If you have an e-commerce business, you probably want to make sales. If your website isn’t up-to-date or maintained properly, you’ll be missing out on customers and cash flow. Create an amazing first impression by providing users a personalized shopping experience. Keep your website and purchase process updated and fix problems that arise. A great e-commerce website isn’t just about using the best font or colors—it’s about using great content, providing a safe space away from fraud, and allowing customers to easily navigate your site.

The leadership around here at Genius Monkey has a saying they always reiterate: “The only way to see the future is to always be innovating and adjusting . . . not adapting. If you are adapting, it’s too late.” COVID-19 brought even more popularity to binge-watching, which dramatically fast-forwarded the streaming industry at an outrageous pace. People did adapt—to watching streamed content around the clock. So the marketing industry also had to adapt quickly.

Rumors spiked this past week over Meta and the possibility they could remove Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook from the European Union, as issues over red-tape, regulations, and data arise. Meta released a report recently that explained the reasons for their possible withdrawal from the EU. According to AdWeek, the European regulators are working on legislation to establish how EU citizens’ data will be transferred to the U.S. while withdrawing from a major market is an extreme outcome, this is a reminder that marketers should not put all their eggs in one basket.

Today, we’re talking about LOVE. But not the kind you see in a Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan movie. Yes, we love the romantic side of this special holiday in February, but if you know us, you know we gotta talk about what we love most—marketing, digital advertising, and all things programmatic. So today, we’re inviting you to our candlelit dinner table to talk about LOVE. We’ve created a L-O-V-E acronym for marketing that gives you advertising tips from our experts.

On Sunday, February 13, 2022, millions will gather in their homes—and at SoFi Stadium in California—to watch one of the greatest sports spectacles around: The Super Bowl. Super Bowl 56 is expected to be a big event, with perhaps more watching at home in lieu of COVID-19/Omicron surges in the past two months. Still, one thing we can all agree on is that the advertisements during the Super Bowl are some of the most creative and funniest to be seen.

Supply-chain shortages can really frustrate the flow of business. In the past year, we’ve seen more shortages than ever. According to CNBC, the supply-chain blockages in the production system, “have affected a variety of sectors . . . ranging from shortages of electronics and autos to difficulties in the supplies of meat, medicines and household products.” But shortages in the supply chain don’t mean you have to sit and twiddle your thumbs.

As a leader in programmatic advertising, Genius Monkey knows that a well-rounded strategy includes display first and then other programmatic services added on to complement display. In fact, data shows that display campaigns are the backbone of almost every successful digital marketing media plan. Genius Monkey recently conducted a study in which we took a large sample of clients who were running multiple programmatic mediums (display, video, audio, OTT/CTV, etc) at once to analyze how each medium yielded conversions working together, and the results were no surprise to us!

On November 10 in 2021, Russian cybercriminal Aleksandr Zhukov was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his digital ad scam, stealing more than $7 million from U.S. advertisers and publishers for more than 2 years. How did he do it? Russian “King of Ad Fraud” Gets Caught In 2014, Zhukov started an advertising network and received payments from other ad networks to place advertisements on websites. But instead of putting ads on real web pages, he rented 2,000 computer servers and put them in data centers, programming them to act like humans viewing ads.

The Internet came to life 38 years ago. The first iPhone was released 14 years ago. The first television advertisement was a 10-second video during a baseball game in 1941, 80 years ago. It may seem like many years have passed, but all of these developments, from TV to cell phones, appeared in the last 100 years and have changed our lives forever. Soon after these inventions came advertising on these devices.

Did you know the story of The Tortoise and the Hare is actually an amazing marketing analogy? Most businesses want to be the Hare—speedy and instantaneous. But in the marketing world, where the race is a conversion cycle, the Tortoise wins every time. Why? Because the tortoise is patient, steady, and smart. We’re sharing our best tips for understanding the conversion cycle, what a typical conversion looks like, and how you can feel more confident in your marketing efforts, from first impressions to final clicks.