How Brands Are Investing in Video Marketing on a Budget [2024 Data]

How Brands Are Investing in Video Marketing on a Budget [2024 Data]

It’s hard to ignore the fact that video is now a leading trend for marketing teams. I mean, even LinkedIn has jumped on the bandwagon by prioritizing video content (now, whether or not you agree with that, it is a conversation for another day, but I digress). The truth is that video is here to … Read more

PPR special edition: The best brands on social media in 2024

PPR special edition: The best brands on social media in 2024

It’s time for a special edition of the Post Performance Report (PPR), a series where we showcase social media posts and campaigns inspiring us, and explore what makes them so genius. We unpack how your brand can use these examples to spark your own scroll-stopping ideas—while maximizing your budget and doing more with less. In … Read more

B2B Newsletter Marketing: How It Differs From Email Promotions & What Brands Can Learn from Independent Producers

B2B Newsletter Marketing: How It Differs From Email Promotions & What Brands Can Learn from Independent Producers

If you’re like me, you only open a small fraction of the (dozens? hundreds?) email newsletters you’ve subscribed to. So I set out to find what those really good newsletters, the ones you open on the regular, have in common. Email newsletters have been floating around in the zeitgeist for some time now, especially as … Read more

What Are the Best Alternatives to Google? How Brands Can Succeed Off Google Search

What Are the Best Alternatives to Google? How Brands Can Succeed Off Google Search

When I think back to my school days when we were asked to complete research papers using good old-fashioned books from the library, and I genuinely don’t think I could do that today. I’ve become so accustomed to the wide accessibility of information on the Internet that I’m willing to do anything to maintain that … Read more

13 Tips for Creating Videos for Instagram Like the Brands You Love [+ Examples]

13 Tips for Creating Videos for Instagram Like the Brands You Love [+ Examples]

Creating videos for Instagram has to be one of my favorite marketing tasks. From in-feed videos to Reels, Instagram Live, and Stories, marketers like you and me have so many fun opportunities to get creative and to make things even better — they actually work. According to recent HubSpot Research, marketers rate Instagram the #1 … Read more

Improve Your Brand’s Influence and Boost Your SEO With These Tips

Improve Your Brand's Influence and Boost Your SEO With These Tips

For better or worse, brands have come to dominate Google search results, shaping the way users interact with the internet. As AI continues to evolve and search engines become more adept at understanding both the offline and online world, the influence of major brands is only going to grow.  The rise of AI-generated content and … Read more

8 Out Of 10 TikTok Videos By Brands Fail To Capture Attention

8 Out Of 10 TikTok Videos By Brands Fail To Capture Attention

Despite TikTok’s increasing importance to marketers, the majority of brands are not getting it right, and their videos on the social media platform are under-performing. According to new research, 84% of the video content released by brands on TikTok fails to generate strong positive emotions, capture attention, or enhance brand recall. The mini-study conducted by DAIVID, … Read more

Niche marketing: How brands can use influencers to reach niche pockets of the internet

Niche marketing: How brands can use influencers to reach niche pockets of the internet

As the saying goes, when you try to appeal to everyone, you appeal to no one. Niche marketing is a highly targeted form of advertisement. With niche marketing, businesses promote their products and services to a small, specific and well-defined audience. As social media algorithms become increasingly specific and personal, it gets harder for brands … Read more

How My Brand Went Viral: 16 Small Brands That Made It Big (And What You Can Learn)

How My Brand Went Viral: 16 Small Brands That Made It Big (And What You Can Learn)

You don’t have to be in marketing to know what it means to “go viral,” but the dream of saying, “My brand went viral”? — That’s definitely unique to our profession. Marketing managers are even credited with coining the phrase back in the 1980s, but it’s safe to say a lot has changed since then. … Read more

7 Influencer Marketing Tools For Brands and Creators

7 Influencer Marketing Tools For Brands and Creators

Say you have a product ready to launch and need to find influencers to generate buzz. Or perhaps you’ve already identified a creator you’d like to collaborate with and need a way to manage the partnership. In either case, you’ll likely hit up Google for an influencer marketing tool. But with so many options available, … Read more

When UGC Goes Wrong: How Smart Brands React to Controversy [Expert Interviews]

When UGC Goes Wrong: How Smart Brands React to Controversy [Expert Interviews]

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” Though Mike Tyson meant that literally, his wise words certainly hold true in marketing. And no marketer gets punched in the mouth quite as often as those who deal with user-generated content. Need convincing? Just search for videos about Celsius on TikTok. While the … Read more

Behind Viral Food Brands: Do Trends Matter in CPG Design?

Behind Viral Food Brands: Do Trends Matter in CPG Design?

Graza. Fishwife. Brightland. If you’ve never heard of them, just walk into a local specialty store — you’re guaranteed to spot some of these brands, with packaging so aesthetically pleasing they make you feel like walking inside an Instagram feed. Gander helped build the Graza brand from scratch, an olive oil that comes in a … Read more

Reddit Subreddits To Google Search: Maximizing Your Brand’s Impact [Webinar Recap]

Reddit Subreddits To Google Search: Maximizing Your Brand’s Impact [Webinar Recap]

Recently, I had the pleasure of hosting a webinar discussing Reddit, its growth, and how it impacts search results. It’s been quite a while since I covered Reddit as a topic, but I could talk about it all day, and I think it has and is one of the most influential communities around today. If … Read more

Google Shows How To Beat Reddit & Big Brands

How to outrank Reddit and big brands in Google Search

In an interview published on YouTube, Google’s Gary Illyes offered advice on what small sites should consider doing if they want to compete against Reddit, Amazon and other big brand websites. About Big Brand Dominance Google’s Gary Illyes answered questions about SEO back in May that went underreported so I’m correcting that oversight this month. … Read more

How Four Brands Won Gen Z Through Memes, Authenticity, and Community-Building

How Four Brands Won Gen Z Through Memes, Authenticity, and Community-Building

Building brand awareness isn’t just about making noise today — it’s about laying the groundwork for generating consistent demand tomorrow. Also, by reaching a broader audience, your brand can target customers from various backgrounds with different behaviors. Increased brand visibility means more eyes on your products or service, which translates into heightened interest and curiosity. … Read more

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