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It’s that time of year again, summer is here and… Wait… Who cares about summer, the Mary Meeker report is here!!!!     As always there are lots of great insights as to where we are going within the digital realm, and (as always) I thought I would share my top picks. A good place to start this journey through wonderful slides with graphs is by assessing the Internet market and wher ...

2017 has been yet another year full of milestones for us at Precis Digital. We’ve turned five years old as a company and we have been honored to win no less than a total of seven awards at the European Search Awards and Drum Search Awards. In the European Search Awards,we won Best Large PPC Agency, and at the Drum Search Awards last week we managed to win the prestigious Chairman’s Award for t ...

On May 22-24th, we have been attending Google Marketing Next 2017 in San Francisco, which is a conference where Google is bringing together digital marketing leaders from around the world to explore the future of Ads, Analytics and DoubleClick. Apart from keynote covering main trends and announcements, the conference had different tracks focused on Search, Measurement and DoubleClick, as well as r ...

This was the end of the motivation we received when we won Best Large PPC Agency in The European Search Awards 2017. The ceremony took place just a couple of weeks before our fifth company anniversary, and the timing couldn’t be better! So, Precis Digital has now existed for five years. Time flies! I want to convey big thanks to all colleagues and clients for the fantastic journey we’ve been o ...

The European Search Awards is an international competition that celebrates the very best in SEO, PPC, Digital and Content Marketing in Europe. This year, the awards attracted over 400 entries from leading digital agencies across Europe. The award ceremony took place in Krakow on April 27th. Ok, I have to admit it. Even though I’m terribly bad at bragging, it felt nice to write the title of this ...

The European Search Awards are an international competition that celebrates the very best in SEO, PPC, Digital and Content Marketing in Europe. The awards are now in their sixth year and attract hundreds of entries from some of the leading search and digital agencies and professionals from across Europe. The 2017 Awards features 29 categories celebrating SEO & PPC campaigns, software and the t ...

Demystifying (direct) / (none) The official definition of direct traffic from Google is “users that typed your URL directly to their browser, or who had bookmarked your site”. Even though this is true, it is somewhat of a simplification. In order to understand how a certain session is defined as direct, we need to go through one part of the concept of source precedence in Google Analytics. The ...

Do you keep hearing that virtual reality could be the next big thing for marketers? In many ways it already is. There are quite a few interesting developments taking place that are changing the landscape as we know it. Native beyond the formats As the next generation is born into a world of on-demand content, forced views are becoming less welcomed. Ad-blocking technology is not going anywhere an ...

Typically, from a last click attribution perspective, some of the best performing keywords in your AdWords account, will be associated with your brand name. It will also be some of the marginally cheapest keywords in your account as you achieve a high degree of relevance. For instance, if your brand name is Nike, it is quite natural that people searching for the term “nike” will click your ad ...

A Swedish sustainable food retailer almost doubled its web revenues in just 3 months when it cooked up a series of highly segmented dynamic ad campaigns Facebook has released an official case about the success story of how Precis Digital and our client Matsmart have utilized Facebook advertising to its fullest potential. By consistently segmenting audiences and tweaking campaigns accordingly, Mat ...

Precis’ annual conference recently came to an end. We got to experience a different climate compared to last year’s trip to Iceland. A sunny Greece warmly greeted us welcome with its hilly landscape and sandy beaches for an extended weekend by the coastline outside of Athens. The overarching theme of this year’s conference was strategy. We wanted to gather everyone’s awesome thoughts when ...

The Mobile Opportunity I know you’ve heard it a thousand times already: »Mobile is important / This is the year of mobile / Wait, no, THIS is the year of mobile / I know, I said it the last two years, but now it’s for real, THIS REALLY is the year of mobile. « Well, finally most US advertisers have started to be ”on par” in terms of budget allocated for Internet media and time spent by ...

Precis Digital received the acknowledgement of the Chairman’s Award at last week’s The Drum Search Awards for our work with Swedish Zmarta Group. Through advanced user segmentation in Google Adwords, we increased the mobile traffic to Zmarta’s website by 85 percent, revenue grew 111%, mobile traffic accounting for 59% of the total. The project was selected as the winner of the ...

DoubleClick Certified Marketing Partners are verified experts on the DoubleClick platform. They know how to help you achieve your goals through utilization of the DoubleClick platform. The new badge As of June 1st we will feature a new badge on our website, formalising our status as the first DoubleClick Technology Partner in the Nordics and marking the start of a new set of services that we offer ...

The Drum Search Awards bring together individuals and companies at the forefront of search and provides the perfect opportunity for those entering to prove they are the best at what they do. The awards are held by The Drum, which is the biggest marketing website in Europe. Following our nominations at the European Search Awards, we are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for the c ...

The European Search Awards is an international competition that celebrates the very best in SEO, PPC, Digital and Content Marketing in Europe. This year, the awards attracted over 400 entries from leading digital agencies across Europe. The awards ceremony took place at the Salle Wagram in Paris on May 4th. Precis Digital was shortlisted for two awards. First, we were nominated for Best Mobile Cam ...

Google has now launched their new platform for enterprise analytics, and it goes by the name of the Google Analytics 360 Suite. The Google Analytics 360 Suite will aim at supporting marketing throughout the whole value chain, ranging from analysis of consumer behaviour to understanding of brand values. Through this, Google now offers a set of analytics tools across one integrated platform, and the ...

Google removed the text ads on the right-hand side for desktop February 22th. Google Shopping will still appear on the right side and the top positions will now allow up to four ads. This change happened on tablets already in 2014-Q4, and with this update users will have a similar experience across all devices. The ad slots below the organic search results remain unchanged, still serving up to th ...

Last week, Precis Digital’s Measurement team spend a few, exciting days in Dublin, surrounded by specialists from Google and certified Google Analytics Premium partners from other agencies around EMEA. One of the very positive outcomes of events like this is that we can share our thoughts directly with the involved people at Google. We get the opportunity to discuss problems and feature request ...

I hope we focus on doing fewer things better, that we are more open and authentic, and that we don’t forget one of the most basic aspects of digital marketing; the auction. It’s a new year and you have surely seen many articles predicting trends for 2016 and beyond. With so many trends and things you need to do to maximize and optimize your digital presence in 2016, it is easy to get str ...

Precis Digital Helped Zmarta Grow Revenue by 111% We’re happy to announce that Google has released a case about our collaboration with the Swedish loan broker Zmarta Group. With a goal of becoming a leading loan service, Zmarta from its launch early in 2015 adopted a mobile-first approach, wanting to create a great experience on all devices for all users. An extensive analysis of Zmarta’s da ...

We are now excited to announce that we are expanding geographically in Sweden by opening our Gothenburg office. In an earlier blog post we mentioned that 2015 was set to be another year full of milestones for Precis Digital. We kicked off the year in the strongest way possible – by launching our third office in Oslo. The Norwegian branch of Precis has enabled us to expand our Nordic prese ...

Hello world! We have just returned from our annual Precis Digital Conference, which was held in lovely Reykjavik, Iceland. The decision to go to this lonely island in the middle of the sea was based on an internal survey among all Precis’ employees, leaving Iceland with a landslide victory against the other suggestions. We are not only into digital marketing, measurement, and data science – we ...

Eye-tracking on the Google SERP We’re at SMX East in New York City, which is one of the biggest conferences in the world focused on SEM and SEO. Attending over 50 sessions, keynotes, and clinics we are here to bring home the latest and best search marketing tactics to Scandinavia. One of the first sessions was looking at one the most iconic studies around search from all the way back in 2005, wh ...

SMX East in New York City Precis representatives from Sweden, Denmark, and Norway have set out to participate in the annual SMX East (Search Marketing Expo East) in New York City – The World’s Largest Search Marketing Conference Series, as they state it on their website. Our main goal with attending the conference is to stay close to where things are truly happening within SEM, and a lot o ...

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Search engine marketing, or SEM in short, is all about relevancy and correct targeting. How relevant are you on Google AdWords in relation to the search volumes? I’ll try to explain what I mean using a metaphor:   Fishing for Matches Imagine fishing in a huge lake. You bring your fishing rod. The lake is huge and in time you will most likely get a lot of fish, ...

Miljøpartiet de grønne (MDG) ligger an til å gjøre sitt beste kommunevalg noensinne. Målinger gjort av analyseselskapet Infact, på vegne av VG, viser at partiet har økt med 4,1 prosentpoeng siden valget for fire år siden. Dersom dette blir valgresultatet, utgjør det en firedobling i oppslutning på like mange år. Besøksmaskinen MDG Det finnes mange der ute som har meninger om hvorfor MD ...

Every year Mary Meeker writes about the trends that will be meaningful for the internet in the year to come. These are our favourite bits out of this year’s analysis, and the ones we find the most relevant for advertisers and marketeers. Ads optimized for mobile When it comes to mobile for a long while there has been quite an interesting gap between where the users were and where the advertisers ...

At Precis, we strive to take digital marketing and data analysis to the next level. This being our agenda, we put great efforts into finding brilliant minds that share our passion for pushing boundaries and helping our clients reach competitive advantages in their respective fields. Our main weapon for this is statistics and applied mathematics. Through advanced data analysis, we seek answers to t ...

We’re hosting a Master Class in GTM & UA Looking to take your Google Tag Manager & Universal Analytics skills to the next level? Precis Digital are hosting a Masterclass session in GTM & Universal Analytics in collaboration with Wednesday Relations April 21, lead by Kristoffer Olofsson. With a focus on functionality and implementation, as well as the foundations of the technolo ...

In this blog post, Henrik describes his experiences as an intern at Precis Digital during the fall of 2014. Today, Henrik is a full time employee based in our Stockholm office, where he helps businesses ensure seamless website user journeys without friction through Conversion Optimization. His particular skill set is perhaps best described as “creativity combined with great product know-h ...

It’s hard to believe it, but it’s been nearly three years since we opened the doors to Precis Digital. I think it’s about time to share a few words about the journey we’ve been on for the last couple of years. And with this announcement, that we are releasing our new website. Back then, it was only me, Jakob and Robin, borrowing a desk each from our friends at Wunderkraut. Big up to Matts ...

2015 is set to be another year full of milestones for Precis Digital. One of the big ones will be to open our third office, in a third country, in an equal number of years. Oslo and Norway will be a huge focus for Precis Digital this year, as we now open our new offices in Maridalsveien 89. Precis Digital has built its success over the last couple of years on helping Swedish and Danish companies s ...