There are a lot of uncertainties these days, which tend to boggle brains and stifle activities. We are continually bombarded with information about the COVID-19 virus, and what we’re supposed to be doing to avoid it. But we don’t hear nearly enough about one of the best remedies to the boredom of staying self-quarantined – laughter! Just as we did for last year’s National Programmatic Day, we want to offer a few tidbits that just may help you with the laughing part of staying home:

With the world grappling with the coronavirus pandemic and more and more people being confined to their homes, today’s customer experience is more important than ever. As online audiences stay glued to their device screens in search of answers and distractions, the digital ads they encounter will play a big role in their decision-making process, making the customer experience important. In fact, 84% of people say experiences are just as important (if not more so) than a company’s products.

Due to the coronavirus lockdowns and social distancing measures, consumers are spending more time online at home than ever before, which gives marketers an opportunity to capture more eye-balls, all at once. But life has drastically changed for consumers, which means your business strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic should as well. Not sure where to start? Here are a few ideas and tips other companies have successfully employed to help get you started:

During the 1980s recession, studies found that businesses who continued to advertise throughout the economic downturn came out 256% ahead of their competitors who didn’t advertise! Some brands hesitate moving forward with marketing plans due to the coronavirus pandemic and an unpredictable future. But the worst thing you can do in a crisis is panic! A lot of brands get it and are upping their game Here are our top five reasons why any serious business should continue advertising and/or branding at full-speed:

Programmatic advertising has absolutely boomed over the last ten years – and with good reason; it’s effectiveness is unparalleled in the marketing industry. It’s part of the “leaps and bounds” that we have seen happening with the technological marketing landscape Along with the data come the data providers who are making claims and promises that aren’t always easy to keep. However, dependable and knowledgeable providers are priceless. Genius Monkey uses these sources to develop demographic segments to be incorporated into our advanced marketing technology, so we must utilize data from dependable sources that meet Genius Monkey’s standards of excellence.

We’re excited to announce our latest article published on Forbes! Genius Monkey’s CRO, Jeremy Hudgens, is a proud member of Forbes Business Council, and as such, we have the privilege of publishing articles through Forbes every month or so. Our featured Forbes article last month, titled Trouble In Kansas? Why Coffeyville is Reporting So Much Traffic and What To Do About It, covered the geolocation issues behind Google Analytics default reporting measures.

Point to an industry of any sort and you can almost guarantee there’s a space within it for intermediary parties. In law, you’ll find mediators; in entertainment, you’ll find agents. And in most (or many) cases, these intermediary figures play an important role, even if the earnings seem to be a tad disproportionate. In the digital advertising industry, ad servers have long been the intermediaries whose presence is generally taken for granted.

The work of creating product markets, converting clicks into transactions, and maintaining a clear picture of the process as its unfolding - these are the responsibilities and challenges required of businesses of all sizes, regardless of the space in which they operate. The last of these, maintaining a clear picture of the process, is arguably the most demanding and technologically dependent of those actions, as it is predicated on the business’s ability to track consumer behavior in ways both accurate and sustained while extracting from their findings an actionable data set.

Meet Our Newest Integration: TapClicks! Recently, we announced our integration with NinjaCat, a trusted reporting and monitoring platform that can aggregate all our clients’ campaign data in a single place, simply by pulling data from numerous sources–including Genius Monkey. And today we’re proud to announce our newest integration partner - TapClicks! TapClicks is a leading marketing dashboard and reporting platform for publishers, marketing agencies and media companies. Their marketing solutions platform features reporting, analytics, and management tools.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, can we put a number on a video? Believe it or not, the answer is yes. As a brand, it’s easy to shy away from video advertising or dismiss it all together. The tendency is to assume that the worth and effectiveness of video lands in that giant gray area of ambiguity. But videos have received a lot of attention in research recently.