sankey diagrams illustrate a system’s flow of…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Google Search Shortcuts and Parameters
Today, I was searching for an infographic on Adobe’s website and the results weren’t what I was looking for. Rather than going to a site and then searching internally, I almost always utilize Google shortcuts to search sites. This comes in extremely handy – whether I’m searching for a quote, a code snippet, or a specific filetype. In this case,…
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Content Marketing
How Can You Programmatically Change Font Color Based on the Background? (Light/Dark Mode)
If you’ve visited Martech Zone lately, you may have noticed that we now offer the ability to view the site in either light or dark mode. Just search for the moon or sun icon next to the date in the top left navigation bar on the site. It’s a pretty cool feature and it works really well. When I launched…
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Advertising Technology
Old Spice Inspires: When in Doubt, Go Dumb
Sometimes, I love marketing and developing long-term strategies that change the perception of a business, increase the reception of a brand, drive sales, and skyrocket a company’s success. Today isn’t one of them. The online marketing world is ablaze at the brilliant strategy of the Old Spice guy. If you’re one of the few that hadn’t heard, the Old Spice…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Why Web Security Is Now Essential for SEO, Trust, and Online Success
Every day, billions of users begin their digital journey the same way: by typing a query into a search engine. Google alone processes over 8.5 billion searches daily, and what users find on that first results page can shape opinions, build trust—or erode it completely. Whether locating a nearby restaurant, researching a product, or vetting a service provider, users demand…
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Advertising Technology
How Creative Management Platforms Help Media Buyers Manage Personalized Ad Campaigns Across Channels
With new advertising platforms like TikTok, retail media networks (RMN), or connected TV (CTV) ad platforms added to the ad channel mix, media buyers are pressured to craft and distribute more creatives that resonate with people than before. Additionally, strengthened privacy regulations left them without precise techniques for audience targeting, such as third-party (3p) cookies and mobile IDs. That means…
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Advertising Technology
Digital Marketing Trends & Predictions
Precautions made by companies during the pandemic significantly disrupted the supply chain, consumer buying behavior, and our associated marketing efforts this last couple of years. In my opinion, the greatest consumer and business changes happened with online shopping, home delivery, and mobile payments. For marketers, we saw a dramatic shift in the return on investment in digital marketing technologies. We…
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E-commerce and Retail
Broadleaf Commerce: A Unified, Headless, and Microservice PaaS for Ecommerce
As businesses grapple with the increasing complexities of commerce, solutions like Broadleaf Commerce are invaluable. Broadleaf Commerce is a software solution designed to handle the intricacies of the commerce industry. Its principal mission is to remove hurdles to innovation, providing an open, truly headless, and modular platform built explicitly for complex commerce. Before we speak to the platform-as-a-service (PaaS), let’s…