Viral Marketing: What does it take to go viral?

Curious about viral marketing? If you haven’t already, it’s time to check out this quick, insightful TED talk about with Dao Nguyen, a media Analytics Expert at Buzzfeed. Buzzfeed, is known to have a knack for what will go viral. (How else can you explain 800,000 people gathering online to watch nearly 700 rubber bands combust a watermelon?!?)  As a …

What’s OTT Advertising? Over the Top & Advanced TV

As TV viewing habits continue to change, advertisers are searching for new ways to engage with these fragmented audiences. We’re seeing more and more marketers shifting a large portion of their ad budgets to over-the-top, or “OTT advertising”, services which draw a growing number of viewers away from traditional television advertising, particularly those from the younger demos advertisers covet. (AdWeek 1.17.18) …

Seattle Advertising Agency: How to advertise your business

As the owner of a Seattle advertising agency, I can relate to business owners who are weighing heavily their advertising investments for 2018. With media fragmentation and 100+ cold calls a month from media reps pitching “the best opportunity”, “fire sale prices” or “their best station/website/audience” etc., how is the owner of a company (who has a million other things …

Real Estate Advertising: Luxury Real Estate

These beautiful real estate advertising ads were designed by one of Seattle’s best graphic designers, Bryce Bernard, for our luxury real estate client Summerwell Homes. New Year, New Home! Imagine starting the new year in an award-winning luxury new home community just minutes from the city! o Summerwell’s 16 homes, designed by renowned McCullough Architects, reflect a contemporary design aesthetic …

Luxury Marketing: advertising to an affluent demographic

We market to many demographics. Our service and value proposition for our advertising clients is knowing the media market and understanding through experience the best media channels for reaching specific demographics. A demographic in particular that we’ve been recognized for being successful at reaching is advertising to the affluent. Luxury marketing to affluent consumers is not as easy as geotargeting …

Media Buying Tips: 2018 Advertising Plans

2018 is here! If you’re like some of our clients you may be having that moment of realizing your 2018 advertising plans should have been in place. Don’t panic. We’re working on 2018 media buying right now and this is an excellent time to do it! While it’s always nice to book early, and 4th quarter does give more time …

Traditional Advertising Agency – 2018 Advertising Costs

There are so many media options in 2018 that many business owners feel overwhelmed by the volume of cold calls they receive from advertising reps calling to sell them advertising. Our clients forward our traditional advertising agency sales pitches nearly every day that they’d like us to take a look at. Over the past 10 years we’ve seen thousands and …

Digital Advertising Agency – Using Demography

What is Demography? Stockholm University defines it as “the study of human populations – their size, composition and distribution across space – and the process through which populations change. Births, deaths and migration are the ‘big three’ of demography, jointly producing population stability or change.” How is Demography relevant to media buying and advertising? Demography is important in understanding marketing …

Digital Advertising Seattle Xennials: Meet the Demographic between Gen X and Millennials

Finally! My generational identity has been defined! Thank you Marleen Stollen und Gisela Wolf for accurately painting the picture of the challenge that so many advertisers, trying to reach this unique demographic, face. There are major differences between a Millennial and a Generation X. Now those differences can be classified into a neat and tidy demographic of it’s own! Meet …