Black Friday as a shopping concept was imported from the US a few years back and now seems to be a firm fixture in the UK retail calendar. According to a Price Waterhouse Cooper (PWC) study, last year more than three quarters of retailers participated in some promotional activity over Black Friday weekend. So, will […]
Archives for 2018
How gift incentives affect your TV ad performance
For the right product and audience, introducing a gift incentive can have a significant effect not only on your own performance and efficiency, but it can also negatively affect your competition’s performance too. This uplift can counteract or negate any initial upfront costs incurred by introducing or increasing the value of your gift. The level […]
ARMLife Interview with Dan Morley
Tell us a bit about yourself and your background? I was born and bred in Sheffield and spent most of my life living in and around the Steel City. I moved to York with a change in job and fell in love with the place and have started family life there. I’m an entrepreneur at […]
Is the future for men’s lifestyle magazines doomed?
ShortList magazine is shutting down after more than a decade, after running with a circulation of more than 500,000, across London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Newcastle and Leeds. This further highlights the pressure publishers are feeling to make free print publications profitable amid declining advertising revenue and the increased cost of paper. The […]
Future of PPC: Are keywords soon to be a thing of the past
Google is no stranger to making big changes to its PPC platform, AdWords. Even the name has now dropped the ‘Words’ in a move which reflects the wider functionality of the platform. Google Ads is evolving, and the humble keyword is no longer the sole tool at the PPC marketer’s disposal, but could it become […]
Our view on the retirement of PPC ‘exact match’
A couple of months ago, Google (very quietly) announced a pretty significant change to the role of keywords in paid search. I don’t think it’s overstating it to say that this little update heralds a new dawn for PPC. But before I get into justifying that statement, what’s actually changed? I will explain through this […]