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The Harry-Draco rivalry explained
COMING AT YOU THE WEEK OF 7.19.22 This week's most important Marketing News NETFLIX NAMES MICROSOFT AS A PARTNER In April, Netflix announced the introduction of ads in their streaming services. Now, with the help of Microsoft, marketers will have access...
Lessons from ghost hunting
COMING AT YOU THE WEEK OF 7.12.22 This week's most important Marketing News LOCATION-BASED TARGET AND EXCLUSION IS NOW AVAILABLE IN PERFORMANCE MAX CAMPAIGNS Specifically, the targeting options are: Presence or interest: People...
Grading your own report cards
COMING AT YOU THE WEEK OF 7.5.22 This week's most important Marketing News FCC COMMISSIONER ASKS APPLE AND GOOGLE TO REMOVE TIKTOK FROM APP STORES Commissioner Brendan Carr wrote as himself to make this request to the CEOs of Apple and Google....
How to draw by Picasso
COMING AT YOU THE WEEK OF 6.28.22 This week's most important Marketing News GOOGLE UPDATES GOOGLE CLARIFIES PRODUCT VARIANTS NEED THEIR OWN URL TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR RICH RESULTS In an update to their Product rich results support page, Google...
5 ad fetishes
COMING AT YOU THE WEEK OF 6.21.22 This week's most important Marketing News GOOGLE ADSENSE IS TESTING SHOPPING LINKS, KINDA LIKE AUTOMATIC AFFILIATES Google Adsense Labs (the home for their beta tests) now includes the shopping links feature. It’s...
A new search engine to challenge Google
COMING AT YOU THE WEEK OF 6.14.22What’s good, home slice?* I’ve been puzzling over how to use punctuation and emojis in the newsletter. Cause it’s one thing to just use emojis and whatever kind of punctuation I feel like in texts or social posts. But everything...
How to swap out your ulcers for synergy
COMING AT YOU THE WEEK OF 6.7.22Happy Tuesday, compadres! I’m curious what you think about this question below 👇 (click an emoji below to answer) Does it make sense for certain organizations to forgo a sign of Pride Month support?👍👎 This thought can lead to more...
Mouse 💩 + controversial feminism
COMING AT YOU THE WEEK OF 5.31.22What’s kickin my mail pals? Today, I have crafted you a visual story of my weekend. Please enjoy. The highlight: new 🏠 The challenge: 📦 📦 📦 The expected obstacle (and best part of my existence): 👶 The unexpected obstacle : 🤒 🤧 The...
Prank calling Russian officials
COMING AT YOU THE WEEK OF 5.24.22What’s crackalackin?! Last week, I asked you guys to vent to me, and many of you did. I was seriously excited to hear from you guys because: 1. it’s proof that on the other side of these emails sit real people—not to mention really...
Mexican pizza the musical featuring Dolly Parton
COMING AT YOU THE WEEK OF 5.17.22Writing these newsletters can be a bit bizarre because you and I don’t know what one another looks like. Well, this is what I look like 👇. In case you missed it, I’m Hayley 👋. I started Highrise because I felt very frustrated as a new...
Lessons from interviewing Shaq
COMING AT YOU THE WEEK OF 5.10.22In my swim across internet content this week, I found these charts depicting a 90-year human life. It made me feel finite. Even the chart showing the amount of DAYS in a 90-year life made me feel like life is awfully short. I hope...
Yup, your ads have ears
COMING AT YOU THE WEEK OF 5.3.22This week's most important Marketing News A STUDY FINDS THAT ECHO SPEAKER CONVERSATIONS ARE USED TO TARGET ADS Researchers from four US universities published a paper titled, Your Echos are Heard: Tracking, Profiling, and Ad...
A lesson from Deadpool’s Tinder profile
COMING AT YOU THE WEEK OF 4.26.22This week's most important Marketing News TWITTER HAS ACCEPTED ELON MUSK’S $44 BILLION TO BUY THEIR COMPANY Here’s a quick recap with the latest news. April 4: Elon Musk buys 9.2% of Twitter shares (so he has more shares than...
Essential bonds aren’t efficient, just essential
COMING AT YOU THE WEEK OF 4.19.22Hey! Check out this quote from Brad Stulberg who gives wellness advice that transcends the wellness fads that we encounter regularly. If your goal is optimization today, tomorrow or this week, it almost always makes sense to push...
YOU: I need ppl to convert. ME: Do this
COMING AT YOU THE WEEK OF 4.12.22This week's most important Marketing News ELON MUSK BOUGHT A BIG STAKE IN TWITTER AND ALMOST JOINED THE BOARD This was fun and dramatic, as many things to do with Elon are. He almost joined the board, and then didn’t. But as...
SEO flowcharts + freelancer tips
COMING AT YOU THE WEEK OF 4.5.22This week's most important Marketing News GOOGLE SEARCH ADDED A NEW LABEL: HIGHLY CITED The label does what its title suggests—it identifies articles or pages that are frequently cited by other sources. META DID...
A simple tactic for a tighter team
COMING AT YOU THE WEEK OF 3.29.22This week's most important Marketing News TWITTER HAS COME OUT WITH A KEYWORD SEARCH FOR DMS This new feature will filter your search into four segments: 📡 All –Displays your search results including username and key terms that...
Playlist of 👌🏼 marketing podcast episodes
COMING AT YOU THE WEEK OF 3.22.22This week's most important Marketing News UNIVERSAL ANALYTICS WILL STOP COLLECTING DATA JULY 1, 2023 R I P Background: Since 2012, Universal Analytics (UA) has been Google’s main web analytics service. In October 2020, Google...
The dimensionalize technique
COMING AT YOU THE WEEK OF 3.15.22This week's most important Marketing News GOOGLE’S ‘RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE’ RESULTS INCLUDE NEW SEARCH FEATURES With so many of us wanting to know what’s going on in Ukraine, Google has been updating its search engine...
Social media making history
COMING AT YOU THE WEEK OF 3.8.22This week's most important Marketing News UKRAINE’S TWITTER HAS OUR ATTENTION Their account has: Relevant memes Informative videos Clear calls-to-action Pitches to brands and prominent figures The prominence of social media in this...
The clinical cause of the zombie apocalypse
COMING AT YOU THE WEEK OF 3.1.22Highrise turns 1 today!I want to celebrate one year of Highrise with you! And celebrations = 🎁 🎁 🎁 So I made you some phone and desktop wallpapers! Here's a preview of a few. There are 18 different designs, so check them out in the...
Telling (un)secrets + differentiating
COMING AT YOU WEEK OF 2.22.22This week's most important marketing newsFACEBOOK HAS (RELATIVELY) IMPROVED iOS CONVERSION TRACKING Since Apple’s privacy updates, Facebook’s estimated they were underreporting iOS web conversions by about 15%. Now, they believe they are...
Marketing runs the household
COMING AT YOU WEEK OF 2.15.22THIS WEEK'S MOST IMPORTANT MARKETING NEWS GOOGLE ADS GET EXTENSION IMPROVEMENTS Google is rolling out new improvements to its search ads. They're automating everything! These improvements allow you to mix and match, not having to...
A simple ad tactic to support diversity
COMING AT YOU WEEK OF 2.8.22The single most-cringey moment of my life happened on a May afternoon I had started a new role at my job, one that didn’t exist before. It was an exciting, ground-breaking endeavor! So I felt queasy most days. This was also around the time...
Avoid having sight but no vision
COMING AT YOU WEEK OF 2.1.22This week's most important marketing newsGOOGLE CHANGES COURSE FROM ‘FLOC’ TO ‘TOPICS’ AS THEY PHASE OUT COOKIES A while ago, Google announced FLoC as their solution to a cookie-less world. It seems Google received criticism and concerns...
You’re off the edge of the map, mate.
COMING AT YOU WEEK OF 1.25.22HERE'S WHAT I'VE GOT FOR YOU TODAY The good, old new marketing news Visual storytelling lessons from a photojournalist A treasure mapTHIS WEEK'S MOST IMPORTANT MARKETING NEWS S O C I A L M E D I A META IS BEGINNING TO OUTLINE THE...
Wow, Tuesday looks good on you
COMING AT YOU WEEK OF 1.18.22Happy Tuesday 👋🏻 Did you get a long weekend or were you robbed? More importantly, did you take some time to think about what Martin Luther King Jr’s life means to you and those around you? For me, his life is a reminder that it takes...
Adam Alter: The dark side of technology
COMING AT YOU WEEK OF 1.11.22Hey, what's crackin?? You look great today. Here's what we've got for ya: The industry news (cause we're dependable as all get out) Adam Alter's advice for marketers A punch in the face from yourself THIS WEEK'S MOST IMPORTANT MARKETING...
A brain ice cream cone
COMING AT YOU WEEK OF 1.4.22GUYS, IT’S ABOUT TIME WE GOT TO KNOW EACH OTHER This is me, Hayley. 👋🏻 I like to feel smart, and guess how I felt when I got started in my career as a content marketer? Not smart. The marketing industry was full of...
Falsely cool time superpowers
COMING AT YOU WEEK OF 12.28.21T-ONE WEEK UNTIL... January 11 when we'll feature advice from Adam Alter in the newsletter!At this point we're sure you've heard us say it, but Adam is one smart cookie and has great advice. Here's some proof. He wrote these two...