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Defining an Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) for your business now matters more than ever before. With economic unrest and marketing budgets continuing to be squeezed, focusing on generating and nurturing leads from those that will actually deliver revenue is a cost-efficient, smart strategy.

You can’t possibly target everyone, so clearly defining who falls inside your ICP can ensure everyone from marketing to sales is aligned on your target audience and how to talk to them.

On 5^th March 2024, Google announced two big algorithm updates: the March 2024 Core Algorithm Update and the March 2024 Spam Update. These updates have been launched as a response to the growing complaints of users regarding spam and low-quality results on Google search. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Google said the algorithms are “designed to show less content made to attract clicks and more content that people find useful” – Google Search Central.

Marketing budgets have been through a lot in the past few years! From economic uncertainty to profound changes caused by the pandemic and Artificial Intelligence, CMOs have had to completely rethink how they spend their budgets many times. Marketing departments have been under pressure in many industries to deliver more with less and 2023 seems to have been the culminating point in those years of change.

We’ve explored data from 2023 to understand how marketing budgets have shifted, which channels have grown and which have shrunk to help you strengthen your own digital marketing strategy.

With the complete removal of third-party cookies impending (as mentioned in our top digital marketing trends for 2024), tactics to adapt to these changes are at the forefront of marketeers’ minds. How will this impact digital marketing strategies and businesses?

We answer all these questions in a recent interview between Founder and CEO of Innovation Visual, Tim Butler and our expert colleague, Senior Biddable and Analytics Executive, Kyle Redman, to explore the impact.

From February 1^st 2024, Google have introduced new authentication requirements for bulk email senders. In this article, we will outline what these requirements are and whether you need to be doing anything about them.

Google’s Search Generative Experience (SGE) is a new experimental feature which uses artificial intelligence to create contextual answers to complex questions. This aims to provide new and better defined answers, and bring new opinions and angles to existing queries.

SGE is still in its tentative early stages, and is being created to enhance the user search experience. When using SGE, users will see search results page similar to the ones they are used to, but organised in a new way to help them get more from a single search. In this blog, we explore what we know so far.