Media

OUR FAVORITE TIME OF THE YEAR

Are you the type of person that prefers quiet and relatively uneventful working days? If so, the 4th quarter in database marketing and advertising world is not the place for you. Here at DigDev, this is by far our favorite time of the year! Why you ask; let me explain. The 4th quarter is the time of the year when budgets are rolled out. You have spent the first nine months of the year running counts for your clients [...]

INTERACTIVE AD SPENDS ARE OFFICIALLY LARGER THAN THE GDP OF SOME COUNTRIES

In case you needed another reason to 'go interactive' as an advertiser or marketer... Here's one more in the form of a great article from DM News.  And we can't say we're surprised (or complaining, for that matter). Interactive advertising spends -- driven by mobile ad sales -- have swamped advertising's until-now golden child (and money pit) that is TV. Clocking in at a cool $42.8 Billion in 2013 per the Interactive Advertising Bureau's  report cited in the article, this represents a 17% [...]

REDEFINING RECENCY: WHY DIGDEV’S HOTLINE NUMBERS ARE MORE THAN JUST “NEW TO MARKET”

Perhaps now more than ever, advertisers are seeking hotline data on behalf of their clients.  Indeed, new to market data – especially in the current advertising economy, is critical as advertisers scramble to increase their REACH to new potential customers AND ensure recent behaviors that define a requested data set are fresh AND unique so as to offer the highest yield of potential new respondents. Strategically speaking, the logic behind asking for a hotline file stacks up to more critical [...]