Thrive Advertising is a 100% woman-owned business based in Washington state, serving clients across the United States. Founded in 2009 on a commitment to excellence, Thrive Advertising is not only a city of Seattle self-declared women-owned business but also a recognized entity by the Department of Enterprise Services mini-business program. Additionally, Thrive Advertising is on its journey toward achieving OMWBE …
Luxury Marketing: Advice to Advertisers Who Run Luxury Marketing Campaigns
We create advertising plans targeted to reach many demographics for our unique clients and their target markets. Demographics are how marketers categorize customer segments. By using statistical characteristics of populations, advertisers identify target audiences they want to reach with advertising. Since our core offering is media buying services, we’re media experts skilled at identifying the best channels for reaching custom …
What is a Media Buyer?
A media buyer is a professional who is responsible for the negotiation and ongoing management of purchasing advertising space for their clients. This typically involves conducting market research to identify the most appropriate channels for advertising, negotiating rates with media outlets, managing the placement and timing of advertisements to maximize their effectiveness, and making optimizations throughout ad campaigns to increase return on investments. Media buyers may work …
2022 advertising tactics. So, what types of advertising do we do?
Today, I had lunch with an old friend I hadn’t seen for about 20 years. We started catching up, and she asked a great question that I realized isn’t addressed on our website. So I thought, hey, that’s a great blog post! What type of advertising do we do at Thrive? When it comes to 2022 advertising tactics, we do …
How to Make Radio Advertising Work in 2022
My husband and I use media very differently. I stream podcasts, digital radio, and audiobooks when I’m at home or in the car. My husband is a radio guy. Radio advertising in 2022 works for my husband, but it doesn’t work for me. It doesn’t work on me because I don’t listen to the radio. My husband though is a …
Media Planner vs Media Buyer: do you know the differences?
Many marketing and business people wonder what the difference between a Media Buyer and Media Planner is. In a traditional sizeable creative agency environment, there are often separate roles for the Media Planner vs Media Buyer. A Media Planner is typically responsible for analyzing data to ensure that advertising campaigns reach the right demographic most efficiently. These folks assess the …
Media Buyers save you a fortune
Oh, let us count the ways that we’ve saved our customers a fortune time and time again… I started this business in 2008. Eleven years later, when I tell people in social settings what I do, they have no idea what I’m talking about. So here’s how I usually explain what a Media Buyer is to a friend when they’ve …
Here’s the Scoop on the Media We Buy Most
Much like you lean on the wisdom and experience of a trusted adviser to invest your personal money, working with our media buying team puts your advertising dollars in a powerful position. Thrive’s digital and traditional media buying services were created to bring you years of insider knowledge, through in-the-trenches experience in media sales. Uniquely positioned with “backstage pass” knowledge, …
Programmatic Marketing Agency: What is Programmatic Advertising?
Programmatic Marketing Agency might sound like industry jargon. Many of our customers were initially perplexed by the concept of programmatic advertising or were entirely unfamiliar with it before partnering with us. Programmatic marketing empowers you, the advertiser, to deliver personalized, always-on, and highly relevant ads to both current and potential customers. Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), programmatic advertising technology serves ads …
This ONE Marketing Mistake is Costing You Thousands
Over the past decade we’ve had the privilege of working with countless Marketing Managers. One of the things we enjoy the most is getting to know each of them and learning how they work best. We’ve learned a lot from our clients. They provide us opportunities to learn alongside them while discussing marketing challenges and we find that those experiences …