Author: SPI Collective
If you’ve ever attended an audio recording session in person you know that it can be an amazing experience. Sound is often a more powerful sense than sight. A recording engineer can put scripted words together with a rough read, and the perfect score, to craft a masterpiece. And well-placed sound...
Behavioral Targeting 101
Written by SPI Collective on . Posted in Media Buying.
Broadly speaking, behavioral targeting is a method of digital ad targeting that collects information about a person’s online behavior and leverages this information to create and serve up precisely targeted ads.
The system that makes this possible starts with tracking the behavior of someone on a...
The Changing Face of Outdoor: Digital Out of Home
Written by SPI Collective on . Posted in Media Buying.
Billboards … outdoor … out of home … as the name evolved so did most other things about this traditional media category. Today, Digital Out of Home (DOOH) is the name of this quickly growing and changing channel.
Expanded DOOH Creative Capabilities …
No longer “set it and forget it” for a month or...
A Not-So-Animated Guide to Animation
Written by SPI Collective on . Posted in Video Production.
Animation is a great way to grab attention, make almost any concept easier to understand or add personality to your brand. Today animation is well within the reach of the average marketing or training video budget. However, different types of animation are suitable for different companies, purposes...
Five Tips for Effective Geofencing
Written by SPI Collective on . Posted in Media Buying.
Most advertisers have heard of geofencing: creating a virtual geographic fence around a location. Specifically, it’s a location-based digital marketing tactic that lets marketers place banner, native or other digital ads that target smartphone users in a specific, defined geographic area. The area...
Whiteboard Videos Make Drawn Out Concepts Easy to Understand
Written by SPI Collective on . Posted in Video Production.
For most of history, humans have used simple pictures to tell stories … think prehistoric cave drawings and hieroglyphics. Today, as scientific and technological concepts are becoming exponentially more complex, there is a definite trend toward using increasingly simple pictures to describe them....
Programmatic Continues to Soar!
Written by SPI Collective on . Posted in Media Buying.
Traditional media buying meant a lot of hands-on work: research, proposals, negotiating, manual insertion orders, etc. When a major part of ad spending shifted to digital, this process became even more arduous. Enter the efficiency and precision of programmatic media buying. In short, programmatic...
Training Videos: Grab Attention and Increase Employee Retention
Written by SPI Collective on . Posted in Video Production.
Hear the word “training” and you might think of a large manual full of dry writing and dull illustrations. Often, this isn’t the most effective way to communicate important information. Training videos, when well scripted and produced, can be a more interesting and engaging method.
Training plays...
Advertising Videos on Twitter
Written by SPI Collective on . Posted in Video Production.
Video has a starring role on Twitter! Twitter practically invented the viral video and it’s home to some of the most iconic videos of all time. Who hasn’t let out a loud aaaaawwe at Cache the yellow Labrador retriever getting his pretend ear medication.
https://twitter.com/chloecopley_05/status/1039725587055759360?s=20
Or...
Creating Winning Marketing Videos for Twitter
Written by SPI Collective on . Posted in Video Production.
There’s no question about the popularity of Twitter video as a marketing tool. Per Twitter, video is their fastest growing advertising vehicle, with more than 2 billion video views on the platform every day. Additionally, according to Wyzowl, 79% of consumers prefer to learn about a product via video...