AI-induced anxiety and SEO volatility among top 10 challenges for marketers in 2024  

Marketing and PR leaders are facing sleepless nights from a series of complex challenges in 2024, with SEO volatility, landing PR coverage, upskilling, and AI-induced anxiety around job security topping a list compiled following new research.  

With the marketing and PR industries already facing high burn out rates and poor mental health, and a new CIPD study reporting that 76% of employees have experienced some form of stress-related staff absence, the new data...

25 March 2024 | Automation

‘Bullish’ marketing industry plans to boost spending power in 2024

UK marketing leaders are gearing up for a ‘bullish’ 2024, with more than 70% planning to boost digital budgets this year, new data shows.  

Following four years of economic flatlining and commercial pressures for many of the UK’s top marketers, 2024 is expected to see a resurgence in industry optimism, with increased investment being directed in key growth areas including AI, websites, SEO, broadcast and podcasts, as well as email and content...

12 February 2024 | Automation

MediaVision introduces ‘ground-breaking’ predictive SEO tool

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MediaVision, the integrated digital performance agency, has unveiled a new tech stack giving advertisers the keys to predictive SEO, weekly share of search data, and digital demand tracking at a brand and product level.

The company claims the tech marks a significant development in the performance market’s capabilities, and is designed to fill the gaps left by major platforms by combining data sets and sources beyond their current means.

Including three products, whose...

20 May 2022 | Organic Search

5 things to consider when taking a content-first approach to SEO

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One of the biggest SEO mistakes companies make is within the SEO content strategy itself.

So much time and attention are paid to keywords, page titles, schemas, internal linking, and, of course, the all-important heading tags (think H1s, H2s, and so on) that the actual words on a page become almost an afterthought. This isn’t to say that the technical aspects of search engine optimisation are inconsequential — it’s more that content will always be the catalyst for a...

6 December 2021 | Content Marketing

65% of UK CEOs think marketers focus on analytics too much

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CEOs are beginning to question the analytics used by marketers to target campaigns, and instead want what they feel is a clearer link to business goals.

Research from behavioral targeting platform Bango, in which more than 200 CEOs were quizzed, found that 55% consider digital marketing metrics “meaningless” if they aren’t directly associated with sales. Nearly two thirds (62%) of CEOs also feel that too much marketing budget is wasted on activities that don’t deliver...

2 June 2021 | Web Analytics

10 practical ways to grow your local business with digital marketing in 2021

Digital marketing for local business is quite different from how to do marketing for a national or global business.

Yes, we mostly use the same channels - but, in a different fashion.

Local businesses target local people, who are geographically around. They may seem easier to reach without digital marketing; however, it's been long since consumers started searching online before they buy basically anything.

More than 90% of users searched for local businesses...

4 February 2021 | Advertising