Sherrilynne Starkie

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New report resurrects AVE measurement for influencer campaigns

Sherrilynne Starkie

More often than not, clients didn’t buy it. First of all, it’s easy to buy followers and costs as little as $10 for a thousand. Then it was our practice to calculate how much a client would have had to pay for an ad the same size as an editorial piece. They still don’t. So where’s the influence?

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Top Five: social networks push new shopping features

Sherrilynne Starkie

Most of Pinterest’s content is business related as users share products they might be interested in buying some day. Pinterest is opening up shopping ads to more retailers following a successful pilot program. Shopping Ads automatically create promoted pins from an existing product feed making advertising an effortless task for retailers.

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Top Five: YouTube’s fake news fight

Sherrilynne Starkie

Users can 'buy now'. Another nail in the coffin for Fake News. Augmented Reality could come to Facebook news feed ads soon. Jul 13, 2018. Facebook is testing the use of AR for product ads in the news feed. The ads resemble normal in-feed ads and they include a “tap to try it on” option to open the AR features.

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Native advertising is here to stay

Sherrilynne Starkie

I go to Dell to buy hardware, not words.”. In a Forbes survey of 2,259 people, those viewing branded content were 41 per cent more likely to say they would buy the product. “We The issue is native advertising’s potential to confuse readers about what is and what is not news.

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How to fire your PR agency

Sherrilynne Starkie

More PR Agencies Move Into Media Buying. Do keep things polite and professional. Even when differences are irreconcilable remember that business is not personal. Trump-style declarations serve no purpose other than to feed the ego of the person delivering the news, and they risk causing hard feelings. Don’t carry tales.

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Do John Naisbitt’s Megatrend predictions still hold true for 2018?

Sherrilynne Starkie

They expand their ranges of influence by buying competitors and branching into new realms such as the driverless vehicle.) . Centralized hierarchical structures become a thing of the past as flatter decentralised corporations become more nimble to cope with the accelerating pace of change. (He He got this one right.) (A

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