Food is serious business in the Pacific Northwest. Seafood counters along Elliott Bay, dining rooms in Bellevue, farm-to-table spots outside Spokane, neighborhood kitchens in Tacoma. Washington has one of the better restaurant scenes in the country, and everybody in it knows it. Behind the pass, the math keeps getting harder. Food costs are up, staffing […]
A prospect checks their phone before they get out of bed, streams the news over breakfast, listens to a podcast on the drive in, reads a trade site at their desk, and finishes the day on Hulu. If your advertising lives on one of those five surfaces, you reach that person once and hope it […]
Consumer attention is scattered across more screens than at any point before, and that changes what advertising has to do. A single billboard, one radio spot, or a lone search campaign used to be enough to carry a company's revenue goals. Not anymore. The same person streams a show on Hulu before work, catches a […]
People don't meet your brand in one place anymore. A single homebuyer might read market trends on a laptop over coffee, listen to a podcast on the drive to work, check local news on their phone at lunch, and watch Hulu that night. That's one person across four screens in a single day. For a […]
Every day, people who are ready to buy walk past your storefront, sit in your competitors' waiting rooms, attend trade shows, and drive through your service area. They have a phone in hand and an immediate need for what you sell. For years, local and regional businesses have had to reach those people with blunt […]
Your customers don't pay attention in one place anymore. They watch Roku in the morning, catch a podcast on the drive, scroll apps at lunch, and read industry blogs on a laptop at night. Advertising that only shows up in one of those spots is leaving money on the table. Ten years ago you could […]
Plenty of businesses spend real money on digital advertising and get back a nice-looking report full of impressions and views. The numbers are big. The pipeline is flat. Nothing in the bank account has moved. For years, media buyers treated impressions as the goal. Show your brand to a million people and, by the math, […]
Most people can't remember the last banner ad they clicked. That isn't an accident. After years of flashing rectangles crowding the edges of every page, the brain learned to skip them automatically. Marketers call it banner blindness, and the numbers back it up: click-through rates on standard display ads sit around 0.05%. For a business […]
Modern media consumption doesn't happen in a vacuum. A homeowner sitting on their couch in Salt Lake City might glance at an unskippable ad on Roku while watching a favorite show, catch a podcast ad on Spotify during their morning commute along I-15, and check a quick news update on their phone during lunch, seeing […]
Consumer attention is spread across dozens of digital touchpoints a day. A typical American listens to a podcast on the morning commute, checks news on their phone at lunch, streams a show on a smart TV after dinner, and scrolls through apps before bed. Most businesses still advertise as if none of that were true. […]
