Performance media insights, lessons, and tactics for organizations under a microscope.
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LinkedIn runs the highest cost-per-click of any major ad platform, often several times what you would pay on Meta or Google. For a general donation drive, that price tag is hard to justify.
Nonprofits
Year-End Giving: The Paid Media Playbook for Your Biggest Fundraising Window Year-end giving is won or lost in a few short weeks, and most nonprofits run paid media during those we…
Your board approved $8,000 for a new awareness channel this quarter. Someone on your team suggests Connected TV (CTV). Someone else pushes for digital billboards. Both come with a …
We hear a version of the same two mistakes on almost every discovery call. One marketing director tells us, with total confidence, "we don't need paid search, we have the Grant." A…
Google Ad Grants
Every nonprofit approved for Google Ad Grants gets the same allotment: $10,000 per month in search advertising, reloaded automatically, no invoice ever. The average approved nonpro…
Acquisition & conversion
Okay, nonprofit friends, let us tell you something good. You're probably eligible for $120,000 a year in free Google search advertising, right now, and the only reason you haven't …
Cultural institutions
Attendance at a zoo or aquarium spikes every June and drops every February. Membership targets don't take a season off, and that gap between the calendar and the board's expectatio…
Platform updates & AI
Meta ships platform changes faster than most teams can track them. This post covers the updates that matter for advertisers in 2026, what carried over from last year's policy shift…
Strategy & research
Picture a marketing team running Google Ads, Meta Ads, programmatic ads, and email marketing. Every digital channel looks fine in isolation, click-through rates are healthy, and co…
Acquisition & conversion
If you work in higher education marketing or run paid ad campaigns for K-12 scholarship and school choice programs, you've probably heard it: “We can't target under-18s.”