The Thrive Performance Marketing Blog
Learn about all things performance marketing and paid digital with the Thrive blog.An expert Q&A about digital advertising for e-commerce
As any e-commerce marketer can tell you, digital advertising is one of the most important tools in their toolkit. This is even more true during big sale periods like Black Friday/Cyber Monday or Boxing Day. Nailing those sales can make or break profitability for the year (no pressure).
3 minute readCreating high conversion ad creative for e-commerce
TL;DR in this challenging e-commerce landscape, creative inventiveness can beat out (or overcome) traditional, digital approaches. We recommend exploring different creative ad themes, creating assets and messaging specific to the part of the funnel the audience is in, and getting specific in how you craft static images, videos, and UGC. This is one of those articles that it's better to bookmark for reference and dive into each section rather than skim so we've added a clickable table of contents on this one. The year is 2023. The cookie is on its way out the door, your competitors have all the same tools and information as you, and short of going absolutely rogue on social media a la Duolingo (we don’t offer organic social media services and as such we can’t endorse doing this), it’s a tough market for an e-commerce business to stand out in.
11 minute readAn expert Q&A about data privacy
Sometimes (ok, lots of times) us marketers deal with a whole lot of conflicting information and rapid changes. This is absolutely the case when it comes to the potentially cookieless future. We don’t know everything, but we do know these two things to be true:
5 minute readPreparing for a cookieless future
TL;DR cookies are pieces of information about a user’s characteristics and behaviors that the user’s web browsers store as code every time they visit a website. Currently, Chrome alone has 63% of browsers globally so when they remove cookies, it’s a BIG deal. Cookies are the foundation of digital marketing targeting, tracking, and impactfulness — due to consumer privacy concerns, Chrome is getting rid of them. Likely by mid-2024 (but TBD, Google keeps pushing it back so keep an eye on the timeline here).
8 minute read5 ways to measure brand campaigns
TL;DR brand awareness campaigns offer some great long-term benefits over always focusing on bottom of funnel tactics but can often be tough to measure. Here are 5 ways to measure the impact of your next brand campaign:
6 minute readWhat to do when optimizing ROAS isn’t helping e-commerce business growth
TL;DR e-commerce businesses should take the time to understand the nuances around their profitability to create new strategies that support ROI over other traditional metrics like ROAS. One example we share here is how to maximize high-profit segments while finding a sustainable bidding strategy for low-profit groups.
4 minute read10 steps to a successful sale
TL;DR There are 10 steps that Thrive often uses with our B2C and e-commerce clients to ensure a successful sale period. These steps are: 1) Optimize your creative by testing two distinct themes using A/B testing to determine a winner
7 minute readBeyond attribution: understanding the incremental impact of your marketing
TL;DR The world of marketing measurement is complex and traditional attribution methods often fail to share the whole story. We believe that incrementality is a more reliable determiner of revenue outcomes than many attribution models. Incrementality is all about measuring the real impact of our ads – the stuff that wouldn't have happened without them. We measure incrementality in two ways: experiments and testing media mix modeling To get started, we suggest running small experiments and begin building an understanding of how different media channels contribute to top-line revenue.
8 minute readWelcome to the Thrive blog
TL;DR Thrive is launching a blog! We are an expert growth marketing agency and will be using this platform to discuss all things performance marketing including paid channel management, digital strategy, performance creative, data & measurement, as well as going ons within the agency. Sign up to our email list at the bottom of this post to get blogs emailed straight to your inbox as they’re released.
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