On February 5th, approximately 1.5 billion people around the world will celebrate the Lunar New Year otherwise known as the Chinese New Year. A major occasion in several countries, nowhere is it celebrated more than in China. Regardless of trade tensions between the U.S. and China, brands rightly see the Lunar New Year as a […]
In this second piece of our 3-part series on Programmatic Advertising, we build on the basics covered on Part 1 and dive deeper into how the bidding process works and the role machines and people, or “traders”, play in running and optimizing programmatic campaigns. Suggested Reading: Understanding the Basics of Programmatic Advertising As mentioned in […]
For the fourth year in a row, Ad Age honored leading independent digital company PMG with a spot its annual Best Places to Work list. The list celebrates companies in advertising and marketing for their commitment to driving employee growth and satisfaction. The recognition is particularly powerful given how much PMG has grown over that […]
2018 was a year of remarkable change for the SEM landscape. GDPR rocked EMEA strategies and practices, Responsive Search Ads more than doubled the amount of content that you could be put into a single ad, Bing launched LinkedIn targeting capabilities, AdWords became Google Ads, and SO much more. But more than anything else, 2018 […]
Tencent’s mobile messaging app WeChat has amassed a staggering user base with more than one billion monthly active users in Q3 of 2018. In the app’s early stages, it appeared to be a Chinese replica of Facebook, but in its current state, WeChat transformed from a social messaging app to more of an ‘everything’ app for its primary user […]
Before I dive into to Terraform and all its power, I want to make it clear how little I knew about infrastructure before I started working with Terraform and AWS. On our team here at PMG, we like to have everyone be as full-stack as possible so that you’re able to understand what’s going on within a […]
Remember that frustrating time when you had to perform multiple search queries before Google finally returned what you were looking for? Gone are those days – thanks to featured snippets! The Google search engine result page (SERP) has changed drastically over the years. Much of Google’s focus has been to provide results to user queries […]
PMG’s Carly Carson shared her thoughts with Campaign US today about our culture’s march towards greater equality, diversity and inclusion. According to Carson, examples of progress “are not just coming from inside the four walls of the advertising industry. Frances McDormand’s call to arms to employ Inclusion Riders in contracts during her Oscars speech and powerhouse […]
The vast and over-complicated media landscape has resulted in an outcome that definitely doesn’t seem to align with the “vast and over-complicated” tagline: increased accessibility. Anyone with a computer has the power at their fingertips to deliver their message via social media ads, search engine marketing, display banners, and more to their current or potential […]
One of the many learning and developmental initiatives offered by PMG is the opportunity to attend industry conferences relevant to an employee’s role at PMG. In October, I had the awesome opportunity to attend Adobe MAX: The Creativity Conference along with my coworker and fellow designer, Cynthia De La Torre. Adobe, the leader in creative […]