Thursday Thoughts On Advertising 52
MCKAY ADVERTISING + ACTIVATION
Every Thursday we look at the trends/updates/interesting articles found in the Marketing + Advertising + Tech industry. Each submission is presented by a different MA+A employee and covers various topics applicable to our business. The following are professional opinions, summaries or both.
This week we’ll look at: Microsoft Is Diversifying Its Advertising Business, Snapchat Launches Instant Tool For Creating Vertical Ads, Amazon’s Prime Day Sale Success, Repurposing Your Content For Social Channels & Youtubers Want To Unionize.

PAID SOCIAL ADVERTISING
E-COMMERCE MANIA
Eric Ortiz
Director of Sales + Acquisition
Amazon’s Prime Day Sales Top It’s Black Friday & Cyber Monday Combined the article here.
We all know that Amazon is a crucial part of any B2C company’s strategy. What is arguably more important, is that your product is available on Prime. With 2019’s Prime Day exceeding revenues from Cyber Monday and Black Friday COMBINED, it’s pretty clear they have a captivated and engaged online audience.
CONTENT MARKETING

Christian Bayne
Director of Content Strategy + Market Research
Repurposing Your Content For Social Channels See the article here.
There’s absolutely no need to overthink the type of content you choose to post on social media. Now, don’t get me wrong, that doesn’t mean that you post any and everything that comes to your mind (we don’t necessarily need to know about what’s going on with your dog). The point here is that sometimes you can look internally at what you already have and find a creative way repurpose the content. This article provides some great ways to look at your existing content and how to make the most of it. Enjoy!
YOUTUBE NEWS

Matthew Giardino
Director of Performance Marketing + Analytics
Youtubers Want To Unionize See the article here.
We hope you enjoyed these snippets of information that we chose to share. Look out for the upcoming #ThursdayThoughts post. (Yes, it’ll be on Thursday). See our previous post here.