RTB House Editorial Team

The calendar year is full of marketing events that brands can ride like waves to elevate results. But the increased conversions that retail holidays inspire are more likely to be seen as largely expected rather than genuinely additive to growth. So, how can your brand’s digital marketing go from “expectations met” to “expectations exceeded” and leverage promo periods to a greater extent than competitors?

One way to do this is by outplanning your rivals. Because planning and preparedness is as important as having the right technology in place.

Travel industries face numerous challenges when marketing online. To help you better understand how to form your marketing strategy for the modern world, we’ve compiled a series of 2-minute podcasts hosted by Jim Price, Head of Travel for RTB House America. Here’s a sneak peek of the first few.

Where are we in the evolution of artificial intelligence, and what is its place in the marketing ecosystem? To harness the true future potential of any technology, we need to understand its capabilities and limitations today.

Ask ten marketers whether you should run two retargeting vendors simultaneously and you'll get ten different answers. We think the data settles it—but we'll let you decide.

Core takeaway

Multiple retargeting means running two or more retargeting vendors simultaneously against the same pool of site visitors. Because each vendor uses different algorithms to evaluate user intent, they identify different high-value opportunities within the same audience. The result: more conversions, without proportionally increasing your budget. The biggest objections—overlap, bid inflation, added complexity—don't hold up under scrutiny. The data consistently favors a stack approach.

Online purchases now account for approximately 20% of all fashion sales, and potential customers can engage with your brand across multiple channels. This constant communication has transformed the way fashion ads are delivered to customers and greatly expanded the potential for personalization.

From the printing press to Deep Learning, the history of marketing shadows all our great leaps forward in communications technology. It is the marketer’s job to identify how these novel technologies can be used to reach potential customers, and educate them about products and services that enrich their lives.

The printing press let us create posters, radio and television enabled us to speak to people in their homes, and the internet gave us new ways to sell to people. Today, we’d like to take a moment to dive into how marketers can take advantage of the next big leap forward in technology: Deep Learning.