Category: Data

Cyber Monday, Data, Experience, Marketing, Mobile, SmartphonesLeave a comment

How to win the #CyberMonday Sale battle

Stha Banks

Its almost here, the season to be #jollyshopping! Christmas…

Time to line up your soldiers and prepare for the biggest cyber sale battle of the year! For some of us the excitement is building up to get those Christmas presents for our family and friends at great value or maybe treating yourself to a good bargain. You feel like a millionaire right 😎? Also for some of us, the challenge is how we make this quarter count for our clients to reach 2016 sales goals, Q4 sales goals, Cyber Monday sales goals, the list goes on! You need a miracle right?
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Consumers, Data, Marketing, Search, Snapchat, technologyLeave a comment

Data is a game changer: Irish Google Trends

Stha Banks

At the end of the day we are all human. Most of us are in search of a better life or are doing our best to enjoy the one we already have. Holidays here and there, going to the movies or to matches, music festivals etc! Seeing 2016 is coming to an close, I wondered what captivated our minds and kept us hooked in 2015 and on that note what could we expect this year. As usual Google has the answer! According to Google Trends, some interesting global searches sum up the mood in 2015. Naturally the top searches related to breaking news; it was a very political year; we dug deep and challenged the norms; science developed further; sports events brought us together; tv shows & music made us happy, movies & technology gave us hope; celebrities dominated and there were losses too. In all of this we asked Google a lot of questions! [v]

Data is said to be a game changer because the numbers don’t lie. Whether its big data or small data, its going to have an impact on your business. So what does Irish search data actually say we got up to… Continue reading Data is a game changer: Irish Google Trends

Advertising, Data, Marketing, Programmatic Buying, technologyLeave a comment

Programmatic + Data Jargon

Stha Banks

ABC, its easy as 123, simple as… no actually jargon is never that easy to understand! As a follow up to my last post on #ProgrammaticBuying, this is a quick post on a few core #Programmatic and #Data terms that you might need to master. Therefore the purpose of this post is to bust those jargon terms that you haven’t really got your head around.

Naturally there as a lot #jargon and acronyms in the data field but the good news is that the guys at Live Ramp have put together the below list to make yours and my life easy! If you are driven by data in your daily marketing decisions then this post is one post to bookmark! Continue reading Programmatic + Data Jargon

Ad Exchanges, Data, Display, Marketing, Mobile, Programmatic Buying, Video2 Comments

Programmatic Buying: the basics without the fuss

Stha Banks

OK if you know all there is to know about Programmatic Buying, you might want to just hop, skip and jump right past this post then. I will follow up with another Programmatic post in future which might be more appealing to you. However, if you keep hearing all this talk about Programmatic Buying but are not sure what it really means, what the fuss is all about, why you would use it for your advertising and how it would work?! – then grab a cuppa, settle down and enjoy this 8 minute read!

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Advertising, Creative, Data, Marketing, Media, Programmatic, technologyLeave a comment

Quote of The Month: Data + Creative

Stha Banks

June saw the hype around Cannes Festival go through the roof. I was more aware (actively) of the event this year than any other year. The quote of the month comes from Nicolas Bidon, global ceo of plista who sat at the panel of The Programmatic 401: Creative Convergence event. This was an interesting discussion on how… Continue reading Quote of The Month: Data + Creative