Dissecting customer acquisition costs

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Numerous consumer internet businesses employ Lifetime Value formula to assess viability of their business models and marketing campaigns. The concept is rather simple: customer lifetime value (LTV) must exceed customer acquisition costs (CAC or CPA), and as long as the LTV is higher than CAC then marketing teams are delivering positive ROI to a company. […]

Desktop => mobile =>…connected cars

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Car dashboards have become digital platforms and are creating a massive new market for carmakers, digital-media companies, and even marketers.In the next 5 years, revenue from connected-car services is expected to reach ca. $152 billion. Currently, connected safety features bring in the most revenue (ca. $13 billion), yet safety revenue stream is forecasted to lose […]

Mobile digital video advertising is the future

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Video is quickly becoming the dominant medium of the smartphone era.According to the recent study by BI intelligence, US digital-video advertising revenue from mobile-based video ads will top over $1.2 billion this year, equaling ca. 25% of the total video advertising revenue. That figure is expected to grow at a five-year compound annual growth rate […]