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The Chief Marketing Officer of Viant, Jon Schulz, recently wrote an interesting piece in MarTechSeries titled “The Ad Industry’s Focus on Scale Has Ignored Small Businesses.” Schulz makes the point that small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) — which make up 99% of all private sector businesses in the US — are largely neglected by the …

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Google recently announced that its search results for news articles will now highlight those that it identifies as “original reporting” and keep them in a “highly visible position” for longer — as well as enlist more than 10,000 human raters to identify and reward such articles. Traditionally, when someone searches for a news story on …

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A recent article we came across in Forbes titled “Digital Advertising Trends To Watch In 2019 And Beyond” summarized predictions by expert speakers at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Annual Leadership Conference in February. We think the piece really nailed it — and are thrilled to report that AffinityX is a great resource to our clients …

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Last week, The Wall Street Journal ran an interesting and relevant piece titled “In News Industry, a Stark Divide Between Haves and Have-Nots.” It is behind a WSJ paywall, but if you have a subscription, you can click to the article here. The premise is that local newspapers failed to make the digital transition that larger …

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In late March, the ANA’s held its first In-Housing Agency Conference in Orlando and AffinityX was thrilled to be in attendance. There were many interesting presentations and panels throughout the event, with from-the-inside views shared by leaders from Disney, Electronic Arts (EA), Nationwide, Chobani and The Wonderful Company, to name a few. They articulated that …

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The ANA is hosting its first In-Housing Agency Conference from March 13 to 15, 2019 in Orlando and AffinityX is very much looking forward to this event! In-housing is the one biggest trends to hit advertising in the last few years and AffinityX has been following closely, while signing more in-house agency partners and networking at …

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Earlier this month, Matt Sweeney, CEO of Xaxis, published a thought-piece in AdExchanger called Humanizing Programmatic which is worth a read. It’s reflective of our philosophy here at AffinityX and very relevant to local media and marketers who are challenged with harnessing the power of programmatic. Sweeney’s premise is that “despite prevalent misconceptions, programmatic advertising requires deep …

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The 2018 IHAF Conference & Awards Show was held in Boston and in attendance were AffinityX’s Stephanie Vautravers, VP of business development and Sara Droke, director of business development. They had the opportunity to network with key executives including those from Bank of America, Orvis, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Robert Half and The Boston Consulting Group — and …

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Email budgets are on the rise in 2018. A survey found that 47 percent of respondents expect email spending to increase this year. There is good reason for this prediction, as almost half of participants said they are satisfied with their email return on investment: 18 percent rated it as excellent and 29 percent as …

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Last month I attended the Local Media Association’s Media Transformation conference in Kansas City, Missouri, along with heavyweights from the local media world. I was quite impressed with the topics and speakers. The entire conference was buzzing with good ideas and important conversations, but a couple of noteworthy themes made an impression on me: how …

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