According to Semafor:
[YouTube] is currently developing a feature that would allow host-read ads to be dynamically inserted and swapped out within individual YouTube videos
Should make it more appealing for podcasters.
But what’s the long term plan? How does Google monetize these ads? Does YouTube want to become a legit podcast hosting platform? Will it build a host read marketplace?
And how does this impact current efforts to place podcast ads via Ads Manager?
On consumer modes:
People respond far better, purchase more often, and remain more loyal when marketers design campaigns that are targeted to their situations. Not to their personalities. Not to their preferences. And not necessarily to their past purchase behavior.
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A mode is a mindset and a set of behaviors that people get into temporarily
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The brands that understand consumer modes can effectively target the mode and support the buying process of anyone who is in that mode.
Seems a much better model than personas and funnels.
More from EMARKETER about tariffs but really about brand building in any economy:
as a brand you can no longer rely on undercutting your competition and tariffs only underscore that. You need to make sure that you have a loyal customer base or you’re trying to have a loyal customer base because you’re not going to be able to slash prices forever.
It used to be: better, faster, cheaper; pick 2
But faster and cheaper is pretty much impossible to achieve now, so you need to be better in some way.
One client (who owns their own factory) was told the worst case scenario for Trump’s Trade War (at the time) was a 33% price increase.
EMARKETER reports potential impacts like:
auto prices could rise as much as $12,000
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an extra $3,300 or so to annual expenses for a family of four
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43% of people are already seeing tariff related price increases
And of course tariffs beget tariffs.
Who knows where Trump’s Wheel of Trade War stops spinning, but consumers will pay.