howdy! Publishing in the Platform Era | | As publishers start balancing different kinds of content and revenue strategies, product leaders are becoming increasingly important. They also face bigger, more complicated challenges. | |
Sponsored by GumGum | | In 2015, when Subway’s most prominent spokesman suddenly became a reviled felon, Ken van Every’s team hit on a blunt solution: avoid all things Jared. Van Every, then working for a software provider on behalf of the sandwich chain, decided to employ a keyword blocking strategy. “If any page on the site said the word ‘Jared,’ that was going to be avoided by this web campaign,” he explained. | |
howdy! The Confessions | | For one bidding producer, it’s gotten harder to work with younger or more inexperience agency producers. The biggest problem the producer sees is that agency producers aren’t reading bid letters, which leads to more back and forth that can delay production decisions. | |
Sponsored by attentive | | During last year’s holiday season, consumers reached for their smartphones to shop online in record-breaking numbers. Mobile holiday shopping is only expected to grow this year — and retail and e-commerce marketers need new strategies to engage on-the-go shoppers and drive conversions. | |
howdy! Video Anywhere | | Vizio has rolled out a free, ad-supported streaming service and is backing Project OAR to ensure its TV customers have enough free programming to watch. | |
Sponsored by Hightail | | Brands, marketers, agencies and publishers rely heavily on creative assets. We’d like to know more about your company’s creative collaboration process. | |
howdy! Going Global | | The publisher has centralized its content output for its global Instagram accounts and it’s paying off, particularly with Instagram Stories where it publishers regular series that get shared among the other accounts. | |
howdy! | | The science- and geek culture-focused publisher is the fourth site that Bustle Digital Group has acquired in 2019. |
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