It is all change for B2B advertising in 2024 with Google finally starting to switch off third party cookies. As a result, cookieless B2B advertising is coming into focus. How do you change your advertising strategy and tactics to handle this change?
Category: Account Based Advertising
Account based advertising aka company targeted advertising allows a marketer to place advertising in front of a specific company on any website that takes advertising – be it the Financial Times, ESPN, HR magazine or in their LinkedIn newsfeed.
A useful ability for any B2B marketer.
This is increasingly required today, as ensuring key accounts are aware of you in a world swamped with content marketing means that standing out is harder. Account based advertising makes you more likely to be considered at the earliest stages when a prospect is trying to solve a problem.
What makes a great LinkedIn advert
Posted onLinkedIn Advertising offers advertisers both brand and performance led advertising opportunities. But what does it take to make a great LinkedIn advert?
How do you target B2B advertising?
Posted onToday, B2B advertising offers many approaches to reaching your target audience. While it has traditionally been much easier for B2C companies (companies that sell to individuals) to target their ideal target audiences, it has been much harder for B2B companies (businesses that sell to other businesses) with a defined customer base to reach their target audience precisely.
B2B companies have niches that are smaller than entire industries and/or company sizes. Their ideal customer profiles are made up of many attributes including industry, company size, current performance, technographics and more.
Today, though it is possible to reach smaller niches and not waste media budget.
How creative is your advertising?
Posted onWe have been delivering company targeted B2B advertising (or account based advertising) for over 5 years now across the Internet and on LinkedIn.
While demand continues to increase each year – it is the creativity associated with these campaigns that have seen a marked change over that period.
ThinkHuman: Group Dynamics
Posted onWhen we started to pull this series together, we wanted to understand the individual. Specifically, how people consume, engage and buy from companies. The foundations that underpin marketing best practice. And yet, put a group of people together and suddenly the dynamics change.
Launching ThinkHuman: Storytelling
Posted onThis week we are launching Think Human. It seeks to guide you across multiple episodes on a series of different aspects of psychology and marketing you can adapt to suit the world we are in today.
Marketers are naturally feeling stressed by the lockdown. Entire plans, campaigns and messaging went out the window. Now is not the time for long term planning.
The environment is constantly changing and I have found that the agile marketing approach is well suited to today and the foreseeable future.
As the last few weeks have unfolded, marketers have had to react rapidly to a changing environment. Both channel and messaging has had to be changed in a short time.
I was speaking with a former managing consultant last night. She pointed out that two things often happen in times of crisis. First, a greater emphasis is placed on tactics and second, there is an openness to change and doing things differently.
Research is up across the Internet with browsing up 50% according to Vodafone. We have also seen an immediate change in consumption of our whitepapers, with our account based advertising whitepaper the top download these past few weeks.
People often tell me that they’re finding it trickier than ever to reach their preferred companies. Thanks to online content overload, it’s so easy to get lost in the noise these days. It can be disheartening to see campaigns you’ve spent lots of time and energy on underperform — especially when the same methods worked well in the past. But luckily, it doesn’t have to be this way.