4 Common Reasons Your Advertising Strategy Fails

Have you ever heard of a Demographer? A Demographer is someone who studies human populations, in particular, their size and composition. They study births, deaths, and migration. An advertising strategy that is crafted with demography is more effective and delivers greater ROI! Demography in Advertising Demographer Ken Gronbach explains that Demography demonstrates the “enormous power of counting people, promote[s] the …

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 …

3 Ways to Boost Your Biz with Google Analytics

Thank you Huffington Post Writer Angela Schonberg for this guest blog. Reporting on a website’s Google Analytics data is an investigative dig that can be viewed and tracked daily, weekly, monthly or annually. The tool tracks the behavioral flow of web traffic in and out of your site on a daily basis. Within this realm marketers, website managers and business …

Join Us at the KOMO Toy Tour Benefiting The Salvation Army

Join us tomorrow at the #komotoytour benefiting The Salvation Army. Help bring joy to local kids along with our client Law Offices of Harold D. Carr. They generously sponsored the phone bank tomorrow and will be delivering toys they’ve been collecting at their offices. Their team and ours will be accepting donations through the phone bank and collecting new, unwrapped …

Advertising Demographic: Chinese Consumers in the U.S.

Today we’re working on a media plan specifically targeting a niche demographic, Chinese Consumers. We’ve been looking specifically at local publications and also at the largest publisher in the U.S. which happens to have a local presence here in Seattle. There are other ways to reach this target demographic that we’d be happy to discuss with an interested advertiser in …

Spot Market TV Commercial – Seattle Market

Thought we’d share something we’ve been working on. We just placed a spot market buy in the Seattle Market (Nielsen Media Market DMA Rank #14) for USA Reading Clinics. Below is their spot which was produced by TVA Media Inc. Their TV messaging is mainly focused on reaching moms of children who are struggling with reading; and who have already …

What is a Media Buyer?

Hi Blog Reader! I’m Thrive’s Lead Media Buyer and I thought I’d answer some questions about what we do at Thrive and why what we bring to the table is so valuable to you as a business owner or marketing director. We believe in the K.I.S.S. theory. Keep. It. Simple. Stupid. So here are simple answers to the most commonly …