afaqs!: Performance can’t replace brand: Why marketers must balance metrics with meaning Performance marketing has never been more precise. It can find, target and convert users at scale. Yet, somewhere between dashboards and decision rooms, a quiet tension is emerging.

Understanding the Context

Are brands ... For too long we have heard the word performance marketing used to define an organization’s success when it came to leveraging multiple vehicles to coax customer engagement that drove improved ... Today's marketers are no strangers to full-funnel marketing, but once you introduce the term "performance," marketers aren't always on the same page. Performance marketing is often misunderstood as ...

Key Insights

Forbes: Adobe’s GenStudio For Performance Marketing Will Change How Ads Are Made Adobe is announcing some groundbreaking technology at Adobe Max this week, including GenStudio for Performance Marketing, a new application that can learn a brand’s guidelines and then apply that ... Achieve a balance between brand performance and marketing with a more nuanced approach. Discover the surprising strategy to give brand supremacy. Balancing brand and performance marketing has nothing ... Is brand marketing becoming the forgotten hero?

Final Thoughts

Many direct-to-consumer brands today have begun to develop an obsession with performance marketing while placing branding in the proverbial back burner. Right now, there’s a growing rift in performance marketing. On one side, brands are stuck in best practice, and on the other, those rewriting the rules win. I call this divide the Edge Gap, and it’s ...