Up next on Live with Search Engine Land: Should you go all-in on brand marketing now?
On Friday, I will moderate our next Live with Search Engine Land[1] discussion on brand vs. performance marketing during COVID-19. We’ll discuss whether marketers should be focusing on top-of-funnel awareness campaigns and less on the bottom-of-the-funnel during this tumultuous period. With reduced budgets and pressure to justify spend and hit sales targets, marketers often default to “more measurable,” performance-based campaigns. Brand campaigns are seen as softer, longer term and less measurable than bottom-of-the-funnel tactics. The panel will...