11/17/2022 4:10:08 PM LinkedIn Ads - some interesting new formats are emerging! By Gez McGuire OK, so LinkedIn are rolling our some new offerings including new measurement capabilities and some new ad formats that aim to help...
11/17/2022 10:29:36 AM By 2027 it looks like TikTok will deliver more video ads than Meta and YouTube combined. By Gez McGuire At the Media & Entertainment Leaders Summit (MELS) in London, Omdia revealed their research showing that by 2027, 37% of all online video...
10/17/2022 9:45:31 PM Instagram sees new ad formats emerge! By Gez McGuire Earlier this month (October 2022) Meta announced that it was adding new ad formats to Instagram. Why? Well, as a result of Apple’s...
10/15/2022 12:28:51 PM Breaking news: E-commerce fulfillment could be TikTok’s latest venture. By Gez McGuire Plenty of retail brands use TikTok to catch the attention of its audience, which will reach circa 750 million monthly users in 2022...
10/15/2022 12:06:03 PM Facebook is getting ready to face off with TikTok. By Gez McGuire Social media has transformed, and Facebook has to transform along with it. Young adults told Facebook in a survey that they thought it...
10/15/2022 11:46:49 AM Mobile search results on Google now has ads labelled as ‘Sponsored’. By Gez McGuire Paid results on Google will now carry a larger “Sponsored” tag rather than the simple “Ad” tag they used to display ad before, along with...
9/12/2022 12:45:59 PM TikTok's infinite loop powers e-commerce sales throughout the purchase journey. By Gez McGuire E-commerce is no longer how shopping will be conducted in the future - it is how we shop today. As consumers continue to evolve...
9/7/2022 8:19:45 AM Conversational targeting is the next evolution in podcast advertising. By Gez McGuire With over 2 million active podcasts globally and over 420 million listeners, this medium represents over 20% of all internet users. In...
9/6/2022 4:07:49 PM Here's how Google uses AI in the form of natural language processing to make search even more semantic and context-based. By Gez McGuire Welcome to the future of Google search. Google now uses AI in the form of natural language processing to make search even more semantic...
8/24/2022 4:43:35 PM Q1 of 2022 saw views of YouTube Shorts videos hit 30 billion per day, which is up four times from Q1 2021. By Gez McGuire As revealed in parent company Alphabet’s quarterly earnings call for Q1 2022, YouTube confirmed earlier this year that it’s now testing...
8/24/2022 4:25:00 PM With 61% of 25- to 34-year-olds buying on social media we are in the middle of a Social commerce boom! By Gez McGuire The figures show that only 10% of consumers say they avoid brands’ social media pages and 90% of consumers being aware of brand...
8/24/2022 4:03:54 PM Get ready to see even more posts from accounts you don't follow on Facebook and Instagram. By Gez McGuire Yep, the future of social media is looking less social. If you already experience your Instagram feed increasingly showing Reels from...
8/24/2022 12:52:29 PM Social media ad spend for UK companies greater than the global average! By Gez McGuire A recent study by Emplifi, a unified customer experience (CX) platform, analysed thousands of brands worldwide between 1 April, 2022 - 30...
8/24/2022 10:46:48 AM 40% of young people use TikTok or Instagram rather than Google with voice driving 30% of all queries, especially by younger users. By Gez McGuire Prabhakar Raghavan, the Google senior vice president who runs the Knowledge & Information organization, came out and stated that younger...
7/6/2022 6:38:10 AM Could the goal of achieving a single AI model that can handle multiple tasks be achieved by Google? By Gez McGuire Google is a step further towards developing an advanced AI architecture called Pathways - a single model that can learn to do multiple...
6/23/2022 2:13:12 PM How a leading pet insurance provider increased its return on ad spend with Performance Max. By Gez McGuire Using the Performance Max campaign approach within Google Ads, a leading UK based pet insurance company were able to use different...