Tips and Best Practices
INFOGRAPHIC: Best Day and Time to Send Emails
Email advertisers are always trying to dial in the best performing day-of-week and time-of-day to send campaigns.
The Email-Direct Mail Duo
A trend we've been following closely is cross channel performance multipliers. Digital marketers, media industry leaders
Increase ROI and Confidence in the Media Mix
The top challenge marketers face this year is increasing or proving marketing ROI
Email Paired With Social Drives More Purchases
Studies by Fluent show that email advertising, coordinated with social campaigns, boosts engagement and purchases
3 Trends Influencing Digital Advertising
Mobile Ad Spending is Exploding while Desktop is Flat
Winning Content and Customer Experiences
Brand value from a customer perspective is not always decided by the almighty dollar
Publishers Rely on Email to Drive Readership
Publishers have been increasing their reliance on email tactics to drive traffic and readers to their websites
Email Advertisers Should Stop Ignoring Mobile
75% of Americans simply delete emails if they aren’t optimized for mobile
In-the-Trenches View of Ad Blocking
A recent poll of my network revealed how in-the-trenches media professionals are dealing with the growing issue of ad blocking
Millennials Find Products via Email More Than Other Age Groups
Millennials are using retailer emails more than other age groups to find products and services
Why Email Marketing Still Matters to Building Products Brands
LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinterest, Vine, Instagram, Periscope—and the list goes on and on. With all these ways to connect
This is How to Reach Millennials
Millennials (18-34 year olds) will represent $200 billion in annual buying power by 2017 (Harvard Business Review)
Top 5 Myths of Email List Rental
There has been a stigma around using email lists for some time, they seemed artificial, and some experts claimed
Once is not Enough: Mobile Retargeting
Most customers will not buy, book, or request more information the first time they visit your website
Insights Round Up: December 2015
A round up of insights and articles we've shared over the past month. Make sure you're the first to know when we have
How North Dakota Tourism Targets Visitors
North Dakota had the eighth-lowest tourism budget among the 46 states reporting figures to the U.S. Travel Association in fiscal year
Consumers Want Your Advertising
Digital advertising has been hit hard lately with all the buzz about ad-blocking software claiming to create an ad-free experience for
Is Your Vendor Padding the Numbers?
There seems to be a large discrepancy between what many digital media vendors report and what they're actually able to deliver
The Difference Between Cookie and ID Targeting
The main issue with cookie targeting is it’s about devices, and most people use multiple devices per day. They likely have a separate
How TV and Digital Video Work Together
Nearly half of respondents to a BrightTalk/IAB poll conducted in March 2015 said digital video ads and TV ads were equally effective
Discrepancy Between Viewability and Online Success
There can be significant discrepancies between viewability rate and actual on-site interaction and conversion. Take a newspaper’s website
3 Ways to Not Poison the Pool
Many of our clients have recently asked about how to increase the quality and reach of their re-targeting pools and marketing databases
How to Enforce Accountability in Automotive Campaigns
I was speaking with an automotive agency a while ago who shared a story about campaign accountability I thought others in the automotive
Winning the Micro-Moments Battle
In a recent report, Google asked the question, "how would you describe your phone's role in your life?" Respondents replied with phrases
Take a Test Drive with Future Flow Media
Millions of consumers who are in-market, or currently researching a vehicle purchase, are ready to be conquested
Email Advertising for Restaurants
Email advertising increases restaurant brand preference with customer groups, builds loyalty, and is proven to drive traffic into
5 Steps to Effective Content Marketing
Content marketing is one of the top five most used lead generation tactics, according to the MarketingSherpa 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report
5 Holiday Email Marketing Ideas
The holidays are coming, and with them comes the opportunity to increase holiday sales. The trick is to get your offers and promotions in front of the right audiences (those most likely to buy) at the right time
Email Marketing Outperforms Social and Most Other Sources
A chart published by MarketingSherpa revealed that, after organic searches, targeted email advertising provides the greatest volume of traffic (close to one quarter of overall traffic)
Media Buying in the New Multi-Screen World
We all know that consumer media consumption patterns are rapidly changing, but an August 2012 research study by Google, Ipsos, and Stirling
DMA2012 Recap: Exploiting Data for Better Targeting
At the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) 2012 conference that just wrapped up in Las Vegas, Future Flow Media Principal Consultant
Case Study: Creativity vs. Clarity in Email Subject Lines
We all know an email's subject line is critical. If it's not effective, the rest of the message never gets seen. The question is, what do consumers respond to
The Top 5 Takeaways from Email Summit 2012
The clear message from the MarketingSherpa's Email Summit 2012 was that email marketers can no longer get away with sending a single email to a large
When to Use Enriched Email List Rental
Email list rental, when done right, is a bit of a dark horse marketing tactic: the latest form of this targeted email advertising method
Study Finds Marketers Struggle with Data and ROI
Researchers at Columbia Business School and the BRITE Center on Global Brand Leadership recently surveyed 253 marketing decision makers at large
How to Calculate Marketing ROI
You can easily gather lots of data on impressions, delivery rates, open rates, click through rates, and conversions from your online marketing
33 New Email Marketing Resources
This great roundup of the 33 best Email Marketing posts to be released in recent months comes courtesy of the Landing Page, Online
Insights from Thousands of Email List Rental Campaigns
Perhaps due to its somewhat checkered past, email list rental has not been talked about much in recent years in the media, at conferences, or among direct marketers
5 Reasons Your Campaigns Are Missing the Mark
You think you have a great email address list, either your own subscribers or a high quality email list rental. Maybe you even have a pretty good open rate, but that isn't enough. People just aren't clicking through. Why don't recipients find your
5 Ways to Improve Your Email Newsletter Content
Email newsletters are a great way to nurture leads. However, for this method to work, you have to actually offer information that is of value to your subscribers, otherwise you are bothering them rather than fostering a relationship.
How a New Welcome Campaign Boosted CTR by 450%
This MarketingSherpa case study underscores how a successful campaign to build subscribers doesn't end with the initial click-through and conversion
5 Ways to Grow Your Email Address List
You probably lose 25% of your email address list every year due to opt-outs and people changing jobs or giving up old email addresses. With that level of attrition, you have to work hard just to maintain
5 Questions to Ask When Renting an Email Address List
For targeted email advertising, email list rental can be one of the most cost-effective ways to get your message in front of a precise, hard to reach audience at just the right time. However
White Paper: A New Media Buying Tactic for Hard-to-Reach Segments
As a media buyer, your clients need you to find new ways to get their message in front of the right people. That can be difficult when the target is a very specific, hard-to-reach segment
White Paper: A New Way to Grow Your Opt-In Email Address List
Targeted email advertising is a top-performing staple in most marketing plans but improving your list is a constant challenge. Most lists are too small, become stale within months, and lack the data needed for precise targeting.