• 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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  • Insights

    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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    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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    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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  • Insights

    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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    Infographic: Data and the Customer Journey

    How well do digital marketers understand the journey their customers take from awareness to conversion and beyond? Based on research, the answer may be ‘not very.’ In fact, an eMarketer report found that only a minority of agency professionals and client-side marketers from around the world were using key sources of data about the customer journey.
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  • CAKE News

    CTA: Vote for CAKE!

    Voting time is upon us again. No, we’re not talking about the presidential election…yet. It’s time to vote for the annual Performance Marketing Awards (aka – the PMAs)! Every year, the performance marketing industry gathers for the PMAs in London to showcase and celebrate exceptional work within the digital arena. CAKE is honored to be
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  • CAKE News

    CAKE: The True Facts

    Below is a letter that was sent to all CAKE customers and partners from President, Santi Pierini.    First of all, I want to thank all of our valued CAKE customers and partners for an amazing 2015! I’m a believer that incredible customers and partners make for a strong foundation for success. With your support,
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  • CAKE News

    LeadsCon Las Vegas – Key Takeaways!

    Year after year, LeadsCon continues to bring together a professional, highly qualified and extremely knowledgeable crowd of lead generation firms and vertical media marketers. This year is no different. The CAKE team headed out to bustling New York City for the two-day conference where they met with leading companies from the finance, home improvement, education and insurance spaces.

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    Team CAKE at Mobile World Congress 2016

    Mobile World Congress kicked off February 22 in beautiful Barcelona. At the event, the CAKE team spent four days meeting with clients, partners, media representatives and prospects. This year our booth was located in the App Planet Exhibition where we featured our robust mobile-tracking capabilities. We had a variety of individuals stopping by our booth
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  • Insights

    Key Trends in Mobile Purchasing Behavior

    Guest blog post written by Amber Tiffany, Content Marketing Manager at Invoca. Ever since smartphones became a permanent hand accessory, marketers have been hungry to connect with their mobile audiences. As performance marketers, we naturally focused on targeting the mobile crowd with mobile search, mobile sites and apps. But in our quest for more clicks
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  • CAKE News

    CAKE 2015 In Review: A Year of Innovation

    In 2015, CAKE continued our product innovation efforts, added a number of industry-leading technology and service partners, and grew our customer base around the globe. As we jump into 2016, we’d like to thank our customers and partners for making this past year a success in many ways.   Product Innovation CAKE continues to meet
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  • Blog

    PMi Announces Top Affiliate Managers of 2015

    From the entire CAKE team, congratulations to the Top Affiliate Managers of 2015, named by Performance Marketing Insider! We are very excited that three out of the five individuals selected this year are power-users of CAKE. An oh-so-special shout out to CAKE users – João Alhanati of GlobalWide Media, as well as Karla Christenson and
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  • Blog

    Giving Thanks This Holiday Season

    The upcoming Thanksgiving holiday offers a great opportunity to reflect on the prior year and give thanks for the great relationships we have in both our personal and professional lives.  In Client Success, we have numerous opportunities throughout the year to forge strong relationships with clients and partners that enable us to achieve great things
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  • Insights

    Figaro Digital Mobile Marketing Seminar – The Key Takeaways!

    Last week, CAKE’s General Manager of EMEA, Ewan Darby spoke at the Figaro Digital Mobile Marketing seminar. Ewan talked about the value of communication and where it all started, moving through to the importance of mobile in ‘another year of mobile’ and how tracking the customer journey will help advertisers with their mobile marketing strategy. Ewan’s
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  • CAKE News

    adtech: NY – CAKE Partners with IBM

    In late October, CAKE was one of a dozen industry-leading companies that were invited by IBM to participate in its version of the marketing cloud consolidation trend called the Universal Behavior Exchange (UBX). We enthusiastically agreed to be an introductory partner in IBM’s innovative venture. Now, fast forward to adtech: NY taking place this week.
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    26.92 Miles Later- Our Marathon Trek Through Technology and Innovation at Dreamforce

    Last week my colleague Nam and I had the opportunity to represent CAKE at one of the most popular conferences in the world – Dreamforce. After four days of incredible sessions, we had each walked the equivalent of a marathon. This conference is massive and is quickly becoming the industry standard for software innovators, forward-thinking
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