Amazon has rolled out the ability for eligible advertisers to add their brand logo and customize the headline in Sponsored Display ads.

The customized Sponsored Display units can run on product description pages, customer reviews, shopping results pages and under the Featured Offer. The ads render responsively to fit inventory units on the web, mobile and in-app.

Why we care. The personalization features roll out globally just ahead of Prime Day(s) today and tomorrow and the holiday shopping rush to follow. Amazon recommends using Sponsored Display product targeting to boost page views for new or under-exposed products in your catalog.

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With over 8,000 martech tools in Scott Brinker’s landscape, harnessing data for business can be a challenge. But there are some key ways you can maximize resources between marketing and IT teams to leverage insights for better marketing and business outcomes. Join this webinar and learn how to build partnerships between Marketing and IT teams to manage martech tools and connect martech data to reporting tools for improved real-time insights.

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Creating a diverse workforce is a lot easier than most people think, and that was the topic of discussion during Wednesday’s MarTech Live panel discussion that featured Elizabeth Cotton, CEO and founder of Career Mingle and Dennis Schulz, national president and executive director of Blacks in Technology Foundation. 

The panel discussion focused on recruitment tactics and utilizing Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) as personnel pipelines. There are 107 HBCUs in over 20 states in the U.S. as well as Washington, D.C. and the Virgin Islands. The personnel pipeline is made easier by recruiting more diverse candidates who tend to be more loyal employees where they find co-workers that look like them or have similar backgrounds. 

Why we care. Marketers constantly talk about identifying and implementing the proper customer experience. It is a task that can be made easier with a more diverse workforce.

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If link clicks is your primary objective for your Instagram Story ads, you should consider using video. The average click-through rate on Instagram image story ads is .29% compared to .59% for video story ads, according to a study from Socialinsider and Wave.video. The study looked at 661,565 stories and 64,571 story ads published between April 2019 and September 2020.

Why we care. Link clicks ranked as the top objective for Story ads in the study, followed by conversions. However, video Story ads also outperformed images on tap forward and exit rates and had higher reply rates. The study found 52% of brand Stories are already using video to boost performance and engagement.

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