• Blog

    Food For Thought From The IAB’s Research Breakfast

    Last Wednesday Felipe and I attended a breakfast hosted by the IAB in which digital marketers came together to discuss current and future trends pertaining to performance marketing and digital advertising. The keynote speakers were representatives from News UK, PubMatics and Twitter who shared their latest research, within their respective fields. Below is a recap
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  • Insights

    Data Driven Exercises To Help Manage Your Sales Team: Part 2

    The traditional sales manager role is responsible for mentoring and coaching their team members through exercises such as; role-playing, critiquing sales calls, and individual meetings focused on improving instinct and interpersonal skills. Today’s sales managers combine the traditional approach of sales management with a data driven approach. Data helps provide greater transparency between Sales Managers
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  • CAKE News

    Afiliados Brasil: Scenes From The Show Floor

    Afiliados Brasil 2016 was hosted in the beautiful city of Sao Paulo May 19th-21st. Affiliate Networks, Advertisers and Tech Leaders from around the globe traveled to attend this growing event, including CAKE. Over the last few years the Latin American market has been maturing and CAKE is ready to support it’s growth. The three-day event
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  • Insights

    Data Driven Exercises To Help Manage Your Sales Team: Part 1

    The traditional sales manager role is responsible for mentoring and coaching their team members through exercises such as; role-playing, critiquing sales calls, and individual meetings focused on improving instinct and interpersonal skills. Today’s sales managers combine the traditional approach of sales management with a data driven approach. Data helps provide greater transparency between Sales Managers
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    Moment Marketing & Real-time Marketing: A Place for Both in The Digital Marketing Hierarchy

    In recent years, digital marketers have coined new terms such as “Moment marketing” and “Right-time marketing” that have transformed our perceptions of how and when we market to our consumers. According to eMarketer, Moment marketing refers to marketing delivered at the right time, but not always created in real-time. The main objective of Moment marketing
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    CAKE Powers Toluna’s Global Performance Marketing Program

    Creating a successful affiliate marketing program is difficult enough when everyone is local and people share the same region. However, when a program spans across different geographies and currencies, it can be a challenge to coordinate all of the moving parts! That was the case for Toluna, the world’s largest online market research panel and online
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  • Blog

    CAKE Meets UCL’s Entrepreneurs

    It is perhaps the most gratifying aspect of life at CAKE that we see every detail of the performance marketing industry from Lead Generation aggregators, to multinational publishers and networks optimising traffic locally, nationally and beyond.  We also see the next generation of highly talented marketers, developers and entrepreneurs creating and growing businesses that fill
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    Influencer Marketing and Social Media: Best Practices to Track Success

    Leveraging Influencer marketing is a great way to expand your reach and connect with established audiences that frequent social media applications, but many are finding it difficult to attribute website traffic or sales back to their Influencer marketing efforts or how to correlate social metrics to overall marketing strategies. Technologies that can support tracking methods
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  • Blog

    A Peak Inside The Performance Marketing Awards 2016

    The Performance Marketing Awards were hosted in association with Bing Ads, and celebrated the leaders within the Digital Marketing industry. Ewan, Stephanie, Elizabeth and Ben attended on behalf of the CAKE UK team. PerformanceIn, a leading online media company and global publication for performance marketing news, hosted the Performance Marketing Awards on Tuesday 26th April
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  • Insights

    Influencer Marketing and Social Media: Best Metrics to Evaluate Success

    Influencer marketing leverages individuals outside of a company or brand’s marketing division to approach the larger audience. Influencers can range from prominent political figures and celebrities, to mommy bloggers or simply anyone that has a large online following. For this blog, we will focus on the best metrics to evaluate the marketing efforts of Influencers
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    IAB Forum: Affiliate Marketing Growth and Trends

    The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) is a trade association that caters to digital and mobile advertisers. Providing resources, forums and events, the IAB fosters an environment in which digital marketing can thrive in the global market. On Wednesday April 13 the CAKE team attended the IAB’s Affiliate Forum at its headquarters in London. The event
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    Should Marketing Teams Have A Lead Quota For Sales?

    Does this conversation sound familiar?  Sales Rep:  “I’m not hitting my sales quota because marketing is not sending me enough leads!” Marketing Manager:  “Marketing has generated 30-40% of your lead flow, perhaps there are issues in closing those leads?” Sales Manager:  “The leads you are sending sales are not qualified leads to close!” In most
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