This past year many marketers struggled with their social media advertising efforts. From the pandemic to the election to the upcoming holiday season, CPMs have been largely unpredictable. In an effort to help brand marketers gear up for the final push of 2020, our team at...

Social media networks have gained a lot of criticism over the years for what they deem inappropriate or flag as an asset that doesn't comply with their ad policies and content guidelines. Just earlier this month, The Seed Company by EW Gaze shared how Facebook...

Your birthday must be on or before today’s date in 1998 to view this content. If we were advertising or selling alcohol you might see a similar message due to the restrictions put in place for marketing alcoholic beverages. In the US the marketing and...

Source: Facebook The off-Facebook Activity tool, also known as “Clear History”, will be launching in the United States on October 1st. The full roll-out should be complete by the end of the year. This tool has been in testing phases for a while and has rolled...

In experimenting with our own e-commerce platform, we thought long and hard about what these targets should be and how we should determine parameters for spend, optimization, and profit.  From this, we put together a few calculations to help you determine what ROAS benchmarks are...

Ignite Social Media received the Audience Honor at the Shorty Awards for both of the categories we applied for: Retail & E-commerce and Large Media Buying Strategy. There were some great submissions by top brands in each of the categories. Shorty Award Audience Honor: Retail &...

Many advertisers believe getting people to click is the driving force behind social media advertising. This social media ad objectives strategy suggests that users who are more likely to click on an ad will ultimately complete a desired action, following the notion of “if they...

On this week's edition of Ignite Your Week, our focus is on Instagram's new in-app checkout feature. Although it's still in beta testing, what we have heard is that Instagram expects to make about 10 billion dollars on this feature. Great for them, but what...

In this day and age, advertising on social media is practically a must if you want your target audience to see your brand message. With just under $24 billion in ad revenue in 2018, Facebook seems to be the basket that marketers have chosen to...

Since 2013, organic distribution of brand’s social media, especially on Facebook, has taken a hit. Today, brands are lucky to get 3% organic reach on their social content. This decrease in organic reach by platforms has caused a huge spike in brands paying billions of...

In the lush landscape of social networking sites, advertisers are left asking themselves which platform will reach their target audience while generating desired business results. It is no secret that Facebook has seen its fair share of scrutiny related to data and security breaches, leading...

Whether you are still finalizing your social media strategy or hitting the ground running with execution this year, our social media agency has compiled the following social media ad spending trends to help guide and inform your social advertising spending in 2019. Social Media Ad Spending...

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