Social media holds a significant and influential place in the customer life cycle, according to a study from Google’s Wildfire division, conducted by Forrester. Among the major findings is that social advertising is an effective way to alert consumers about new products and services. The four stages According to Forrester, there are four stages of…

David Shackley, executive creative director at RedPeg Marketing offers a look into the new order of creatives.

LinkedIn is, unsurprisingly, the go-to social media platform for B2B lead generation, but Facebook isn’t too far behind. The question is whether B2B marketers know how to maximize their lead-gen efforts on Facebook, which is known much more for its ability to reach consumers rather than business decision-makers. A slideshow posted by HubSpot on SlideShare…

According to a study from Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and Ovum, brand marketers’ mobile budgets grew 142 percent between 2011 and 2013. In the update to the 2011 “Marketer Perceptions of Mobile Advertising” survey, 32 percent of marketers say they have annual mobile budgets exceeding $300,000, which dwarfs the 7 percent of marketers who had…