Now that the midterms are behind us, it’s time to roll up our sleeves and get back to work. With the holiday season upon us at Deksia/Anvil, it’s time to pour a glass of pumpkin spice eggnog, put on our foil-covered “thinking” caps and...
On January 11th, I was honored to participate in a panel of esteemed digital marketing colleagues, hosted by SEMpdx. The title and theme of our panel was “The Future of Digital Marketing” (2022 Edition). My fellow panelists included: Tricia...
What a year 2021 has been. As humans and marketers, we navigated challenges created by COVID, privacy issues and political polarization fueled by social media. As we look towards 2022, new opportunities (like NFTs and hybrid events) and challenges...
The pandemic has dramatically altered how marketers work, likely permanently. It’s too early to tell exactly how daily schedules will be impacted moving forward, so I thought it would be helpful to see how marketers spent their day pre-COVID as a...
With Apple’s latest iOS update blocking cookies by default, consumers are more empowered than ever to control access to their personal information. As if that wasn’t enough of a challenge for publishers, agencies and advertisers, ad blockers...
While we all work with, interact with, and/or raise Millennials, we still struggle to understand the 25–40-year-old wired generation. As marketers, we tend to treat them as one homogenous group for targeting purposes and don't take them as...
Introduction Since 1996, I’ve helped clients generate awareness, clicks and conversions via search engines. Over the past decade or more, Amazon has transitioned from a major advertiser on Google to a real threat to Google’s future....
For many, 2020 was one big dumpster fire after another: COVID-19, racial injustice, unemployment, business closures and misinformation campaigns. Despite the challenges, many brands, social platforms and marketing strategies thrived. This article...
At Anvil we continue to be optimistic about the future, especially 2021. Each year since 2004, we’ve developed digital marketing predictions based on trends we see or believe will emerge in the following year. For reference, we advise you not...
Where does the time go? It seems like just a year ago we were making predictions about 2019 digital marketing trends, yet here we are. For the past 15 years, the Anvil team has put on thinking caps, gazed into the crystal ball and read tea leaves to...