Here Comes the AI Cavalry: Highlights from Google Marketing Live 2023
Picture this: a gathering of brilliant minds, industry leaders, and an abundance of acronyms like SEM, P-Max, ROI, ML, and AI as far as the eye can see. Now, add a ton of futuristic AI advancements into the mix, and you've got yourself Google Marketing Live 2023. In this edition of the company’s annual event showcasing their latest innovations and thinking around digital marketing, Google kicked off with a reality check. Today’s customers are smarter, exhibit increasingly sophisticated shopping behavior, and...
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Here Comes the AI Cavalry: Highlights from Google Marketing Live 2023
Picture this: a gathering of brilliant minds, industry leaders, and an abundance of acronyms like SEM, P-Max, ROI, ML, and AI as far as the eye can see. Now, add a ton of futuristic AI advancements into the mix, and you've got yourself Google Marketing Live 2023. In this edition of the company’s annual event showcasing their latest innovations and thinking around digital marketing, Google kicked off with a reality check. Today’s customers are smarter, exhibit increasingly sophisticated shopping behavior, and...
Data-Driven Marketing Transformation Guide: 10 Steps to Build a Winning First-Party Data Marketing Strategy
Our 2022 DELVE CMO Survey Report showed some promising — and troubling — trends among top marketing leaders around the globe. One thing is clear: Leading brands are accelerating their digital marketing transformations and rapidly activating first-party data to drive next-generation marketing strategies. No matter where your organization is at today in terms of marketing transformation, there are clear best practices for building and executing winning first-party data strategy. Here are 10 tips that DELVE has...
3 Mindset-Shifting Recommendations for Turning Personalization Pressure to Your Competitive Advantage
Today, there’s a lot of talk about consumers wanting hyper-personalized experiences at every step of their journeys with brands. It isn’t hype. Almost 1,000 consumers we surveyed in our 2022 Digital Friendly Brand Index told us so. They said they expect brand communication to be relevant to their needs and delivered as often as they like via their favorite channels. If you’re a marketing leader, this means the pressure to personalize is indeed on. According to our in-house research, you're likely...
Target Net-New Donors with Intent Data: Not for Profit Transformation Series
Learn how intent data can help reveal fresh, relevant audiences who may already be searching for your NFP's cause. Earlier in this series, we discussed the importance of knowing your donors, and in our previous article we described how to append second-party data to your existing donor database. In our experience, both of these methods will help your NFP identify potential donors to target in marketing and advertising. However, only a small percentage of the people exposed to ads are actually actively...
Append Second-Party Data to Your Donor File: Not for Profit Transformation Series
Learn how other organizations' data can help you identify net-new donors to target in your advertising. In our previous article, Learn More About Your Current Donors, we described how to start finding net-new donors by executing several basic qualitative and quantitative research projects. Next, we want to talk about how to identify specific groups of people who may be a great fit for your NFP, but who aren’t in your core file yet—especially donors who are Gen Z, Millennials, or even Centennials—by using...
Learn More About Your Current Donors: Not for Profit Transformation Series
Discover how qualitative and quantitative research can help drive more effective messaging and attract like-minded new donors. Oftentimes, a nonprofit may set a goal about generating “net-new” donors, but fail to define the target audience(s) in enough detail to allow the in-house marketing team or agency to create campaigns and messaging. This usually stems from the fact that they don’t have a deep understanding of their existing best donors—so they don’t know how to look for more like...
Create Personalized NFP Landing Pages: Not for Profit Transformation Series
Learn how implementing a tailored page for each initiative can help maximize your marketing and advertising investments. Previously in this series, we discussed that donation growth comes from personalization driven by the right first-party data strategy, how NFPs can develop initiative "flags" in their marketing warehouses to enable personalization through data, and the importance of ad creative personalization. In this article, we will address the importance of landing page personalization. Landing pages...
Personalize Your NFP Ad Creative: Not for Profit Transformation Series
Learn more about creating personalized campaigns, using programmatic advertising as an example. So far in our NFP series, we discussed how a strong first-party data strategy will allow your NFP to group existing core audiences by implicit or explicit signals into logical interest groups or "initiatives," and how your internal or agency Media teams can upload these segmented audiences into their media platforms for search, display, social and other digital platforms, and execute personalized advertising that...
Use Segmentation to Target Donor Interests: Not for Profit Transformation Series
Learn how to export your segmented audiences to ad platforms—and power personalized advertising. The first article in this series, Improve Performance with Personalization, described how your NFP can “flip the script” with traditional channels (direct mail, email) and personalize messaging to resonate better with your core audiences. Now, let's talk about integration among direct mail, email and digital—in other words, how to deploy a personalization-driven omnichannel strategy. What do we mean by a...
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