To help ourselves, our clients, and the industry orient themselves in this new voice-powered ecosystem, we launched the PMG Voice Lab. The initiative is a long-term investment in research, analysis, and experimentation in the field of voice search and voice-enabled technologies and opportunities. In our first Voice Lab analysis, we put the top voice-enabled technologies […]
In the PMG Voice Lab’s first analysis, we put the top voice-enabled technologies to the test to see how their AI capabilities compare, and most importantly, identify what brands can do to optimize their content for voice search. Download your copy of PMG’s voice search white paper, Why Voice Matters: Identifying the Latest Opportunities in Voice […]
We at PMG (and other digital marketers) use Google products day in and day out, but in recent weeks, we’ve experienced some out of the ordinary occurrences that, in short, have thrown us for a loop. Maybe you can relate? DoubleClick Outage Nearly ten years to the day after Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick, the advertising […]
We’re already placing our bets to see how long Google continues allowing advertisers to make static text ads. Ads that look like this blog’s title are already commonplace and it’s only going to get more complex (while also WAY more accurate and relevant). In this day and age, it just doesn’t make sense to slap some […]
“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true” – James Branch Cabel Despite these times, I have always leaned to a more optimistic perspective. Needless to say but the last 7 months have been trying for our world. The global fight against terror, […]
You down with UGC? Yeah, you know me! Not me literally, but that’s what some advertisers might soon be saying thanks to a new ad format being rolled out on Reddit. Unfamiliar with Reddit? Well, it’s a popular timesuck “news source” letting users from all over the world share news stories, random tidbits, […]
June 28, 2016 – a day that will live in infamy. Hopefully not, but maybe. After letting the dust settle on the Fourth of July holiday weekend, we at PMG have continued to notice a disturbing, but familiar, trend. Google Brand CPCs (average cost-per-click) are on the rise. Yes. Again. This time, in mobile. What […]
Google Search Console — Webmaster Tools is dead! Long live Webmaster Tools! — has updated their Search Analytics feature set with a powerful new piece of functionality. Now webmasters can compare the performance of specific queries against one another. This comparative analysis was previously possible across the other major dimensions of Search Analytics (Pages, Countries, Devices, Dates, […]
Through my last 3 and a half years at PMG I’ve made it no secret that I love working specifically on International strategies. After all, I did study International Marketing in school (with a Digital emphasis) – so it only seems natural that in my post-grad career I’d gravitate towards doing exactly that! What I […]
When Google announced the removal of right rail ads in the SERP, the digital community went wild. There was talk of CPC jumps, drastic spend increases, and chaos for digital marketing strategy everywhere. As the dust settles from the changes, results are not nearly as stark as originally projected. We pulled CPC, CTR, and Avg Pos. […]