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Over the years, the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has morphed from a production company free-for-all to an agency shindig to a place where serious people insist that “serious business is actually getting done.” There is also, thankfully, a lot that remains unserious in Cannes. This is the cradle of cutting edge trends and what-were-they-thinking lapses in judgment. To make sense of what we’ve seen this week, here’s what’s in and out at Cannes 2016. (For easy reference, here’s last year’s list. Remember Periscope?)
Great storytelling is a great differentiator.
Imagine you're walking down the snack aisle at a grocery store. How do you make sense of the hundreds of choices on either side of you? What's going to be on your mind when you decide what to buy? Perhaps you choose one product over another because that company donates a percentage of their proceeds to a great cause. Or maybe you choose it because it has more protein -- and you were just reading this article about how protein helps boost concentration, and you've been having trouble concentrating at work recently.
People like making decisions quickly, and it'll be easier for them to choose your stuff if your message resonates with them. After all, content helps people travel through the inbound marketing methodology so that, someday, they might buy something from your company and spread your company's story with others.
But, as you may have noticed, a lot of people are trying to tell stories these days. How are you going to set yours part from the pack? And where on earth do you begin creating compelling stories for your brand?...
... According to a study by YuMe and Nielsen, between 2010 and 2012, millennial males have cut their TV viewership by 10% — more than any other demographic. YuMe found that if advertisers moved 10 to 30% of their TV budgets to Internet and cross-platform campaigns, they increased their reach up to 11%.
Check out the "shift happens" infographic to find out more about reaching millennial males in the digital age and to get the full story on digital advertising. Click to get the complete study.
2013 was a year of exploration for brands on social media. From testing Vines to launching Instagram ads, many companies were dabbling in social media efforts across the Web just to see how customers would react. Now, in 2014, brands are geting serious. They’re using the wealth of data as well as the human connection that social media can provide to develop deeper relationships with customers.
Here are seven ways brands are using social media to increase customer loyalty this year....
The Internet of Things will account for 9 billion devices by 2018 (Business Insider), mobile will account for 21% of all online purchases by 2015 (Google), and social network users will surpass 2 billion by 2016 (eMarketer). Ironically, despite the explosion of technology, channels and devices, today’s continuously connected consumers are harder to reach than ever before.!
This infographic breaks down the anatomy of the connected consumer to help your brand more effectively reach, engage and convert customers across today’s mobile and socially connected landscape....
When you think about conversion optimization, what comes to mind? Testing colors, call-to-action buttons, headlines, and other elements including text, right?
Although those elements do affect conversions, what about other design aspects such as typography?
I know what you are thinking. How the heck does typography affect conversions? Well, certain font types will affect people’s decisions in different ways. For example, if you are trying to get your users to agree with a passage, they are more likely to do so if you use the font type Baskerville....
Email marketing has become one of the strongest marketing tools in present time. Buyers are trying to reach their potential customers and consumers through emails. This is one of the most effective yet cost saving technology which allows any company to directly reach up to its customers.
Almost 70% of internet users buy online products and email marketing plays a very significant role in that. Email can efficiently carry all the information about a product that consumer can read and understand at ease.
Email communication also allows the consumer to revert back to the seller in case of any kind of query regarding their product and services....
I follow two rules in life:
1. Never trust a dog wearing a hat.
2. Never (completely) trust everything you read in a social media infographic.
However, infographics based on legitimate research and insights can be a form of digital gold dust too.
A couple great examples have surfaced recently and it prompted me to pull together 10 of the best social media and content marketing infographics I've seen in 2013....
The Internet is full of people sharing interesting things all day. From liking pictures on Facebook to retweeting cool articles, sharing is something everyone enjoys doing in one way or another. Yet receiving likes and retweets can seem impossible.
Via janlgordon
Below is a screen grab of a masterful interactive data visualization. This narrative-driven piece byPitch Interactive manages the extra-tricky task of balancing heavy subject matter with a clear story and compelling visuals. It's a glimpse into the future of data-driven storytelling. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the piece is that it wasn't commissioned by a media organization. It was built by Pitch as a way to explore and understand this complex topic. Bravo. The full data visualization is here — it's worth watching, and scrolling over for a more in-depth view.
In honor of Pi Day (3/14) we took a dive into our library to suss out some Pie Knowledge, and ended up with the above appetizing infographic revealing the flavor breakdown of the 85,748 “pie” search results from our library. Yes, we know that “Pi” equals 3.14159… and not “Pie,” but we couldn’t resist the delicious comparison. Any way you slice it, this is some tasty data, and our mouths water for data here at Shutterstock.
Email campaign success depends upon subscriber engagement. You can analyze subscriber engagement by answering some simple questions: What time do your readers normally browse through their inboxes?... One of the most important conclusions is that sending newsletters during readers’ top engagement times of 8 a.m. – 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. can increase their average open rates and CTR by 6%. However, optimizing email timing takes more than awareness of top engagement times. As our research points out, it’s a combination of many factors, including knowledge of time zone differences, your subscribers’ daily routines and the practices of other marketers. Find out more for yourself:
So you have an infographic – Now what? You understand the power of creative visual content and how ultra shareable infographics are, but not quite sure where to begin to push your infographic out to the world… Let’s break it down with a simple step-by-step guide to infographic marketing, link building, brand exposure and eyeballs!...
Via malek, massimo facchinetti
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The guys at Brooklyn's Pop Chart Lab's already put out the most comprehensive beer infographic on the planet, but you'd die of alcohol poisoning if you tried to drink your way through it, even in a year. Inspired by the annoyingly repetitive school bus tune, Pop Chart's latest is a lot more manageable. The 99 Bottles of Craft Beer on the Wall chart is a scratch-off checklist of almost 100 craft beers.
Are your email campaigns suffering from lackluster results? Try these 29 super tips to boost open rates, increase click-through and drive higher response rates faster than you can say "spam trigger."
The chemical and psychological makeup of our minds affects how we consume content: Our brains are wired to connect with compelling stories.
Brand storytelling tactics focus on different functions of the brain related to understanding and perception. The brain processes images 60 times faster than text, and 92 percent of consumers want brands to create stories around ads. Because of this, marketers should be delivering linear content with clear narratives and using images to tell their stories.
OneSpot has put together the following infographic to demonstrate how storytelling affects the brain and how brands can cut through the noise to offer stories that resonate with readers....
From scotch to bourbon, this chart categorizes all the types of whiskey.
Women access social media via mobile devices more than men and are driving the growth of the visual social web.
The top three reasons Women dominate social media shared by Golden Girl Finance were: - ‘Women not only use social media more often than men, but they use these sites in more ways’;
- ‘Women are leading the trend of using their phones and tablets to check their social media accounts’; and,
- ‘Women interact with brands more often and for a wider range of reasons and they consume and share news more frequently than men.’...
Brands are increasingly employing content marketing strategies to generate product awareness and drive demand. Keyword-optimized blog posts, white papers, press releases, articles, and social media content create brand awareness, inspire audience engagement, and move customers through the sales funnel from initial consideration to purchase. But how do you measure the success of each of your targeted activities?
The team at Brandpoint, a leading provider of content-based marketing solutions, helps their clients get their brand message out, establish their thought leadership and credibility within their industries. Here’s how they suggest that you track your content marketing success....
Social selling is at the core of what we do as marketers but one piece of the puzzle has been missing. We've forgot about the power of relationships.In a recent study, Introhive found that 98% of sales professionals believe that relationships are the most important aspect of sales. It sounds obvious when you hear it, but it’s rarely where time and efforts are spent. Thousands of professionals around the world are wasting time cold calling new prospects while ignoring the customers they already have. As a result, these customers are finding services and products at their competitors because they invested in building and establishing that relationship.
I've seen many businesses, primarily those in advertising and SEO, lose clients because they didn’t focus on the relationship. Don Draper once said, The day you sign a client is the day you start losing one. And it’s the truth. You need to focus on building a relationship with your clients that is built on trust and a clear understanding that you’re both looking to achieve their goals together.
You can do this by spending time on Twitter finding great content to share with your clients or taking them out for dinner. You might be surprised how easy it is to improve your relationships with existing clients and potential prospects using content marketing techniques or an old fashioned phone call. It’s the little gestures that can help take your relationships to the next level and make your career and business prosper....
Typically small business and startups, use email marketing to reach the target audience and drive conversion rate. But Now a days email marketing are getting a negative reputation, ending up discarded in spam inbox. INFLUENCE OF THE VIDEO According to a survey report from GetResponse, an email marketing company majority small business see videos as a virtual medium through which to communicate to their audience. HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY EMBED VIDEOS INTO AN EMAIL CAMPAIGN Sure, including glittery moving pictures in your strategy can gain attention but does it gainer any value? Here is a checklist to incorporate videos the right way....
This infographic explores the psychology of color and suggests why brands like McDonald’s and Pizza Hut prefer red whereas Lowe’s opts for blue.
With thousands of infographics posted on a daily basis, it can take a lot of work to get your latest creation the online attention it deserves. This can be problematic if you've invested the time, money and resources and the infographic fails in promotion. As the owner of both an infographic design agency and an infographic submission website, I've seen my share of promotion wins and promotion flops. While not all infographics have what it takes to make it in even the best of promotion circumstances, here are some tips for success....
The app economy is booming and with the opportunities it creates, app development is becoming one of the trendiest professions.
Stats and predictions for mobile content marketing, provided by corporate blogging platform, Compendium, and email marketing software, ExactTarget. Mobile content marketing is imperative to a bottom line and click throughs - plan, optimize, execute....
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What's cool and what's not at the Cannes Lions this year.